Address multiple WiFI connectivity /stability issues.

1) Reduce the roam threshold to 5dBm to fix issues where a device might connect at -80dBM which is marginal operation, but would not roam to a -72dBm AP
2) Reduce the scan rate from 44 minutes to 5 minutes to accelerate network harmony
3) Arduino SDK was allowed to control re-connections which resulted in a de-authentication attack on teh WiFi AP.  Explicitly disable with WiFi.setAutoReconnect(false);
4) Reduce WIFI_CHECK_SEC to 5, and Wifi.retry_init times to accommodate Tasmota dealing with retransmissions.
5) WifiBeginAfterScan:  Save the last BSSID a connection attempt was made on.  Should that error, pick the next strongest AP for the next attempt.  Addresses situations where an AP has a high RSSI, but poor channel health due to it being overloaded.
6) WifiCheckIPAddrStatus: Error cases did not properly alternate between AP's, with some error cases geeting hug up where they did not initiate a reconnection so the device became non-responsive.  Device now starts at Wifi.retry_init, tries to connect, does again at Wifi.retry_init/2, and then does a WifiConfig.  Should no IP address be received, restart DHCP each second during this time.

Test Environment:
27 Tasmota devices
3 SonicWALL corporate AP's
Highly interfered 801.11n network
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CORP\vdi 2020-01-25 11:22:40 -07:00
parent 022a6a05ab
commit 81c6355b8f
1 changed files with 65 additions and 40 deletions

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@ -22,14 +22,19 @@
\*********************************************************************************************/
#ifndef WIFI_RSSI_THRESHOLD
#define WIFI_RSSI_THRESHOLD 10 // Difference in dB between current network and scanned network
// decrease the roam threshold to address devices connecting at very low RSSI and being close to inoperative
//#define WIFI_RSSI_THRESHOLD 10 // Difference in dB between current network and scanned network
#define WIFI_RSSI_THRESHOLD 5 // Difference in dB between current network and scanned network
#endif
#ifndef WIFI_RESCAN_MINUTES
#define WIFI_RESCAN_MINUTES 44 // Number of minutes between wifi network rescan
// increase rescan interval to 5 minutes to improve ability for devices to reach network harmony
//#define WIFI_RESCAN_MINUTES 44 // Number of minutes between wifi network rescan
#define WIFI_RESCAN_MINUTES 5 // Number of minutes between wifi network rescan
#endif
const uint8_t WIFI_CONFIG_SEC = 180; // seconds before restart
const uint8_t WIFI_CHECK_SEC = 20; // seconds
// drop from 20 seconds to 5 seconds since we control the reconnections, not the Arduino SDK
const uint8_t WIFI_CHECK_SEC = 5; // seconds
const uint8_t WIFI_RETRY_OFFSET_SEC = 20; // seconds
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h> // Wifi, MQTT, Ota, WifiManager
@ -49,7 +54,8 @@ struct WIFI {
uint8_t config_counter = 0;
uint8_t mdns_begun = 0; // mDNS active
uint8_t scan_state;
uint8_t bssid[6];
uint8_t bssid[6] = {0};
uint8_t bssid_last[6] = {0}; // store the last connect bssid
} Wifi;
int WifiGetRssiAsQuality(int rssi)
@ -162,6 +168,7 @@ void WiFiSetSleepMode(void)
void WifiBegin(uint8_t flag, uint8_t channel)
{
const char kWifiPhyMode[] = " BGN";
char hex_char[18];
#ifdef USE_EMULATION
UdpDisconnect();
@ -183,6 +190,9 @@ void WifiBegin(uint8_t flag, uint8_t channel)
// if (WiFi.getPhyMode() != WIFI_PHY_MODE_11G) { WiFi.setPhyMode(WIFI_PHY_MODE_11G); } // B/G
if (!WiFi.getAutoConnect()) { WiFi.setAutoConnect(true); }
// WiFi.setAutoReconnect(true);
// handle the reconnection in WifiCheckIp() since the autoreconnect keeps sending deauthentication messages which causes the AP to block traffic as it looks like an DoS attack
// this needs to be explicitly called as "false" otherwise the default is enabled
WiFi.setAutoReconnect(false);
switch (flag) {
case 0: // AP1
case 1: // AP2
@ -200,12 +210,15 @@ void WifiBegin(uint8_t flag, uint8_t channel)
WiFi.hostname(my_hostname);
if (channel) {
WiFi.begin(SettingsText(SET_STASSID1 + Settings.sta_active), SettingsText(SET_STAPWD1 + Settings.sta_active), channel, Wifi.bssid);
// add debug output to console to show connected BSSID and channel for multi-AP installations
AddLog_P2(LOG_LEVEL_INFO, PSTR(D_LOG_WIFI D_CONNECTING_TO_AP "%d %s Channel %d BSSId %s " D_IN_MODE " 11%c " D_AS " %s..."),
Settings.sta_active +1, SettingsText(SET_STASSID1 + Settings.sta_active), channel, ToHex_P((unsigned char*)Wifi.bssid, 6, hex_char, sizeof(hex_char), ':'),kWifiPhyMode[WiFi.getPhyMode() & 0x3], my_hostname);
} else {
WiFi.begin(SettingsText(SET_STASSID1 + Settings.sta_active), SettingsText(SET_STAPWD1 + Settings.sta_active));
AddLog_P2(LOG_LEVEL_INFO, PSTR(D_LOG_WIFI D_CONNECTING_TO_AP "%d %s " D_IN_MODE " 11%c " D_AS " %s..."),
Settings.sta_active +1, SettingsText(SET_STASSID1 + Settings.sta_active), kWifiPhyMode[WiFi.getPhyMode() & 0x3], my_hostname);
}
AddLog_P2(LOG_LEVEL_INFO, PSTR(D_LOG_WIFI D_CONNECTING_TO_AP "%d %s " D_IN_MODE " 11%c " D_AS " %s..."),
Settings.sta_active +1, SettingsText(SET_STASSID1 + Settings.sta_active), kWifiPhyMode[WiFi.getPhyMode() & 0x3], my_hostname);
#if LWIP_IPV6
for (bool configured = false; !configured;) {
uint16_t cfgcnt = 0;
@ -259,6 +272,12 @@ void WifiBeginAfterScan(void)
}
// Scan done
if (5 == Wifi.scan_state) {
uint32_t number_known = 0; // count the number of known AP's so we can clear the Wifi.bssid_last if there is only one
int32_t channel_max = 0; // No scan result
int8_t ap_max = 3; // AP default if not found
uint8_t bssid_max[6]; // Save last bssid
memcpy((void*) &bssid_max, (void*) &Wifi.bssid, sizeof(bssid_max)); // store the strongest bssid
int32_t channel = 0; // No scan result
int8_t ap = 3; // AP default if not found
uint8_t last_bssid[6]; // Save last bssid
@ -282,12 +301,25 @@ void WifiBeginAfterScan(void)
for (j = 0; j < MAX_SSIDS; j++) {
if (ssid_scan == SettingsText(SET_STASSID1 + j)) { // SSID match
known = true;
number_known++;
if (rssi_scan > best_network_db) { // Best network
if (sec_scan == ENC_TYPE_NONE || SettingsText(SET_STAPWD1 + j)) { // Check for passphrase if not open wlan
best_network_db = (int8_t)rssi_scan;
channel = chan_scan;
ap = j; // AP1 or AP2
memcpy((void*) &Wifi.bssid, (void*) bssid_scan, sizeof(Wifi.bssid));
// store the max values in case there is only one AP and we need to try to reconnect
memcpy((void*) &bssid_max, (void*) bssid_scan, sizeof(bssid_max));
channel_max = chan_scan;
ap_max = j;
// if the bssid is not the same as the last failed attempt, force picking the next strongest AP to prevent getting stuck on a strong RSSI, but poor channel health
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < sizeof(Wifi.bssid_last); i++) {
if (bssid_scan[i] != Wifi.bssid_last[i]) {
best_network_db = (int8_t)rssi_scan;
channel = chan_scan;
ap = j; // AP1 or AP2
memcpy((void*) &Wifi.bssid, (void*) bssid_scan, sizeof(Wifi.bssid));
// save the last bssid used
memcpy((void*) &Wifi.bssid_last, (void*) bssid_scan, sizeof(Wifi.bssid_last));
break;
}
}
}
}
break;
@ -307,6 +339,16 @@ void WifiBeginAfterScan(void)
WiFi.scanDelete(); // Clean up Ram
delay(0);
}
// reset the last bssid if there is only one AP to allow the reconnect of the same AP on the next cycle
if (number_known == 1) {
// clear the last value
memset((void*) &Wifi.bssid_last, 0, sizeof(Wifi.bssid_last));
memcpy((void*) &Wifi.bssid, (void*) bssid_max, sizeof(Wifi.bssid));
channel = channel_max;
ap = ap_max;
}
Wifi.scan_state = 0;
// If bssid changed then (re)connect wifi
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < sizeof(Wifi.bssid); i++) {
@ -381,17 +423,11 @@ void WifiCheckIp(void)
#else
if ((WL_CONNECTED == WiFi.status()) && (static_cast<uint32_t>(WiFi.localIP()) != 0)) {
#endif // LWIP_IPV6=1
// initialize the last connect bssid since we had a successful connection
memset((void*) &Wifi.bssid_last, 0, sizeof(Wifi.bssid_last));
WifiSetState(1);
Wifi.counter = WIFI_CHECK_SEC;
Wifi.retry = Wifi.retry_init;
AddLog_P((Wifi.status != WL_CONNECTED) ? LOG_LEVEL_INFO : LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG_MORE, S_LOG_WIFI, PSTR(D_CONNECTED));
if (Wifi.status != WL_CONNECTED) {
// AddLog_P(LOG_LEVEL_INFO, PSTR("Wifi: Set IP addresses"));
Settings.ip_address[1] = (uint32_t)WiFi.gatewayIP();
Settings.ip_address[2] = (uint32_t)WiFi.subnetMask();
Settings.ip_address[3] = (uint32_t)WiFi.dnsIP();
}
Wifi.status = WL_CONNECTED;
#ifdef USE_DISCOVERY
#ifdef WEBSERVER_ADVERTISE
if (2 == Wifi.mdns_begun) {
@ -407,32 +443,18 @@ void WifiCheckIp(void)
switch (Wifi.status) {
case WL_CONNECTED:
AddLog_P(LOG_LEVEL_INFO, S_LOG_WIFI, PSTR(D_CONNECT_FAILED_NO_IP_ADDRESS));
Wifi.status = 0;
Wifi.retry = Wifi.retry_init;
// if poor channel health prevents DHCP broadcast from succeeding, restart the request
// The code will eventually do a recoonect when the 1/2 interval is hit to try another access point if this remains unsuccessful
wifi_station_dhcpc_start();
break;
case WL_NO_SSID_AVAIL:
AddLog_P(LOG_LEVEL_INFO, S_LOG_WIFI, PSTR(D_CONNECT_FAILED_AP_NOT_REACHED));
if (WIFI_WAIT == Settings.sta_config) {
Wifi.retry = Wifi.retry_init;
} else {
if (Wifi.retry > (Wifi.retry_init / 2)) {
Wifi.retry = Wifi.retry_init / 2;
}
else if (Wifi.retry) {
Wifi.retry = 0;
}
}
break;
case WL_CONNECT_FAILED:
AddLog_P(LOG_LEVEL_INFO, S_LOG_WIFI, PSTR(D_CONNECT_FAILED_WRONG_PASSWORD));
if (Wifi.retry > (Wifi.retry_init / 2)) {
Wifi.retry = Wifi.retry_init / 2;
}
else if (Wifi.retry) {
Wifi.retry = 0;
}
break;
default: // WL_IDLE_STATUS and WL_DISCONNECTED
// log on the 1/2 or full interval
if (!Wifi.retry || ((Wifi.retry_init / 2) == Wifi.retry)) {
AddLog_P(LOG_LEVEL_INFO, S_LOG_WIFI, PSTR(D_CONNECT_FAILED_AP_TIMEOUT));
} else {
@ -444,9 +466,11 @@ void WifiCheckIp(void)
}
}
}
if (Wifi.retry) {
if (Settings.flag3.use_wifi_scan) { // SetOption56 - Scan wifi network at restart for configured AP's
if (Wifi.retry_init == Wifi.retry) {
// check the 1/2 interval as well when rescanning - scan state machine takes 4 seconds
if ((Wifi.retry_init == Wifi.retry) || ((Wifi.retry_init / 2) == Wifi.retry)){
Wifi.scan_state = 1; // Select scanned SSID
}
} else {
@ -593,7 +617,6 @@ String WifiGetOutputPower(void)
dtostrfd((float)(Settings.wifi_output_power) / 10, 1, stemp1);
return String(stemp1);
}
void WifiSetOutputPower(void)
{
WiFi.setOutputPower((float)(Settings.wifi_output_power) / 10);
@ -605,7 +628,9 @@ void WifiConnect(void)
WifiSetOutputPower();
WiFi.persistent(false); // Solve possible wifi init errors
Wifi.status = 0;
Wifi.retry_init = WIFI_RETRY_OFFSET_SEC + ((ESP.getChipId() & 0xF) * 2);
// lower the rety times now Tasmota control the reconnections, not the Arduino SDK
// Wifi.retry_init = WIFI_RETRY_OFFSET_SEC + ((ESP.getChipId() & 0xF) * 2);
Wifi.retry_init = WIFI_RETRY_OFFSET_SEC + (ESP.getChipId() & 0xF);
Wifi.retry = Wifi.retry_init;
Wifi.counter = 1;
}