[RE-wrenches] Outback OpticsRE+Starlink redux

[Tyrone Houck]

Probably goes without saying but definitely worth setting the optics reboot
interval short..might help if it's something that hasn't been done



On Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 9:17 AM Nick Lucchese via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> About a dozen of my sites are using Starlink to support Opticsre without
> any sort of issue. Extremely stable compared to past strategies.
>
> Nick
>
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM Dan Fink via RE-wrenches <
> re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
>
>> Esteemed Wrenches - can anyone provide me with recent updates as to how
>> Starlink is working with outback OpticsRE currently? I tried it on a
>> nightmare offgrid system last year, it didn't work, I called Outback tech
>> support, they said it was an issue, and they were working on Mate3S
>> firmware updates, and then they were sold to the EG4 folks who are
>> non-responive.
>>
>> I have a remote nightmare system that I thought I finally fixed over a
>> year ago. The internet connection is DSL (yepper, the 1990s are calling and
>> want to laugh at me) and I fixed the problem for about a year by keeping
>> just OpticsRE and the Resol solar thermal on the old DSL, and moving all
>> mobile device traffic to Starlink.This a southern Colorado "Santa Fe" style
>> estate with rebar-embedded concrete walls that block all wifi. All Outback
>> Optics is hardwired LAN, with a fiber optic LAN system installed just for
>> Outback because the over 50 foot distance didnt work.
>>
>> Now it is misbehaving again, on the DSL. Stays connected for 4-6 hours,
>> then drops. Homeowner trained the housekeeper to reboot the Mate3S, works
>> for 4-6 hours then drops, she only goes there once a week or 2. Can I try
>> again to connect the Mate3S hardwired to Starlink, or will it be once again
>> a futile waste of my billing hours as was last time?
>>
>> I'm just happy the homeowner is a very nice guy and OK with paying my
>> bill for so many site visits, even when those visits don't fix the problem.
>> That's a rare situation, many other clients would be suing me.
>>
>> But when I started in this business in 1994, there were no solar
>> monitoring LANs and only horribly slow satellite links that wouldn't do
>> data. I would never have known what that even meant. Now, seems like I am
>> doing more LAN networking work than PV volts amps watts. And this is FLA
>> batteries, not LiFePO4 and no BMS.
>>
>> What a strange new world we live in.
>>
>> Owner, Buckville Energy Consulting LLC
>> IREC Certified Instructor for PV and Small Wind Installation
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>> 970-672-4342
>>
>>
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