ADR - not what I expected

[arjanvanb (Arjan)]

Ah, @htdvisser indeed wrote on Slack in August 24th:

At the moment we only piggy-back ADR on application downlink, but we will indeed send the ADR command sooner. Even better, if the margin is really big, we might already send a first ADR command immediately after join. See Send device straight to a higher SF on join if possible · Issue #477 · TheThingsArchive/ttn · GitHub

Ah, and here on the forum, September 11th:

@htdvisser

The next backend release will make it work for devices that don’t receive downlink from the application layer. […] If testing goes well, you can expect this within the next week or two.

So you’d either need to wait a bit, or somehow set the ADRACKReq bit every now and then (what LoRa module is in the RisingHF USB modem?), or somehow make the application schedule a dummy downlink if it sees that the node is on a low data rate…? And maybe disabling link check can stop the node from going to SF12 to start with (I don’t know)?

(And file a bug with RisingHF.)