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Improved the documentation to mitigate confusion that showed in https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/ttn-node-link-check-does-not-work/19981/18

  • Calling linkCheck before joining has no effect.

  • The linkCheck command is delegated to the RN2483 module by using mac set linkchk, which is documented as:

    When the time interval expires, the next application packet that will be sent to the server will include also a link check MAC command.

Improved the documentation to mitigate confusion that showed in https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/ttn-node-link-check-does-not-work/19981/18

- Calling `linkCheck` before joining has no effect.

- The `linkCheck` command is delegated to the RN2483 module by using `mac set linkchk`, which [is documented as](http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/40001784C.pdf#page=29):

    > When the time interval expires, the next application packet that will be sent to the server will include also a link check MAC command.
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lgtm

@johanstokking johanstokking merged commit be30091 into TheThingsNetwork:master Nov 26, 2018
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johanstokking commented Jan 14, 2019

@avbentem avbentem deleted the patch-2 branch July 21, 2020 09:11
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