Periodic gaps in power data but other feeds present?

I’m running a brand new emonTX and emonBase (base home built from Pi3B+ + purchased reciever board) and set it up according to these instructions yesterday. The base is connected to router via ethernet and is approximately 6meters away from the TX.

Power readings are coming through if I watch in a dashboard using live feed chart, along with temperature + others, however when I go to check the setup > data viewer graphs I’m seeing periodic gaps in the power data. When overlaying temperature readings which are coming from the same TX unit, there are no data gaps. See the screenshot beneath, power in yellow, temperature in blue. Blue circle highlights where I reset the pi.

Does anyone know what’s going wrong?

Also beneath is a comparison of a livefeed chart in the dashboard vs rawdata chart. Rawdata chart seems to be missing data, live feed contains the data.

I’ve taken a look at the logs during the gaps and can see readings, but can’t interpret if the logs are telling me that there is something wrong.
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2022-04-06 20:24:35,140 INFO MainThread Logging level set to DEBUG
2022-04-06 20:24:35,142 INFO MainThread Setting RFM2Pi calibration: 230V (1p)
2022-04-06 20:24:35,243 DEBUG RFM2Pi acknowledged command: > 1p
2022-04-06 20:24:35,553 DEBUG RFM2Pi acknowledged command: i - set node ID (standard node ids are 1…30)
2022-04-06 20:24:35,659 DEBUG RFM2Pi acknowledged command: b - set MHz band (4 = 433, 8 = 868, 9 = 915)
2022-04-06 20:24:35,766 DEBUG RFM2Pi acknowledged command: o - change frequency offset within the band (default 1600)
2022-04-06 20:24:35,978 DEBUG RFM2Pi acknowledged command: g - set network group (RFM12 only allows 212, 0 = any)
2022-04-06 20:24:36,084 DEBUG RFM2Pi acknowledged command: c - set collect mode (advanced, normally 0)
2022-04-06 20:24:36,145 INFO MainThread Setting emoncmsorg senddata: 1
2022-04-06 20:24:36,145 INFO MainThread Setting emoncmsorg sendstatus: 1
2022-04-06 20:24:36,296 DEBUG RFM2Pi acknowledged command: …, a - send data packet to node , request ack
2022-04-06 20:24:36,401 DEBUG RFM2Pi acknowledged command: …, s - send data packet to node , no ack
2022-04-06 20:24:36,506 DEBUG RFM2Pi acknowledged command: q - set quiet mode (1 = don’t report bad packets)
2022-04-06 20:24:36,613 DEBUG RFM2Pi acknowledged command: x - set reporting format (0: decimal, 1: hex, 2: hex+ascii)
2022-04-06 20:24:36,784 DEBUG emoncmsorg Buffer size: 3
2022-04-06 20:24:36,927 DEBUG RFM2Pi acknowledged command: ,,, f - FS20 command (868 MHz)
2022-04-06 20:24:37,033 DEBUG RFM2Pi acknowledged command: ,, k - KAKU command (433 MHz)
2022-04-06 20:24:37,240 DEBUG RFM2Pi device settings updated: E i5 g210 @ 433 MHz q1
2022-04-06 20:24:37,353 DEBUG RFM2Pi 452 NEW FRAME : OK 15 62 117 85 85 55 11 54 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 246 64 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 39 83 101 32 101 32 84 85 85 85 (-54)
2022-04-06 20:24:37,356 DEBUG RFM2Pi 452 Timestamp : 1649273077.353317
2022-04-06 20:24:37,357 DEBUG RFM2Pi 452 From Node : 15
2022-04-06 20:24:37,357 DEBUG RFM2Pi 452 Values : [8299, 241.62, 99, 0, 0, 0, 5539, 0, 0, 0, 16.5, 300, 300, 1]
2022-04-06 20:24:37,358 DEBUG RFM2Pi 452 RSSI : -54
2022-04-06 20:24:37,359 DEBUG RFM2Pi 452 Sent to channel(start)’ : ToEmonCMS
2022-04-06 20:24:37,359 DEBUG RFM2Pi 452 Sent to channel(end)’ : ToEmonCMS
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2022-04-06 20:24:37,492 DEBUG MQTT Publishing: emonhub/rx/15/values 8299,241.62,99,0,0,0,5539,0,0,0,16.5,300,300,1,-54

Hello @jamie if you turn on averaging on the graph does the data appear by any chance? See the average tick box example in the screenshot below:

Thanks for your response Trystan. I tried this but the data didn’t appear.

I opted for a factory reset, assuming I’d messed up the setup of the feeds/inputs somehow. It worked and now data is flowing in nicely!

For anyone that comes across this in the future, factory reset is explained at the bottom of this page.

$ sudo su
$ /opt/openenergymonitor/EmonScripts/other/factoryreset
$ reboot