Can't get disconnected info when internet disconnection

[handgear]

Hello,
Is there a way to get disconnect info when internet is off-line?
I'm trying to get connected status in loop by MQTT::Client->isConnected() and AWSWebSocketClient->connected().

In normal case it send & receive heartbeat(?) once a minute.

[WS][0][sendFrame]` ------- send massage frame -------
[WS][0][sendFrame] fin: 1 opCode: 2 mask: 1 length: 2 headerToPayload: 0
[WS][0][sendFrame] pack to one TCP package...
[write] n: 8 t: 186387
[WS][0][sendFrame] sending Frame Done (9153us).

[WS][0][handleWebsocketWaitFor] size: 2 cWsRXsize: 0
[readCb] n: 2 t: 186421
[WS][0][handleWebsocketWaitFor][readCb] size: 2 ok: 1
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] ------- read massage frame -------
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] fin: 1 rsv1: 0 rsv2: 0 rsv3 0  opCode: 2
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] mask: 0 payloadLen: 2
[readCb] n: 2 t: 186436

When the internet is off-line, after about 1min, it send below and never send it again.
(situation pretend sudden disconnection after normal state)

[WS][0][sendFrame] ------- send massage frame -------
[WS][0][sendFrame] fin: 1 opCode: 2 mask: 1 length: 2 headerToPayload: 0
[WS][0][sendFrame] pack to one TCP package...
[write] n: 8 t: 246673
[WS][0][sendFrame] sending Frame Done (9062us).

In this situation(off-line), MQTT::Client->isConnected() and AWSWebSocketClient->connected() are both true during loop.
It actually detects the disconnection after the internet recovered.

log after internet recovered:

[WS-Client] connection lost.
[WS-Client] client disconnected.
[WS-Client] connect wss...
[WS-Client] connected to qwertyqwerty.iot.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com:443.
[WS-Client][sendHeader] sending header...
[WS-Client][sendHeader] handshake GET /mqtt?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=qwertyqwerty%2Fqwertyqwerty%2Fiotdevicegateway%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20180108T061032Z&X-Amz-Expires=86400&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=qwertyqwerty HTTP/1.1
Host: qwertyqwerty.iot.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com:443
Connection: Upgrade
Upgrade: websocket
Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13
Sec-WebSocket-Key: qwertyqwerty==
Origin: file://
User-Agent: arduino-WebSocket-Client

[write] n: 535 t: 456279
[WS-Client][sendHeader] sending header... Done (58594us).

in this point MQTT::Client->isConnected() == true, AWSWebSocketClient->connected() == false in loop

458176 - conn: 2 - (13376)
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] clientDisconnect code: 1000
[WS-Client] client disconnected.
[WS-Client] connect wss...
[WS-Client] connected to qwertyqwerty.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com:443.
[WS-Client][sendHeader] sending header...
[WS-Client][sendHeader] handshake GET /mqtt?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=qwertyqwerty%2Fap-northeast-2%2Fiotdevicegateway%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20180108T061800Z&X-Amz-Expires=86400&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=qwertyqwerty HTTP/1.1
Host: qwertyqwerty.iot.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com:443
Connection: Upgrade
Upgrade: websocket
Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13
Sec-WebSocket-Key: qwertyqwerty==
Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: mqtt
Origin: file://
User-Agent: arduino-WebSocket-Client

and after this, it init webSocket and connect MQTT

Is there a way to get disconnect info when internet is off-line?

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I tried with latest eclipse/paho.mqtt.embedded-c (release vertion 1.1.0)
wonder this was my case(eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.embedded-c@5509124)

interestingly with this MQTTClient.h, MQTT::Client->isConnected() is false after MQTT connection.
So it reconnect session after every 1min.

[odelot]

When we had fixed the 2.3.0 version (esp8266/Arduino#3537) , the write function returns false after 25 tries and then the mqtt server was disconnected .

I made a quick test in the 2.4.0 (they release the final version a week ago) and saw that it does not disconnected from the server, but also does not enter in a endless loop as it was doing lately. I think they just flush the data they cannot send. As I dont need to have the server disconnected when there is no internet connection I didn't investigate further for now.

I am using the version 1.0.0 of Paho client, so I think version 1.1.0 is not the problem.

I've also noticed that after the first connection, all others connection closes fast. I thought it was a amazon issue, but as you said, it seems to be a paho client issue.

I will try to investigate this issue in the next days (although I cant promisse). Paho could have a timeout for the heartbeat message and disconnect automatically. Maybe we could try to use another client, as pubsubclient.

[handgear]

Thanks for your consideration.
I tried to use ping as an alternative way to detect internet off-line and it is working well so far.
this doesn't detect server failure but in most case, aws iot server seem to be reliable. quick solution...

I'll try with pubsubclient. :D

[odelot]

Think I fixed the disconnection issue. It is in a two day run with just 4 reconnections. Give it a try if you can.

[handgear]

The reconnection issue seems fixed.
Thanks for your consideration.

I'm still using extra ping (https://github.com/dancol90/ESP8266Ping) to detect internet disconnection and this method is not bad.
not really need to get info from MQTT object.

[odelot]

I am still getting disconnection issues. :-(

It seems that amazon is sending a disconnect message, but it does not make sense, because after I reset the device it stops from disconnect.

It disconnects after what it seems to be a disconnection message. The log I have is this:

[WS][0][handleWebsocketWaitFor] size: 2 cWsRXsize: 0
[readCb] n: 2 t: 15184727
[WS][0][handleWebsocketWaitFor][readCb] size: 2 ok: 1
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] ------- read massage frame -------
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] fin: 1 rsv1: 0 rsv2: 0 rsv3 0 opCode: 8
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] mask: 0 payloadLen: 0
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] get ask for close. Code: 1000
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] clientDisconnect code: 1000
[WS][0][sendFrame] ------- send massage frame -------
[WS][0][sendFrame] fin: 1 opCode: 8 mask: 0 length: 2 headerToPayload: 0

@handgear were you having this issue?

[handgear]

I'm also not sure where that clientDisconnect code: 1000 coming from.
Currently using Paho ver 1.0.0 and dosn't seems to receive clientDisconnect code: 1000 (although I didn't trace the log long enough)
clientDisconnect code: 1000 only appear after when internet was inaccessible and then recovered

when using latest paho library i get

[WS][0][handleWebsocketWaitFor] size: 2 cWsRXsize: 0
[readCb] n: 2 t: 112105
[WS][0][handleWebsocketWaitFor][readCb] size: 2 ok: 1
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] ------- read massage frame -------
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] fin: 1 rsv1: 0 rsv2: 0 rsv3 0 opCode: 8
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] mask: 0 payloadLen: 0
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] get ask for close. Code: 1000
[WS][0][handleWebsocket] clientDisconnect code: 1000
[WS][0][sendFrame] ------- send massage frame -------
[WS][0][sendFrame] fin: 1 opCode: 8 mask: 0 length: 2 headerToPayload: 0
[WS][0][sendFrame] pack to one TCP package...
[write] n: 4 t: 112144
[write] not connected!
[WS][0][sendFrame] sending Frame Done (18011us).
[WS-Client] client disconnected.

[odelot]

@handgear I am still facing this problem. First connection last hours, but next ones just a couple of minutes.

Do you had some progress on it? I am trying to see the websocket layer logs to see why the server is asking to close the connection. (following the suggestion from Links2004/arduinoWebSockets#294)

Other idea is to change paho client to pubsubclient as I already mention to you. This would try to isolate the mqtt client from this bizarre behavior