The mode to use depends on the desired system solution. For water and gas meters often deployed in pits or basements, mode N is preferred due to the long range. For shorter distance (in house/building), walk-by or drive-by systems mode T and C is preferred.
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Wireless M-Bus Q&A Related Knowledge Base Posts - [W-MBUS] “I’m currently working on a wireless M-Bus project, and I try to run the developement kit with meters. In fact, I get to receive a frame sent by a counter, but I can not return it even if I put the module in “”Repeaters Mode”” “ [W-MBUS] “I configured the MBUS radio to use the UART flow control using the CTS/RTS pins. When the host processor wants to send an MBUS message, it pulls the RTS pin low and waits for the radio to pull CTS up. The processor then sends the message. But this gives strange results, and sometimes it just fails to send the message. I also tried using only the CTS pin, where I wait for the pin to go high before sending the message. Again, this does not always work. Are the CTS/RTS pins exclusively for controlling the flow over the uart connection (host processor to radio) or are they meant to indicate when the radio can send another message ? If so, how should I use them ? “ [W-MBUS] “How can I make a mobile readout device with RC1180-MBUS3 (…reading heat meters from car or by walking)? How can I setup up a module? Must I use „install mode=accept all”, or should I every time before I want to collect data from heat meters use The install mode, after install mode master keys settings…? “
