4CHPROR3 losing connection

I have two 4CHPROR3 installed in the same location.

One works flawlessly with no issues.

The other keeps losing its network connection. Sometimes it happens several times in a day. Sometimes it goes several days with no issues. It always reconnects on its own but in the meantime scheduled events or actions are missed.

I have checked for updates and done them all as soon as they are available. I just updated to 3.8.2 this morning.

Is this unit just failing and needs to be replaced? Is there something else I can try to get it working correctly?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Experiencing the similar about all of my 3 devices CK-BL602-W102SW18-01(226) Ewelink WIFI Smart Circuit Breaker 1P+N 16A 20A (firmware 1.2.1).
But NOT experienced it with CK-BL602-SWP1-01(182) eWelink 16A/20A EU WiFi Smart Socket (firmware 1.3.1).

Checked carefully WiFi settings:

  • specific SSID only for eWeLink devices
  • transmission protocol fixed to 802.11n
  • WPA2-PSK
  • only 2.4GHz / 20 MHz
  • only the cleanest channel (in my case 11)
  • permanent IPs
    Still, no success.

I suspect, that the firmware of some Sonoff/EweLink devices is buggy, causing some memory leak or buffer overflows while renegotiating with WiFi connection. But cannot approve it due the fact that Sonoff/EweLink firmware is not publicly available, at least I had no success to find it.