Ruuvitags in HA more and more unstable with time

Are you using the builtin bluetooth adapter on the RPi3 or an external dongle? After years of use, experience and experimenting I’m starting to think the RPi3 (possibly others than 3 too) is really picky/unstable with bluetooth, with many different causes, but there are at least a couple of things you can check/try.

One cause for spikes is a FIFO overflow, as noticed here with a workaround that reduces the spikes. (hardware design issue on some revisions in which case workaround is probably the best you can get)

I have also noticed and heard cases where the RPi3 bluetooth is increasingly unstable when the power supply input voltage differs from 5V; my main RPi3 is using a high quality 5V power supply which supplies very precise voltage and it rarely has issues (apart from the spikes in data which started after upgrading to a newer raspbian, fixed with the above link) while my testing RPi3 uses a old phone charger which supplies around 5.1-5.2V measured with a multimeter under no load (still within specs though) and the bluetooth hangs there from time to time. It’s not a hardware defect on that particular RPi3; I have swapped the raspberries around and it didn’t make any difference.

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