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MultiNav Pro+ BLE - curious about frequency hopping behavior at max range

Jason LambertJuly 14, 2026
Been digging into the MultiNav Pro+ BLE module for a project involving long-range asset tracking across a pretty wide open site. One thing I can't figure out from the docs is how the module handles adaptive frequency hopping at the extremes of its range. Standard BLE AFH is great for avoiding interference in congested 2.4GHz environments, but at 50km link distances the margin for a failed hop and retransmit has to get pretty thin. Does the module lean on a specific channel map or does it let you lock channels manually to reduce hopping overhead when you know your RF environment is clean?
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AdamJuly 14, 2026
@Jason Lambert good question, and honestly one of the more interesting RF edge cases with this module.
 
The 50km figure is drone-to-drone with both units airborne, so you're already in a best-case propagation scenario where the link budget is working hard for you — but you're right that at those distances the retransmit cost on a bad hop is non-trivial. The STM32WB07 at the core of the MultiNav Pro+ does support channel map configuration, so you're not stuck with the full 37-channel sweep if your RF environment is known and clean. The firmware repo is public on GitHub (github.com/RFOXiA/MultiNav-Pro-Long-Range-BLE-Module-Firmware-STM32WB07) and that's probably your fastest path to seeing exactly how the channel management is exposed at the firmware level right now.
 
For a wide open asset tracking site where you have some control over the RF environment, locking to a subset of clean channels and tightening the connection interval is likely going to give you more predictable link behavior than relying on AFH to adapt dynamically at that range. That said, the specifics of what's configurable out of the box versus what needs custom firmware work is worth a direct conversation with Moamen — the AI Firmware Builder in the Dev Hub is also worth trying if you want to prototype a config quickly before going deep on the STM32WB07 datasheet.
 
What's the asset density on your site? That changes the calculus a bit on whether you're optimizing for single long-range links or something closer to a mesh topology.
Amy SmithJuly 14, 2026
Honestly the docs are pretty vague on this but from what I've dug into, the MultiNav Pro+ does let you manually configure the channel map via the HCI_LE_Set_Host_Channel_Classification command, so you can lock it down to your cleanest channels instead of letting AFH thrash around at the edge of range - at 50km you really don't want it wasting time hopping to a channel it's gonna miss. That said I'd be curious what your RSSI margin looks like out there because even with a fixed map, retransmit latency at that distance has bitten a few people in this community pretty hard.

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