Only two weeks ago I thought I solved all my major problems with DIY LoRa RC link. I was wrong. I was able to solve one problem (link unstable due to rouge packets messing up with protocol decoding), but an old problem came up again: PPM input from Taranis is no longer stable. At least I know why since this is a second time this is happening.

Current code read bytes from SX1276 buffer inside interrupt callback procedure (ISR). PPM decoding is also done in ISR. How many threads ATmega has? What happens when one ISR is triggered while second is still executed? Problems. The solution is to keep ISRs as simple and fast as possible. My code was not simple and fast enough.

On top of that, it turned out that Arduino LoRa library I'm using is not efficient. It performs 2 SPI transactions to read one byte from SX1276 FIFO buffer. So, 12 bytes of typical data packet equals 24 SPI transaction... Looks like I will have to do some low-level coding I wanted to avoid in the beginning... Oh well...