The Elderflower is an outdoor Flower. We recommend mounting it outdoors or placing it on a pole.

A mesh screen on your window will interfere with the signal. Additionally, foliage can interfere. The best placement is a high up location that is generally unobstructed.

Your Flower receives rewards when it is "seen" by Bumblebees and Honeybees (we call this Proof of Coverage). To receive rewards for your Flower, you will need to have linked your Solana wallet address to the NFT that is etched onto the top of the Flower. This needs to be done prior to delivery. 

We recommend the following wallets: Phantom, SolFlare, and Slope.

After you place your order, you'll get an email with a link to a Registration Form. Fill that out by providing your Order # and Solana wallet.

Remember: you need to do this prior to delivery as hardware will not ship without an associated account.

The Flower needs to have connections to earn PCN each day. Every Bee-Hex connection (subject to limits to prevent gaming) earns credits that are used to determine how much PCN are earned from that day's Incentive Payments pool. 

Send an email to support@pollenmobile.io and we'll get you squared away.

The job of the Bumblebee is to ping Flowers and validate the network coverage, so the best way to use your Bumblebee is to put in your car, bicycle, drone, or some other moving device and go for a tour of your surrounding area. 

We’ve been testing with a few different powerbanks and have good success with this one from Anker. 

Bumblebees report data back to the Pollen network to help us build a reliable map of coverage information. Data reported by Bumblebees includes date / time, GPS location, and network traffic statistics (e.g., ping times, upload / download speeds, signal strength) in addition to their own unique identifier and the unique identifiers of Flowers for which coverage is verified. 

It can take up to one minute to attach to a Pollen tower. This means that it's possible for you to drive by a tower and not attach to it. When the network becomes more dense, you will stay more connected as there will be handoffs from one tower to the next. 

When you have a red GPS light, this means that your Bumblebee has a GPS fix but has not synchronized its system clock to the GPS clock yet. You can wait 5 minutes, or reboot your Bumblebee to start the process over again. We're working on improvements to make this much faster.

Bumblebees are external hardware devices that validate the Pollen network. Honeybees are SIM based and must be installed on a band 48 compatible mobile device, and they can also be used to validate the Pollen network.