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==== If you walked from dresser → back door → back while holding the receiver, a location-bound transmitter (like a Wi-Fi Light) often produces a bigger RSSI swing (commonly 8–20 dB) because you’re changing distance and obstructions relative to that transmitter. ====

Here, 4210… stayed basically flat.

That usually means one of these is true:
# It’s far enough away that your in-house movement doesn’t change the path loss much (through walls / neighboring unit / outside).
# Multipath dominates (reflections) so the net RSSI looks jittery but not strongly distance-correlated.
# It’s a device with intermittent advertising and you’re just catching it sporadically; the few samples you got aren’t enough to show the full curve.

What it does not look like:
* a device “on you” (you’d expect stronger RSSI at least sometimes)
* a device you walked closer to (you’d expect a clearer rise than 3 dB)