MicroGateway variables and updates not sending to Ubidots

Any insights here? My question is twofold:

  1. Do NCD Gateways themselves send messages to the MQTT broker (eg Ubidots)
  2. Shouldn’t these variables show up consistently in the MQTT broker (Ubidots)? I am not sure why one NCD gateway device behaves differently from another.

Tracking here too: NCD Gateway not updating, missing variables - Data management - Ubidots Community