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What I didn't quite figure out was how it operates independently as a regular light switch.
What I find most interesting is that this is 8 years old. There have been some incredible advances in the IoT world in that time. I was about to do a similar thing which morphed into an ESP-12F then added a touch screen. I call it the Universal Light Switch
Imagine this: All the switches are identical. Any switch can easily be configured to control up to five devices ... and then changed, on-the-fly, to control a different set of devices.
My design is part of a system that would require a controller (eg. Home Assistant), an MQTT broker, and receiving modules in the devices being switched. It's WiFI which assumes an access point.
The DIY ULS is under $20 and the off-the-shelf receiving modules are under $10. (About the cost of a non-networked dimmer switch) If one doesn't have the controller and MQTT broker, they can run on an old (5 years?) computer (which is cheaper than an old RasberryPi).
This project is a good one!
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Hi all,
After 2 years I restarted working my Home sensors and my MySensors projects. I want to create some PCB and decided to start working with KiCAT.
I'm using version 5.1 and was able to import libraries and assign 3d shapes to MySensor components. However, the MySensors 3d shapes look to be wrong. Their size is too big when compared with KiCAT standard components.
Has anyone of you gone through this issue? Any workaround?
Thanks in advance.
Hi2All!
Surprising is here. After about 24hours I refresh HA and suddenly my motion sensor was integrated.
There is also second entity > battery : 0 , have to look deeper into that for understanding.
Need to change little in the sketch, because don't want every short time 'no movement' so only when there is motion and maybe once a hour indication sensor is alive.
Meantime I found 3 other good threats:
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/11200/finally-progress-evidence-based-radio-testing-method-and-capacitors
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1664/which-are-the-best-nrf24l01-modules/27
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/9550/build-a-reliable-power-supply-chain
Very usefull for me also finally progress because of lacking time in the past.
Great jobs are done here!
Thanks for this all of you guys or girls!
With Home Assistant as Operating System it might not work, if the radio is connected to the GPIO of the Pi. The HASS-Os has some restrictions to run software like the Pi gateway beside Homeassistant.
I have currently a setup with a RFM69 connected to the GPIO for the RPI ethernet gateway. Homeassistant runs in a container and the mysensors plugin connects in Homeassistant to localhost or 127.0.0.1. But I have problems with the stability (I think so) with this combination, as seen in this forum.
In my opinion is a Serial (USB-Serial-Converter) Gateway with Homeassistant the best choice. So I want to build another gateway and resinstall my Pi with HASS-Os.
