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    @victus Im not familiar with this components you mention, you need to test yourself, cant help you with the technical stuff. It does not seem to be a fully functional ECG but a heart rate monitor. As epierre said above, you need to define if you want to monitor or have a fully functional ECG, its a big difference. With a monitor all you get is pretty much your heartrate and you can detect arytmias. A fully working ECG is normally made with 12 leads and is used to in detail know how the electrical depolarisation from different time and direction/place within the heart muscle works. Holter is a example of a heart rate monitor over time.
  • battery sensor - issues with placing batteries in parallel ?

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    The siren probably has all four batteries in series, so you would probably have to modify the battery holder to connect two pairs in series. But yes, since you have the space for four batteries you might as well use that and double the battery life.
  • RFduino

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    The RFduino uses the NRF51822 which is discussed here: http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1788/nrf51822-as-an-all-in-one
  • Home made OTA and Authentication breakout board.

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    @scalz Thanks for clarifying. Anyways, I will still be able to use the EEPROM. Will keep it for future when you have the modified code for i2c protocol. For now I'll have to order ATSHA204A-STUCZ package.
  • Sensebender Frequency

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  • Powersupply for Arduino Nano

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    @ToniA OT: Those old Nokia chargers with just a tranformer and rectifier diodes, are quite useful when building non-switched power supply and thus good nRF24L01+ performance. If you have any of those to spare I'm interested...
  • power NRF24L01+PA+LNA from FTDI USB to TTL Serial Adapter

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    Yes it's working :blush: #define RF24_PA_LEVEL_GW RF24_PA_MAX [image: uc?id=0BxlxVZPVHBfPRnNIaTUtaU5PMGM]
  • Mysensor-ing a thermostatic valve

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    Hello Lucas, Last year , i did not achieve to run a sketch on the HR25. I remain convinced that it should be doable, but i am not enough aware of the inner details of the MCU / Arduino. also, my job has become a lot more time consuming, and i have not been able to spend time on this project for several months. If someone want to take over from here, i would be very happy.
  • Hardware debounce?

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    For something that slow, try a MAX6816... cheap, sot-4 case
  • Tiny 0.8-3.3V sleep current

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    thanks everyone. Maybe it is better to use 2 AA and a ATMEGA328P and skip the Pro-Mini. All my stuff is made for 1.8-3.6V. Maybe it will last for 2 years or something.
  • Simple battery options for mysensors

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    Thanks guys, I have just placed a order for some of these.
  • Controlling speed of an AC 230v FAN. Help Needed[RESOLVED]

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    Which hardware s used for controlling a FAN?
  • Can I use W25Q32 SPI flash as alternate for AT25DF512C?

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    scalzS
    expensive? 0.30€ each at digikey (not as cheap as 10cents, of course you need to make a min order to not have shipping fee. why not group your needs). or same price at aliexpress (longer delivery, patience is not my biggest quality too). I can't help you sorry, i hope you will find it.
  • MySensors connected over power, is this possible?

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    @hek said: Using something like this: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/9185 Unfortunately seems to be retired. Found something similar on Aliexpress: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2pcs-lot-Power-Line-Carrier-Communication-Module-DC-Carrier-Module-Zero-Send-High-Speed-Carrier/32265367729.html?spm=2114.30010308.3.10.xjeFn1&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_3,searchweb201644_2_505_506_503_504_301_502_10001_10002_10016_10005_10006_10003_10004_401,searchweb201560_5,searchweb1451318400_-1,searchweb1451318411_6448&btsid=52fdb576-0ad1-4067-b448-e3214250cc3e
  • Stable battery PIR Sensor

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    I will try tomorrow to do it without any voltage regulators together with a sensebender micro. I have the bigger pir sensor though, but I dont think its much difference on thoose. We will see.
  • Breakout Board for ESP-12F

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    scalzS
    yep. but sometimes, usb powered things are useful, in case of esp8266 which is not a lowpower thing ;)
  • Bluetooth Gateway

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    That was a clever solution @Planer!
  • PCB Identity Please

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    Thank you! That pointed me in the right direction.
  • Request for input: Driving 2 rgb stripes with 1 Arduino

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    @ericvdb said: @Oitzu, that looks familiar, Ikea right ;) Yes, you're right ;) Older Malm Modell.
  • Battery percentage - Help needed

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    here is the battery related code from my battery powered temp sensor. Took a while to get the battery correct. Before this thread I had not seen any other code correcting for battery max / min voltages. I am using the 3.7V li-ion cells which actually seem to top out at 4.2V. I cap the percent at 99 for Vera. float fmap(float x, float in_min, float in_max, float out_min, float out_max) { return (x - in_min) * (out_max - out_min) / (in_max - in_min) + out_min; } void loop() { delay(dht.getMinimumSamplingPeriod()); int sensorValue = analogRead(BATTERY_SENSE_PIN); // 1M, 330K divider across battery and using internal ADC ref of 1.1V // Sense point is bypassed with 0.1 uF cap to reduce noise at that point // ((1e6+330e3)/330e3)*1.1 = Vmax = 4.43 Volts // 4.43/1023 = Volts per bit = 0.0043336591723688 // 4.2 = 100% 2.5 = 0% float batteryV = sensorValue * 0.004333659; float batteryVmap = fabs(fmap(batteryV, 2.5, 4.2, 0.0, 1000.0)); int batteryPcnt = batteryVmap / 10; if(batteryPcnt >= 100){ batteryPcnt = 99;

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