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I never had a chance to explore the northen countries, folks say its beutifull landscape and nice people. perhaps some day.

@TheoL said: Thank you everyone for your replies. I'm currently using Domoticz with Razberry. And that works okay. But when I define scene's and activate them, it takes sometimes a couple of seconds for each switch to go off or on accordingly to the scene. I read on this forum that most Vera users are happy with it. So I was thinking that I might switch over to Vera. But if I'm not mistaken I should go for a more expensive model? I'm also very curious if I can hook up OpenHAB to Vera. Because OpenHAB has some features which I also like ;). I have been a Vera user , all flavors , for more than 8 years now, I have tried Ui1.5.x.x and UI7.x.x ,I have tried the Vera Edge with approx 40 sensors and modules and using PLEG for controlling most all aspects of the Home automation. I found the Vera Edge could not handle all the Automation, tech support worked with me for 3 weeks to try to get the Edge to cooperate . I finally sent it back to where I bought the Unit. I changed over to my Veralite and my Vera3 and split the work up between the 2 controllers. I run Mysensor Ethernet Gateway on both of my controllers, 1 gateway for 2 Veras. I have Zwave motion sensors,Zwave modules, Zwave dimmer modules, Zwave Honeywell Thermostat and Temperature and Humid sensors that are Zwave. I have Mysensor door/window sensor built with Attiny 85, so much cheaper to build than using Nano or Pro-Mini I also have Scene controllers built with pro-Mini that control ceiling fans remotely, bedroom lights remotely, Entertainment Centers remotely. You get the Idea. Now nothing is perfect I have had my glitches but for FREE their is no other controller I will use , unless someone comes up with one as reliable and cost effect as MCV. This is my 2 cents worth.

@5546dug @hek Thanks guys. Will jump in and see what happens.

@LastSamurai said: I love the project and I want to "steal" your work. :cold_sweat: I just realised that I forgot the "don't" there. I fixed that.

Thank you for your reply. Things are getting more clear. I am just still not familiar with the chip. Suppose now that I have one chip as a transmitter and I have 8 nodes as receivers. In the first case the TX will be able to transmit to all 8 nodes successfully, right ? But If now I want after transmitting to be able to receive an ACK or a specific form of bytes which indicates that the value was received by one of the 8 eights correctly. Will that be applicable ? Will the trasnmitter node be able to receive from the 8 nodes ? As I said I still can't get how is the nrf configured, like what are adresses and whether all nodes has same frequency or not...etc. Thank you.

Why not connect the arduino directly to the IO pins of the raspberry? I have a similar setup running with a sensebender micro as a gateway.

@BastienVH I use 0.8mm wire. I have found it suits me for all-around soldering of both through-hole and SMD. For tip I would recommend a chisel tipped one. That provides the best heating and you can turn it depending on the area you solder in. Very rarely I change tip to a pointy one, but for sure, it is good to have the option to switch tips. They eventually wear out. Of course, it is a matter of personal taste as well :)

You can look that up on the main page under API/Download: http://www.mysensors.org/download/serial_api_15 For the sending problems: I seem to have had a similar probleme here too. I will try to wait() fix too and report my findings :)

glad you found your issue

Thanks for that advice. I reckon ill get started with some hacking and see how far I get! Thanks!

I like the logical grouping of sensors in nodes. It also saves me a lot of 'hardware'. And there is the challenge of combining code, (conflicting) libraries and amount of memory. Which I actualy like. You need to use some best practices (like non blocking code) and be aware of timing issues though.

I rebooted the sensor and now it does store the sensorID. (Could this have been as I was on 1.6.5-R5 and now on 1.7.7 or the IDE?)

Thanks for the input all I might put two sensors together and see what transpires to see if I can narrow things down a bit and see if it is specifically a sensor issue or the controller.

Thanks for the feedback. I only just found this post and it looks like this is what I am looking for:- link text

How did you get it to work?? Could you write a noob tutorial on how it works with bootloaders and how to upload them? I've downloaded the mysensors1.5 zip file, but what are the next steps, how do i get it to show up in arduino sketch and after that what must i change and how do i upload it in my arduino??

Hi! If you connect the ethernet gateway to your routner/switch then domotiocz/raspberry will find and read from that IP given to the ethernet gw. If you want you can connect the radio directly onto the raspberry (http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1151/tutorial-raspberry-pi-nrf24l01-direct-connection) but I dont know much about that. Yes, atleast i have 4 sensors in the same node. I dont know max and has never combined sensors and actuators. Dont know :) Welcome!

Hi, thats a LOT of text - wow. but very interesting (didnt read everything until now). Is there a topic or discussion ongoing on this? Maybe it can be redone with "mysensors 2.0" (in parallel to 1.5).. I will make a deep-dive into the source code now. Its too interesting and i like this kind of coding ;) At last: Sry that i opened another topic for this question. looks like i didnt use the right words in the search :/ Greetings

@Starjade Here's a good write-up as to what MySensors is about: http://www.mysensors.org/about/components. The intent of MySensors is for a Home Automation system (the controller) to talk to remote sensors through a gateway using NRF24L01+ radio modules, although other radio types are now supported as well. Cheers Al