MySensors is an EXCELLENT project.
It allows for complete control over the various sensors.
It's extremely simple.
Its drawback is that it's open source, so it's unfunded and development is slow, but I don't think there are any better projects than this at the moment.
I don't have a good answer for you @mimaret When I get to the point where I'm getting strange error messages, I bite the bullet and start from ground zero. Fortunately, with the RPi you just need a new SD card.
Start with a fresh copy of the Raspberry Pi OS. If you enable SSH (and WiFI) when you create the image, you can do everything headless (without keyboard-mouse-video) by running raspi-config via a remote terminal ( PuTTY ) If you enable VNC with raspi-config you can have access to the GUI.
Double check your radio wiring.
Don't have anything unnecessary plugged in.
Carefully follow the instructions
I've done this tedious process many times. My RPi's are 3B+ and Zero 2 W. Here's what I've encountered:
bad power supply
bad SD card
bad wiring
corrupt download
and, of course, more user errors than I care to think about!
I have not come across bad RPi ... no, not true! I had a Zero 2 W with a bad WiFi chip (common problem). Overcame that with a USB WiFi dongle.
Good luck! Let us know what you discover.
-OSD
I did a grep on the source code and found this snipper
#if defined(MY_GATEWAY_ESP8266) || defined(MY_GATEWAY_ESP32)
// Turn off access point
WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA);
#if defined(MY_GATEWAY_ESP8266)
WiFi.hostname(MY_HOSTNAME);
#elif defined(MY_GATEWAY_ESP32)
WiFi.setHostname(MY_HOSTNAME);
#endif
#if defined(MY_IP_ADDRESS)
WiFi.config(_MQTT_clientIp, _gatewayIp, _subnetIp);
#endif /* End of MY_IP_ADDRESS */
(void)WiFi.begin(MY_WIFI_SSID, MY_WIFI_PASSWORD, 0, MY_WIFI_BSSID);
#endif
MySensors uses the standard ESP libraries for this. So I expect it to work. But you need to provide at least a bit of source code. Right now it's hard to answer your question. Regarding to MySensors:
A HTTP hostname can only be set for Gateways that either use Wifi or Ethernet
For nodes you can provide a sketchname and that will be seen in your controller.
Regarding to static non static IP addresses. I prefer to use DHCP and set that device in my router as a static IP. There I also give it another hostname. So that in case I have to replace my Gateway I can do it all in the router.
Hope this helps. But please provide more info on what you're trying to achieve
Are you still able to use the same analog phone plugged into the back of your modem? If so then it has to still use the same protocol, and I don't understand why the analog beacon wouldn't still work. It would just have to be on that same wire, not on the internet side of the modem. The modem is doing all of the translation in that case.
Or am I missing something? Did you have to get a new phone to use the new service?
@nagelc I'm thinking about making some kind of shelves with PJON built in. The shelves will have a wireless charger and with PJON I can communicate "Wireless". So on that shelf I can put some things like small candles, maybe a modified humidifier.
Things like that xd
