Status of my rv(camper) home automation system 2020-2025

[fsgraz]

I'd like to share with you the figures after 6 years of dedicated work to my system:

controller: #mycontroller v1
database: influxDB v.1.8
visualisation: grafana v.9.3.2
events and mobile UI: node-red
peer-to-peer VPN: ZeroTier One

5 gateways
3 displays
52 nodes
392 sensors

935 sensor data/minute

Hardware:
Beelink SLIM-T4PRO Windows 10 Pro
ESP32
Arduino Nano
Arduino RF-Nano
Arduino Mini
Radio nRF24L01+
Mobile router Teltonika RUT241 E-SIM

Thank you MySensors !

[OldSurferDude]

I think it's pretty cool. I can hear my spousal unit asking, "What are you doing with all that data?" ;)

-OSD

[TheoL]

Thank you for sharing. I have the same, sensors running for 10 years without any problem!

[TheoL]

@fsgraz I'm curious what you all have running on your network? I'm in the progress of updating and upgrading my stuff. The sensors I don't use like barometer I will remove. And I will swap from NRF24L01 to RFM69. Don't get me wrong the NRF works great, but the RMF69 gives my longer reach and as we might move to another house in the future, I want more reach for my nodes.

[fsgraz]

@TheoL thank you !

for me this excellent platform is all but dead.
I just ordered 10 nRF20L01+ and 10 SI24R1 modules in SMD form factor, just in case.

[TheoL]

@fsgraz I have an SI7021 in all my nodes lol. For me it's sensors and lights. Not the ceiling light but the other lights. We actually never use the ceiling lights. And I control my garden with MySensors

[fsgraz]

@TheoL I use the nRF24L01+ because my use case is my RV, which is 6m long and 2m wide, so the radios are all working at the lowest power level

[TheoL]

@fsgraz I agree with you that to me MySensors is all but dead. I can do stuff with MySensors that would take me more devices when I'd go to Zigbee. And I don't want to use Wifi.

[fsgraz]

@fsgraz I have also a system with temperature and humidity sensors at home, but I don't think I will improve that

[fsgraz]

@OldSurferDude same here :grimacing:

[TheoL]

@fsgraz Did some testing Today and my RFM range is over 80 meters node to node, with no long range antenna. That will be my next test, just waiting for a shipment from China to arrive. I did how ever notice an extreme improvement when I connected the gateway through a USB hub and then started to dig through the forum. @AWI once wrote about using an external PSU to power the long range NRF PA/LAN. I'll try that this weekend as connecting it to they USB port of my PI extended the range to 20 meters Node to Node.