Several ESP8266 Gateways in parallel supported?

[ragflyer]

I am experiencing many ghost sensors and new sensor variables like wind sensors etc. which I have not connected nor built at all.
It happened after connecting a second Wireless Gateway to reach some sensors in the garden.
Is this actually supported or should I find another way to increase range?
Thank you

[chrille]

@ragflyer said:

I am experiencing many ghost sensors and new sensor variables like wind sensors etc. which I have not connected nor built at all.
It happened after connecting a second Wireless Gateway to reach some sensors in the garden.
Is this actually supported or should I find another way to increase range?

It may depend on your controller, but it's possible. I have two ESP8266 gateways connecting to domoticz. One is using NRF24 and the other RFM69. If you want to build two NRF24 gateway I think you need to change the frequency/channel of the second gateway, and the attached sensors

• Jan

[sundberg84]

@chrille, @ragflyer - and its not possible to have them working in the same time, parallel. If you attach sensor to one gateway in Domoticz I have not found any way to change to the other gateway, not automatically (which would be nice if one gw fails) or manually.

[chrille]

@sundberg84 said:

@chrille, @ragflyer - and its not possible to have them working in the same time, parallel. If you attach sensor to one gateway in Domoticz I have not found any way to change to the other gateway, not automatically (which would be nice if one gw fails) or manually.

Maybe you should consider building a dedicated repeater node instead?

[ragflyer]

Thanks, I guess the repeater node will be the best solution but I couldn't find the official documentation for enabling it. Solved the problem with the antenna mod for now:
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1851/extending-range-of-regular-nrf24l01

[mfalkvidd]

@ragflyer documentation on repeaters is available at https://www.mysensors.org/download/sensor_api_20#create-repeating-nodes

Could you describe where you expected it to be? Maybe we should add a link or page somewhere.

[ragflyer]

Yes a link on https://www.mysensors.org/about/network would be great as I didn't find any mentioning of repeaters other than forum posts which did not end in a definite success message. To me it seemed a bit like a cool but undocumented feature

[mfalkvidd]

Thanks @ragflyer, that sounds reasonable. I'll see what I can do.