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    With debug on I can conform it works just fine. So far I can see all sensors reporting and all actuators respond without any problems. Accept for one, but that radio is in a cage of Faraday and I knew it would need a repeater close by. Next step making the shield for the rfm69, so that I have one form factor for my Gateways and Repeater(s). But it has to wait until after Eastern. as it's the same for adding an extra decoupler capacitor.
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    As we all know, the nRF24 works pretty well, but there is a lot of device-to-device variation. This would be a nice thing to have when debugging the network. @juliefen will you be creating a github project with schematic, board layout, code, construction tips, theory of operation, calibration and operating manual, examples, etc.?
  • Piezzo siren/alarm

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    Can't give you a 100% answer. I've noticed with FETS I sometimes have a low leak Voltage. But I've seen Chinese designs that gave a negative voltage when the FET was turned off haha
  • Time to move to ESPHome?

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    I have learned the hard way, many times, "If it's not broken, don't fix it". MySensors fills a niche, very low power, very low cost, sensors (albeit, DIY). The range is about the same as Bluetooth. The data is usually a boolean or an integer. So let us not say, abanddoned but at a development plateau. A mature technology that still has legs.
  • How to Start Electrical Substation Design?

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    This is really not a MySensors topic! Just by the way present you request indicates that you are way over your head. I have a degree in electrical engineering, the study of electrical energy generation, transmission, distribution, etc. and substation design would take me years of study to be competent. Any discussion about electrical energy delivery start with safety. Fuses and breakers, basically, but these have to be able to break 1000's of amps ... not a trivial task. The trick is to bring down the circuit without damaging other equipment on the circuit. Just detecting a fault is a doctoral candidate dissertation. Basic components: transformers, breakers, switches and a lot of instrumentation. Voltage levels are pretty much already defined because the equipment available is already set for those levels. Transformer basic rating is KVA, input and output voltage. There's a lot more to it ... a lot more. As far as books for beginners ... I can't imagine that there are any. There are probably books for people who have been in the industry for more than a few years.
  • MySensors Serial Gateway over a wireless serial cable

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    Awesome project!
  • cppcheck old-style c cast

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    Hi. I'm running cppcheck 2.18.3 Just grabbed the latest. The above were from MyCryptoGeneric.cpp. Perhaps some new checks were added since 2.1
  • Hello from Newbie

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    Welcome @aliansari. I hope MySensors gives you as much you as it has given many others.
  • ic package and power consumption

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    Glad you clarified the scope of your project. Small scale solar projects are much easier. One of my projects is a "battery powered soil moisture sensor, battery recharged by a solar panel" I use a tp4056 board to charge the battery from a 1W solar panel My Arduino Nano wakes up every hour to sample the moisture report the current moisture level. Corrosion is problematic. My house battery project is really outside the scope of MySensors, I'll send that in a chat
  • Any European alternatives for PCB Manufacturing?

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    @monte thank you for that one. Although almost 2.5 times the price it's cheaper than other European options.
  • Drive household SSR with SSR and Arduino

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    Quick update: i wanted to hide and protect the Nano in a housing. Aliexpress supplies very nice enclosures that fits on Din rails. https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005005505247992.html They fit in electrical cabinets thanks to standard dimensions. [image: 1771086807073-a.png] [image: 1771086818359-b.png] One 3Dprinted part later (glued inside enclosure) and the Arduino is safely held in place! [image: 1771086835896-c.png] [image: 1771086853317-d.png] [image: 1771086860801-5.png] stl file of adapter : dinRailEnclosureMountForNano-revE.stl
  • Advice on how to start my IOT project

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    I'm not sure about Tart, but Grove is an interface for I2C that is used by Seeed studio. With the right connector, it should be easy to make a Grove compatible MySensors node. Adafruit has Stemma and Sparkfun has Qwiic. These are all similar ways to make I2C sensors more plug and play (at least from a hardware perspective).
  • Imitating a LoRaWAN(R) with ESP8266/ESP32 and MySensors

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    @Eliza-Collins Thank you for a more knowledgeable explanation! When I wrote: said in Imitating a LoRaWAN(R) with ESP8266/ESP32 and MySensors: with a number of compromises You filled in some of my nebulus's with: @Eliza-Collins said in Imitating a LoRaWAN(R) with ESP8266/ESP32 and MySensors: ADR, security, scalability, and multi-gateway roaming are among the issues that LoRaWAN resolves. Thanks for pointing these out
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    Good project. Let us know how this works out for you!
  • Wio-E5 (STM32 and SX1262)

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    Thanks @Sasquatch. I did some testing also. The values below seem to be the correct ones. I had similar -100 RSSI at all power settings when using the opposite settings. When I use these, I got reasonable RSSI's that changed approximately linearly with the power setting. I got at least 500m range with an E5-LE in a quick test. That's a 5x improvement and there were many obstacles and buildings in the path. I look forward to trying it somewhere where I have more line of sight. I made an update to my code on github. {STM32WLx::MODE_TX_LP, {HIGH, HIGH}}, // For the E5-LE {STM32WLx::MODE_TX_HP, {LOW, HIGH}}, // For the regular E5
  • HLK-PM01 breakout board

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    I turned off the affiliate setup on openhardware when CodeGarage took over the cost of hosting MySensors/OpenHardware.io along with turning off all google ads. The "Buy" functionality on openhardware.io involved alot of manual handling and support. It was not worth the effort. You can still make a donation to @sundberg84 when using his designs. I'm sure he appriciate it. [image: 1769085508704-99017911-478a-449e-8ec1-f55ee103f378-image.png]
  • STM32 support available now in development branch

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    Thanks ! Hi, this is a great news for MySensors ! I was testing Blue Pill (stm32f1) with stm32 maple core and display library, and now moving to the stm32duino core : everything is ok, and sleep mode seems promising. I have few Black Pill (stm32f4), waiting for test. The hal library is so complete now !
  • A year has passed...

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    @nagelc wow, you're right! Last time I had bothered looking, it had been multiple years I think since the last commit. Thanks for saying something - I had no clue!
  • What does --my-is-rfm69hw do?

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    @tekka Thank you!
  • Code Garage to the rescue.

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    Thanks for reporting @Honk @hek has fixed the cert issue now

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