IR Blaster (progress)
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I would be interested in at least one of them. (I'm thinking if we should add repeater mode into the firmware as a default?)
@tbowmo said:
I would be interested in at least one of them. (I'm thinking if we should add repeater mode into the firmware as a default?)
Cool and I'll sign-up for 4 Gateway Devices ;) I'm dead serious!
In my 1st gen one-off IR Blaster, I found that I need to repeat some IR Signals if that is what you mean by "repeater mode". I am using the HA Controller to repeat after some delay but it would make more sense to integrate the repeating logic directly into the firmware. I am planning pretty extensive IR reliability testing with the IR Sensor Array that I mentioned and I hope that repeating won't be necessary but some environments may have sufficient "noise" to require repeating. Perhaps it should be configurable (number of repeats and delay)??
I'm also thinking that a single IR Blaster should be able to control multiple devices in a given room so I'm planning to provide that as out-of-the-box functionality in the firmware. I don't know how I will do that yet but something akin to an array of child-devices that contains the child device type, manufacturer and IR code. The MySensor's library limit is 255 child devices per node so that should be sufficient ;)
I also think it makes sense to "lift" the self-tests that you developed for the Micro Sensor (flash and crypto chip).
Finally, I would love your expert review of the design before I order some boards for verification. I owe you a review of the Gateway Device that I will complete this weekend now that I am back on my home turf.
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With the "repeater mode" I actually meant it to be a repeater for the mysensor network, so it double as both repeater and IR blaster.
Or maybe I would make a dimmer module, that could act as a repeater as well (I would add a couple of network repeaters around the house, as I have discovered some partially dead spots around here, where sensors are just on the edge of the reach of the RF signals)
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@ServiceXp said:
@blacey Really lovin this.. You plan to sell?
If there is enough community interest and demand, we (@hek et. al.) will offer the IR Blaster in the same fashion as @tbowmo's pioneering and very successful Sensebender Micro and hopefully in-development Gateway Device that I am personally jazzed about. Any proceeds from IR Blaster hardware sales will go directly to supporting the MySensors.org project (monthly hosting fees, etc.). So to answer that question we need to know who else would buy one if we make it available so we can estimate the batch size for an initial run. Anyone interested is encouraged to weigh in here.
@blacey i would buy 6 of these if they can reproduce my heatpump/hvac codes....
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I would be in for at least 3, probably 5!
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I also wants to buy 1-3 depending on price.
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I am interested allso.
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I'm in for at LEAST 1, but most likely ... MORE... :stuck_out_tongue:
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I'm in for a couple too...
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one for me!
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Placed an order for the first prototype boards today... Sourcing from China to U.S. so it will take a while for them to arrive from the fab but I will keep everyone apprised of the progress. That said, here is a render of the protoboard (v0.5) with NRF24L01+ attached to provide a sense of the board's physical size/footprint (thanks to @tbowmo for the NRF24L01+ 3d-shape).
