💬 Sensebender Gateway

[bisschopsr]

Hi @tbowmo: Nice project. I have a small question about the W5100 board. The board has a standard mail header connector. If I add a (standard) female header, I don't have enough height to compensate for the height of the RJ45 connector. How did you resolve that? Did you use a higher female header? I can't make it up from the pictures.

Thanks in advance,

Ralph

[tbowmo]

I @gonzalonal

Sketches would be the standard sketches for different GW options, as distributed with the mysensors core (it's the same sketches for atmega328p based gateways)

@bisschopsr
Actually a really good question :) I haven't been able to find a header with extra height.. But what I did on my sample, is that the female header is not mounted flush to the PCB, rather it's raised as much as possible above the PCB, and then it is working.

I will have to talk with our manufacturing partner in China, and see what they have as options.

[TheoL]

Any idea when I'm able to order a couple of those? I'm organizing a MySensors master class for visitors of a Fast Data Event me company is holding in September. Would be great if I'd could show and promote this Gateway. I love it.

[tbowmo]

@TheoL

Im talking with the manufacturer, and hopefully we can start a prototype evaluation very soon now. My guess is that we could start shipping within a couple of months from now, if we don't find any mistakes :)

[TheoL]

@tbowmo Great news. Also do we have any idea when MySensors 2.0 will be released?

[hek]

We hope to release 2.0 on the MySensors meetup on Saturday.

[TheoL]

@hek That would be really awe some. Then I can do a MySensors 2.0 master class. Great news. How are you doing my friend?

[tbowmo]

It's been a while since my latest update, but I am moving closer to production of this gateway.

I have received the first production samples from Itead

I have done hardware verification of the board. Everything seems to be ok, so we are very near the goal.

I can't say anything about pricing yet, as Itead haven't given us a price yet. But I hope that we will be able to announce that very soon (tm)

Finally a picture with all the connectors added as well

[sundberg84]

Great work!! Cant wait until i can buy one :) Will it be possible to buy in low quantities and ready assembled?

[tbowmo]

@sundberg84

We are aiming for a similar setup as for the Sensebender Micro, that is Itead is handling the production and shipping, for us. So yes, they will be SMD assembled, where you have to solder in the connectors that you need.

[sundberg84]

@tbowmo - thanks and again great work!

[korttoma]

Can't wait to get my hands on one of these. Building a new network based on the RF69 and need a working Ethernet gateway.

[alexsh1]

@tbowmo please let us know when you are ready - I think this GW will be a hit. It is super small compare to mine. Though, mine is based on Mega 2560 + Ethernet shield

[tbowmo]

We are still waiting for price negotiations with itead.

So currently I don't have an eta of the device

[korttoma]

@tbowmo

Did you already try the W5100/RFM69 combo on the production samples?

[tbowmo]

@korttoma

A good question, I think that I have tried both at the same time.. At least I know, that the W5100 and rfm69 is working separately, and they are using separate hardware SPI ports, so they should also work combined.

[gonzalonal]

HI @tbowmo
I am developing a similar GW board with a different SAMD chip.
Just one silly question. Could you point me in the right direction regarding which files are the ones that need to be modified so as to tell the compiler that W5100 will be connected at SERCOM1 and RFM69 at SERCOM2 for example.
Thanks, regards.

[tbowmo]

Spi ports are controlled in variant.cpp / variant.h files in the mysensors GW board files.

[gonzalonal]

Sorry @tbowmo. I can't find those files in mysensors library. Are those files included or will be included with the release of your GW?

thanks

[tbowmo]

As said they are located in the board variant files. They are in their own repository.

Look here https://github.com/mysensors/ArduinoBoards

And here https://github.com/mysensors/ArduinoHwSAMD

The first is just an installation repository, it contains zipped files from the last one.