💬 Sensebender Gateway
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Almost ready for a last roll of prototype.. I've updated github with latest changes, if anyone cares to have a look at it, and give me some feedback on it, then it is now! during Easter, I will (hopefully) do the last prototype spin!
@tbowmo Hi! Very cool design, I especially like using of ARM microcontrollers. I have a lot of projects with SAMD20, and I want to give you a little advice for your future revision of your "Mysensors Gatevay". When I had problems with my devices work (there were crashes and hangs) I found the circuit of evaluation board called "SAM D20 Xplained Pro". After examining this circuit I saw that they apply more capacitors in the power supply than I. And I thought that use just one capacitor 100 nF not enough. So, I corrected the filtering circuit in my devices and everything worked perfectly. Below I'm showing the filtering scheme:
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Thanks for the tip.. I took heavy inspiration from the arduino zero, which only has 100nF capacitors for decoupling.
I haven't seen any problems with stability on the prototype GW's that I have build, we also have 5 production sample GW's out in the wild, at a couple of the core group members, and I have not heard any problems from them either.
Anyways, I have noted it, and will take it into consideration if I/we decide to do a new revision of the schematic / layout.
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Thanks for the tip.. I took heavy inspiration from the arduino zero, which only has 100nF capacitors for decoupling.
I haven't seen any problems with stability on the prototype GW's that I have build, we also have 5 production sample GW's out in the wild, at a couple of the core group members, and I have not heard any problems from them either.
Anyways, I have noted it, and will take it into consideration if I/we decide to do a new revision of the schematic / layout.
@tbowmo said:
@kalina
I haven't seen any problems with stability on the prototype GW's that I have build...Of course, your device may work perfectly without additional capacitors. This is just my experience.
In my devices there are large number of impulse noises, because they contain FPGA... and one more interesting thing, I have compared two datasheets on SAMD20 and noticed that in new revision they have increased the VDDCORE capacitor from 100 nF to 1 uF :smiley:
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Is there any news about selling this PCB ?
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I find it on Itead but no announcement on mysensors.org.
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Which exact RFM69 is the footprint for? Cause it says "RFM69HCW" in some places, and "RFM69HW" in others. The footprint looks a lot like HW (https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/563/20328459340_62fa380554_b.jpg).
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Oh and another question, since I've never ordered anything from ITEAD before, how do they declare the customs value? Is it safe to order more than one gateway or should I order them one by one to be on the safe side? I'm talking about "SF E-Parcel" or "Registered Air Mail" of course, not TNT or DHL.
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@bjornhallberg, I don't remember what the value was set to on the latest package from them.
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@bjornhallberg they declare a very low customs value (for my last order only 12x0.89€ ...)
I juste order the gateway today. -
This is on my most wanted purchase list now. :smile:
FYI, I noticed the spelling of "Sensebender" is "Sensbender" for this gateway on openhardware.io, so you're breaking your brand name. :wink: Would it be possible to amend it? If you try to search for it with the original spelling you only find the two sensor Sensebenders.
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This is on my most wanted purchase list now. :smile:
FYI, I noticed the spelling of "Sensebender" is "Sensbender" for this gateway on openhardware.io, so you're breaking your brand name. :wink: Would it be possible to amend it? If you try to search for it with the original spelling you only find the two sensor Sensebenders.
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Is this device capable of being a gateway for both nRF24L01+ radio and the Hope RF RFM69HCW radio simultaneously ?
I have some nRF24 nodes and see a lot of new goodies equiped with the RFM69 radio. One gateway to serve both would be excellent !
