Sensebender Europe resellers ?

[gohan]

If you don't need battery powered sensors, you could use the 5V Arduinos.

[anonymouslemming]

@gohan said in Sensebender Europe resellers ?:

If you don't need battery powered sensors, you could use the 5V Arduinos.

That mean adding a regulator to my parts list above, right ?

I'm not considering any sensors at the moment, I just want to be able to trigger the lamp. So cost is the driving factor.

There are just so many parts to consider at https://www.mysensors.org/build/connect_radio#shopping-guide . I'm fairly handy with a soldering iron, and happy to just breadboard it for the initial work, so I wasn't planning on getting any of the solder free options until I started seeing how cheap they are there :)

[gloob]

If you use arduino nanos you don't need any regulators. they have 3.3V for the NRF24L01+ and 5V for the relay.
You even don't need an ethernet shield if you connect the gateway via USB to your controller (Raspberry pi, ...)

This would be my shoping list:

• 2 x https://de.aliexpress.com/item/Freeshipping-Nano-3-0-controller-compatible-for-arduino-nano-CH340-USB-driver-NO-CABLE/32341832857.html
• 2 x https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1pcs-Wireless-Transceiver-For-Arduino-NRF24L01-2-4GHz-Antenna-Module-For-Microcontroll-DropShipping/32599246022.html
• 1 x https://de.aliexpress.com/item/120pcs-40P-10cm-male-to-male-female-to-male-and-female-to-female-dupont-cable-connector/32798042976.html
• 1 x https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1-Channel-Relay-Module-Interface-Board-Shield-For-Arduino-5V-Low-Level-Trigger-One-PIC-AVR/32800597285.html

8$ for a complete test system.

[gohan]

If you need just a relay, just go with a sonoff. Can't beat that price

[gloob]

But if you want to extend your system, you are more flexible with the MySensors solution in the future.

[gohan]

Of course, but since price was one of the requirements I just added the cheapest solution 😀

[anonymouslemming]

@gloob said in Sensebender Europe resellers ?:

If you use arduino nanos you don't need any regulators. they have 3.3V for the NRF24L01+ and 5V for the relay.
You even don't need an ethernet shield if you connect the gateway via USB to your controller (Raspberry pi, ...)

This would be my shoping list:

• 2 x https://de.aliexpress.com/item/Freeshipping-Nano-3-0-controller-compatible-for-arduino-nano-CH340-USB-driver-NO-CABLE/32341832857.html
• 2 x https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1pcs-Wireless-Transceiver-For-Arduino-NRF24L01-2-4GHz-Antenna-Module-For-Microcontroll-DropShipping/32599246022.html
• 1 x https://de.aliexpress.com/item/120pcs-40P-10cm-male-to-male-female-to-male-and-female-to-female-dupont-cable-connector/32798042976.html
• 1 x https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1-Channel-Relay-Module-Interface-Board-Shield-For-Arduino-5V-Low-Level-Trigger-One-PIC-AVR/32800597285.html

8$ for a complete test system.

That's really helpful - thanks! I'm considering the RFM69 for production build, but I figure the easier to get working (and no antenna needed option) of the NRF24L01 is easiest right now.

Can't beat that price!

[gohan]

I personally wouldn't buy that cheap module as it is most likely a clone since the Nrf24 chip costs over 1$ on its own

[anonymouslemming]

@gohan

@gohan said in Sensebender Europe resellers ?:

Of course, but since price was one of the requirements I just added the cheapest solution 😀

Absolutely fair - I should have said that I'm keen to run the whole thing within my own network. I'd prefer not to use cloud services where I don't need to.

[gohan]

Sonoff switches are just esp8266 that you can reflash with your code