In regards to the "Where did everyone go?"...
Personally when I look at the MySensors github and see Issues and PRs being created but no one is doing anything with them, that's a bit of a turn off.
When I look through the PRs I see a lot of "good stuff" there yet there is no movement.
@skywatch I have yet to play around with the repeater functionality but i will be soon since i live in a giant old house.
Most of my nodes are battery powered.
I do have one that isn't so i'll start there. If repeater mode works as intended I should be able to move a battery powered motion sensor I have farther away from that usb powered node.
This should be a good test. Don't you think?
@waspie I like it when people come back and share their experience. It's helps newbies like myself get direction in our own projects. So thank you 
@evb Did you ever figure this out?
Don't read to much into what I posted.
Even if you don't believe all the HCQ hype in that article you can easily lookup yourself the health benefits of grapefruit and lemon peel.
That information may provide useful to someone here as it did for me, which is why I wanted to share it.
Homemade HCQ Recipe
For anyone who needs a little extra help. I've found this to work myself. Take at the first sign of symptoms and stop taking once better.
https://www.nutritruth.org/single-post/home-recipe-for-hydroxychloroquine-hcq
Test was a success. My Dryer sensor is now a repeater as well. I was able to move my motion sensor farther from my dryer and have it work the same.
1 Thing to note is I did have to restart the gateway in order to get the motion sensor to flow through the repeater. Something that could be improved on maybe?
@skywatch I have yet to play around with the repeater functionality but i will be soon since i live in a giant old house.
Most of my nodes are battery powered.
I do have one that isn't so i'll start there. If repeater mode works as intended I should be able to move a battery powered motion sensor I have farther away from that usb powered node.
This should be a good test. Don't you think?
This would be cool.
Playing off what @berkseo said... we would just need to give a normal node the repeater functionality or vice versa.
I'd be willing to contribute to this functionality in some way if we can get others onboard.
@waspie I like it when people come back and share their experience. It's helps newbies like myself get direction in our own projects. So thank you
@Mr_nanick It appears there is full Arduino support for those via the megaTinyCore.
They also seem to have plenty of flash.
I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Since Candlelight is based on MySensors, it could spark some new comers to this space if Candlelight had it's own topic. I mean, most of the controllers have their own topic. Why not.