Cliff just found some other bulbs based on ESP8266, in this case are not intended to be reprogrammed because there are no RX,TX and GPIO0 exposed. Also in this case, the ESP8266 is on a dedicated PCB as addon.

I hope for them that they will reach that production

Mostly is understand if there is a market for those type of "product", from my personal point of view, those are great products. Because into a permanent installation, a proper hardware gives more reliability than hand-made devices. But I don't really know how many people that plays with MySensor, Souliss and similar will go for this way.

@Yveaux it mostly depends on the volumes, for small batch (lets say 1k) is easier and cheaper to get the module itself.

Authometion is not the only one that is betting on "products for DIYers", Itead Studio is just starting a campaign for his Sonoff & Slampher as leaked that are based on ESP8266.

Hi,

I've always been addicted to light and contorl of them to match my mood, me and some other friend in souliss have the LYT8266 that's basically a RGBW bulb with an ESP8266 inside.

This is a product designed for the DIY community and I've much interest in this, because it can help community like MySensor, Souliss and others to growth their smarthomes in a more safe and professional way. They (Authometion) didn't get much media coverage and that's why I'm sharing here these type of product, because it can be a good option also for MySensor based networks.

On my side I really hope that there is enough interest in these type of products oriented for the DIY marked, what do you think about?

Regards,
Dario.

Souliss footprints vary on the hardware and the number of interfaces that the gateway has, generally a Gateway fits in 1, 1.5 KBytes of RAM it depends on enabled features. There are also features (like data persistence) that need more than 2 KBytes.

What about security mentioned by @scalz? I rember that I've read something about, but was based on an external IC to compute encryption and decryption.

In a peer-to-peer network most of the chyper technique are vane, so their a potential risk, but this may be real only if things scale to a really huge number of users, that's unlikely. In Souliss we have introduced a lock-down that protect people that use port-forwarding to be vulnerable from external access, but this has never really be an issue at this time.

@scalz more option is always better

@hek nice see RS485 support in MySensor, is it a Gateway to RS485 nodes or you can handle multiple wireless and RS485 at same time with one Gateway?

Just seen the new configuration, looks same approach that we use in Souliss. Isn't C best practice, but have the configuration in the sketch is a great plus. When a year ago we switches to this, we got a lot of more people able to get started in few time without troubles.

Hi,

as stated before is really a regret that these project haven't merged at the begin where there were no much differences.

Actually MySensor and Souliss are quite different in the approach even if they share a common goal. From what I've learned about MySensor, the network architecture supported in Souliss are far more complex and flexible (including multiple RS485 and wireless) but this comes at a price of a more complex interaction, so that building a binding becomes more complex for Souliss rather than MySensors.

As example, with MySensor you cannot get more than one Ethernet/WiFi nodes and all the others must be RF ones (correct me if I'm wrong!) and this is in contrast with Souliss that allow as many node type as you need, including RF and others.

A big plus of MySensor is the community, is huge and big compared to our one, and likely the support documentation is better and gives people a way to get started easier.

Regards,
Dario.

@tbowmo

Yes the Atmega32U4 and Atmega328 has in the RAM their main problem, in our case we run smoothly in the 2KBytes available because we don't use ASCII in the protocol, but binary only.

Then the board is for as a remote sensor node, running on battery, not a main gateway board.

In any case, the board that you are designing will work nicely also with Souliss.