Historically my wife has filled our house with different brands of 433MHz switches. When I bought my Vera two months ago I realized that it will be too expensive to replace all those old switches with new nice Z-wave switches so then I started with MySensors stuff to create a actuator for controlling all this old stuff.

Since it is a lot of different brands (no Nexa stuff) I couldn't get them to work with those samples library that you can find around. Instead I have to build my RF listener and try to decode the signal. I can't find the link right now to the listener but you connect a 433MHz receiver to the mic input on your computer and then use the Audacity program to record the signal.

Then I created a lib and a sketch for my different switches and it worked on my breadboard. So finally I packed everything, a gateway and my 433MHz actuator, in a box.

It works fine, and the WAF is for the moment on top.

One problem is that that the gateway and Ethernet module sometimes just stops and need a restart, I will investigate this further on when I got some time.

Some pictures:

My generic 433MHz lib
My433Node.h
And a sample sketch
My433Node.ino

Now it is mounted in the "engine" room, "branded" and all. On the left is the Vera, notice that I had to mount the Vera with a string because Micasa Verde has "forgot" to make wallmounting holes in the box!! (that is not the only thing they forgot on the Vera Edge..)

I have now modified the json files (and some more) to make the UI better match the UI7. I have moved most of the information to the Settings tab to keep the dashboard clean and hopefully keep the space down. Now it turns out that the "brick" on the dashboard still is ridiculous big (70% whitspace) but i hope this is a bug in UI7 that "Vera Control" will fix (soon...).

Anyone interested to get the modified files ?

When I'm "online" i must complain on "Vera Control", what was they thinking on when designed this
new dashboard? I'm new to Vera so I have only 10 devices so far but I plan for 30-50 devices then
I think the dashboard (or even the total UI) will be totally useless, it is to much whitespace
which makes to much scrolling in the UI.

Here is an example of the result:

@axillent Yes there is no + on those.
I have tried using them but without success. I couldn't get them to work at all on the gateway but if I replaced the gateway with + variant and non + on the node then it "almost" worked. I couldn't get the "Auto Id" function to work. I think it has something with Ack to do, i will remember that I have read somewhere that the hardware ack is only implemented in the + variant.

@msebbe I connected the antenna with the 433 sender with a short coax cable. If it is short distance I think you can use just a simple cable. Or maybe this was not what you where asking for...

Good idea, I'm on.
Living in Lund so Malmö is excellent.

@Newzwaver All hardware except 433MHz antenna is from MySensors "Store". I found the antenna on ebay and the box for everything is bought here in Sweden (http://www.kjell.com/se/sortiment/el/elektronik/elektroniklador/ventilerad-inbyggnadslada-95x135-mm-p89012)

@msebbe Now I didn't see your replay
About your edit2. I also had som problem in the begining due to weak power supply. I now use a >2A wall plug and that works great.

@msebbe I connected the antenna with the 433 sender with a short coax cable. If it is short distance I think you can use just a simple cable. Or maybe this was not what you where asking for...

@jeylites Ethernet or serial gateway?
You can try this http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/838/windows-gui-controller-for-mysensors program it is excellent for troubleshooting, with this you can verify that your gateway and sensors work correct.

I have a Vera Edge and that is running fine.
You need the latest Vera files from Github for updated UI.

You can say that for decoupling of the power supply it is better the bigger you have (within some reason) So 47µF is better than 4.7µF, I use 10µF on all my radios and that is Ok I think 4.7µF is a bit to small.

@Zeph I dont't think it has to do with the powersupply. I have the same problem and I power my Gateway with 2A supply and on the radio I have 47uF. I have a coulple of scenes that turn on/off lamps and in my case it looks like there is a limit around 4 devices, if the scene contains more than 4 devices whith no delay then it often miss some of them. But when I added 1 sec delay between every third device then it works fine.

@ferpando I have actually exact the same problem right now but I expect that the Vera Edge is the problem. I looks like some devices are present in the scene but they are still not present. I have created a scene with about 10 devices in and that looks ok in the scene but when I look on the "scene info" on each device then some of them doesn't says that i exist in that scene. I have also made a quick check on the serial debug and it looks like the Vera doesn't send command for all devices. Right now I'm recreatcing my scene to verify that all devices actually are included.

I'll be back....

Smart idea! I will se if I can find similar.