A family member gave me an old lamp with a fancy glass base. Well, I didn't like the lamp, but the base was nice, so I kept it in my basement for a few years. I found it again the other day and decided it needed to become a new type of lamp. I put a 150 LED strip (WS2812B) inside. I have an STM32 Blue Bill and RFM69HCW to run the light patterns and connect to MySensors.
In Domoticz, I have it set up as a dimmer light, but the node just switches patterns depending on what the dimmer level is.
At first, I wrapped the LED strip carefully around a tube that sits in the center of the glass jar, but it didn't look very good. Somehow just spiraling the strip in the bottom of the lamp has a much better effect.
My wife even liked it, so maybe I will put some finishing touches on it and actually use it as a lamp : )

@berkseo
Hey. Our own berkseo is on Hackaday. Congrats!

https://hackaday.com/2021/03/11/nrf52-weather-station-gives-forecast-with-style/

I've been playing with an Adafruit AudioFX board and cobbled together this annunciator. Eventually it will be a MySensors node to play alarms or other sounds. It is using a cheap portable speaker to play the sounds. I got it to work with my doorbell button node today.

Just got a blue-pill, RFM69 node working. It was a bit of a learning curve moving from Atmega.

• Cheap J-Link: Never got it working. Cheap ST-Link: Worked
• Arduino (and VisualMicro) uploaded blink sketch with ST-Link: no problems
• Uploaded the USB bootloader using the ST-Link: no problems
• Took a while to figure out I didn't have the dfu driver loaded (Windows 10), but after that no problems using the usb
• MySensors security personalizer: no problems.
• Mock MySensors node: no problems. Talked to my gateway. Uses RFM69 encryption.

Seems like this is the Nano of the future, but without needing to level shift for 3.3V. I'm looking forward to making some real blue pill nodes and gateways.

BT832 Thin Node prototype. Inspired by https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2067/my-slim-2aa-battery-node and @neverdie nrf5 and am612 research. I noticed the BT832 is about the same width as a AA battery holder. I'm using one AA LiFePo4. This is my first sensor with nrf5, bme280, and am612. I also incorporated a jst-sh 6 pin connector for programming. It includes swd, power, and text. All sensors are working. It did not turn out to be very thin. Need to try some smaller PIR lenses and rearrange components for the next iteration.

I am testing a node with a DigiPyro, PYD 1598 motion detector. It is advertised to be low power and runs from 1.8 to 3.6 volts, so should run well with a coin cell. They have to be programmed with several options and I have not found a lot of documentation. I went with what seemed like the most sensitive choices and it seems to work so far. More research needed . ...
https://www.excelitas.com/product/pyd-1588-pyd-1598-low-power-digipyros

I bought a couple of these from DigiKey for around $4 each. Now they are more than $12 each and there is no stock. So, these may not be as good a choice as they seemed at first. We'll see . ...

@mfalkvidd Thanks for doing this kind of work (deleting fake users and stopping spam). I am sure it is not as much fun as answering real questions about MySensors topics. But I learn so much from people in these forums, that I would hate to see it overtaken by trolls and spam.

@Yveaux
Another experiment, using 2mm machined pins and sockets. Since the RFM69HCW and the RFM95's share the same pinout, I could switch radios easily for testing.

Unlike the NRF24, the RFM69 is not 5V tolerant on the data pins. The Uno and Nano both have 5V data pins. The NRF24 can work with them as long as it has the 3.3V supply. Unfortunately, the RFM69 needs the data pins to be 3.3V also.
I have used the RFM69 915Mhz successfully with a 3.3V ProMini (all pins 3.3V). To use with the Uno or Nano, you would need to power from the 3.3V supply and use a 5V to 3.3V level shifter on the NSS, MOSI, and SCK data pins.

I finally got a BT832 (NRF52832 from Fanstel) to talk to my NRF24 gateway. I got the NFR5s a while ago. Made a quick breakout board (quick to design, but slow delivery). In the mean time, I configured a STM32 "Blue Pill" as a Blackmagic Probe to program it. I had to get the latest Sandeep Mistry NRF5 files from github in order for it to support the blackmagic probe, but . . . it worked : ) So far I have just run the MockMySensors and it shows up on Domoticz.

I like the joke : )

I'll try to keep it simple. Most of my sensors are just reporting temperature and humidity. Since I can assign them to a room in home assistant. They don't need anything fancy.

I moved my MySensors nodes from Domoticz to Home Assistant. Domoticz didn't really do anything with the sketch name. Home Assistant uses it in the device names.
I had named my sketches by processor and function, BT8_BME280 for example. This makes sense when programming, but makes the device names in Home Assistant seem rather random.
I can have the sketch present anything want for a sketch name. Maybe using just the node function would be better?
Anyone have a naming system that makes sense in Home Assistant?

Update. There is a lot of thinking about this online. For example: https://github.com/Trikos/Home-Assistant-Naming-Convention
But also, I can rename in home assistant, so doing it in the sketch isn't that important.

Your analysis of the problem seems correct.
This sounds very frustrating, and I am afraid I can't help much.

From your earlier post, the transport is just shutting down because it had too many failed attempts to find a parent. That is normal operation. My memory is that it will just try again after a while.

Nice. I know there are RFM69's, but I've seen quite a few requests for the CC1101. Always good to have options.
I did something similar with the WIO-E5 chips in my repo. The E5 is not quite ready for prime time, but the basics are working.
I have many MySensors nodes, and still adding more. Good to see some new code for it.

@Meldrew-s-mate Hi. This site is about building sensors using Arduino that report data back wirelessly to a gateway. There may be some useful information here, but it doesn't sound like what you are really looking for. Try searching on the web for Cerbo GX and Home Assistant. Home Assistant is a popular home control program. Someone may have already figured out how to connect to it, or you might get a link to something helpful.

@lostintheethes Sounds like a nice set up. I have had good luck with bme280's without doing anything special. I usually get about a year out of a coin cell battery. I check the temperature every 3 minutes, but I don't send unless it changes more than .1 I haven't really tested accuracy, but it seems about right.

Has anyone developed a PA LNA driver for the BT832X (Fanstell NRF5 module)? Works quite well without it, but wondering if could be even better.
@NeverDie , you had a remote control using PA. Was there any additional code for that from stock MySensors NRF5? Did you ever do anything with the LNA part?

: ) That looks right. I have not written a receiveTime function for years and have just been copying the one in MockMySensors over and over.

I have found that controllers can be very slow to respond to time requests. Same experience for Domoticz and for Homeassistant. Try a wait(1500) after the time request.

I didn't see anything obviously wrong, so I tried compiling your code. Your code compiled fine for me. I used ESP8266 Boards (2.5.0-Beta3) -> Generic ESP8266 Module.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help much with figuring out why your compiler is giving the error.