thanks kimot!

Kinda related, I just accidentally found this project that runs zigbee on top of NRF24modules.

https://github.com/at1a5-lxc/nrf24_zigbee

Thanks!

I guess I'd love to see a big player create products that are open to tinkering.

Thanks for the clear explanation!

I'm researching Zigbee a bit, and found some cheap devices on Aliexpress (4 euro) that you can connect to your Arduino, for examply by simply plugging it into an expansion board.

So I was wondering: what are the differences between MySensors and Zigbee? Wouldn't both would allow Arduino's to form a mesh network? Or am I comparing apples and pears? Do the stacks not overlap?

Zigbee advantages I can see:

• A standard, meaning the controller would only need that one radio to talk to both Arduino devices and commercial devices? (or is this not true?)

MySensors advantages that I can see:

• More control and flexibility.
• Might be slightly cheaper if you have to deploy a lot of devices.
• The Zigbee encryption has a flaw. MySensors may not have that flaw, and you could easily update the software on the nodes if necessary.

Things they (now) both have:

• Open source
• Encryption

Is my analysis correct?

I'm still wondering about this. Was it a crazy question?

$21 for the board and $7 for the radio.

Perhaps you could create a python plugin for Domoticz to automate creating the sensors somehow. Any plugin can create up to 255 new devices.

@kimot : Thanks! If I'm reading that domoticz code correctly:

• All kinds of switches, including percentage and V_IR_RECEIVE
• "sTypeThermSetpoint"
• Hmm, I don't see the V_text update in that code

@tbowmo : I had discovered that by experimenting, good to see it confirmed by you too.

How did it go?

What other things are bi-directional with Domoticz?

Fo example I'm looking to receive a setpoint value from Domoticz for a node that is an oven controller. Dresenting a s_hvac and then setting a new temperature in Domoticz, does that automatically get sent back to a node? Or is there a setpoint something?