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OP has surely decided and built his new home by now, but for other's that are deciding for KNX or Loxone wired smart home, this might be useful. I'm not affiliated with each of those companies so my thoughts are unbiased. Firstly, let’s emphasize that you can hardly go wrong selecting either KNX or Loxone home automation ecosystem. But what are the pros and cons of each? https://www.1home.io/blog/loxone-or-knx/

@Wijbe.Fryslan so I guess you have already installation done?

Take a look here, maybe it help you a little bit

@Sparkman Thank you, will find them. I've also ordered some 20mW modules from China manufacturer with specially-made antenna (spring-one). I hope I'll get better range with that, especially that they're made for 3.3V and can be powered with max 5V.

Does anyone tested/use the sketch from MySensors website? It sends pulse count and usage calculated... Just the values sometimes seems very strange...

I've now recompiled the gateway, removed the debug definition and digitalio.h Still, the gateway blinks TX led once in like 10 minutes, no rx, no error. Leds are connected properly, code seems to be ok and of course they are declared. Still no idea why it's behaving like that.

Okay, it's worth saying how it's going. The only problem tjhat I've (somehow) solved was 'disappearing' of the gateway under unknown circumstances. Solution? Transistor controlled by GPIO of the board (which was powering the arduino pro too). For full redundancy I'm powering Pro Mini with RAW port with 3.3V, so it's double stabilized. I've never had problems with nRF chips, but I've also put the 4.7uF between VCC and GND on radio. So, answering the question - it will work. Regards

Well, I've cleared EEProm, changed nanos, fixed new IDs much higher than ever manually and eventually after few minutes Domoticz sent readings to node so now it have 2 pulsemeters on 2 node ID's.

sorry for digging up this older thread but I do have a very similar problem: Ijust build a Ethernet gateway with the W5100 module and the gateway starts then works for a while and will freeze after generating a reading like this: 0;0;3;0;9;read: 103-103-0 s=2,c=1,t=38,pt=7,l=5:17806714000000.000000 103 is a temperature sensor which works totally fine on a serial gateway. I can not reproduce this error but it happens within minutes of a fresh start. I still can ping the gateway, the power source is a PC USB port (for now) the radio has no Capacitor on 3,3V any clue where to start debugging (I am fairly new to arduino/MySensors) thanks

Well, i guess mine's different. It's RGB and the longest leg have to be connected to gnd. Maybe that's why.

@hek said: Don't know if there is a "one-and.only" solution for the tinkering people hanging here. Vera acts as the single point (of failure) in our home. But things like our alarm system is autonomous system and only reports stuff to vera. Same for sound system (sonos). And MySenors of course. I like to have a HA solution that not completely falls apart if one component fails.. But that might just me me? That said Vera is not optimal... slow, sometimes long intermittent delays when the unit decides to do garbage collecting (or whatever it does during those 1-5 second hickups). Everything cooks down to what you want to integrate in your HA setup and what plugins/functionality you need on the controller. Agreed. I don't think there is a "one ring to rule them all" solution. I find Vera as a base controller, supplemented by MySensors to be adequate for my needs. I am not keen on the idea of MySensors, home built stuff, controlling my line level lights etc. If ever a fire were to occur, even if that sensor were not the cause, I am sure my insurance company would try use it against me. Not worth the potential risk IMO, but that is another story.

@Tim no and yes. I'm not working with HG any more because some drawbacks. Now I'm working on EasyIoT server. See: http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/343/easyiot-server-mysensors-raspberry-pi-controller/4

@Avamander "MySensors" has had support for this for quite some time yes. As you can read in the topic post of this thread. Encryption is discussed elsewhere on the forum.

@donnib - I didn't continue this way but instead started using node-js based controller code that connects to a standard Ethernet gateway. @hek merged the code about two weeks ago. I will provide a tutorial on how to set it up from scratch shortly...

@andriej Hi, I had problem using the main branch mysensors/Raspberry, that because of the bit-field struct (header_s) in Sensor.h They will get packed in different order on the arduino compared to the RPi (at least with my compiler, gcc). In order to fix this I created the 1.4dev branch. It uses full bytes instead of the bit-fields, but you need (of cause) to compile both the sensors (arduino) and the gateway (RPi) using the 1.4dev branch. We need to fix this in the main branch later on (and use the same files as in mysensors/Arduino/libraries/MySensors)