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@Bogus-Exception said in Using Solar Powered Night-Light Housing? (2v...): I thought they might be a value for a sensor housing, with the bonus of having a weather-ready solar panel. I do think that's reasonable. If you can find an attractive housing that has the look you want and which has a good mini solar panel and is also truly weather and moisture proof, then that's a good find. Do let us know if you come across something like that.

@Bogus-Exception STM32 boards are supported in the latest 2.2.0-beta, make sure to use the most recent stm32duino board defs.

Have been using this for more than a year, without problems http://s.aliexpress.com/iAJRFfY3 I was using a plain 5V solar cell at first, but later I used a rainproof solar LED light as a housing, after removing everything except the solar cell. http://s.aliexpress.com/MR7RjYb2 The node has an NRF24L01 PA version (with the antenna), and communicates with the GW 6 stories below, sending the solar water heater temperature every minute.

@mfalkvidd Sorry for not being smart enough to know that. I read the how to post, and have a list of barely acceptable excuses as to why I didn't figure that out prepared-in case you're interested! Also, I unzipped a backup's script.sql, and it showed me all the possibilities: [...] (58, 'S_HVAC', 'V_HVAC_SPEED'), (59, 'S_MULTIMETER', 'V_VOLTAGE'), (60, 'S_MULTIMETER', 'V_CURRENT'), (61, 'S_MULTIMETER', 'V_IMPEDANCE'), (62, 'S_SPRINKLER', 'V_STATUS'), [...]

Hello, @Bogus-Exception, you clearly have a problem in your node, use debug mode and check the console your node is probably not going to sleep with this power consumption. With a door sensor made of a ProMini board, a NRF24 clone and a reed switch the sleep function from MySensors uses less than 2uA.

Sorry for my NRF24 clone post yesterday. The ACK bit was an issue with the NRF5 platform. I had switched the memory region to handle TX/RX/ACK packages separately. Sometimes the received packages are written in the wrong region. I had seen my testing ACK bit. Now, I have changed my NRF5 code and I can't see no difference between the modules, I have. ACK and timing are exactly at the same level.

Thanks guys for the responses. I think I may need to stick with nothing real time, but somehow record the images, then drive up to the pole and trigger a download from the SD card via RF. Just too many damning restrictions.