I finally got things working, I think the main problem turned out to be some bad dupont jumpers, I ended up just swapping out all of them and the gateway started working right away, pretty cool stuff.. Looking forward to adding more sensors and other things, just waiting for more stuff to come in the mail.. I decided to try my Uno for the node instead of the Nano so I'm hoping the Nano works as well as the Uno did for my next sensor...
I have attached a couple screen shots of how the serial gateway should respond with and without an operating node..
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[image: 1458177738278-serial-gateway-dht11-response.png] Thanks!