I do alot of various tinkering and post it it to youtube
http://bit.ly/CrankyCoder
I would be really interested to see this put in practice. For stuff like those sensors I can't imagine a little extra latency being a terrible thing.
Kind of makes me want to make a bunch of battery/solar nodes and just hide them places and see how far you can get a network to go 
Does adding ack to messages help trigger any failures if something can't deliver? ... well that didn't make much sense.
So lets say i have 2 repeaters on my network. i have a sensor that wakes up to report info. it normally goes to repeater1 -> gateway but repeater1 is acting up. Could you tell it to wait for an ack? after X amount of time with no ack would it trigger to find a new parent?
I am about to put some door sensors up around my place. I love this idea of battery powered motion+door sensor. Just wondering if anyone has looked at something like the 18650's? The reason I ask is I have literally HUNDREDS of them from another on going project. Tons that aren't big enough for what I am working on but for uses like this it could work.
Morning all! I have a 2 node lamp relay in one of my rooms and have this really weird issue, thought it was coincidence for a long time but there is no way it can be. The issue is, fairly frequently when either the bathroom light is turned off, or the kitchen light (guessing both are on the same circuit) the lights that are on the relays will get turned off. I know there has to be something as far as noise on the AC line because my tv in the living room will flicker like the hdmi input just got interrupted.
The module is powered from the AC using a small AC-DC 5v converter.
So. I know the obvious answer... replace all your house wiring..... however at the moment this is not really an option. So I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on maybe a way to filter the noise? or do you think it's just a too cheap module that some like the HLK-PM01 should be used.
Thanks!
mfalkvidd im sure you can confirm if i have my understanding correct here. If you have a repeater and it's gone, the nodes will eventually try to do a find par(ent) again right? at that point they may or may not be able to rejoin the network?
This should be pretty easy. Install your Home Assistant, then follow the pi gateway instructions. Shouldn't have any issues with it conflicting.
not sure about in sleep mode. But here is the sensor i am using.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q9YBIJI/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
no, i have a couple that i am running at 3.3 off the 18650s. so far it's been pretty good just using the sleep
@david-cabañero Thanks David, i just got a few of the step ups so I will give that a shot. Because of some of my other projects I have TONS of 18650 cells laying around so I figure those are decent batteries for this.
