Hello Everyone!
As some of you may know, me and my friend @slawkiwala are working on a project of a wired home automation system based on RS485 and MySensors. From the beginning we were quite serious about it and now we managed to launch a crowdfunding campaign.

Though probably the majority of you here are interested more in wireless hardware than in wired, maybe our project will be useful for at least some of the members of this community. If so, then please support and share our campaign!

More info can be found on the campaign page

PS First revisions of the designs, which are now taking part in the campaign, were published on openhardware.io.

PS2 Important information about shipping: Crowd Supply pre-clears customs and pre-pais VAT for packages shipped to all EU countries, Switzerland, Australia, and Canada. This means backers from these countries will not have to pay anything more than the pledge level cost + the international surcharge and also will not have to pass any customs control.

Let's dig out this thread a little. I am a person who's started my own MySensors based hardware project (GetWired, I wrote about it somewhere on this forum), so I probably can be described as an involved user. Somehow it happened that I haven't become an active user on this forum, on one hand I didn't have to write here, because all problems I've encountered were described earlier. On the other hand, I didn't receive much interest after publishing anything (openhardware designs, project related posts).

In my opinion, MySensors with nRF24 has very strong competition, especially taking into consideration the low reliability of this radio. It's easier and better to buy cheap Shelly or other Sonoff. Using nRF52 would help a lot, but it is much more complicated, at least in my opinion.

Second thing is the development of MySensors has slowed down a lot (last commit March 20th). If so, there is not much to discuss here.

Third thing is connected to the development of my own project. Me and my colleague managed to put it on a successful crowdfunding and build a community elsewhere. All this with no support from this community and especially from the MySensors "authorities". I don't want to complain, I just think such initiatives could meet with higher interest from everyone involved in the development of MySensors, because it would be mutually beneficial.

Hello,
This module is finally available to buy assembled. Now our project is complete, you can run the whole RS485 system after some shopping here, on openhardware.io. See details on the project pages.

Cheers,
feanor-anglin

Few topics before I posted about our wired home automation project based on MySensors:
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/10921/getwired-rs485-mysensors-home-automation-modules

Please have a look In case of any questions, please feel free to ask me.

Do I understand correctly, that you are planning to port MySensors to Zephyr OS?

@NeverDie I perfectly understand how it works and that it is impossible to reach everyone with a post. I've wrote about it here.

Let's dig out this thread a little. I am a person who's started my own MySensors based hardware project (GetWired, I wrote about it somewhere on this forum), so I probably can be described as an involved user. Somehow it happened that I haven't become an active user on this forum, on one hand I didn't have to write here, because all problems I've encountered were described earlier. On the other hand, I didn't receive much interest after publishing anything (openhardware designs, project related posts).

In my opinion, MySensors with nRF24 has very strong competition, especially taking into consideration the low reliability of this radio. It's easier and better to buy cheap Shelly or other Sonoff. Using nRF52 would help a lot, but it is much more complicated, at least in my opinion.

Second thing is the development of MySensors has slowed down a lot (last commit March 20th). If so, there is not much to discuss here.

Third thing is connected to the development of my own project. Me and my colleague managed to put it on a successful crowdfunding and build a community elsewhere. All this with no support from this community and especially from the MySensors "authorities". I don't want to complain, I just think such initiatives could meet with higher interest from everyone involved in the development of MySensors, because it would be mutually beneficial.

Few topics before I posted about our wired home automation project based on MySensors:
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/10921/getwired-rs485-mysensors-home-automation-modules

Please have a look In case of any questions, please feel free to ask me.

Actually I have to disagree with @rejoe2 about:

Will my network work without controller (only gateway + nodes)?

With an Ethernet gateway it is entirely possible.

One more thing. If you are interested in building RS485 network, maybe you should have a look at my project. Earlier today I created a post about it on this forum. Here it is

Hello Everyone!
As some of you may know, me and my friend @slawkiwala are working on a project of a wired home automation system based on RS485 and MySensors. From the beginning we were quite serious about it and now we managed to launch a crowdfunding campaign.

Though probably the majority of you here are interested more in wireless hardware than in wired, maybe our project will be useful for at least some of the members of this community. If so, then please support and share our campaign!

More info can be found on the campaign page

PS First revisions of the designs, which are now taking part in the campaign, were published on openhardware.io.

PS2 Important information about shipping: Crowd Supply pre-clears customs and pre-pais VAT for packages shipped to all EU countries, Switzerland, Australia, and Canada. This means backers from these countries will not have to pay anything more than the pledge level cost + the international surcharge and also will not have to pass any customs control.

@kimot No, it is an obvious mistake, I am very sorry. Maybe it is becouse the code in master branch is very old, the newest is not yet on github, but the developement branch is quite new. I am going to fix this soon.

Hi all,
We are still working hard on our project of MySensors&RS485 based, wired home automation system. Right now we are preparing a crowdfunding campaign aimed to deliver some of our designs to backers. We’ve received some official MySensors community support and our RS845 Ethernet Gateway project is now featured.

If anyone is interested in supporting our effort, please subscribe for campaign updates. Telling about us to others would be even better. We need a lot of support to succeed.

I will happily answer any questions. Link to the campaign pre-launch page:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/domatic/getwired

I have similar problem. Some time ago I even wrote a nice piece of code to update roller shutter position if changed from buttons. But domoticz just does not seem to understand values the sensor sends. So I confirm, blinds percentage is buggy.