@Alan-Sales it seems the project is abandoned. But I have it, so please use this link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0qls8a251ol4tc/MYSController.zip?dl=0
@tekka maybe you could share the code somewhere? Maybe someone else could make a use of it or develop it further?
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.