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Hi, Finally the parcel from Kalina has arrived. It took two weeks to deliver from Ukraine to Poland (it stuck for 9 days in post office somewhere in Poland)
The gateway works ok, the box enclosure is tiny and looks really good.
I highly reccomend Kalina's goods!
Kalina, thx for your support and for the bonus :)
Looking forward to buy this board. Thanks for including SMA connector. Now it's complete board for me :-)
Found it on ebay - is it yours Koresh?
http://www.ebay.com/usr/easysensors
For now there is only Wall Socket insertable node on stock, more boards will come soon I hope
@sundberg84: I think I have to abandon my idea to use Newbie PCB as there is slightly different wiring required for connecting w5100 module. I will solder it on prototype board instead. Thanks for your help
@sundberg84: thx for the quick response. I saw your post with external ethernet gateway but I'd like to avoid use of jumper wires and use your newbie psb instead
@sundberg84: I have plan to use your pcb to build ethernet gateway, thus I want to use NRF24L01+ radio with external antenna. In this case it's more than recommended to use external power to supply the radio as pro mini has not enough juice to feed radio properly. Could you please give me some hint how to do it in most elegant way? I think it should be enough to do not solder radio's vcc and gnd pins to pcb, but to connect external power supply to these pins with hardsoldered capacitor. What do you think?
@Koresh Another thing I forgot. Are you considering to design and sale any plastic case to your modules? Putting raw electronics to tight wall socket is not the safest solution :)
@Koresh Perfect! Do you know when the modules will be ready for sale? How they will be sold? Direct sale, ebay, ...?
Do you have further development plans, ex. dimmers, wall node with two relays, blind controllers?
Very nice project. Looking forward to buy it. It would be nice to have possibility to trigger switch via local button (as in Fibaro) and not only via radio. It's possible from software point of view but board should be modified slightly. Is it in your todo list @Koresh?
@Koresh I'm looking forward. What do you think, what will be the price of a assembled piece?
@sven, @sundberg84 I soldered 83mm wire as mentioned on video and it works like a charm. I'm wondering if it's poor quality of my piece of radios or maybe this is general problem with this type of radio.
Guys thanks again. You made my day!
Hi,
Very nice project. Do you have a plan to sell assembled piece of the boards?
Soldering such small SMD is out of my skills
Hi,
I already received PCB, soldered everything and I'm stuck with reliable radio quality. It works good only when I keep touching antenna on nrf board with my finger. Once I release my finger I've got st=fail.
I've soldered two boards already, tried with two different radios and have same results
I use nrf24L01+ with internal antenna and 5v pro mini, voltage regulator and caps (100nF, 10uF and 4,7uF) as well.
Do you have any ideas what can be wrong?
