@BearWithBeard
Thanks. That sounds like what I was thinking. Makes it clearer though.

@mariusl
I found changing my gateway nrf24l01 to one with a big external antenna got me going more reliably. I mean I had a sensor that just kept failing (monitoring serial at the sensor)to transmit, swapped the gateway and from then on no fails (can now reliably measure the weight of my cats poo). I’ve got other rfnano sensors that I have had success using carefully cut lengths of cat5 wire to extend the range. I’ve had good success testing basic unmodified rfnanos range so it’s sometime hard to work out what is going on. I do like the el’cheapo rfnano.

So you have installed the board manager stuff in arduino preferences and tried some of the examples that appear after you do this and they don’t work and freeze?

@workshopninja
Ok ok.. I still think I’ll get one. Wiki documentation looks good. Great in fact.

What exactly are you having trouble with. Do the examples given on the wiki work?

@OldSurferDude
We’ll I just looked them up and think I want one.
I think you’re part of the seeduino marketing team too!

@BearWithBeard
Thanks. That sounds like what I was thinking. Makes it clearer though.

Hello.
I was thinking of makeing a mimic panel sort of thing for my home security.
I have smome PIR sensors and motion detecting cameras that post MQTT messages over ethernet to my controller(openhabian).
I could make my mimic panel with an esp8266 and subscribe to thes messages ( know how to do this)...
Or I could make a mysensors node, make some automation in my controller to publish the multiple sensors to mySensorsGW-in (don't really know how to do this)..

Is there a way the mysensors MQTT gateway (it's an arduino with ethernet) can directly subscribe to the relevant messages and send the information i need to my mimic panel node.

Would love to hear some thoughts on how to do any of these options or any other options I have.
Gavin.