Happy to annouce the new project sharing site OpenHardware.io.

The idea is to have a place for all the amazing MySensors and open hardware project popping up here on the forum. It's quite hard to get an overview in a forum like this.

If you have build your own MySensors project (applies to both software and open hardware) you can share it more easily. Each project will get it's own forum thread under the new openhardware category.

You can upload design files, attach videos, Code Bender examples and link the project to GitHub (to keep things in sync more easily).

If you like a project, you can also make a small donation to the author.

Well this all beta at the moment, so please report problems and/or feedback here.

The MySensors core team would like to thank all the community members for the fantastic projects we've seen during the past year. It gives a cozy feeling inside to know that people actually uses our library and hardware to do something useful.

Here's some highlights from the past year:

• Release on the 2.1 version (2.2 coming soon...)
• Release of the second mysensors "product", the Sensebender Gateway
• Support for NRF5x by @d00616
• NodeManager by @user2684
• Sketch Generator by @rakeshpai
• Participation in the Eindhoven Maker Faire. The dollhouse disco-song is still ringing in our heads.

The yearly community stats (last years stats in parenthesis):

26 supported controllers. (26) - Are we running out of new controllers?
6.8k registered forum users. (4.7k)
72k unique visitors/month on mysensors.org. (74k)
1858 code commits. (1711)
675 forks on github. (544). 726 stars!
272 open source hardware projects added on openhardware.io. (129)

We'd like to give a special thanks to the forum moderators and code contributors.

https://github.com/platisd/xmas-pcb-tree

Kind of a milestone!

Just wanted to thank all the plugin/controller developers for their awesome work adding MySensors support to all these projects.

http://www.mysensors.org/controller/

After a few months of development and data migrations we can now proudly present the new MySensors.org.

The old site was a mess to keep updated (basically a bunch of hard-coded html pages).

The new site will allow our core team and editors to give the site more life and content. We share the backend with OpenHardware.io, so any community created projects or articles can easily be exposed on MySensors.org.

We will be adding a lot of new threads here in the announcement section (separate comment-threads for the articles). Sorry for the mess it may create in your unread-count.

We know a few pages still is sourly missing (like OTA and Raspberry install instruction), but we'll be adding them soon.

We urge you to start documenting your projects on openhardware.io. Many of them will end up in the build or hardware section of the main site.

Cheers
Henrik

Another amazing year has passed for the MySensors community. We've seen so many new useful projects and hardware design. Here's some community highlights:

• Release on the 2.0 version (2.1 coming very soon)
• Support for SAMD (@tbowmo), Linux/RPI (@marceloaqno).
• The launch of OpenHardware.io - our open source hardware sister site that was setup to support open hardware contributors and make it easy for the rest of us ordering pcbs.
• Total re-write of the MySensors.org-site, allowing article contributions and simplify content handling for our editors.
• 3 IRL MySensors Meetups in Sweden, Breda and Amersfoort.

Here's the yearly community stats (last years stats in parenthesis):

26 supported controllers. (18)
4.7k forum users. (2.2k)
74k unique visitors/month on mysensors.org. (24k)
1711 code commits. (1215)
544 forks on github. (368)
129 open source hardware projects added to openhardware.io.

I want to give a big thank you to the tremendous work done by the core team, moderators and code contributors. A special thanks and our top code contributors this year @tekka.

I'm also very grateful for all the the time (and patience) put in by everyone here to educate each other and help newcomers on the forum. You make this the best IoT geek community in the world! :).

I personally hope to complete something from the half-finished-project-pile during the holidays. First in line is my "connected" RGB matrix clock. Took some work just to get the animated digits going...
Animated numbers – 00:07
— MySensors

Merry X-Mas and Happy New Year!

P:S. MySensors Contest 2017 is closing in. Help us find sponsors.

I'm happy to launch a new feature I've been working in for the last few weeks!

We will now allow authors to sell their designs on OpenHardware.io through Ebay or via our manufacturing partners.

This feature is currently in beta testing together with the first manufacturer PCBWay.com. I hope to smoke out any bugs during the next couple of days. Please report any problems you might find in the contact form.

There is just a few of steps to make your PCB available for sale as an author:

• Upload and publish the Gerber files for the PCB (you've probably already done this part).
• Add an optional BOM to allow the manufacturer to create DIY kits or fully assembled boards.
• Fill in the PCB characteristics and create a new revision in the "Selling" tab where you edit the project.

When someone buys through OpenHardware.io , the author will get a small commission sales! Pretty neat to give some encouragement back to the talented open hardware designers we got here right?

When a board is available for sale (all variants) it looks like this:

Master branch on github is now 1.5! This means that we finally made a drop from the (hopefully) stable development branch.

This version should be backward compatible with 1.4 both over-the-air and sketch-vise unless you use the constructor arguments which has changed to cope with a more flexible architecture.

So you can safely update one node (or gateway) to 1.5 without affecting the rest of your radio network.

Here are some of the new stuff (we have probably talked about most of it already on the forum):

• Message signing using ATSHA204 hardware or software driver
• Multiple radio transport driver architecture
• RFM69 radio support
• Support for multiple hardware layers (ATMega328 default implementation)
• New sensors: RGB, RGBW, Color, Multimeter, HVAC, Sprinkler, Water leak, Sound, Vibration, Moisture
• New variables: Voltage, Current, RGB RGBW, Id, Unit prefix, Setpoint, Level
• Allow indication LEDs (tx,rx,err) on sensors
• Sensor presentation description message
• OTA updates using on-board flash (and DualOptiboot bootloader)
• Allow SOFTSPI configuration from MyConfig.h
• Bugfixes!

I'm having problems getting the codebender examples up and running with 1.5. Hopefully I'll get some support on this soon.

I've been playing with a new service for MySensors.org. A sensor playground where the community members can push their data for testing purposes or sharing sensor data publicly with family and friends.

The technical idea is to have bi-directional websocket connection from the ESP8266 or Ethernet gateway to the cloud service. The browser client also connects to the web using websockets. In between I've put redis for synchronization between the front-end instances to allow scaling. Might throw in a InfluxDB in the mix to store longer range of historic data depending on how much it hogs the server resources we got.

The initial tests looks promising. It's super fast when communicating with sensors/actuators and the home grown GUI works as expected. Doing front-end work takes a lot of time though.

I still have a lot of work before any beta is out, but I thought I should give some heads up.

Note, this will not replace your locally installed controller. It's meant for testing and sharing.

I've created a parking sensor of my NeoPixel led ring and a distance sensor.
You can also send the parking status to your controller if you'd like.

Components
http://www.ebay.com/itm/371353140878?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1pcs-Ultrasonic-Module-HC-SR04-Distance-Measuring-Transducer-Sensor-for-Arduino-/251546073420?hash=item3a9150794c

https://youtu.be/ykfTKI7a-H4

Code:
https://codebender.cc/sketch:138368

1pcs Ultrasonic Module HC-SR04 Distance Measuring Transducer Sensor for Arduino

$1.12

Sold out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukN6Ca_QDdU

Hi @mrhutchinsonmn,

Yes, it is possible to contribute your own tutorial by creating a project on openhardware.io (it shares the same database as mysensors.org) and submit it for review. After publishing, I can "move" it to the mysensors.org site and you can continue editing it.

For long time contributors we can offer full editor rights which means you can update any article on the site. It's a bit scary to hand out this right to anyone so you'd have to prove yourself first

If something is wrong in the current articles, you can of cause pm us the error to be corrected.

Thanks.

Yeah, PayPal are blood sucking leeches. I hope more merchants will boycot their service for other alternatives and let them die.

Hi @TRS-80,

We have no problem beeing open with the financial situation. The revenues has declined the last couple of years. Both donations and affiliate/ad vise. But I have tried lowering our monthly costs by consilidating servers and making backups of forum/openhardware.io db to my home NAS. The total cost of running things is now ~$100/month excluding domain/mailgun fees etc.

We had a short burts of donations in April this year from some germans that added up to almost $60.

The monthly google ad revenue is ~200/month so we're floating without me having to use my companys as a sponsor.

The MySensors community will not shut even if revenue goes below income (unless I go totally bankrup ).

@GertSanders, dxf should be recognized now.

I would have to add dfx to the valid list of formats for design files. I'll let you know in this thread when it has been deployed.

The page seems to work for me. Could it have been a temporary glitch?

@NeverDie
Here in Sweden many supermarkets open an hour earlier only for the elderly or people with preconditions.

Quick and Easy

• Ethanol (96%)
• Aloe vera gel
• Tea tree oil

Mix 3 parts isopropyl alcohol to 1 part aloe vera gel. Add a few drops of tea tree oil for the smell.

Advanced

• Ethanol (96%)
• Glycerol
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Distilled water

Less sticky than the previous recepie and the recommended mixture by the WHO.

Mix 2.5 dL ethanol with 30 millilitre of glycerol (keeps the alcohol from drying out your hands).
Mix in 15 millilitre of hydrogen then another 60 millilitre of distilled or boiled (then cooled) water.

These proportions will give you a spray that can be applied to hand towels for wiping of hands and surfaces. Use less water if you want a more gel-like substance.

@The-Grue
The page does not require internet to work (once it has been downloaded).

It has always been like this. In order to do like you propose, you'd have to send in a pointer for the light variable into the function to be able to update it. This would be a bit awkward and none standard for simple scalar values.