@Salmoides said:

Be very careful. You'll get hooked on this stuff like we are and you'll have sensors and controllers all over the place. It never ends. We can't stop ourselves. You will dream up new circuits in your sleep. Ouch, that soldering iron is hot! There's always something being shipped from China. What am I going to do with the other 99 diodes in that little bag? That rosin smells different than the last roll of solder. Gee, I need one of those fancy bench multi-meters. Aww smack, I dropped that screw again! Yes dear, I'll have dinner ready once I finish this sketch. You'll go to bed and then ask yourself if you turned the soldering iron off. Be careful. You've been warned.

Haha, yeah I'm already there with my home automation stuff, plus all the equipment from my audio production stuff.. I have too many hobbies. The wife's pet peeve is that there's constantly crap on the dining table.

Oh man this is so dope! Can't believe I didn't start this sooner. Got a motion and a humidity sensor going now. Gonna have to search the forums on how to calculate for battery usage.

Oh nice! They're showing up in Vera. Gonna play with this some more later.

@petewill said:

Yes, the grounds are the same. You can also splice the wires. Just make sure if you're doing power you don't exceed the mA.

Right on, thanks for the response. Now I'm trying to figure out including this bad boy. I noticed that if I start serial monitor the MySensors plugin will find the device, but after that I'm stumped. In the middle of cooking dinner for the wife so I'm kinda jumping back and forth.

I think I figured it out. I looked at the data sheet for the dht22 and it takes 3 -6v so I just powered the sensor with 5v from the nano. I guess both grounds are the same? The sketch uploaded and Serial Monitor shows humidity and temp.

I finally got my serial gateway working and now I'm onto making my first sensor. I have a nano hooked up to a NRF24L01 and a DHT22. I'm confused about how to hook up vcc and ground to both. There are 2 ground pins on the nano but only one 3v3. Do splice the necessary jump wires to together? Are both the ground pins on the nano the same thing?

Thanks

Got the Gravitech in the mail today. First try - recognized! Now to build some sensors. Thanks guys for the help!

I ordered the gravitech nano someone had mentioned on the forum. It's expensive, ugh, but I don't time fussing around with this. The saved time will be used on figuring out how to make sensors.

@CaptainZap said:

What USB chip do you have on your Nano ? Is it one of those Chinese ch340 chips ? If it is, you won't be able to get it to work with Vera. If you have an FTDI chip then you might want to try this.

Crap it is the ch340 chip. I've been looking for the FTDI chips but it seems like there's a lot of issues with those as well. What are my other alternatives? Ethernet gateway?

@kalle said:

Did you powered the Nano by the Vera USB plug? Sometimes it can help to power the Nano by an extra power supply when the components are power hungry (like the antenna RF24-chip).

I'm have it plugged in to a powered USB hub. There's also another USB stick plugged in for dataMine which is working.