For plan A (Raspi gateway) I am still waiting for the new radio modules. I'm not scrapping this plan yet...

Regarding plan B (ethernet gateway), I am still confused regarding which pins to use and how to make it in the sketch:

On the left are the pins used in the Ethernet Gateway page, with a nano, a W5100 and the NRF24L01+ radio. Also, the MY_RF24 and MY_SOFT_SPI commands in the original sketch.

On the right, the RF-NANO, W5500 and the NRF24L01+ radio I am trying to use. The pins of the radio are fixed, as both are in the same module:

Is the following correct?

• (#1) the MY_RF24_CS_PIN is now pin 9 while MY_RF24_CE_PIN is the default one of the nano (pin 10, SS?) so it can be ommited (?).

• (#2) the W5500 pins are the ones that have to be moved now. MISO, MOSI and SCK are going to pins 16, 15 and 14 with MY_SOFT_SPI (I am assuming the W5500 supports software SPI, I read yesterday that not all modules do)

• (#3) where and how goes the SS pin of the W5500??? MY_SOFT_SPI_CE_PIN exists? Is this what you mean with your comment, @neverdie?

All this is really exciting, but I still have a lot to learn. Apologies again for the 'dumb' questions...

Thank you, guys. I have ordered another 3 rf24 from another shop, let's see how they perform. I will also verify all the connections.

The radio modules may be the issue, as I have done a emitter/receiver test with them on a UNO and a RF-NANO (a NANO and a NRF24L01+ in the same module) and never worked out, but when using the same sketches on 2 RF-NANOs they worked fine.

As a plan B I am trying to use one of these RF-NANO as the gateway, connecting a W5500 ethernet module. I still have to try this (I have just received the W5500 today) but I already have a question: The diagram and sketch for the W5100 ethernet gateway shows that the NRF24L01+ uses pins 5, 6, A0, A1 and A2, as the 'usual' pins 10, 11, 12 and 13 are used by the W5100. In the RF-NANO, the radio is already connected to pins 9 to 13.

Do you know how I can reallocate all pins in the sketch to match my setting?

Found a wiring diagram in the sellers website slightly different to the one above, but still failing. (diagram)

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Hi guys

I am setting up a RasPi Zero W gateway running an eclipse-mosquitto docker image and radio via a NRF24L01+ module but MySensors' debug logs keeps showing fails:

DEBUG TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT
DEBUG TSM:INIT
DEBUG !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
DEBUG TSM:FAIL:CNT=1
DEBUG TSM:FAIL:DIS
DEBUG TSF:TDI:TSL

The MQTT broker seems to work fine, I am able to send and receive messages from another device.

The NRF24 is connected to the RasPi via pins 17, 19-24 as described in https://www.mysensors.org/build/raspberry#improving-throughput-for-nrf24. A capacitor is connected between VCC and GND.

This is the configuration I am using:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MySensors $ sudo ./configure --my-transport=rf24 --my-gateway=mqtt --my-controller-ip-address=127.0.0.1 --my-mqtt-publish-topic-prefix=mysensors-out --my-mqtt-subscribe-topic-prefix=mysensors-in --my-mqtt-client-id=mygateway1

It returns no errors. 'sudo make' also shows no errors. I'm running it with 'sudo ./bin/mysgw'

I have tried with three NRF24 modules but same results.

Any idea of what I am missing?

Thank you, @Nightbodom and @Dave-Myers

So, it looks like getting the RN-NANO boards and the NRF wasn't the best idea...

What do you think about to use another raspberry pi (a Zero this time, running Raspbian for example) as a mqtt broker, connecting the NRF to it? The Zero hosting the mqtt broker and also the mysensors gateway? Or they must be on different devices?

Thank you, @mfalkvidd !

I have double-checked the wiring and seems OK to me:

Pin 17 (Raspberry pi 2+) (3.3v) - VCC (NRF24)
Pin 19 - MOSI
Pin 20 - GND
Pin 21 - MISO
Pin 22 - CE
Pin 23 - SCK
Pin 24 - CSN

I have searched further and I am not sure if the installation and configuration of the mysensors gateway is still required on the raspberry pi as described here: https://www.mysensors.org/build/raspberry. The raspberry pi is running hassio and it's not possible to use 'git' or 'make' there.

I cannot find clear information about installing mysensors on hassio apart from a few forum posts with issues.

Hi guys. First time trying MySensors, it's not working, and I am not sure if I am following the correct approach:

I have a working HASSIO (0.100.2) installation running on a Raspberry Pi 2+. I am trying to add a DHT-11 sensor (as the first shot with MySensors). The sensor is connected to a Keywish RF-NANO board (it's a nano clone with a NRF24 in the same board). When running a simple arduino sketch to read the DHT11 it works fine.

On the Raspberry Pi I have connected a standalone NRF24L01 to the gpio following this: https://www.mysensors.org/build/raspberry

Issues: First, Home Assistant should recognize the NRF24L01 and assign it to a /dev/ttyXXXX but it is not happening... I assume that this is because there is no sensor connected yet, but I'm still not sure. Maybe the whole setup is wrong.

On the RF-NANO I load the example sketch from here: https://www.mysensors.org/build/humidity

When started, I get this in the serial monitor:

16:47:53.193 -> 16 MCO:BGN:INIT NODE,CP=RNNNA---,REL=255,VER=2.3.1
16:47:53.193 -> 26 TSM:INIT
16:47:53.193 -> 27 TSF:WUR:MS=0
16:47:53.193 -> 33 !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
16:47:53.193 -> 35 TSM:FAIL:CNT=1
16:47:53.228 -> 37 TSM:FAIL:DIS
16:47:53.228 -> 38 TSF:TDI:TSL

I have NOT connected a capacitor yet (have to order it) in the NRF24L01 of the RasPi but I have placed both emitter and receptor close to each other with no difference.

I am not sure if this is just a communication problem that will be solved with the capacitor, or the issue is with Home Assistant which is not detecting the NRF24L01, or with the NRF24L01, not being a NRF24L01+ (I have just noticed it)

Am I doing it right? Is this the right way of connecting a mysensor to a HASSIO installation on a Raspberry Pi?

Any help is really appreciated.