afaik mysensors nrf52 isn't working with softdevice yet (same as your 'bootloader' here). there might be some conflicts with nrf52 resources (timers etc.). so you may need to open it for reprogramming.

Not always easy to find time
I just can say there are a lot of ideas, work in progress etc by MySensors team. to improve user experience, but I can't tell you more

@alowhum
maybe, you could:

• publish articles, howtos on openhardware or the forum so it could be easily linked in mysensors.org, and get feedbacks from the community etc
• PR on github when possible, there is a dedicated repo for mysensors sketch too
• do your own website, or blog etc where you would share your xp. sure why not

there are pros and cons I imagine. in each case you'll help people

yes it's doable, maybe not for those who are not smd friendly. And once opened it should be less waterproof

@alowhum said in Fewer home automation postings? What's behind it?:

"From my personal experience, it will be failure and frustration that gets people down. They arrive at this site and it all looks really good.....until you come to try it and then you discover a whole nets of vipers just waiting."

I've been thinking that it would be nice to create a spinoff website for MySensors that focuses on ease of use and tried-an-tested solutions. Plug n play.

For example, a beautiful site with a few home automation staples, and with the best sensors to use for that scenario, and upload-and-go code. Ideally people wouldn't need to solder anything.

Then that site could be used for workshops on DIY, cheap and privacy friendly home automation, for example in libraries.

that would just be reinventing the wheel, a no end wheel, imho.. Doesn't MySensors website already focus on these goals?

I think that would be better to improve what exists. If there are issues with some sketch, why not fix them?

About the 'whole net of vipers' someone mentioned..

Even if, in the best of world, people wouldn't need to solder anything nor programming, their device for 1buck (soon 'My HA for one buck' or better, 'My House for one buck' lol) I think they will always get some troubles if they don't read, learn etc..
Minimal skills and effort are needed. There are too much different hardware, setup etc to feed support for every case.
What I mean is you could try to build an alternative website for a some usecase, but you won't cover all newbie questions, else you would need to build another mysensors.org

But why not, feel free to create a more friendly, bug-free, up-to-date website. In this case you're brave because there is the core team, admins, for this job, which knows well the lib (better for reliable docs and advices), or help us to improve what exists

Hello,

A few things are wrong I think:

• RFM69 'HW' variant needs this define in your relay sketch:

#define MY_IS_RFM69HW

you can check docs here https://www.mysensors.org/download/sensor_api_20#configuration

• RFM69 is not 5v tolerant on VCC, nor the spi bus. you're using a UNO, I understand you're using 3v, but UNO mcu is powered by 5v and outputs 5v signals on spi bus as (I think the 'not 5v tolerant' is in docs too. maybe we should highlight it

oki, i think you now have the solution to what happened in your other post here
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/6846/sensebender-micro-rfm69w-consumption/14

@alexsh1
I'm not talking about the mcu sleep modes. I mentioned the spiflash sleep modes (or I don't get what you asked previously regarding spiflash..)
datasheet see here, ic can go <uA, if you do what i said above, you'll get the better power consumption you want,
https://www.adestotech.com/wp-content/uploads/DS-AT25DF512C_030.pdf

@alexsh1
yes the mosfet power consumption is negligeable (nA), else there would be a problem

I had to make some changes to get such low power, I agree (including spiflash lib you're right). actually i have too much work, rather 'lazy' and no time to sort my libs.sorry.

Note: Spiflash lib from lowpowerlab (mysensors too i guess..) doesn't use the lowest power mode in sleep function.

Does the sensebender micro have a spiflash too?? then that would explain some posts I read..

As usual datasheets to the rescue, did you take a look? would have saved you time.
Easy one, in datasheet you can read:

• 200nA Ultra Deep Power Down current (Typical)
• 5μA Deep Power-Down Current (Typical)
• 25uA Standby current (Typical)
• 4.5mA Active Read Current (Typical

why don't you get this super low <uA ??
section 12-5 of the datasheet is what you need, use the right opcode (command) which is 0x79 for ultra deep powerdown. create your own or tweak sleep function in lib
So now you can save at least 5uA + (other sensors not optimized maybe) + multimeter imprecision
I hope this helps!

@heinzv said in ESP32 Support to enable the powerful ESP32 + RFM95/Lora + LiPo battery boards:

Here is one video with an ESP32 board a guy measured with a Fluke 5.x uA in RTC timer deep sleep and 6.5uA in GPIO deep sleep. So in principal the ESP32 is the right choice but I believe you, that some the boards I have chosen are not the most energy efficient ones without tweaking. I have a couple of other ESP32 boards, maby I have to combine them with my RFM95 modules I also own to get down in the uA range.

That's exactly what I meant, I was just talking about the other boards.
then, regarding the right choice, it all depends on the usecase I think, not so evident. but for your project sure it's a nice mcu, actually having fun with it too

Hi!

the receiver could be the gateway, or search for node to node communication in the forum if this is what you need.
And if you need hw infos related to your boards, I think the designer is Koresh, in MySensors Openhardware section
https://www.openhardware.io/view/102/Wall-Switch-Insertable-Node