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@gohan Thanks, eventually worked it out. https://pastebin.com/D0Cc8TSG should do it for you. writing to the Nextion is creating difficulties.

I'm gonna see if I can grab a few ferrite cores and stick then on the AC lines to see if that suppresses the EMI.

@shabba As far as I can see (from search on mouser) there is no spi flashes available, which is capable at operating at 5V.. The closest is AT25XV021 / AT25XV041, which have an absolute maximum VCC of 4.4V http://www.mouser.dk/Semiconductors/Memory/Flash-Memory/_/N-488w1?P=1z0y176Z1yzmm0hZ1yzmm18

@gohan Well, in my case, it is going to replace my thermostat, so I already have the 5 wire cable coming up from the basement for that which takes care of the hole in the wall. Since the main controller for the thermostat is in the basement, all I should need at the tablet side is a temp sensor. I will use the 5 wire cable to connect my 5 volt charger and probably a DS18B20 temp sensor to read the temp. In the basement, I will create an arduino node to read the temp and send it to the thermostat controller over my RS485 network. All the other thermostat controls will be handled by the tablet.

Just in case anyone comes across this it is related to ACKs. Not sure whether a mysensors issue or domoticz gets confused and resets the GW. Will probably swing back to it next weekend to test further but the exact same sketch fails when presenting with ACK and works when not.

Had a similar problem using FHEM as controller. A downgrade of the board-definitions within the Arduino-IDE to version <=1.6.11 helped to some extend: The rebooting issue is gone, but the status within FHEM no longer goes to "connected" but sticks in "startup complete". Additionally: Someone in the FHEM forum reported lost messages using FHEM as a controller and a serial GW. According to this report (https://forum.fhem.de/index.php/topic,60917.0.html) he used two computers and two GWs to compare the messages he received (other controller was MYSController). In my setup, I may also have some problems that could be related to that: One of my nodes has (amongst other things) 6 DS18B20 attached. When using a loop to read all the 6 and send the temps immediately, I do not get reasonable values for the 5th and no temp at all for the 6th. But this can also be related to other reasons (wiring, power source, NRF), I have to do some more testing on this to be sure. (Using 2.0.1-beta and Arduino-IDE 1.6.12 with board-def for Nano 1.6.11)

@shabba thanks, main site matters I leave to @hek to decide upon.

@alowhum Now I remembered that I once shot a video about this sensor. In the description below the video there are links to sketches that work with such sensors. But for this video I did not do subtitles in English, in sketches comments also seem to be in Russian. But I think it won't be a problem. Микроволновый датчик движения XYC-WB-DC часть №2 | Програмная задержка отключения – 11:36— SMART BOX Микроволновый датчик движения XYC-WB-DC часть №1 | Microwave motion sensor XYC-WB-DC part No. 1 – 07:16— SMART BOX

In some countries there are limitations That may be a reason. I tried to document it a little bit in the dev branch: https://github.com/mysensors/Arduino/blob/development/libraries/MySensors/MyConfig.h

Sorry, haven't used Domoticz myself.

I've had great luck with capacitive sensing and water levels.. In my case I was using the Teensy 3 which has built-in support for cap sensing that seems more reliable than when using the arduino cap sense library. For the sensor, I got a sheet of copper foil with non-conductive adhesive on one side (digikey sells this). Using scissors I cut a 1" wide strip several inches long, with a couple small sections where I removed a piece 3/4 as wide as the strip (sorry.. hard to describe) The end result is sort of "F" shaped (where the horizontal bars are thick and the spaces between are thin). For shielding against outside interference, I put another rectagular piece over the whole thing, attached to a ground lead. Stick the whole thing to your oil tank, and you should see large changes in the cap sense value as soon as the liquid level crosses a gap. here's a web page with something similar http://soulysolar.mudventions.com/?p=681 hope this helps David

There isn't any official page for this yet as this has mostly been experimental features. We should probably set one up at some time. To send out an OTA firmware I would recommend using the MYSController which has a nice GUI for it. But you still need to compile your code and grab the hex-file to send. All this isn't exactly beginner-level stuff. Would have been nice if someone could wrap all this up and incorporate it in the Arduino IDE or something.

@maltimus Because on a dark day I was concerned this would not be enough to trigger. I intend to test it though!

Go this going by playing with the ordering. I wiped sensors from domoticz and turned on repeater node. Then I restarted domoticz - then opened my reed switch (outside electric gate) - this caused the gate to be registered. I then had to reset the repeater (it is a buzzer and led actuator) for that to be seen in domoitcz also. A bit convoluted but got there. Guess this could trip many up. Thanks all.

@hek One thing is, that salaries is much lower in China, than Europe/USA. Another thing could be that the government is funding the postal service, in order to get as cheap shipping FROM china, as possible. Doesn't explain things with itead though, but in general I would expect that it's like that.

If the sensor and the gateway are at the same level or about the same level I think using a half-wave dipole or "rubber duck" antenna pointed vertically is a good idea. That will focus the energy in the horizontal plane and not into the ground or to the air giving about 2 dBi of gain.

@tbowmo The last time I needed a non-standard thread (for a camera tripod-like mount) I had to go to Würth. They charge about an arm and a leg for a few screws, but on the other hand the metal is probably very high-grade and resistant to corrosion.