Posts made by SteveG

@zboblamont Good idea, I hadn’t twigged it would be the same for nRF24’s, doh ! I did that for my WiFi and had to add another access point for the back of the house, which suggests repeaters or another gateway (?) would be necessary.

Thanks for the replies, guys.
My house is all brick walls downstairs, central brick wall upstairs and wood and plaster the rest. So it looks like the RFM69 might be the best choice.
I think the next step for me will be to build a gateway and simple sensor on breadboard and see which radio works best.

@sundberg84

I’m planning to deploy battery powered temperature sensors in each room of my house and as this is still on paper and either radio would probably work ok I wanted to find out if there was a pressing reason to go one way or another.

From what you say and what I’ve read on here is it fair to say that the choice of radio is mostly about range and reliability in the actual location ?

Hi there,

New member here so apologies in advance for any stupid questions.
Has anybody done tests on which radio gives the longest battery life ? Something long term running the same sketch on several nodes with different radios so as to give real world battery consumption.
In the absence of tests any opinions would be welcome.

Thanks