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Thanks for the info @willemx I have added a note to https://www.mysensors.org/build/ethernet_gateway Feel free to suggest changes if you think the information can be presented in a better way.

@hlehoux BTW, in my case this seems to be related to the battery being very low.

@willemx Excellent! Have fun!

Just to add for those using Arduino IDE, downloading the latest development version of MySensors fixes the same issue. Just go to https://github.com/mysensors/MySensors and hit "Clone/Download Zip", Download the zip then add to Arduino (Sketch -> Include Library -> Add .Zip Library then select the zip you downloaded). You may need to delete the old library folder from Documents\Arduino\libraries to ensure the new version is used. This will be fixed with MySensors 2.3.2.

@willemx I don't understand all the details, but here is how I have understood the situation: MySensors needed to override some internal esp8266 functions to seamlessly (for the sketch developer) provide the same features that MySensors offers for other microcontrollers. The esp team changed those functions in the 2.4.2 release, which caused compile errors for sketch developers if they upgraded the board definitions. MySensors development version was modified to handle the new functions. By doing this, it was no longer possible to compile MySensors with the old (and still widely used, most people don't upgrade their board definitions) esp8266board definitions. So when a new release of MySensors is done, everyone who hasn't upgraded their board definition but have upgraded the MySensors library will be unable to compile their code. On the upside, everyone who has upgraded their board definitions will be able to compile without trouble. The only "safe" way (for future upgrades) is to remove important functionality, eliminating the need to override internal esp functions. But that will also get a lot of people into trouble. So what we've got is that whatever we do, people will get into trouble. There are no warnings in the esp8266 release notes because the esp team is not responsible for keeping compatibility with internal functions. There are no warnings in the MySensors release notes because the latest MySensors release was made before the esp8266 changes were present. There will be a note in the release notes for the next MySensors release.

I have the wireless gateway and Mosquitto running and now I can see the temperature readings coming into node-RED, nicely decoded through mysdecode. Thanks everyone for these amazing frameworks!