@sergio-rius I'm not completely sure what you want to achieve, but a gateway can also contain sensors. Could this be a way to go?

@superkris nice project! You should submit it to hackaday!

@ッanteroッ this forum deals with MySensors, while your question does not seem to be related to MySensors at all. There are likely better forums to post such questions.
My impression is you received a faulty LED strip, with bad connections making some parts light with a different color than expected. I suggest you take it back to the shop.

@grumpazoid MySensors uses a gateway to connect the MySensors network to the rest of the world, which is often a controller.
There are various gateways supporting e.g. serial or ethernet, but there also are MQTT gateways (see the xxxMQTTClient examples here ).
These gateways are clients, so they connect to an MQTT broker elsewhere to publish and subscribe their messages.

@alexsh1 said in Another nrf24l01+ fake or..?:

Do you know if this is repairable? Changing resonator, chip or both?

When power usage increases over time it would be interesting to know what is causing it...

@parachutesj the Mac addresses should be unique. They are passed as parameter to the begin() call of the ethernet stack iirr.
Even after making them unique it might take a while for your network equipment to recover from duplicate Mac addresses (or power cycle them, including switches!).

@alexsh1 said in Another nrf24l01+ fake or..?:

ditch all nrf24l01+ in favour of its SMD version

Why? Sleep current will mainly be influence by the nrf chip and the crystal. Why do you assume smd versions use genuine nrf chips?
Smd resonators (the small rectangular ones with 4 connections) have slightly lower power consumption than the crystals used on most modules (hc-49 package).

@parachutesj I would not recommend to use the same topic root for both gateways. The root gets appended the node ID, therefore topics cannot be traced to/from the gateway the nodes are attached to. For incoming messages (coming from the nodes) this might seem convenient (if node IDs are unique over both networks) but for outgoing messages both gateways will transmit them.

@sergio-rius said in Messages drop, messed topology?:

I'm using the 108 channel

I personally have bad experience with channels above say 100, on some clones.
I would advise you to stay below 100.

A bad performing radio is worse than some WiFi interference.