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Hardware support => General topics => Topic started by: FragSalat on April 19, 2016, 04:17:49 PM

Title: RFM69CW to control elro sockets
Post by: FragSalat on April 19, 2016, 04:17:49 PM
Hey there.

I'm trying to control a socket from company elro by 433 MHz transceiver RFM69CW.
To do this I want to listen to all Packets on these frequency. The spec of the RFM69CW module says that the sync word (networkid) is used to filter the packets but I don't want any filtering. Is it somehow possible to disable the filtering completely?
Or does someone know if and how its possible to controll wireless sockets from elro or smartwares with these module?
I know there are other modules which can do that but I hoped that I can use only 1 module for everything.
This means receiving from other RFM69 nodes and sending over 433Mhz.

PS: I already tried to set networkid and nodeid to null and put promiscuous to 1 to get all packets but at least with my environment it didn't worked out.

Thanks in advance

Regards FragSalat
Title: Re: RFM69CW to control elro sockets
Post by: WhiteHare on April 19, 2016, 05:10:49 PM
Are you sure your socket is using an FSK wave form?  A lot of consumer-grade remote sockets use OOK, which the RFM69 module does support, but the default library here doesn't.  However, I think Kobuki may have one that he has posted links to, and there are also some on github.
Title: Re: RFM69CW to control elro sockets
Post by: Felix on April 19, 2016, 08:23:47 PM
Doesn't sound like this is in any way related to Moteino or RFM69 library.
Title: Re: RFM69CW to control elro sockets
Post by: Stark on April 24, 2016, 10:48:34 AM
Quote from: FragSalat on April 19, 2016, 04:17:49 PM

I know there are other modules which can do that but I hoped that I can use only 1 module for everything.
This means receiving from other RFM69 nodes and sending over 433Mhz.


Hi

I switch numerous RF OOK controlled sockets using a Moteino and the IOT gateway . The easiest (and cheap) way I have implemented is just to integrate a separate OOK transmitter and receiver with the Moteino (using the RCSwitch library). Basically the Moteino is the control network and the OOK transmitter and receiver is for switching. The OOK receiver is not really needed, I have it to listen for button presses from the OOK switch remote control and also to check and update switching status on the IOT gateway.

Been fiddling with it for ages and it does the job...range on the OOK TX/RX can be a bit limited when compared to the Moteino though  ;D