I want a bunch of sensors to send data to a moteino and was curious if anyone has used one of those cheap RF Transmitters to send data this way. Could I possible capture packets sent from a moteino to moteino and then just replicate the data in software?
Cheap is not a word I like very much, because it's usually used by people who brag about Moteino being expensive.
Personally I would dislike seeing those "cheap" transmitters used on Moteinos, usually it spoils the brand and vision I have for Moteino. And of course there is 0 (zero) support for anything like that.
I explain in this blog post (http://lowpowerlab.com/blog/2014/09/18/moteino-framework-architecture-decisions/) why such transmitters don't fit the Moteino framework vision.
Chinese crap is for those who don't value their time and have no interest in reliability and reproducibility.
Expecting somebody to support buying a cheaper version of their product and interfacing with it is, frankly, insane.
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Quote from: Felix on March 06, 2015, 01:01:09 PM
Cheap is not a word I like very much, because it's usually used by people who brag about Moteino being expensive.
Personally I would dislike seeing those "cheap" transmitters used on Moteinos, usually it spoils the brand and vision I have for Moteino. And of course there is 0 (zero) support for anything like that.
I explain in this blog post (http://lowpowerlab.com/blog/2014/09/18/moteino-framework-architecture-decisions/) why such transmitters don't fit the Moteino framework vision.
Right, not on Moteino but along side. I still use and love the Moteino but if I'm going to deploy 50+ transmitting nodes only it's hard to spend $16 per node so I was just wondering if they could easily communicate with the moteino using other RF devices. I read the post which makes sense especially the spending time coding vs fighting the hardware fight. Thanks.
They are usually ASK/OOK so no they can't really communicate with my RFM69 lib.