So I previously mentioned the UniMote idea: one sketch to rule them all. Serial and RF control, reconfiguration, and polling of nodes, remote and local. I recently updated the post:
https://lowpowerlab.com/forum/index.php?topic=628.0
Blurged about it here: http://www.cupidcontrols.com/2015/03/unimote-v2-read-all-the-rf-things/ (http://www.cupidcontrols.com/2015/03/unimote-v2-read-all-the-rf-things/)
More important, I created a web UI for sending commands to motes. When setting up a network of nodes for multiple IO configurations, all I have to is pop on the the UI from my gateway.
In the screen cap below, you can see I'm sending a command to node 10, telling it to report its config parameters back to node 1 (the gateway).
Link here: http://www.cupidcontrols.com/2015/03/rf-mote-web-ui-program-all-the-rf-things/ (http://www.cupidcontrols.com/2015/03/rf-mote-web-ui-program-all-the-rf-things/)
Pic:(http://www.cupidcontrols.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/terminalui_small.png)