homeduino on arduino mega (wired sensors)

sweebee

I’m busy with a project where i wanna use pimatic. I need 36 led lights controlled by pimatic. These leds are in a plastic box with the raspberry. I’m using mysensors with the RFM69HW for maximum range.

Now i want to use homeduino for sensors attached to homeduino (wired).

Can i flash homeduino to the arduino mega? And can i use the large amount of outputs?

leader21

@sweebee
yes, you can use the mega! just change the board tag at the Makefile to mega2560 and flash the nano with sudo make upload as usual.
and yes, you can use all outputs. there have been other users who faced the same issue (remember a project with many relais to be switched …)

here has been a threat with the same question
https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/1049/more-io-port-for-wired-automation-needed/

maybe the pimatic-johnny-five plugin could also be an option?!

sweebee

Thanks, enough possibilities

mwittig

@leader21 said:

maybe the pimatic-johnny-five plugin could also be an option?!

Well, if it is basic I/O stuff I think pimatic-homeduino is a good choice. I think pimatic-johnny-five comes into play if you need more flexibility regarding supported boards and sensors&actuators.