@Icesory one last question about the protocols: what will happen, if the impulseCount is correct, but the protocoll will not be able to decode a proper temperatur, humidity and so on? Will it display a debug log with strange values or will it discard the signal and wait for a good one? So if there is an error in my decoding what would happen.
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receiving an 433Mhz weather station
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Hello everybody,
after some days of I returned to my project with fresh mind. First of all: my protocoll is running fine now. I read the correct temp and humidity. Channel is also ok, only lowBattery seems to have problems. I will try to solve this later having a look at the signals when using a laboratory power suply to change voltages. For now my biggest problem is the range of my receiver. I bought some of these http://www.ebay.de/itm/111536307652.
When at a distance of few centimeters I can read the signals. I also added an 18cm straight antenne, increasing my range to increadible 10-15cm.
The 433mhz kit in the http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/253/where-do-you-buy-your-hardware is not shipped to germany and is quite expansive in comparison to mine. Does anyone have a good idea to increase the range of my receiver or can recommend a cheap new receiver?Best regards,
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@Anduril lenght wave for 433mhz is 69cm. Quarter - 17cm.
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Your receiver is crap. Had this one too but was not able to receive more than within a range of 50 cm. I even tried different antennas but they got no better reception at all.
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Thank you @leader21, that was the solution. I bought a 3400rf and now have no problems receiving my sensors. I even get one of my neighbors weather station.
Now that my hardware and protocol is running I am curious if it’s possible to add it to the official list. Otherwise my protocol is deleted with every update of homeduino as happened few days ago. I read in the thread http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/458/personnal-protocol-after-update that its possible. Could you please explain it to me? -
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nice to hear!!
regarding your hardware protocol you’ll have to create a pull request on git https://github.com/pimatic/rfcontroljsif you need more details @icesory can help.
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ok I tried, but don’t know how to do that
Maybe @Icesory can help: I installed GitHub for Windows and cloned the rfcontroljs project. Than I added my protocol, but don’t know how to create a pull request. When using the butten on the right it says source and destination are the same…do I have to create a branch first? -
@Anduril btw. Just wanted to add that the transmitter from the package you bought from ebay works very well. It’s just the receiver which is pretty bad - I only managed a maximum to get reach of 2 meters with the receiver
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As far as I know you need to fork the repository first. Then add your protocol and create the pull request.
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seems that windows github is not perfect… Didn’t found the options to fork…
did the pull request using the browser now. Thanks for your help @leader21