homeduino + arduino nano + 433 receiver not picking up short buttonpresses

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Hello there,

This pimatic project has truly revived a latent hobby spirit. This is really amazing stuff!

I do however run into a small issue on my homeduino setup with superhet 433 receiver. I have an arduino nano connected, and yes it works quite well apart from the following:

Pimatic receives normal and long button presses from Kika switches loud and clear, also from quite a distance. But a short tap on the switch, will turn on the light too, but pimatic does not see it. It is not quick enough in detecting a relevant signal in some way. We at home have the habit of tapping the switch, when that is enough. What could I finetune to get it to see those as well?

On a sidenote, I have programmed the nano from my regular PC running Linux 64 bit. Could that make a difference?

@Woodhousezb said:

On a sidenote, I have programmed the nano from my regular PC running Linux 64 bit. Could that make a difference?

Shouldn’t make a different. Which receiver do you use exactly? homeduino / rfconrol needs a minimum of 3 repeated messages to detect a button press. There is currently no other tuning possible then using a better receiver.

@sweetpi said:

Shouldn’t make a different. Which receiver do you use exactly? homeduino / rfconrol needs a minimum of 3 repeated messages to detect a button press. There is currently no other tuning possible then using a better receiver.

Could it be a characteristic of the transmitter (the kika manual switch) ? to send less than 3 messages upon a short buttonpress? In that case it looks like it can not be solved right now… I noticed that with a number of switches a short buttonpress is registered. For a few others it is not. That includes regular kika wall switches and simple handheld remotes.

I have this reciever:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281169560721?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

with a 17 cm wire attached

@Woodhousezb I do have the same problem and found your post trying to find a solution.

I do have the same receiver and use it directly onto a Raspberry pi 2 and two kika AWST-8800 wall switches both just 2 meters away one click is not enough. I need to click and hold it 3-4 seconds.

http://www.klikaanklikuit.nl/advies/productwijzer/productwijzer-awst-8800/

It’s not very convenient…