I think ESP-NOW is a great alternative to Zigbee for DIY projects, as it uses ESPs and is easy to work with. I planned a couple of future projects that use ESP-NOW and LoRa, so I hope you're as excited about future projects as I am. Congrats to our previous video giveaway winner, ⭐@francescoatria1086⭐ And thank you all for your support!
Thank you for doing these giveaways. This is an exciting project. I’ve been looking to implement Lora into my home assistant integration for years and ESP now for a while. I’ve also been thinking about esp now for a hot minutes too. I have some long range animal tracking projects, and multiple sensors for my race shop. It would also be great for the HA instance in our race trailer so we can utilize sensors across large race track properties!
@@ChrisS-oo6fl Wow, that's fantastic! I'm thrilled to hear that you enjoyed the video and found it useful. It sounds like you have some incredible projects in the works. CapiBridge will definitely be a great asset for your long-range animal tracking and race shop sensors. Best of luck with your Home Assistant integration and all your future endeavors. Thank you for your support and enthusiasm!
I live on a rural area in Mexico, solar power and rainwater. this project is perfect to show my community the benefits to get technology with local networks, we can automate houses and track pets and cows and our love ones when they go to work in the forest, check rain, water, temperature etc.
Last year, I constructed a water irrigation system for my plants, which includes an ESP32 and sensors for soil, temperature, air pressure, humidity, along with a display and pump. It updates Google Sheets with significant data changes, and I get notifications on my phone when the pump turns on or off. Lately, I've been exploring ways to enhance "the system", and CapiBridge seems to be the perfect solution, as I've considered integrating "the system" with Home Assistant.🖖
@@Emerald13 capacitive soil moisture sensor v2 from Ali on outside plants, but now i got capacitive soil sensor from guys at Soldered ..it's more accurate than aliexpress ones(as it should be for the price😅)
@@PricelessToolkit"Droplet" project is incredibly impressive and far more advanced than mine. The level of detail and functionality you've achieved is inspiring. too bad i found about your channel just recently when i was trying to find out how to make smart coffee machine. could've saved me a lot of trouble with "Droplet"😁
Great build! I switched to ESP-NOW for my battery powered wattmeter in my switchboard. It made a huge difference to battery life and means I can send data more frequently too. The 433MHz addon would be perfect as I don't see many ready made solutions for it, I'd use it to control the 10 ceiling fans in my house
I've been following your channel for a few months and I want to thank you because I'm learning a lot from your videos and your explanations are clear and precise. Thank you a lot
I’m not actually sure what I’ll use it for atm, because I’m fairly new to esphome due to a car crash back in 2014 where I nearly died multiple times and spent 4 months in a coma and nearly a year in hospital! This is now the time to get back into electronics and get better with my hands and eyes again! Good luck everyone 👍🏻
i would love to try this in my car to monitor temperature, battery voltage, current and solar power while im in my apartment, this looks like a perfect fit with home assistent, amazing Technology!
Your latest project is very impressive! I now want to replace my LillyGo :-). I simply get so much joy from the mailbox sensor. Thank you for all the great projects!
I love these kinds of projects. High capacity data transfer between Esp-Now's communication power and other ESP modules and transmission to long distances outside the home. This is exciting.
I'm building a garden watering system, allowing for multiple zones and schedules, with off-line functions so the watering schedule is not impacted by lack of internet. It also has LoRa on the board to allow for longer range where WiFi may not be accessible, meshing to allow for one WiFI station to be the master. Additional sensors will use ESP-Now to feed soil moisture readings, and weather station input. I intended to use Open MQTT Gateway devices to provide a bridge between WiFi and LoRa.
Awesome idea.. it means i’ll be able to connect to my further sensors without relying on the wifi expanders I’ve put up for the connection (witch fails intermittently) and was making me give up… i guess that’s the way to go… 👍👍👍👍
This Hub is exactly what I need for testing my sensors. I’ve made some PCb with 4/5 sensors, and I’m working to integrate ESPNOW and Lora protocols into my home assistant. I’d like migrate all my sensor with normally IEE811 protocol into EspNow and Lora protocols to lower energy consumption of my house. Great work and thank you. PS: I’m working to make a PCB whit Lora Protocol for cresting a Building Automation System for Hospital and Schools.
This is exactly what i need for my outdoor pond sensors. ESP-Now and your adaptation of it will allow experimenter's like my self to push the boundaries of home assistant and diy sensors to new levels and distances. Great work and and thanks
This is exactly what I'm looking for. I want to send my power consumption from my basement to my apartment, but that's a little too long for WiFi. I'm in the process of switching the transmitter to Lorawan or Espnow, but don't have any real plans for a receiver yet. I also built some sensors that measure the moisture of my plants' soil. I would like to switch this to espnow for energy efficiency so the batteries last longer. So I would be very happy about this bridge
I would love to have this to combine some door sensors and get a trigger once someone rings my bell and so on. My crucial factor, the range. LoRa is perfect to get my garages sensors and the front door sensors, espnow would be a great thing to use for my cameras in this combination. Bring everything together is a very comfortable way to do so, especially with reduced power consumption. Especially the size is nice so it can be placed in a good location without much wires hanging around. 💪
LoRa is suitable for long-range communication (300m-1km), but it will spread your signal across the entire neighborhood. For indoor use, ESP-NOW is a very good option.
I'm currently planning a water irrigation system for my parent's greenhouse. This gateway would be really helpful to communicate with different sensors and relays for this project. For the idea of shields, I would also add IR Blaster next to the RF433 shield to replace remotes in the house and control A/C for example through HA. Last but not least I want to thank you for the amazing quality content, building the project itself then shooting everything (with all the different angle shots, etc..) I can't image how much work is behind every video.. at the same time, I can't wait for the next project 😅
Thank you very much! As for the IR, I'm not entirely sure because it needs to be installed in a specific location. However, I have an idea: to create a shield for "WiFi Probe Requests" so you can detect when specific people are approaching the house, with capturing MAC addresses.
What a great project again. And again it comes very handy: I am experimenting with LoRa for some time and I also want to convert my Hydreon RG9 rain sensor to be solar powered. Therefore it would make a lot of sense to change the ESP8266 from WiFi to ESP-NOW to be less energy hungry.
Constructing a miniature fleet of RC vehicles. Some autonomous, relaying telemetry and sensor data, while others will allow telepresence override (you remote in and drive, sense, fly etc) A central hub and link to home assistant is in the plan and today's project just checked many boxes. Thanks
Wow. Just learning and this combo idea seems great. Am excited just to get LoRaWAN working between two locations a mile apart. Adding ESP-NOW is frosting on the cake.
@@PricelessToolkit probably you could extend the code for LoRaWan? There were a lot of commercial sensors available and it would be easy with your gateway to connect them to HomeAssistant
This is actually a great option for a long-range weather station, or in my case, watering sensors and valves for growing plants in my outdoor garden. Nice work another great product !
This is quite a nifty project, I'm just getting into the DIY sensor game, but I can already see use cases for this to extend range along my property! Thanks for a well thought out piece of kit!!
Wow, nice project. I would use this for my aquaponics automation project to simplify my sensor connections through Wifi and Lora. My current stack is HA, MQTT, Node-red, InfluxDB, Grafana
I am currently working on a sensor network for my boat where I will need the following sensors, a water level sensor, several temp sensors, a battery/volt meter sensor, several humidity sensors, and an accelerator/movement sensor, and all this data needs to be sent either to a receiver at my house or in the cloud. I think that the CapiBridge will be perfect for my use case.
I've been trying to build a water tank monitor. I had to give up on solar version since I couldn't manage power consumption and dead battery reboots properly. I thought I was excited for the ESP32-C6 with zigbee but this is far more and usable now. I'm fully onboard
Yep, ESP-NOW is power efficient. I tested my timer-based ESP, and it sent data 3000 times ("sensor name, voltage, door status, and count") and only used 4.5mAh :)
Great combination of technologies.... now you just need to add a mesh type tech like a zigbee radio and you'll have a swiss army knife gateway. This would be great in my case using ESP Now sensors in my house and Lora for some temp sensors I have in remote outbuildings used to monitor temp extremes.
for our non-profit housing estate, i would like to offer wavelength measurements, energy readings and other services to around 250 people from all walks of life. Objective: to improve the ecology of the site, to improve energy management in order to live more ecologically.
I have a mailbox that is far away from my home, and have wanted to connect it with LoRa for a while. I like the idea of this project to make that link easier to create
We are looking at doing a Town Teams road safety project in regional Western Australia utilizing LoRa for data feeds on soil moisture for planter boxes as well as vehicle and pedestrian counters. I am a fan of ESP-NOW and would like to investigate the power usage stats of this in conjunction with LoRa.
I love LoRA and ESP-Now range, and cannot wait to see a gateway that can be connected to Homeassistant. Best would be for me implementing this gateway using generic off the shelf dev boards for quick availability and sustainability. Today I use a couple of Meshtastic devices with MQTT enabled helps me to control Homeassistant devices, I am very happy with it. but having esp-now as well would be perfect.... cheers and thanks for sharing.
Hey, very cool project! Do you know if it would be possible to replace the ESP-NOW Protocol with Zigbee 2.4Ghz as the two are using the same frequency range ? It would be a very good opportunity to control my Philips Hue lights. I just checked and Philips Hue seems to use 2.4Ghz and not 868MHz. Did you also try the range of the 868Mhz LoRa antenna ? Edit: After some research the esp32-c3 is definetely not compatible with 802.15.3 so its not possible... One of the solutions would be to replace the second esp32-c3 with an esp32-c6.
Thanks! ZigBee is not supported. I tested the range in the Mailbox sensor video, which you can see towards the end: th-cam.com/video/gf1WWKyEnbg/w-d-xo.html
Excellent! I've been looking for a cloud-free way to integrate a LoRa based DIY weather station with Home Assistant! Will definitely look into this concept of yours!
I would love to get into LoRa for outdoor sensors, like soil water content, etc. My wife wants to build some raised garden beds and being able to water exactly when needed would be awesome.
Brilliant, great work, was impressed by your Mailbox alerting, but this would bring together all my long range Rat Trap triggered sensors located in a large area of bush ... very interested to follow your progress and would love to Test.
With PoE and the ability to also use it as a Bluetooth-Proxy, this would be a huge game changer. Would love to get my hands on this, but also looking forward to version 2.0!
everyone has WIFI and maybe 5 percent of them has PoE switch. v2 will be with minor changes, but in the list, i have other Gateway project "for remote locations"
@@PricelessToolkit yeah I need it, Gateway project "for remote locations"...!! looking forward to just buy from you. your open-source resources are for future tweak, happy to support u
@@PricelessToolkit these are mature Pinot vines and are sampled at harvest for content to then determine potential micro climate changes for optimizing various end-product (wine) characteristics
I will use this to track data of my beehives. I collect temperature, humidity and weight and sending it via SMS at the moment. Huge overhead to save my data in a database... With the data I can say when it's the best time to harvest the honey or feed my bees. I would love to have one! 😊
@@e2Dy Personally, no, but I found a colleague from work who has many, so I can experiment with it. Interestingly, the main problem is the physical design, which needs to address handling duties, transportation, stacking, and so on. "for 100+ hives"
@@PricelessToolkit Ok that's a lot! I could not imagine to handle more than 10 hives beside my job. A friend welded me a frame for the scale. What metrics will you collect from your implementation?
@@e2Dy Interior: sound level, frequency, hum, temperature, VOCs, and possibly CO2. Exterior: temperature, humidity, light (Lux), and weight. How precisely can you determine the honey weight?
Nice that TH-cam has shown your video on my start page. I really like that. I would like to use it for my garden and some sensors which are to far away for wifi "only".
Build a security number pad using the extra range. If it also can connect Bluetooth using the ESP32 I may expand the project to include a fingerprint sensor and a lock.
Looks amazing, would be great for automating things around the farm instead of 433mhz hat have you considered NRF24 receiver would make it compatible with so many arduino things and they are still long range.
Yes, NRF24 is an option for a shield. However, if I need to make a project, I would rather use ESP32 with ESP-NOW, as it's an all-in-one solution, instead of Arduino with NRF24.
that would be awesome to have to consolidate the 3 different gateways connected to my homeassistant green, that connect LoRa sensors around the property as well as environmental sensors i have for automations for the garden!
Thank you for the video. I wish I can get the board as I want to do a system for a drones control around the house and lora would help to communicate with them and esp would give control over drones parameters.
One question is the payload from lora sensors split up onto different entities? For example if I used a Dragino DDS45-LB/LS Distance Detection Sensor, would there be a 'distance' entity?
If it can send JSON like { "k": "xy", "id": "ESP32", "b": "3.8", "rw": "Test123", "dr": "on" }, where "id" is the name, you will have a device named "ESP32" with a battery level of 3.8V, text "Test123", and door status "open." Note that "k" and "id" are mandatory.
I think ESP-NOW is a great alternative to Zigbee for DIY projects, as it uses ESPs and is easy to work with. I planned a couple of future projects that use ESP-NOW and LoRa, so I hope you're as excited about future projects as I am. Congrats to our previous video giveaway winner, ⭐@francescoatria1086⭐ And thank you all for your support!
Ca you make gateway for MySensors
Thank you for doing these giveaways. This is an exciting project. I’ve been looking to implement Lora into my home assistant integration for years and ESP now for a while. I’ve also been thinking about esp now for a hot minutes too. I have some long range animal tracking projects, and multiple sensors for my race shop. It would also be great for the HA instance in our race trailer so we can utilize sensors across large race track properties!
@@ChrisS-oo6fl Wow, that's fantastic! I'm thrilled to hear that you enjoyed the video and found it useful. It sounds like you have some incredible projects in the works. CapiBridge will definitely be a great asset for your long-range animal tracking and race shop sensors. Best of luck with your Home Assistant integration and all your future endeavors. Thank you for your support and enthusiasm!
I live on a rural area in Mexico, solar power and rainwater. this project is perfect to show my community the benefits to get technology with local networks, we can automate houses and track pets and cows and our love ones when they go to work in the forest, check rain, water, temperature etc.
Nice!
Wish you all the luck! Greetings from NY.
Last year, I constructed a water irrigation system for my plants, which includes an ESP32 and sensors for soil, temperature, air pressure, humidity, along with a display and pump. It updates Google Sheets with significant data changes, and I get notifications on my phone when the pump turns on or off. Lately, I've been exploring ways to enhance "the system", and CapiBridge seems to be the perfect solution, as I've considered integrating "the system" with Home Assistant.🖖
What soil sensors are you using?
Nice project! I have a similar project for Home Assistant "Droplet" github.com/PricelessToolkit/Droplet
@@Emerald13 capacitive soil moisture sensor v2 from Ali on outside plants, but now i got capacitive soil sensor from guys at Soldered ..it's more accurate than aliexpress ones(as it should be for the price😅)
@@PricelessToolkit"Droplet" project is incredibly impressive and far more advanced than mine. The level of detail and functionality you've achieved is inspiring. too bad i found about your channel just recently when i was trying to find out how to make smart coffee machine. could've saved me a lot of trouble with "Droplet"😁
Can you please send me the link to that sensor? I'm currently working on my own design and might need to stop. Thanks! :)
Great build! I switched to ESP-NOW for my battery powered wattmeter in my switchboard. It made a huge difference to battery life and means I can send data more frequently too. The 433MHz addon would be perfect as I don't see many ready made solutions for it, I'd use it to control the 10 ceiling fans in my house
Thank you
This type of gateway seems perfect for communicating with sensors far from the house, in the garden, for example.
yes exactly!
I've been following your channel for a few months and I want to thank you because I'm learning a lot from your videos and your explanations are clear and precise.
Thank you a lot
You are so welcome!
I’m not actually sure what I’ll use it for atm, because I’m fairly new to esphome due to a car crash back in 2014 where I nearly died multiple times and spent 4 months in a coma and nearly a year in hospital! This is now the time to get back into electronics and get better with my hands and eyes again! Good luck everyone 👍🏻
Thank you for sharing your story. I'm glad to hear you're getting back into electronics. Best of luck in the giveaway. Stay strong and keep going!
@@PricelessToolkit no problem 👍🏻 thanks! Yeah got to keep going!!!
Bro Ass-To-Mouth?! WTF?! This is not for that shit! Go tell people about your kinks somewhere else, not here.
i would love to try this in my car to monitor temperature, battery voltage, current and solar power while im in my apartment, this looks like a perfect fit with home assistent, amazing Technology!
Nice idea!
You must be from Arizona😂
Your latest project is very impressive! I now want to replace my LillyGo :-). I simply get so much joy from the mailbox sensor. Thank you for all the great projects!
if you don't plan to use ESP-NOW "projects I working on" there is new multisensor firmware for Lilygo. Check mailbox sensor GitHub.
@@PricelessToolkit Thank you will certainly check it out.
I'm planning to use it to measure soil wetness.
I love these kinds of projects. High capacity data transfer between Esp-Now's communication power and other ESP modules and transmission to long distances outside the home. This is exciting.
thanks!
Great project. I've use the ESP-NOW standard in an emergency button pendant for my elderly father. This is ideal for when he's in the yard gardening.
That's a great idea! thank you!!
I'm building a garden watering system, allowing for multiple zones and schedules, with off-line functions so the watering schedule is not impacted by lack of internet. It also has LoRa on the board to allow for longer range where WiFi may not be accessible, meshing to allow for one WiFI station to be the master. Additional sensors will use ESP-Now to feed soil moisture readings, and weather station input. I intended to use Open MQTT Gateway devices to provide a bridge between WiFi and LoRa.
Sounds complicated but nice project!
i so excited i want to make this type of gateway but failed to get that much of power effeciency its too amazing .
Gateway is not power efficient, and sensors are
Just come across your channel blown away by the quality especially for your size, fantastic work!
Thank you very much!!!!!
I will use that to monitor entry to doors on cottage, mailbox, etc...
Good luck
Awesome idea.. it means i’ll be able to connect to my further sensors without relying on the wifi expanders I’ve put up for the connection (witch fails intermittently) and was making me give up… i guess that’s the way to go… 👍👍👍👍
Thank you!
This Hub is exactly what I need for testing my sensors. I’ve made some PCb with 4/5 sensors, and I’m working to integrate ESPNOW and Lora protocols into my home assistant. I’d like migrate all my sensor with normally IEE811 protocol into EspNow and Lora protocols to lower energy consumption of my house. Great work and thank you.
PS: I’m working to make a PCB whit Lora Protocol for cresting a Building Automation System for Hospital and Schools.
I'm glad you find the project useful
This is exactly what i need for my outdoor pond sensors. ESP-Now and your adaptation of it will allow experimenter's like my self to push the boundaries of home assistant and diy sensors to new levels and distances. Great work and and thanks
Thank you!
This is exactly what I'm looking for. I want to send my power consumption from my basement to my apartment, but that's a little too long for WiFi.
I'm in the process of switching the transmitter to Lorawan or Espnow, but don't have any real plans for a receiver yet. I also built some sensors that measure the moisture of my plants' soil. I would like to switch this to espnow for energy efficiency so the batteries last longer. So I would be very happy about this bridge
Good luck!
Use case is integrating Home Assistant to my mailbox at the gate. Very innovative and well thought out project, thank you!
You are welcome!
I would love to have this to combine some door sensors and get a trigger once someone rings my bell and so on. My crucial factor, the range. LoRa is perfect to get my garages sensors and the front door sensors, espnow would be a great thing to use for my cameras in this combination. Bring everything together is a very comfortable way to do so, especially with reduced power consumption. Especially the size is nice so it can be placed in a good location without much wires hanging around. 💪
LoRa is suitable for long-range communication (300m-1km), but it will spread your signal across the entire neighborhood. For indoor use, ESP-NOW is a very good option.
I'm currently planning a water irrigation system for my parent's greenhouse. This gateway would be really helpful to communicate with different sensors and relays for this project.
For the idea of shields, I would also add IR Blaster next to the RF433 shield to replace remotes in the house and control A/C for example through HA.
Last but not least I want to thank you for the amazing quality content, building the project itself then shooting everything (with all the different angle shots, etc..) I can't image how much work is behind every video.. at the same time, I can't wait for the next project 😅
Thank you very much! As for the IR, I'm not entirely sure because it needs to be installed in a specific location. However, I have an idea: to create a shield for "WiFi Probe Requests" so you can detect when specific people are approaching the house, with capturing MAC addresses.
What a great project again. And again it comes very handy: I am experimenting with LoRa for some time and I also want to convert my Hydreon RG9 rain sensor to be solar powered. Therefore it would make a lot of sense to change the ESP8266 from WiFi to ESP-NOW to be less energy hungry.
Thank you!
Constructing a miniature fleet of RC vehicles. Some autonomous, relaying telemetry and sensor data, while others will allow telepresence override (you remote in and drive, sense, fly etc)
A central hub and link to home assistant is in the plan and today's project just checked many boxes.
Thanks
Glad that this project is helpful.
What a really cool idea, thank you very much for the sharing
glad you liked it
Have a dozen projects this would be excellent in!
nice!
I’m excited to use this module to connect to an upcoming project to monitor the water level in the creek behind my house.
wow ok good luck!
Perfect for integrating Home Assistant to my mailbox at the gate. Many thanks for this innovative and well thought out project
Glad it was helpful!
good idea, want that as well
Wow. Just learning and this combo idea seems great. Am excited just to get LoRaWAN working between two locations a mile apart. Adding ESP-NOW is frosting on the cake.
Thank you, but this is not a LoRaWAN. LoRaWAN is a public network.
@@PricelessToolkit probably you could extend the code for LoRaWan? There were a lot of commercial sensors available and it would be easy with your gateway to connect them to HomeAssistant
Yes, it is possible but Why? keeping it local is more valuable.
Very impressed. I think I could use the module to connect to a mailbox sensor at the end of my long driveway.
My main use case is Mailbox sensor and Garage Security
This looks incredibly cool. I'm planning to automate my drip irrigation based off weather/soil moisture sensors.
Sounds great!
This is actually a great option for a long-range weather station, or in my case, watering sensors and valves for growing plants in my outdoor garden. Nice work another great product !
Thank You!
This is quite a nifty project, I'm just getting into the DIY sensor game, but I can already see use cases for this to extend range along my property! Thanks for a well thought out piece of kit!!
Glad I could help!
Wow, nice project. I would use this for my aquaponics automation project to simplify my sensor connections through Wifi and Lora. My current stack is HA, MQTT, Node-red, InfluxDB, Grafana
Thank you!! Sounds great!
Very cool. A gateway is a must have with so many sensors available now.
Thank you!!
I'd use this as an alternative garage door opener since the radio in my existing one is barely working.
capibridge frimware is only one way comunication for now .
I am currently working on a sensor network for my boat where I will need the following sensors, a water level sensor, several temp sensors, a battery/volt meter sensor, several humidity sensors, and an accelerator/movement sensor, and all this data needs to be sent either to a receiver at my house or in the cloud. I think that the CapiBridge will be perfect for my use case.
That sounds like a very cool and interesting project! Best of luck with your project!
I've been trying to build a water tank monitor. I had to give up on solar version since I couldn't manage power consumption and dead battery reboots properly. I thought I was excited for the ESP32-C6 with zigbee but this is far more and usable now. I'm fully onboard
you have some example zigbee code for c6, link ?
@@PricelessToolkit unfortunately no. My skills aren’t high enough to figure it out so I’m compelled to stand on the shoulders of giants like yourself
@@madjetey I'm certainly not a giant; I can only produce shitty code. :)
Using a network of environmental sensors around my house and property would definitely make good use of this!
exactly!
All the sensors in my caravan are ESP, but with power hungry wifi. Moving it to ESPnow would save a lot of power
Yep, ESP-NOW is power efficient. I tested my timer-based ESP, and it sent data 3000 times ("sensor name, voltage, door status, and count") and only used 4.5mAh :)
Great combination of technologies.... now you just need to add a mesh type tech like a zigbee radio and you'll have a swiss army knife gateway. This would be great in my case using ESP Now sensors in my house and Lora for some temp sensors I have in remote outbuildings used to monitor temp extremes.
Thanks, ESP-NOW already has mesh capability just firmware needs some tweaking.
for our non-profit housing estate, i would like to offer wavelength measurements, energy readings and other services to around 250 people from all walks of life. Objective: to improve the ecology of the site, to improve energy management in order to live more ecologically.
This will be great for my mailbox project, it’s far away so neither WiFi nor signed can reach it, and commercial lora solutions aren’t great!
Hi you can diy this github.com/PricelessToolkit/MailBoxGuard
I have a mailbox that is far away from my home, and have wanted to connect it with LoRa for a while. I like the idea of this project to make that link easier to create
Thank you!
Looking forward to using it as a home present, remote present board, Also as tracker for if my Dogs decide to leave the yard.
Nice!
ESP-NOW is very exciting and combined with LoRa would be super.
Thanks
We are looking at doing a Town Teams road safety project in regional Western Australia utilizing LoRa for data feeds on soil moisture for planter boxes as well as vehicle and pedestrian counters. I am a fan of ESP-NOW and would like to investigate the power usage stats of this in conjunction with LoRa.
Wow, it's a complex project!
I'm just getting in to ESPhome and LORA devices so I would have a lot of fun tinkering with this device.
That's awesome! ESPHome and LoRa devices are a lot of fun to work with. Good luck in the giveaway, and happy tinkering!
I love LoRA and ESP-Now range, and cannot wait to see a gateway that can be connected to Homeassistant. Best would be for me implementing this gateway using generic off the shelf dev boards for quick availability and sustainability. Today I use a couple of Meshtastic devices with MQTT enabled helps me to control Homeassistant devices, I am very happy with it. but having esp-now as well would be perfect.... cheers and thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it!!
Sounds like a perfect fit for a distant mailbox sensor!
yep
Hey, very cool project!
Do you know if it would be possible to replace the ESP-NOW Protocol with Zigbee 2.4Ghz as the two are using the same frequency range ? It would be a very good opportunity to control my Philips Hue lights. I just checked and Philips Hue seems to use 2.4Ghz and not 868MHz.
Did you also try the range of the 868Mhz LoRa antenna ?
Edit: After some research the esp32-c3 is definetely not compatible with 802.15.3 so its not possible... One of the solutions would be to replace the second esp32-c3 with an esp32-c6.
Thanks! ZigBee is not supported. I tested the range in the Mailbox sensor video, which you can see towards the end: th-cam.com/video/gf1WWKyEnbg/w-d-xo.html
Looks and feels very nice. But I don't get it fully. Why you need two ESP32 on one board????
One ESP is for Receiving ESP-NOW packets
@@PricelessToolkit and this cannot be done bei one? ESP has 2 cores??
@@martingerhardsoos only on the same wifi frequency
It would be great for my garage door sensor which is outside the reach of wifi range. Your projects are awesome. Thank you.
Good luck!
Excellent! I've been looking for a cloud-free way to integrate a LoRa based DIY weather station with Home Assistant! Will definitely look into this concept of yours!
Thanks!! Glad it was helpful!
nice, already use your mailbox and clicker unit, this will be a great expension thankq
Glad you like it!
a great combination of both tools. i am looking to use it for some projects
Thanks
Such a great idea and design :) Looking forward to using this to see dam water levels. Would love 433 support! Use a LOT of that!
Awesome! Thank you!
I want to use it for my garden for my mosture sensors and temp a humidity!
nice!
Will definitely use this for irrigation systems! Really neat! Good job!
Thank you!!
Looks like a perfect match for my water leak detection system in the crawl space
why not!
This project looks great! It would be an ideal fit for the weather station that I am planning to set up.
Sounds great!
Am excited about LoRa and ESP-NOW Gateway for Home Assistant!
nice
Wow, this is awesome! Well done. The case with the clear cover looks so good.
Thank you!
I would love to get into LoRa for outdoor sensors, like soil water content, etc. My wife wants to build some raised garden beds and being able to water exactly when needed would be awesome.
Sounds great!
what an amazing tool. remote lora sensors for home assistant. brilliant work. garden watering system candidate.
Thank you!
I plan to make a smart house project to make it more efficient and secure.
nice!
Cool gateway. I would like one to use it to measure the water-tank in a rural area in Italy (for a holiday home)
Great idea
Beautiful work! I am starting with esp, i definitively need to learn more to get the most out of it :)
Thank you!
Perfect! I’d live To use this to connect to all sensors on my off grid farm 🎉
That would be cool!
Brilliant, great work, was impressed by your Mailbox alerting, but this would bring together all my long range Rat Trap triggered sensors located in a large area of bush ... very interested to follow your progress and would love to Test.
Thank you very much! 'Rat Trap Triggered Sensors' is something new!!
With PoE and the ability to also use it as a Bluetooth-Proxy, this would be a huge game changer. Would love to get my hands on this, but also looking forward to version 2.0!
everyone has WIFI and maybe 5 percent of them has PoE switch. v2 will be with minor changes, but in the list, i have other Gateway project "for remote locations"
@@PricelessToolkit yeah I need it, Gateway project "for remote locations"...!!
looking forward to just buy from you. your open-source resources are for future tweak, happy to support u
Thank you!!
Nice project! I just was looking how to integrate Lora and EspNOW. Great job, thanks for sharing
Thank you!
Nice idea, want try this in a Mesh Wallbox Network Connection, for Easy installation with only Power needed. Thx for this interessting Produkt.
You are welcome
I’m excited to transition my small grape field from Esp32+Lora based per-vine plant sensor (moisture + temp + sunlight + humidity) to EspNOW-only !
but why every plant has its own sensor ?
@@PricelessToolkit these are mature Pinot vines and are sampled at harvest for content to then determine potential micro climate changes for optimizing various end-product (wine) characteristics
Some serious research, nice!!
I just ordered two of your wireless soil sensors! Would love to use your Capi with them ^_^
Glad you like them!
I think this would work pretty well for monitoring and controlling my greenhouse and garden irigation system
For now, it's one-way communication.
Plan to integrate it into my presence sensors that I made using esp-32’s
yes, why not
I'm looking for LoRa range to support a mailbox sensor.
This looks like a good DIY solution.
CapiBridge already supports my mailbox, it is open source, and you will find all files on GitHub.
Great project! Looking to use it with the LoRa Mailbox Guard and Home Assistant
Sounds great!
Garden watering with sensors collection water barel levels, rainwater and soil water content over a 1000m2 garden.
wow nice big garden!
Can this gateway also be used to control devices over long distances?
With firmware modification yes, but for now, only one-way communication RX.
Amazing project! I will definitely test it in my Smarthome environment.
Thanks
I would use it on a small farm to monitor a water trough using lora.
perfect!
I will use this to track data of my beehives. I collect temperature, humidity and weight and sending it via SMS at the moment. Huge overhead to save my data in a database... With the data I can say when it's the best time to harvest the honey or feed my bees. I would love to have one! 😊
Nice! The Beehive Controller project has been on my list for over two years. I love bees!
@@PricelessToolkit Do you own hives? I was stuck on this project also for two years and just finished it. ^^
@@e2Dy Personally, no, but I found a colleague from work who has many, so I can experiment with it. Interestingly, the main problem is the physical design, which needs to address handling duties, transportation, stacking, and so on. "for 100+ hives"
@@PricelessToolkit Ok that's a lot! I could not imagine to handle more than 10 hives beside my job. A friend welded me a frame for the scale. What metrics will you collect from your implementation?
@@e2Dy Interior: sound level, frequency, hum, temperature, VOCs, and possibly CO2. Exterior: temperature, humidity, light (Lux), and weight. How precisely can you determine the honey weight?
Nice that TH-cam has shown your video on my start page. I really like that. I would like to use it for my garden and some sensors which are to far away for wifi "only".
Sounds great!
I need this kind of Gateway to monitor my garage and solarpower boiler.
good luck!
Build a security number pad using the extra range. If it also can connect Bluetooth using the ESP32 I may expand the project to include a fingerprint sensor and a lock.
"It can support Bluetooth, but it requires firmware modification.
Looks amazing, would be great for automating things around the farm instead of 433mhz hat have you considered NRF24 receiver would make it compatible with so many arduino things and they are still long range.
Yes, NRF24 is an option for a shield. However, if I need to make a project, I would rather use ESP32 with ESP-NOW, as it's an all-in-one solution, instead of Arduino with NRF24.
that would be awesome to have to consolidate the 3 different gateways connected to my homeassistant green, that connect LoRa sensors around the property as well as environmental sensors i have for automations for the garden!
I'm also tired of having different gateways for different sensors, so I designed this gateway to unify all my projects into one.
I have a livestock electric fence monitor project that would use Lora for the range.
like alarm to know when power is off ?
Really nice project! Would be perfect for my planned weather station. I love my Mailbox sensor I bought a very good product!
Thank you! Glad you like it!
This is amazing. I sooo could use this on the farm!
Glad you like it!
Man... upgrade C3 to C6 ... adds thread and zigbee.. becomes all in one.. Nice board! by the way!
Hi, if you do the software part I will upgrade to C6 :)
@@PricelessToolkit Need the hardware to test... Looking for a C6 to try it. Here in Brazil is hard to find newest models of ESP32...
Awesome project man! Wi-Fi extenders for outdoor sensors are no longer needed after something like this.
Thank you!
I think it will be perfect for my garage monitoring
For a garage, ESPHome is more suitable. With it, you can not only monitor but also control the garage door.
I like to show it in my LoRaWAN-book which will be published in autumn 2024 at Rheinwerk-Verlag.
it will be great!!!
Thank you for the video. I wish I can get the board as I want to do a system for a drones control around the house and lora would help to communicate with them and esp would give control over drones parameters.
Thanks for watching, check the "ELRS" it is more suited for that control link + config.
Nice! Would be cool to use for DIY garden bed soil moisture sensors on Solar panel/Battery
One of my upcoming project! :)
One question is the payload from lora sensors split up onto different entities?
For example if I used a Dragino DDS45-LB/LS Distance Detection Sensor, would there be a 'distance' entity?
If it can send JSON like { "k": "xy", "id": "ESP32", "b": "3.8", "rw": "Test123", "dr": "on" }, where "id" is the name, you will have a device named "ESP32" with a battery level of 3.8V, text "Test123", and door status "open." Note that "k" and "id" are mandatory.