DFRobot Beetle DFR0282 & nRF24L01+ Mesh Networking

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I have range tested this indoors at a distance of 60 feet (Base & 1 Node) with no loss of any packets.

Thanks to all for the help and assistance and especially Isaac96 for pointing out a couple issues. I now have a working prototype on the Beetle. With this setup I can realize my dream of a cost effective wireless mesh network for sensing, switching etc. and could even be a viable replacement for my aging X10 hardware. (PS. X10 has declared bankruptcy and you cannot install your licensed software anymore.)

Now I can start concentrating on learning the Mesh24 code...

Thank you to all!

Attached is an image of the completed hookup and some notes.

nRF24L to Beetle Hookup.png
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Wow, all this concentration on the hardware wiring to get this working on the Beetle, range testing is grate so on to coding and guess what? Other than the Base & Node example that's all you get for examples with the Mesh24 library. As a test I was going to put a photo resistor on a node and test sending it's value to the base and can't even figure that out. I may have to switch to the RF24Network library but it doesn't use encryption which really sounded great especially in this current environment. It seems like everything is getting hacked these days. :frowning: