AVR controlled RF light switches
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Although the Cheapest ever 433 Mhz transceiver for PCs still functions in all its ugliness, there are some things left to be desired in this solution. Particularly, the system needs a PC or Beaglebone/Raspi running for control of the light switches.
I'd like the simpler devices in my home to communicate with each other with only optionally a more initelligent controller in between. I'm working on a "multi-media" bus protocol for my devices (working title: ThingBus) that would work on TCP/IP, UDP, serial ports and through cheap NRF24L01+ transceivers. As a first use case I'm now trying to control the RF switches from an AVR that will listen to NRF24L01+ messages.
It would be silly to have the AVR store the audio samples that were created in the 433Mhz transceiver solution. We need to somehow describe the protocol in a more compact way. This page describes that way.