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Radio multimaster communications bus system for Arduino

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Half or more of the comments are critical

1 positive, 2 neutral or mixed, 3 critical. Score -0.10

LikedGood range, 200 meters through walls, and data rate compared to VirtualWire

ObjectedCode initially lacked a license permitting others to use it

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Shown by gioscarab on Oct 11, 2015. Click the card to turn it over.

27points

13comments

#988of 2,565 in 2015

Top 39%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.

Docs: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against

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Good range, 200 meters through walls, and data rate compared to VirtualWire
From 1 comment
- Thank you for your feedback. I agree with you that it has lower overhead. I also have really great results in terms of range (200 meters through walls and buildings) and data…
  gioscarab on HN
Thanks for open sourcing the code
From 1 comment
- Thank you for putting your code out there as open source!
  detaro on HN

Code initially lacked a license permitting others to use it
From 2 comments
- Your code seems to be missing a license that actually allows @virtualSantai to test it ;)
  detaro on HN
- It only affirms that you have all the rights on the code and that you are not liable if someone does something with it. What's missing is the part that actually gives other…
  detaro on HN
BSD3 license text lacked the redistribution grant
From 1 comment
- EDIT: thanks for looking into it and changing it! BSD contains the magic line: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted…
  detaro on HN

Tests in complex multi-device setups
From 1 comment
- Hi! My seuggestion is to start with the simplex mode, and then go forward testing with half-duplex (see readme). In any case I would be happy to see you testing it in a complex…
  gioscarab on HN

Which antennas are used with the radio modules
From 1 comment
- You speak a lot about VirtualWire, this is no longer used. It was been replaced with RadioHead. There are no significant feature differences, afaik. I'll try this out tomorrow,…
  virtualSatai on HN