Re: Starting out

Posted by Peter on
URL: http://ohs.356.s1.nabble.com/Starting-out-tp176p179.html

Thanks for answering so fast.

What l would like to do is have a self contained alarm system,  but also have the ability to use the PIRs and contact sensors in a relatively simple hub such as Hubitat or Smartthings, I could then use them to control lights etc.

The reason why l was interested in I2C was that if the GW has the ability to add more sensors to it I would prefer that, as I thought the Small and simple I2C chip would use much less power and if right next to the Gw the simplest to implement as it needs no firmware.

I would also prefer to not also have a raspberry pi or something similar running all the time to have an MQTT broker running, so could your gateway communicate without broker.