Seeking controller for 433MHz, LightwaveRF, etc.

[doh]

I'm soon going to be getting some LightwaveRF switches for a new extension, and I also want to use some other stuff like a HomeEasy outdoor light sensor.

What's my best option for Hub/controller? LightwaveRF Link Plus? Self-built RFlink? RFXtrx?

I run Domoticz on a Pi3 at present.

If self-built, any links to good HOWTO's?

Thanks

[Dave21w]

If your looking at LightwaveRF Gen 2 product which has 2 way comms then I believe at present you are stuck with their controller, if it's Gen 1 stuff then unless you are familiar with building electronic projects I'd go for one of the RFXCOM products, they are a proven design pretty much guranteed to work out of the box.

I've seen a fair few examples of people building an RFlink using jumper wires and plug in breadboard which is really NOT the way to be connecting RF devices up even for prototyping, even if your lucky enough to get it working that way the performance will be very poor.

Personally I use the RFXtrx433XL as this has double the memory capacity to support new firmware updates for when new devices become available and get added to the supported list.

Dave

[MikeF]

I've seen a fair few examples of people building an RFlink using jumper wires and plug in breadboard which is really NOT the way to be connecting RF devices up even for prototyping, even if your lucky enough to get it working that way the performance will be very poor.

Or you could use this:

from https://www.nodo-shop.nl/en/21-rflink-gateway

The RFLink website http://www.rflink.nl/blog2/devlist gives a very comprehensive list of supported devices.