rtl_433_ESP VS RadioLib

Lilygo LORA + OpenMQTTGateway is the way. See https://hackaday.com/2023/01/13/arduino-library-brings-rtl_433-to-the-esp32/ and https://github.com/NorthernMan54/rtl_433_ESP

And this is my iot project https://github.com/NorthernMan54/rtl_433_ESP

Ie https://github.com/NorthernMan54/rtl_433_ESP/blob/master/example/OOK_Receiver/platformio.ini

Hi Insteon friends, I started to work on this in fear that this day might come and actually got decoding of Insteon rf packets working on an ESP32+CC1101. NorthernMan54 has ported rtl_433 to the ESP32 here: https://github.com/NorthernMan54/rtl_433_ESP, however due to limited memory on the ESP32 I had to merge in changes to some of the methods from https://github.com/obones/rtl_433. All of that said, the range of the CC1101 is really short so probably not a viable option (I know very little about RF, so maybe someone can optimize that?). After that I went down the path of using an RFM69HCW which should have better range and using RadioLib https://github.com/jgromes/RadioLib but ran out of time to dedicate to it. Hopefully someone with more RF knowledge can make this a reality. Happy to upload the code that I used for the CC1101.

A little googling sent be back to reddit, where I find u/NorthernMan5 is porting rtl_433 to ESP32. https://github.com/NorthernMan54/rtl_433_ESP

I thought I would share a little something I have been working on over the last few months, porting of the rtl_433 code base to run on a ESP32 device with CC1101 RF Transceiver module. Details of the library are here https://github.com/NorthernMan54/rtl_433_ESP

I don’t actually think this is true. The flipper uses a CC1101 for sub-ghz and this library looks to have implemented APRS with it. https://github.com/jgromes/RadioLib

I hooked up the radios to some microcontrollers and used this Arduino library along with some other custom code.

Hi Insteon friends, I started to work on this in fear that this day might come and actually got decoding of Insteon rf packets working on an ESP32+CC1101. NorthernMan54 has ported rtl_433 to the ESP32 here: https://github.com/NorthernMan54/rtl_433_ESP, however due to limited memory on the ESP32 I had to merge in changes to some of the methods from https://github.com/obones/rtl_433. All of that said, the range of the CC1101 is really short so probably not a viable option (I know very little about RF, so maybe someone can optimize that?). After that I went down the path of using an RFM69HCW which should have better range and using RadioLib https://github.com/jgromes/RadioLib but ran out of time to dedicate to it. Hopefully someone with more RF knowledge can make this a reality. Happy to upload the code that I used for the CC1101.

Your network, your rules. You can use whatever radio parameters you want, and you can use a frequency not used by popular LoRaWAN networks.TTN does not use great parameters for long range anyway. I use https://github.com/sandeepmistry/arduino-LoRa library its easy enough to use and understand. https://github.com/jgromes/RadioLib is good but a bit more complex to implement.

Radiolib seems to used by mature projects I have looked at - Meshtastic for example. The author added tentative support for Pico, although he doesn't have hardware see here: https://github.com/jgromes/RadioLib/issues/361