Aaron Parecki

whoops! Yeah you can be sure I am going to photograph the crap out of every wall in the new house! The contractor normally does it himself but he was like "I know you'll do a better job of documenting this than I will" 😅

Update: The LoRa sensor has no trouble at all with the range, but it's still touchy when the transmitter is inside the mailbox.

If it's in exactly the right spot it works, but not when the transmitter is where I actually want to mount it on the side.

The one I found has the transmitter box with a breakout cable to the contact sensors, so I was able to run the wire for the contact sensors to the door flap and stick the transmitter on the underside outside of the box. Now it works great!

Right now the closest distance to any power is 80ft. I did just stick a repeater on the outside wall up high with more or less direct line of sight, but I think it takes a while for the network to sync up so I will have to check on it again tomorrow to see if it's found it.

but I wanna know exactly when the mail is delivered!

That's legit!

I'll update my thread once the part arrives

haha thanks! I'm mostly doing this just so I have a record on my website of all the random home automation things I'm setting up