Anyone willing/able to sell the hardware ready for usage

[foobar270]

Hi,

this project looks very promising... however I lack the soldering skills etc.
Is there any chance of buying ready-to-use module that I can connect to a raspberry PI?

Many thanks for any volunteers.
M.

[BenediktSeidl]

If soldering is the only problem: You don't really need it: just cut a short patch cable and search for the following wires:

wire number	color (wire number is more important!)	RS485 function
3	white/green	A-
6	green	B+
1	white/orange	GND

there are two different standards for the colors of a patch cable, so be sure to check with the numbers!

you can use a cat6 coupling to plug you cable between the powerrouter and the sensor and connect the open lines to a rs485 receiver.

you may use a usb rs485 dongle and connect the wires to the dongle. I'm currently using a similar setup as I have not finish the hardware yet, but have some problems with the rs485 usb dongle, it does not receive any data after some hours. Haven't time to debug this yet, I hope it's a problem of the cheap dongle...