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Hey all,

I am currently working on an IoT project and I want to implement a low power RF protocol using TI CC1101 RF transceivers. My nodes will be battery powered devices and my gateway will be a NodeMCU.

I have managed to communicate with a node via CC1101 (using the NodeMCU's SPI module), however simple transactions are not enough and I think it will take less time to implement an existing protocol rather than creating my own protocol.

PanStamp has a great little protocol called SWAP and it has its Arduino libraries (in C++). I was wondering if it is possible to create my own Lua module by adding some code to this C++ library and then build it using Docker. Is there a documentation about creating new Lua modules? Has anybody done something like this and recommend a place to get started?

Regards,
Bora

My out of date FAQ before has some useful links on Lua, etc . Debugging C on the ESP is a bitch. So it's worth trying to build a simple extension on a standard Lua build first as gdb works here and this makes life a lot easier. Any complex algo stuff and I first develop as much as I can on my Linux laptop before potting to nodeMCU. Also look at some of the modules in the firmware's app/modules dir.

If you are going battery power then you are also going to have to read up on deep sleep mode.

Thanks Terry, I've checked the FAQ and I am currently trying to register some modules to the firmware. Since the library I want to implement is in C++, I am trying to add a simple cpp file. I've made some changes in the main makefile so that it compiles .cpp files and it built with no errors, however when I add



to the user_modules.h header, esptool.py gives this error:



I wonder if anybody else tried adding C++ files to the firmware?