easySwitchBox

The long-range LoRa® wall switch powered by coin cells and the Arduino IDE

Oct 31, 2019

Shipping Soon & Another Successful Battery Test

Items have arrived at Crowd Supply and they are being processed for shipment. Please check your shipping address in your Crowd Supply account order details, and update it if necessary. The new ship date set November 25th. Read the full update.


Sep 04, 2019

Busy August: PCB Delivery, Components Arrived, Some Delays

We have received the components from Mouser, and all of the finished PCBs. This update features some issues we ran into with production, but also some bonus items for backers and a live battery survival test. Read the full update.


Aug 07, 2019

RFM95 Battery Survival Test

We decided to test the battery life of the easySwitchBox RFM95 battery. You can check out the live feed and recorded results here. Read the full update.


Jul 31, 2019

We are Funded!

Thanks to your pledges, the campaign raised over $3,000 USD. This is great news, and means we are ramping up toward manufacturing... Read the full update.


Jul 23, 2019

Open Source Software Setup & Funding Goal Adjustment

Thank you very much for backing our campaign. We have decided to lower our funding goal to $3,000 USD. This update explains further, and also covers why we love RFM69\LoRa radios and Arduino compatible processors from Microchip! Read the full update.


Jul 02, 2019

Extended deadline and new pledge options!

We have decided to extend the campaign until July 26th, and we added more pledge levels! Read the full update.


Jul 01, 2019

Play with LoRa modem settings

In this update, we'll explore a recent test we performed while trying to find the optimum modem settings for the ratio: battery life vs. time in the air and distance. We tested different combinations of SF, CR and Bandwidth. Read the full update.


Jun 07, 2019

Antenna Efficiency Tuning

The number one challenge for compact radio-controlled device creation is PCB antenna efficiency tuning. Read the full update.


May 31, 2019

We're Live!

The easySwitchBox campaign is live! easySwitchBox does one simple thing – send on\off signals to any relay or actuator, or really trigger any event wirelessly and from a distance. Learn more... Read the full update.

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