Long-range contact sensor for mailbox

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I got Lora working with hubitat.. interfaced using a MonaLisa Zigbee board. Discussed over on this thread...

Thingshield replacement for arduino over zigbee now available for hubitat

I just got a nice little extension working. I've used a couple cheap (~$10) E32 LoRa UART modules to send serial commands to/from the MonaLisa over LoRa (which then of course go to/from the smart hub). So you can send a command from a distant (3km in theory!) LoRa node, to a LoRa node hooked up to the MonaLisa, which then gets relayed to the hub. And you can send a command from the hub to MonaLisa, which is passed to the connected LoRa node, which then gets relayed to the distant LoRa node. I'v…