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ThomasB

As mentioned, starting with the ESP_Easy_mega_20201102 the PWM command will need the Switch input - Switch plugin to be installed. This may change again, but for now that's the new requirement. See this: https://github.com/letscontrolit/ESPEasy/issues/3361 But something odd is going on. I just insta...

ThomasB

I found useful information on the soil sensor. It's also a Tindie sold item (by April Brother). It is open source, so of course that means it is available from several China based suppliers too. See these links: Main Supplier (April Brother, China) Catalog Page: https://www.tindie.com/products/aprbr...

ThomasB

I've ordered memory chips to upgrade the ESP-01 to 4M, but I don't think any of the current 4M firmwares support "Serial MCU controlled switch". After the Flash upgrade install a recent Mega 4MB "Testing" release. Then use the device plugin named Serial MCU Controlled Switch . E...

ThomasB

I'll add a some more things to do: 1. Reduce sensor's wire length. For testing, keep it very short (under 8cm). After it is confirmed working you can attempt to increase wire length. 2. Confirm the SDA and SCL pullup resistors values are appropriate. 4.7K ohms is typical if wire length is reasonable...

ThomasB

Your board measures moisture, temperature, and humidity. Which of these things is important to you? Keep in mind that the TMP112 is a temperature sensor. The other measurements come from other sensors. Creating the plugin would require a lot more information. It will help if you posted a schematic. ...

ThomasB

I looked at the P047 plugin and it appears to be written specifically for a moisture / light / Temperature sensor sold on Tindie. This one: https://www.tindie.com/products/miceuz/i2c-soil-moisture-sensor/ From the product photo it appears it uses a 14-Pin microcontroller for the I2C access. But you ...

ThomasB

I don't advise using the Connection Failure Threshold feature. Otherwise plan on experiencing random reboots that will occur from it during normal use. Instead, use rules as suggested by TD-er.

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ThomasB

You're using old firmware, so my go-to advice is to upgrade to the latest Mega release. Unfortunately this solution requires that you compile the firmware yourself. The ESP-01's 1MB flash is the main reason for this. If you had a 4MB Flash then I would suggest trying the latest [Testing] bin. If you...

ThomasB

How can that MQTT message trigger the RelayOn/Off event? How does OpenHAB do it? My OH2 ".items" file defines the MQTT send/receive actions. For example, here is one that controls AC power (RelayOn and RelayOff) on my 3D printer's ESPEasy node: Switch daVinci_AC "daVinci Relay AC&quo...

ThomasB

The log shows inf but the devices displays 0, neither can be used in a formula for some reason The infinite ("inf") value might be due to a divide-by-zero error. Your Watts formula could be causing this. For example, when %value% = 0 there is a divide-by-zero condition. Reference your for...

ThomasB

Have you tried out ESPEasy's built-in dashboard? Using a recent Mega release, browse this URL: http://DEVICE_IP/dashboard.esp You can also create your own custom HTML page and save it to the SPIFF file system. For example, I use ESPEasy to access my 3D printer. I wrote some html that exposes the dat...

ThomasB

You didn't say which ESPEasy version you're running. That's usually an important thing to know. - unit 0 in the network is the master, and {snip} I believe unit 0 (and 255 ) numbering should be avoided. Anything in between those values is OK. I found with ESPEasy builds post 2018 wifi got more unsta...

ThomasB

There's a command to clear a pulse counter task. Syntax is as follows: resetpulsecounter ,taskindex Here is an untested rule file example that should clear either wattage counter if it hasn't changed value in 30 seconds: On House-Power#Watts do // New watts count, prolong timeount. timerSet,1,30 end...

ThomasB

ThomasB

Thank you for the warm welcome. I plan to enroll in a 12-step recovery program to help tame my ESPEasy addiction issues.

Fingers are crossed that my email notification problem is an easy fix.

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ThomasB

saved by rules, it turns into AP for configuration, correct? Correct. Basically you are entering dummy values. This ensures that the old local WiFi router is unreachable. So during reboot the WiFi STA connect fails and ESPEasy enables AP mode. BTW, even if you skip resetting these WiFi settings, wh...

ThomasB

Hello, My name is Thomas and I live in the USA. Sorry for the late intro since I'm not a new user. But I have a new problem with the forum. Since late October (approx Oct-26-2020) I stopped receiving email notifications to my forum subscriptions. The "Notifications" alert within the forum ...

ThomasB

is't possible to send, fron Node-red on RPI4 to the NodeMCU with ESP-Easy Mega a command to read the state of the GPIO13 (switch) at that time and get the answer ? I suggest adding a custom event rule like this one: on GetDoorState do Publish %sysname%/Garage/Etat,[Garage#Etat] endon This rule can ...

ThomasB

I suggest deleting the SW2 (task #2) and perform its 60 second send interval using rules (as mentioned by TD-er). Here is a Rule example to perform a periodic (60 sec timer interval) Garage Door update: on System#Boot do timerSet,1,60 endon on Rules#Timer=1 do timerSet,1,60 Publish %sysname%/Garage/...

ThomasB

Maybe you can give me a quick example of how to do that with Events. That would be helpful. The general idea is to stop using the "Switch input - Switch" as an GPIO output device, which is what your relay task is doing. This was a convenient thing to do in ESPEasy, but is now forbidden. I...

ThomasB

@asuz: Good to know you found what you needed. BTW, the log message you show is for IR SEND's data, whereas you were asking about converting the data from IR RECV.

@TD-er: Oh, new feature. Appears to be hot and fresh out of the oven. Thanks for adding it (and for documenting it too).

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ThomasB

so how can i transform that value to the hex data to send it with my nodemcu's ir transmitter? ESPeasy has a string transform function (strtol). But it converts any base value to decimal, not the other way around. I suggest using an online decimal-to-hex convertor to determine the equivalent hex va...

ThomasB

In addition to the other comments, I've heard reports of users experiencing your DHT22 latch-up (non-response) problem. For example, see this discussion: https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=432544.0 That discussion mentions that measurements faster than two second intervals might invite the pro...

ThomasB

Could someone tell me what kind of signal I should see on the gpio The one-wire communication will occur only during a device measurement (example: when a read is requested). So seeing the brief data transmission is best done with a digital o-scope or logic analyzer. I even tried to put the signal ...

ThomasB

Along with other changes to the P001 plugin, InputSwitchStates was removed in the 2020-11-02 release. Perhaps your rules could be rewritten to use events to control the relay. Otherwise the best place to ask on a recommended workaround is in the github issue #2778 that removed that function. See: ht...

ThomasB

Congrats on getting WOL to work with your Fritzbox. Thank you for taking the time to test the ESPEasy WOL plugin. Official Release: The plugin is available in the repository. I expect it will be included in the next ESPEasy Mega firmware (bin files) release. Beta Testers: Due to the plugin's renumbe...

ThomasB

Yup, some TLC might be needed. I also found that the Plugin_004_DS_write_bit() does not follow the DS18B20 datasheet when it writes a logic high bit. The datasheet says that the bus should use the resistor pullup for logic high states. But the write_bit function is **driving** the high state using d...

ThomasB

Maybe there is more to the story behind the Dallas NAN values. The finger is usually pointed to sketchy (non-genuine) DS18B20 chips from China. But maybe it's not always the chips' fault? For example, I noticed in the P004 and P080 Dallas Plugins that the ESP8266's interrupts remain enabled. I expec...

ThomasB

Does this sound about right to only build with the controllers & plug-ins I want?

Yes, your general workflow sounds legit.

BTW, "USES_P026" is needed to add the System Info plugin.

- Thomas

ThomasB

I used this Sonoff Basic R2 and looked on the chip which is a ESP8266EX. The Sonoff Basic R2 with ESP8266 chip hardware configuration has experienced connection problems when some releases of EPSEasy are used. So far the only reliable solution is to avoid using this Sonoff module with the ESPEasy M...

ThomasB

When the ESP is restarted, for some reason, a sensor trigger signal occurs.

I suggest using a much longer debounce time.

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ThomasB

PC Win10 connected to Fritzbox by Wlan That might be the problem. The Fritzbox instruction manual states that the WOL device must be connected to a LAN port. General Info: If the chosen WOL IP address is already in-use some routers will not broadcast the WOL magic packet. You may need to use a diff...

ThomasB

Another option to reduce GPIO:
Serial MCU controlled relay, viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3245

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ThomasB

Thomas, you can use Plugin ID 101.

Thanks, I'll use 101.

Edit: See PR #3328, https://github.com/letscontrolit/ESPEasy/pull/3328

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ThomasB

Since it cannot be known if the server is already awake, it would be useful to have sendToHttp with acknowledge and a configurable timeout.

You could use the ping plugin. It is available in the test builds if you want to experiment with it.

- Thomas

ThomasB

@wiredcharlie, You're welcome. Thank you for trying it out. @Wiki, I'm looking forward to your feedback. @TD-er, After I prepare the readthedocs rst file I'll submit a PR for the new plugin. I temporarily assigned it P248. For the official PR, what plugin number would you prefer I use? BTW, the plug...

ThomasB

If you don't mind soldering three wires then consider adding a PIR module to a ESPEasy compatible device:
https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/PIR_Sensor

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ThomasB

@wiredcharlie, thanks for confirming the WOL plugin is working. Here's the minimal_IRext_ESP8266_4M1M firmware build you requested:

ESP_Easy_mega_20201017_minimal_IRext_ESP8266_4M1M.zip: (545.03 KiB) Downloaded 428 times

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ThomasB

Attached is the bin. It's a _test_ESP8266_4M1M_VCC build. BTW, Nextion is included in _test_ releases. The plugin's name is: Communication - Wake On LAN [Testing] Some tips: 1. When you first add the WOL task device, blank fields will be automatically populated with default values if you leave them ...

ThomasB

@Wiki, thanks volunteering. Let me know what ESPEasy device you have (or give me the name of the bin file you're currently using) and I'll provide ready-to-run compiled firmware. For validation I used a WIN10 PC. I had to enable WOL in the PC bios and configure the WIN10 power settings on its Ethern...

ThomasB

Before getting official with a PR it would be nice to have at least one interested user try it out. @wiredcharlie, are you still around?

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ThomasB

The Wake-On-LAN plugin is working on my Wemos 4MB device. That is to say, the Wemos can wake up a sleeping PC via its Ethernet connection. Now looking for beta users to try it out.

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ThomasB

Are the (optional) parameters in such order that only the last parameters can be omitted? That is Correct. BTW, the Plugin's user default IP and Port settings aren't expected to change after they are setup to work on the user's router. So an ESPEasy device that wakeups several different MAC's would...

ThomasB

Looks like such a plugin may need an external library, like this one: https://github.com/a7md0/WakeOnLan @TD-er, I started coding the plugin last night using a7md0 's WOL library. Here's a view of the Device page: wakeOnLan.jpg The basic concept: Installations that only need to WOL one MAC can use ...

ThomasB

WOL seems like a useful thing to add to ESPEasy. Do you need help creating a plugin?

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ThomasB

I'm using OH 2.4 with ESPEasy. I don't have any issues. I think my success is because I never directly control GPIO. Instead, I use events and have the GPIO controlled in ESPEasy rules. For example, here is a OH item for one of my GPIO controlled devices: Switch Attic_AC "Attic Relay AC" <...

ThomasB

I suggest updating to the latest Mega release. No promises, but it might solve your problem.

- Thomas

ThomasB

I have configured the serial server but I get all the events that the console brings up ...

I suspect you already tried it, but I suggest turning off the Serial log.
Tools-->Advanced-->LogSettings

That's the typical solution for suppressing common serial log messages.

- Thomas

ThomasB

Rules.... not enough space as i have to set all 16 pin states for each of the 31 "MAP" values. You can create a short general purpose event rule that avoids hard coding 31 MAP values. Here is an example: on MCPport16 do logentry,"The 16-bit port pattern is %eventvalue1%" MCPGPIO...

ThomasB

Use a build with "test" in the name. For example,
ESP_Easy_mega_20200929_test_ESP8266_4M1M_VCC.bin

- Thomas

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