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ewaldharmsen wrote: ↑08 Jan 2018, 18:14 1 question: is there anything changed in rules? I am curious wheter nested commands now work.

Nested commands? please specify what you mean exactly.
I have been using rules that trigger other events in turn, so if that is what you mean: yes, it works.

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I just installed esp easy mega latest version instead of 148. Upgrading failed: after the upgrade the device was not connected to the wifi anymore, and not sending its own. I reflashed it, than it worked. 1 question: is there anything changed in rules? I am curious wheter nested commands now work. ...

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USD 3.71 for a copy with questionable content and quality vs USD 4.85 for the genuine Sonoff basic (actual price from the Itead.cc website https://www.itead.cc/sonoff-wifi-wireless-switch.html ) Guys, really..... :roll: Have a Merry Christmas everyone Shardan no-brainer. Merry x-mas to all!

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Welcome to this forum!
Be prepared to spend a lot of time here, once you get into it, it becomes addictive.

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So if you have those displays, how do you drive them? I tried writing to a single line, and it is still very compressed. I can barely recognize the characters. It would be nice to have them supported, since the format is sometimes preferable to the usual square OLED. Other question: what is a "...

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I found this little display on Banggood: https://www.banggood.com/search/1140506.html It looked interesting because of the slim size, which can be useful for some casings. The current OLED plugin does not complain about the unit, but the text is very compressed. Looks like the font height should be ...

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What do you mean? I already wrote a plugin to support POW current/voltage reading feature. The relay and led can be activated with standard plugin, what else you need? :) :) :) you just made my day! :) :) :) This information is probably somewhere in the seond half of that long thread, which I have ...

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Any chance of formal support for the Sonoff Pow? Looks like a very handy little device to help understand power consumption... What do you mean? I already wrote a plugin to support POW current/voltage reading feature. The relay and led can be activated with standard plugin, what else you need? :) :...

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Any chance of formal support for the Sonoff Pow? Looks like a very handy little device to help understand power consumption... Since Tasmota is supporting that device it should be possible to write a plugin for ESP Easy as well. If you do some research on the subject and bring all your findings and...

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Any chance of formal support for the Sonoff Pow? Looks like a very handy little device to help understand power consumption... There's already a long thread about sonoff pow in the forum. http://www.letscontrolit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2126&p=20950&hilit=POW#p20950 I noticed, and...

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Any chance of formal support for the Sonoff Pow? Looks like a very handy little device to help understand power consumption...

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I have used six of these. At first the general idea sounds good: in a large house, all detectors will sound when one of them detects smoke. Practical problem is that when the alarm sounds, you have no clue as to where the problem is! It would have been better if the first detector made a different a...

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A quick word of warning.... once you get into this material, you are hooked. Be prepared to spend a lot of time!
The good part: you will learn a lot, and meet lots of nice people via this forum...

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Nice bit of handy-work! I agree with you, the hardest part of such a project is not the electronics or even the software and settings, it is in the enclosure and so on. It is so very tempting to have an "open" ESP unit hanging by its wires, but it is much nicer to put it into a neat enclos...

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[...] Zwave is using 868MHz, Wifi 2.4GHz. So in theorie wifi should operate better in a wall then zwave due to the shorter wavelength. Zwave is working just fine at my home, so wifi should do better. Shorter wavelength depends more on a "line of sight". Wifi? Line of sight? I don't think ...

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If you make it this size, i'll buy ten! https://goo.gl/images/XHULxd Anything (much) bigger then that means it no longer fits and then size no longer matters. It's the reason i still have zwave, all others zwave modules are phased out in favor of esp. That's beyond an hobbysitc approach :) I'm sure...

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As an idea, if you need to have the relay on a different purpose than switching mains, one can cut the traces to mains. On a Sonoff you can't, since the power supply for the ESP part is drawn from mains. On the little device in this topic: you don't need to, since the relay will only be used for sw...

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As an idea, if you need to have the relay on a different purpose than switching mains, one can cut the traces to mains. On a Sonoff you can't, since the power supply for the ESP part is drawn from mains. On the little device in this topic: you don't need to, since the relay will only be used for sw...

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Wouldn't be better a Sonoff then? As far as you need to drive 230VAC load you can't find better deals... I am sure that a Sonoff would be better, but it's size is impressive: 37 x 25mm. It's in my shopping cart more than an hour, viewing pictures from every angle, thinking about it... then i realiz...

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As far as I can see it is 8266 based! See this one at Banggood: https://www.banggood.com/search/esp-01s-wifi-relay-module.html I think that would take this unit: https://www.banggood.com/Upgraded-Version-1M-Flash-ESP8266-ESP-01-WIFI-Transceiver-Wireless-Module-p-979509.html?rmmds=search&cur_war...

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Not new, but anyone has tested the followin ESP relay? https://www.ebay.com/itm/ESP8266-ESP-01S-5V-Wifi-Relay-Module-TOI-APP-Controled-For-Smart-Home/272864309446 It has a greater brother that has a serial MCU between the relay and the ESP-01, but this smaller version (yellow socket, no serial pins...

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Problem was successfully reproduced by one of the developers. A fix will be made and tested.

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Shardan wrote: ↑11 Nov 2017, 17:08 Open a Github issue?

Yes, just did. Issue #581.

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I found the cause of the problem! After getting the ESP unit back up and running again with an OLED screen attached, I made a little mistake and submitted an LCD command via the command field in the tools tab. This actually brought the system down and made it reboot. I tried the same on another ESP ...

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OK, I managed to destroy the evidence... cleared the memory by connecting TX/RX and restarting the unit.
Memory is now cleared and I am able to start the unit normally.

Part of me is happy because I can now move on with this unit.
But unfortunately we'll never know what caused this problem!

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If you think you've seen it all, read on. On a NodeMCU I was experimenting with a dust sensor GP2Y10 and a simple 2-line LCD display. I put together some rules, including some init messages to the LCD. At some point I decided to swap the LCD for an OLED display that I have. I forgot to remove the LC...

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Strange, I do exactly that! I run a VPN server on the Pi that also runs Domoticz, and whenever I want to access the ESP units from outside my own LAN, I connect a VPN tunnel and simply connect to the ESP. Have never experienced a problem like you describe. There must be something special going on he...

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welcome!

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Bluetooth enable / Presence detection http://www.esp8266.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1886 https://www.happybubbles.tech/presence/detector http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=AS_20160821232515&SearchText=bluetooth+LE+breakout I second that. With the R-Pi type 3 the...

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Ah, great when a solution is that simple....

Thanks!

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I have a rain sensor attached to one of my ESP units. It is configured as switch, and works OK. The only problem is that it's state is transmitted to Domoticz periodically, regardless of state change. I would prefer to have a transmission done only when the switch changes state! Is this possible? Th...

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Welcome. We have met before on this forum, and I think you are a very valuable asset bringing in a lot of specialty knowledge!

Peculiar: you already have 429 posts to your name, and only now you are in the introduction section?

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You can protect it somewhat using rice or moisture capturing bags (found in some shoes and purces and stuff). You would have to replace that every once in a while. I use a moisture-eating powder sold in DIY stores, it is sold to keep moisture out of campers and caravans. But that stuff takes up moi...

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Definitely that is not a genuine Itead 4ch. Anyways an interesting module. Do you have a link or schematics? I'm not able to identifythe cpu module, it might contain an esp, not sure. It might contain a signal cpu too. A picture of the external casing might help, plus an accurate type/model number.

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Are you sure this is a Sonoff 4CH? It looks totally different from the two units I have. I see no buttons, for example.
Also, my Sonoff has a mains connection from which it feeds. Looks like this one expects an external power supply!

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Hmmmm maybe another way to measure CO2 in an aquarium.... I think you could, as long as the sensor is not submerged in the water. But measuring the CO2 level just above the water, just under light hood covering the tank. It should give a fair indication of CO2 level in the water, I think. This coul...

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and other topic only no answer Do you perhaps know how i can use the Sonoff dual.. Please a http command? with the gpio that is used.. A example please? Thanks This thread is about the Sonoff 4CH. The Sonoff dual is a totally different beast, I seem to remember that it has a different architecture ...

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When I have some time I will update the Wiki to reflect my setup as a small project. Hope you do that... Cannot understand the wiki.. Hope you will let it know when.. thanks! Which part don't you understand? In my view, the Wiki was set up quite good, and has recently been reorganized. It should be...

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mm when i have tie i try... Only what are the gpio port to use for the four channels? And how can i switch them with a http command.. Thanks GPIO 4, 5, 12 and 15. Buttons are 0,9,10 and 14. I switch them from the rules, so I can give a simple json command and let the rules translate it into the pro...

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mm m where can i find this tool? [ i do not have it ] And can i flash then the normal latest espeasy beta with it? Or does any one have a working os for me, Thanks This is quite easy to find in the Wiki. Look for the esp setup, there is a link to a download which also brings the esptool downloader ...

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sorry, i'm on vaccation atm and i have only my old tablet at hand. With one of the r14x versions a reworked flash tool was delivered. that was the flashtool i used with the binary i attached with this thread. Same here. I had my share of trouble flashing the Sonoff units, and in the end found that ...

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I also noticed the CO2 level to rise dramatically fast when cooking (on gas). Our kitchen has no door to the living room, so concentration becomes equal in those rooms. (12 + 25 + 10 m^2 in total) Let's say, it is good my CO2 sensor has a range from 400-5000 ppm, since it can spike over 2000 ppm in...

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i have one running on R148 and one on 2.0.0_11, both are working. A very simple test is blowing smoke from a cigarette to the sensor, it should show a reaction with the next "delay" period. As said it is possible that the sensor has a somewhat high zero deviation so it remains on a high v...

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I don't really care about exact values, since it is all relative anyway. The only thing I would like is to see if the sensor works at all. At this moment I can see the effect when I disconnect the outputline, or the 3.3 or gnd connections. But the LED driver (connection 3 on the sensor) does not see...

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grovkillen wrote: ↑11 Sep 2017, 12:25 Yes, the candles are a big oxygen consumer...

I know, but in a room this size, I did not expect the effect to be really measurable...

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I took a closer look at my circuit, and sure enought: found a very clumsy fault. :shock: :oops: The V-divider lead to ground had been cut. I repaired it and started the unit up again with the formula as mentioned: (%value%-1940)*0.025 It now produces value 284. Will leave it alone for a while and se...

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This sensor has a great wow-factor. With most other sensors, you are excited immediately after installation, and then get used to it. The S8 still surprises me. Check out the screenshot below. Before, I've already recognized the daily peaks, every evening the doors and windows close and we are stayi...

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I put together a small breakout board and put the sensor on it. the V-divider is on it, and can be switched on/off with a jumper, so I am flexible as to the use of the ESP unit. I am now using a NodeMCU. Connected to the pin marked A0, and used this formula: (%value%-1940)*0.025 It looks like it wor...

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I have the dust sensor running on an ESP unit and can see a value. Tried to get this into Domoticz but no luck sofar. Can someone tell me the sensor type that I should define in Domoticz? Edit: I defined a custom sensor and used that as target device from the ESP, now the value comes in OK. Is that ...

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Shardan wrote: ↑08 Sep 2017, 21:27 ... which is the new article as i'm on vaccation since beginning of September...

Lucky you! Have a great time!

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