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I have one (adafruit module) on an esp12 and it works fine. What is it not doing? How is it connected? Any resisters between SDA/SCL and 3.3v?

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When I look at the plug in, it looks like the Current is divided by 1000 to give amps. I think this has a limit of 2A so I am not sure why it is reporting in A rather than mA. I have to see if changing that fixes it. I think there are 2 Issues, 1) the formula takes it back to 2 decimals and 2) the p...

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Okay, I am trying this on the "adafruit Oled feather" and it works better than the standard plug in. It is 128 x 32 so with the Header and footer you can only get 1 line in and be able to read it. It has 3 buttons on the board, I tested "C" which goes to GPIO2 and it works perfec...

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I don't know if it will help, but check the ESP releases thread and maybe try R114. Martinus wrote "Because the current R108, marked stable, still contains some bugs, it would be better to replace it with a newer version. R114 is available for evaluation. We moved to a newer MQTT client, it may...

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For R108 read the tutorial. The configuration you are using does not work corrctly until R114, which is stated in the ESPEasy realeses thread. Reading the instructions and searching the forum will answer most questions.

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It is in the tools, settings for logging level (1 to 4 I think) is probably under advancsd. See the main page esp8266.nu, under firmware, ESPeasy. There is a lot of good information in those pages... It is also discussed in the forum several times, searching helps. The weblog works great, have not f...

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Instructions for usibg the Arduino IDE are on the main page. But have to change for the items listed in Martinus post. Also read the wiki and search the forum before asking, people appear to ignore questions which have been answered multiple times.

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That is very possible. You can check to see what the ESP is sending in the log and you should be able to find what domoticz wants to receive from them. Please post your results, as I want to do the same thing, I just haven't made it that far. I also know others are working with tipping buckets, but ...

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hamster, This hapened to me the last time there was an upgrade to the core. I think it had to do with there being 2 different locations the Arduino IDE stored the ESP core. Once I deleted the old one phyiscally, there were no more problems. I notice Martinus installed the portable version of Arduino...

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Basic Domoticz instructions are in a link on the main "Esp9266.nu" page.
http://www.esp8266.nu/index.php/Tutoria ... icz_Switch
You have to change them for the type of sensor you want. Reading the Domoticz instructions and the above should be good.

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I found something interesting but of course it would need programming, which is something I really need to improve on. It apparently can do the work of 3 separate INA219s with 1 board.

http://www.switchdoc.com/ina3221-breakout-board/

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the Black version is supposed to have 1MB so you are using the "1024" version? According to the change log, OTA never worked on the ESP-01 with 512B, but if you are using the 1024 version for the ESP-01 "Black" modules it should work... I only have 2MB and 4MB modules and I have ...

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You might try flashing blank.bin. you can search for blank.bin here or google. This essentially clears out the memory so you can flash a new rom. This has worked for me.

These little guys can be really frustrating at times, but I have always been able to get them to work eventually.

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I have been working with the INA219 trying to get good current numbers, and I am finding something interesting. The Ina219 reports current in mA but in ESPEasy, it appears to be something. I get 0.07 or if I change to 4 decimals, I get 0.0635. I have to assume it is at least 63.5 mA, but when I add ...

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Is it giving you good numbers for current? The plug in has /1000 on all the value I think, but the library (adafruit) only has it on shunt voltage when calculating load voltage. I think I am getting about 200 ma all the time, but that doesn't seem correct. I have an esp12F, ina219, bme280 and voltag...

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I don't know exactly how these plugins work, but I think what you are looking for is at the top, uint8_t Plugin_027_INA219_address = 0x40; // 0x40 /0x41 A0/0x44 A1/0x45 A0 and A1 Do some reading on the PCF8574 plugin. This might give you an idea how to modify the INA219 plugin to do this. I would th...

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Another option is to use ADC for one and INA219 for the other, although ADC will only show voltage but I think it is pretty reliable. I don't know how hard it would be to have a drop down selection for I2C address, or scan for address and drop down to select the sensor type where there is overlap in...

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So after looking at this, it occurred to me that is might be nice if we could get the boot cause via MQTT when the unit boots. Also maybe when the connection error gets close to the reboot level to get the count and Uptime, although if it is resetting because there is no MQTT connection that may not...

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I have had a similar problem this week, it took me 3 days to resolve. I recently purchased 10 ESP-12F modules, and flashed them (107 via arduino ide) in two lots of 5. The first lot was fine, but in the second 4 of the 5 got stuck in a boot loop. Rebooting every 10 seconds and giving nothing but gar...

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Do you have Pull up resisters on the I2C lines? Have you checked they use different addresses?
Is this a 5V BMP with a 3.3V regulator and level shifter?

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You are correct, I did a quick search and the 841 came out in September 2012, but the 84a came out in 2008. Unfortunately I also think that means no SPI, as the 841 appears to be the first with SPI. Of course I think it could be a 24, 24a,44, 44a, 84 or 84a, if they are ATTiny, since there were no 1...

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I have had this happen on a NodeMCU V2 as well, but I think after I fried the diode on the power input and replaced it with a piece of wire, this stopped happening. There is a Power section in the wiki which explains how this can be a problem. The DHT-22 specsheet says 3.3 to 6 V and if there is a d...

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I have been looking for a inexpensive capacitive soil moisture sensor for almost a year and a few months ago I found these - http://www.froggit.de/product_info.php/info/p194_paket-5-stueck-elektronischer-giessanzeiger-bodenfeuchtesensor.html Which I can order from Germany at a lower cost than the ju...

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Short answer- not yet, without more programming. I think it would require adding a selection for I2C address in the ina219 device setup. I want to do the same thing with 2 ina219 modules, but until we have more flexability, I will just change connectors, or use adc for solar voltage and ina219 on th...

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I don't think the Node MCU is intended to be used this way and it does have a lot of things which I think could be an issue, but not being an Electrical Engineer, I don't know. NodeMCU is great for working out the software and connections (be careful with ADC though, see the schematic). Mostly this ...

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I am curious about controlling via MQTT as well. Try posting to a new topic with MQTT in the title. That might get the interest of people who are using MQTT.

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I have been using Deep Sleep on a 10 minute cycle on 2 devices since February, no problems. Yet...

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It has been a while since I have had time to update the firmware, and noticed the new mandatory WiFi selection when starting after initial flash. I noticed it is not possible to select a open network (NO PASSWORD) and there is no way I see to bypass the WiFi selection initially to do basic some basi...

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I hope it works better for you, my first order from China was 7 weeks, second was 9 weeks. Still waiting for the third, currently at 8 weeks. Shipping to Italy takes a little longer for some reason. It has taken over 3 weeks to get a letter 250 km within Italy!

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No you can't use 'MQTT Import' directly for this. However, I think you might be able to use the code which I proposed as a solution to another problem in this post http://www.esp8266.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&p=5797#p5797 . Using that code you can give system commands via MQTT which I think is...

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See above post, the wiki has very detailed instructions. the Arduino ide has settings for ESP12E. Use the defaults.

You only need to connect it to a computer once, after that export to a .bin and use the upload function, it works really well.

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Is there any way to use this to do something like turn off deep sleep? Ideally also maybe to trigger a .bin upload from a predefined location to update the firmware.

I expect there are other settings or commands that would be nice to trigger via MQTT as well.

Thanks,
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Try using "All" instead of the day... Based on below it could work.

String weekDays = F("AllSunMonTueWedThuFriSat");

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Actually, there have been a lot of postings regarding Flashing issues, which is what I suspect this is. So many in fact that it is difficult to get a search result! The biggest problem I have seen (and experienced) is getting good power to the ESP, and for me it is worse on a breadboard. Don't ssume...

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Links to Git hub and instructions for compiling in the Arduino ide are in the wiki
http://www.esp8266.nu/index.php/Main_Page

Although I believe you need version 2.1 in the board manager, searching in the forum helps

, or check the change log in Git and in the forum.

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I think you might have to find a different device for that. Espressif says the limit for Soft AP is 4, but in mesh mode up to 83 nodes can be connected. No idea what you are trying to do, but having 50 "users" or people connected to most wireless devices would be a problem, in theory it ma...

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Oddly it appears to understand the day. How are you getting the time into the ESP? NPT or RTC? Do you know what section of the code deals with this feature? That might give me some insight into how this works.

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Thank you! This has been on my list since I started with ESP8266, but knowing someone has been able to make it work in ESPeasy is reason enough to order parts.
Now I just need to get MQTT and Node Red working.

Unfortunately work keeps getting in the way of the fun stuff...

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I am just guessing as I am not seeing what commands are available, or what "events" can be used, but perhaps adding a timer for 16.5 hours between line 1 and 2 would work. Again no idea, but worth a try... From the Tutorial, you may have to make the second timer "Timer 2", but it...

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I was looking at the datasheet for the MCP1826 and I noticed the 5 pin version (MCP1826S) has a "Power good" pin, which appears could be tied to the CH-EN to turn the ESP on when the power is within 93% of 3.3V. Mouser lists them at the same price, so no disadvantage there. Has anyone look...

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3hPa is well within the accuracy listed in the datasheets.

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I am not an EE but the first thing I can see when comparing the 2 schematics, it appears you have pins 4 and 5 reversed on the optocoupler and It appears you have 3.3 V flowing to GPIO2 where the original schematic shows the GPIO flowing to Ground (arrows in the optocoupler) from the original write ...

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I tried R88, and I get an error compiling.
ESPEasy.ino:203:22: fatal error: Base64.h: No such file or directory

Am I doing something wrong?

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I think for the most part the units I would want to be "real time interactive" meaning sending instant commands to, would not have battery as the primary power so would not need deep sleep, but I can also see the utility of having a battery powered remote unit which could be "deep sle...

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Hopefully the memory issue is solved, but if not I expect we will hear about before too long. As for no wake up and ask for commands, I don't think this is a problem for me with my current plans, they will just be sending data to a server. I would think it would be possible to have it wake up, ping ...

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I saw at least 2 on hackaday.io just search esp8266 printer. Getting it on ESPeasy is something else entirely.

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"Somewhere in this forum, someone tried this before. ESP can only run on a solar charged battery, when it is allowed to enter sleep mode and that brings some new problems with it." What problems are you refering to? I am curious because I am trying to do this and have 2 test systems runnin...

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Check out the device wiki, they should be pretty self explanitory. It should be possible, but since both the sensor and OLED are I2C it may not. I have had a lot better results using the default SDA and SCL, "standard pins for I2C are GPIO04 for SDA and GPIO05 for SDC". I believe the ESP w...

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So how should the Local Button for the OLED display be wired? The timer certainly works, but I tried 2 different pins pulled to ground or 3.3 V but neither triggered the display. For this I am using a Node MCU and R80. There could be some other problem as well, it likes to reboot a lot too, but that...

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Has anyone tried the capacitive I2C sensor fron the chirp? Temp/moist/light sensor, has arduino library and appears to have good documentation. Also appears to have software assignable I2C address, so maybe multiple units on 1 esp8266. Only issue I see so far is it may need some additional waterproo...

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