How to communicate between two esp8266

[Sasch600xt]

Hello World (represents my coding skills ),

I use a bunch of ESPs with MQTT OpenHAB Controller to my IPSymcon Housautomating System.
All works great !

Now i have special needs:

I have one ESP with 2 Buttons connected to an MCP23017
and another ESP with 2 relais connected also to an MCP23017

i would love to push button1 on ESP1 and send it to ESP2 to toggle relais1 (one button push = relais on, next button push = relais off)
same for button2.

Both ESPs are in the same Wifi.

So do i need to set an second cotroller for this need or is there a simple solution ?

Thank you so much for your help an i hope you are all OK in these days
Sascha

[grovkillen]

Since you already have the MQTT broker up and running, why not use it? You can send commands over MQTT. I'd use event calls to the recipient side (relay unit).

[Sasch600xt]

Thank you for your help

so far i did try a lot but could not get it to work.
i was reading the "rules tutorial" aswell.


Ist it all possible only by using rules ? (MQTT Controller is set)

I did try this:

ESP1 with buttons:

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on System#Boot do
monitor,mcp,1
endon


on mcp#1=1 do
Publish,"LichtgrHalleVorne","1"
endon

ESP2 with relay:

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on LichtgrHalleVorne=1 do
mcpgpio,1,0
endon

So probably i do a lot wrong here ?

Thanks for help!
Sascha

[Sasch600xt]

ok, i got it to work

i used an MQTT generic input in "devices"

and the rule looks like:

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on MQTT_INPUT#LichtgrHalleVorne=1 do
if [plugin#mcpgpio#pinstate#1]=1
mcpgpio,1,0
else
mcpgpio,1,1
endon

so this provides the toggle feature i was looking for.

YAY

[grovkillen]

Yes that is probably the most generic way. It's also possible to post to the cmd topic of that particular unit. But using MQTT import you can have any number of units listen to any topic.

[iron]

Unless you do not want to involve MQTT and enable the ESPEasy P2P Networking. You will have 2 units 1 and 2

Unit 2 :

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on System#Boot do
monitor,mcp,1
endon

on mcp#1=1 do
sendTo,1,LichtgrHalleVorne,1
endon

Unit 1:

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on LichtgrHalleVorne=1 do
mcpgpio,1,0
endon

here:
https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/inde ... nd_Publish

-D

[Wiki]

I do have tp correct a little bit. Beside the fact that the syntax is wrong for current mega release (I don't know which release iron runs), I don't know exactly since when, but in the current version of ESPEasy Mega you may not use SendTo not like this:

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sendTo,1,LichtgrHalleVorne,1

But instead you have to use

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  SendTo 1,'event,LichtgrHalleVorne=1'

to get the desired result

refer to: https://github.com/letscontrolit/ESPEasy/issues/2724

[Sasch600xt]

ok, thanks a lot for all the answeres

no i try something simular which is not working at the moment.
i use an PCA9685 to have some PWM outputs.
i changed the range in plugins from 0 - 4096 to 0 -100 which is enough for my needs.
now i have an MQTT_INPUT plugin where the topic is "Dimmer" and the value i called "Dimmer1"
i am not sure about the sytax now ?

this is not working:

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on MQTT_INPUT#Dimmer1 do
PCAPWM,0,[plugin#MQTT_INPUT#Dimmer#Dimmer1]

at least

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on MQTT_INPUT#Dimmer1 do

seems to be ok as trigger but my PWM signal goes down to "0" always.

so somehow i can not send the value "Dimmer1" which is from 0 - 100

Thank you for your help

[Sasch600xt]

got it !


this was the right syntax:

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on MQTT_INPUT#Dimmer1 do
PCAPWM,0,[MQTT_INPUT#Dimmer1]

[besterquester]

Hi,
There is another possibility to communicate between two esp devices.

You can use the rule command
sendto

Example: you have 2 espdevices dev1 (unit:1) and dev2 (unit:2). They can also have the same name , but the Unit Number must be different -> unit=1 and unit=2. The UDP communication is done through the unit numbers
Add a controller ESPEasy P2P Networking on both devices

in rules on dev1:

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on Button#State do
        sendto 2, "event,Button1=1"
endon

senfto command to the unit number

in rules on dev2:

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on Button1 do
      // do something on dev2 when button1 was pressed on dev1
     //  use this to retrieve the event value from the dev1 -> %eventvalue%
endon

Hope that helped

regards Chris

[TD-er]

[...]
in rules on dev1:

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on Button#State do
        sendto 1, "event,Button1=1"
endon

[...]

I guess you meant

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sendto 2,....

???

[besterquester]

yes of course.
thx!!

[AlWire]

Hello,

I'd like to change the IP of an existing device with node 14. It is listet at the device with node 16.
Normally the code "SendTo 14, IP XXX.XXX.X.XXX" should work? Although i get an "Ok" as response, the IP has not been changed.

Has anybody an idea or could give some advice?

Thanks in Advance.

[TD-er]

Maybe you should use quotes and also call for "save" + reboot that node.

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SendTo 14,"IP XXX.XXX.X.XXX"

[AlWire]

Thanks for your help.