LevelControl

Many people have requested some sort of local level control on the ESP Easy. This is something that would normally be handled by the Home Automation controller. But if you really need to have something like a locally controlled heater, you could use the Level Control plugin.

Introduction

The ESP module can be used as a level controlling device, think of a simple temperature control unit. Use a DS18B20 temperature sensor and a solid state relay to control a heater. Connect this solid state relay to a GPIO pin.

Hardware

Depends on what you want to control. For a 220 Volts heater, you could use classic or solid state relay.

Connections

You need to connect a relay to the selected GPIO.

Software

ESP Easy

You have to enter some IDX, even if this is not used. In this sample, we have connected a DS18B20 sensor and the heater is controlled using GPIO 12. We have set the required temperature to 21 degree with a hysteresis of 1 degree.

Remote Threshold configuration

(feature implemented only on github version dated after Aug 10th, 2017)

This plugin has the ability to change the Treshold (Set value in the GUI) with a command that can be send through HTTP/MQTT.

Syntax

config,task,<taskname>,setlevel,<value|calculation>

Example if your task name is set to "heater" and the threshold needs to be 21 degrees:

config,task,heater,setlevel,21

Optional settings

Use of value names