Unless you have odd wiring or are planning to rewire, the sonoff touch is not good in the UK. This is due to our light switches cutting the love cable to control the lights. For the sonoff to work, it requires a negative connection at the light switch to enable the ESP etc to always be on.
I was going to go down this route but instead I know have standard sonoffs wired to my lights with the wall switch connected to GPIO14. This enables both remote and local control of the light and only minor rewiring is required. This also allows lights with multiple light switches to be converted.
Don
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Welcome MattTo simply turn the lights on you would inject 1 to cmnd/BBQ/LIGHTS/POWER. If you wanted to turn them off, you would inject 0.Jay
On 21 Feb 2017 6:08 am, "Matthew McMahon" <mnm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone,I am from Australia (Land Down Under),New to the whole MQTT thing, currently experimenting with some ESP12F, NODEMCU running Arduino & Sonoff SC4's.Currently running PI3 with http://thethingbox.io/ on it which seems to work.I have been able to upload the firmware to SC4 & it all seems to be working, I can get it to talk to NODE-RED & see the relays turn on & off by pushing the buttons.Question is I can't find the right command to do it from NODE-RED, is there some more in depth examples on how to do it?I have it configured as BBQ/LIGHTS so what would be the MQTT command to turn POWER1 on (cmnd/BBQ/LIGHTS/POWER1)??Any tips or pointers would be awesome :).ThanksMatt
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Hi Jay,
I still have my training wheels on :).
When I use the software switch on the red-node UI I can see it sending a command, the led on the sonoff flashes (so I assume it is seeing data) but the relay & associated led don't turn on. (text below is from using the software switch)
if I press the button on the sonoff box the relay turns on &
off ok. (text below is from using the button)
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Hi!
https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota
I think of it as a one size fits many esp8266/esp8285 project. It runs on Sonoff devices, and so much more.
It was https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-MQTT-OTA-Arduino before, but tasmota is much easier to refer to
Hi Tam,Unless you have odd wiring or are planning to rewire, the sonoff touch is not good in the UK. This is due to our light switches cutting the love cable to control the lights. For the sonoff to work, it requires a negative connection at the light switch to enable the ESP etc to always be on.
I was going to go down this route but instead I know have standard sonoffs wired to my lights with the wall switch connected to GPIO14. This enables both remote and local control of the light and only minor rewiring is required. This also allows lights with multiple light switches to be converted.
Hello,
I'm John from N. Ireland.
I just wanted to outline my experience so far with items from the Sonoff range, all purchased from various suppliers from China on eBay over the past six months. The items include Sonoff Basic, TH10/16 and Sonoff SV. They have been installed in various localities in addition to my home base.
The most common problem appears to be units not accessing the WiFi network after periods of working fine. These units are first deleted and reinstalled. They are recognised and go through all the motions of verification but then simply stay offline. This has happened with two Basics (after around three months working), a SV after around six months, three Th10s and one TH16 (a month or so.)
Another problem was the instability of a smart scene using a TH device with a Basic to switch a load depending on temperature. I found that the scene would only lock for around 40% of the time, even swopping with other units.
A novel observation with one of the Basic units is that each time it is triggered, it knocks out the WiFi modem! After the modem has recovered the unit can be accessed again but still kills the WiFi when triggered again.
I would be very interested to hear from others in the forum who may have had similar experiences and who may have advice to offer.
As it stands, I would be of the opinion that these units, though cheap and easy to install, have definite quality control problems to the extent that I would not recommend them for any serious purpose.
Hi Jay,
My name is Eric. After playing some with Home Assistance I got frustrated because the Zigbee lights were not working for me as I wanted. I couldn't prevent family members from turning the lamps of locally, and when turning them on (locally) HA was never updating the status.
This is when I decided to investigate alternatives and found Tasmota.
Tasmota is working fine with a Sonoff3 Basic controlling my water heater (via a relay) as per a dialy schedule. This is an awesome solution.
Thanks!
Hello SonoffUsers,I am Ron from the USA. Just started using Sonoff devices a few weeks ago. Started out with a Dual R2 and have now added 10 Basics.Flashing Tasmota via PlatformIO worked surprisingly simple thanks to the various instructions on the web. Having some problems getting reliable OTA flashes to load completely. I also had to slow down the serial flash to 115200 for successful flashes.
Still a newbie by all accounts. Guess one question I have is that since most of my devices are Sonoff Basics and since I don't think any of the "sensors" apply to the Basic, do I need to // (comment out) all of the sensor related lines in "user_config.h" or, do I just need to specify a different "env_default =" in platformio.ini file? (ie. should I select env_default = sonoff-classic instead of the default env_default=sonoff)
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