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Jay S

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Jan 9, 2017, 3:58:16 PM1/9/17
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Hello All,

I'm Jay from the UK and I currently have the following Sonoff's

5 x Sonoffs
4 x Sonoff S20
2 x Sonoff POW
1 x Sonoff TH16
1 x Sonoff LED

And I control all of these with Node red running on a raspberry pi

Jay

Tam481

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Jan 10, 2017, 2:54:48 AM1/10/17
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Hello
I'm Tam also from the UK and I currently have 2 Sonoff devices. One used for testing and the other one attached to a table lamp. Both are controlled by OpenHAB2 latest nightly via MQTT both running on a RPi 2 connected via wifi

My plan is to create an isolated network where all my IoT devices would reside. Only the gateway RPi 2 will be accessible from that network. Looking to do this with a DD-WRT router.

Currently considering the Sonoff Touch to control the lights but keen to see how others are using Sonoff devices to support their projects.

Jay S

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Jan 10, 2017, 3:10:38 AM1/10/17
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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.

Tam481

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Jan 10, 2017, 9:28:05 AM1/10/17
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Hello mate. Many thanks for your suggestion. I had posted questions to an issue that was later closed where I even created a diagram to explain how my wiring was. I had started to think that maybe my wiring and that of my family's is just wrong lol

anyway, how did you get your Sonoffs connected? I had created the diagram below to illustrate my understanding of the set up. Would you be able to use the numbers to indicate where the live would go i.e. 1 or 3 etc? As I see it, I've got two effectively "live" wires, one that's actually live which goes through the switch and connects to what is the "live" wire for the light bulb itself and the switch is used to complete teh circuit allowing current to flow from the live via the switch to the bulb etc etc

Thomas Fänge

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Jan 11, 2017, 2:23:49 AM1/11/17
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Hi Jay,

This is Thomas from Sweden.

I'm currently using some (>5) Sonoffs and Duos to control various lights at home, and a TH16 to check temp and humidity in the garage as well as controlling the garden light.
I also use a Pow to control a heater in a shed used for winter storage of some plants (and check the energy consumption=cost at the same time).
I'm also waiting for some 4CH to arrive.

Everything so far fitted with Theo's software and is controlled by a Node-Red flow together with some other MQTT-sensors.

Cheers!

Pat Beirne

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Jan 11, 2017, 9:55:07 AM1/11/17
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I'm Pat from Canada. I have a half dozen of the original Sonoff's and 4 Electrodragons. 

I've also ported Theo's code into an ESP-01 which has simply a push button and a DHT22. I wrote a note on its construction on the Wiki under "User Experience".

I've noticed a lot of requests (through the bug ticket system) for extra features like buttons, WS8212, TLS encryption, etc. While these may be all nice to have, I think it's important to keep this thing simple......smaller code usually means more reliable code. And we need to stay well below the OTA file size limits. Just my 2¢

Don Willingham

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Jan 11, 2017, 7:50:28 PM1/11/17
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Hello all,
I'm Don from Florida, USA. I have a pair of sonoff duals. My goal is to embed them in my ceiling fans (light + fan). I hope to get my Amazon echo to control both outputs. A response in that feature request should be enough for me to sort that out. I agree that it shouldn't be overly complicated, but everybody wants a different feature set.

Don

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Jan 14, 2017, 4:29:17 AM1/14/17
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Hi,

I'm Heiko (Altelch on github) from Germany. I own several Sonoff devices, NodeMCUs, Wemos D1 and self built ESP8266 devices. I like the ESP-Platform as it is a very powerfull uC. Currently I use only two Sonoffs to controll simple lights with my Echo. The Rest is dedicated to development. My "Projects" are WS2812 LED-Strip support (see pull request) and an HUE Emulation for 2 or 4 Channel devices or RGB / Intensity support of the LED Strip and there are still some I2C sensors I'd like to see supported.

Greetings,

            Heiko.

Don Willingham

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Jan 14, 2017, 9:14:35 AM1/14/17
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Heiko,
   Are you using this Sonoff-MQTT-OTA-Arduino project as a basis of some of your "projects"? Are you augmenting sonoff devices with sensors? I would assume maybe both are the case.

hkru...@gmail.com

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Jan 14, 2017, 9:26:10 AM1/14/17
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Hi Don,

yes, I use Sonoff-MQTT-OTA-Arduino as basis and try to get my ideas or code into the main code through pull requests. Parts of the I2C code or the ds18x20 support were written by me or inspired by my pull requests. Theo writes cleaner code and knows better how he wants his project code to look like. So he often wrote his own code or did major changes to get the code better integrated into his project.

Greetings,

               Heiko.

Sporty Morty

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Jan 14, 2017, 10:12:49 AM1/14/17
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Hi
I am Mike from Canada have a bunch of sonoffs just finished uploading the sonoff-mqtt-ota-arduino frimware to a few of my sonoffs 
 that i want to use for the motor home...looking really good

Mike 

Ryan maturi

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Jan 15, 2017, 4:38:56 PM1/15/17
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Hi,
I am Ryan. I have several sonoff on the way from AliExpress. I hope to use them with Alexa. Is configuration difficult ? Currently using 315mhz outlet switches with domoticz on a raspberry pi and transmitter. They work most of the time and plan to tie domoticz into my Alexa.
Using espeasy on a few other esp8266 for fridge monitors

Maik Zimner

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Jan 16, 2017, 12:52:35 PM1/16/17
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Hello, I´m Maik from germany.
I am testing two sonoff touch and two basics in my homematic system.
I always have a few WEMOS D1 integrated.
I hope that the touch is a alternativ device to the original expensive homematic products, But in the moment I must say that the touch sensor don´t work 100%

William Hettinger

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Jan 16, 2017, 1:31:22 PM1/16/17
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Hello all,

I am Bill from Massechussetts, USA.  I have just received a Sonoff and have two on the way (with temp and humidity) - I am excited to use these!  I currently have about two dozen ESP8266 NodeMCU's reporting temperature and humidity, detecting water incursion and monitoring door contacts and a motorized gate with Home Assistant.  I am also using them in status display boxes to indicate door opening or flooding with leds and a buzzer.  I have experimented with relay control with an opticoupler , but the Sonoff will make this much easier, and I love the enclosure. I have primarily been using the Arduino IDE, but have been experimenting with MicroPython on the ESP's.  I'm interested in getting the Echo to interface with them.

Regards,
Bill

John

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Jan 23, 2017, 9:24:24 AM1/23/17
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Hi,

I'm a retired process control engineer for a large chemical company here in the US.  I live in Virginia.  I have a dozen or so sonoff nodes as well as several of my own design.  In addition I have a few Arduino clones and  JeeNodes scattered around.

Currently I'm using my own software on these nodes inspired by the results from many Google searches.  I have since discovered Scargill's excellent blog and this forum as well.  I am interested in trying Arendst's approach especially for the Itead 4 channel nodes.

John

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Jan 24, 2017, 12:26:54 PM1/24/17
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Hello

 I´m Pedro from portugal i am new to the cene, i ve come to learn and teach what i ve learn

Simon

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Jan 26, 2017, 6:52:43 AM1/26/17
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Hi All,

Simon here - i'll have 7x standard sonoffs coming soon but ive spent the day playing with this firmware on a ESP8266-07 bare module. Looks like its got heaps of options - will be cool to see how it integrates with Alexa as I'm running that alongside my own mqtt and noe red instances.

Philipp Bigott

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Jan 26, 2017, 11:48:13 AM1/26/17
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Hi there,

i am Philipp from germany and also looking forward getting these pieces of hardware running in a Standalone environment.

Flip

grob...@thinkandhum.com

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Jan 28, 2017, 6:09:20 AM1/28/17
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hi All

Living in Hong Kong , have purchased a few Sonoff units - looking fwd to learning in this group.

Best

Giles 

Julian Knight

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Jan 28, 2017, 3:32:50 PM1/28/17
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Hi, Julian here for the first time. From Sheffield in the UK.

I have 2x Sonoff's and 1x POW.

Not yet put them live as I'm short of time right now but I've been playing with the software on and off for a while.

2 of them will be in use on the wife and daughter's hair straighteners as they can never remember whether they have turned them off. I may do the same on the Iron. I'm wiring them into short extension cables so that they are easily moved around.

I have an existing and reasonably extensive home automation system build around Node-RED with a variety of 433MHz wireless units (LightwaveRF, HomeEasy, etc.) but they will gradually get replaced with Sonoff's or similar. In addition, I have a bunch of remote sensors, one is an Oregon Scientific but the others are home built. Originally using Arduino's with a mix of wireless but lately switching to ESP8266-based Wemos D1-Mini's. Sensing temperature, humidity, pressure, light and sound. All running back to a single Pi2 controller.

f fish

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Jan 30, 2017, 12:25:19 AM1/30/17
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Morning all ... Ferdie from South Africa.

Not really into home automate ... messing with some stuff in the fish room. 
Pi3 with domoticz, Yun and some esp 01's / 12's  and have 3 Sonoff devices. 



New to TASMOTA .. have ESPeasy on most devices, but that dev seems to have stagnated  - Well R120 is stable so all good. 

Later Ferdie

Terry Cary

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Feb 1, 2017, 12:48:20 PM2/1/17
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I moved from DD-WRT to OpenWRT so I could install Mosquitto MQTT Broker on the router itself.  It's a dead simple install and I figure that if the router goes down, I'm offline anyways.  It removes one more possible point of failure.   I shut down the SSID broadcast on that isolated wifi-router that I only use for IoT.  The devices know what it is.
-Cheers,
TC

f fish

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Feb 1, 2017, 1:11:56 PM2/1/17
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Hi Terry,  Welcome, that does sound sensible, funny you should mention router failures. I just realised that if TASMOTA does not have a working WIFI the device has all sort of retry methods, but all of them seem to involve a restart at some point. Not ideal if you want to keep things on or off even if the WIFI is MIA. 

Later Ferdie

Paul Smith

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Feb 2, 2017, 9:53:23 AM2/2/17
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Hi All,

I've been using the esp8266's for a while. I have them controlling lights, TV's and heating. I have been Using Pete's code (http://tech.scargill.net) which I have modified a little. I have also built my own heating monitor to generate mqtt events when the thermostats and pump operate. I have now seen Sonoff-Tasmota so am looking at that too.

Using Alexa and Node red .

So thanks to all for the wonderful software and support.

Regards

Paul


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Christian Klimo

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Feb 6, 2017, 4:30:13 PM2/6/17
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Hi, I'm Christian from Austria and new to those sonoffs and ESP8266 in general . Since Last week I have two running the tasmota version to control lights. Flashing was very easy, and I'm looking forward to setup home assistant on raspberry for starting automation at home.

Best regards
Christian

Jeff Fox

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Feb 6, 2017, 7:44:45 PM2/6/17
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Howdy, Jeff here from North Texas.

I have 2 Sonoff basics (with another on order), a Slampher, and a Sonoff Touch (with another on order).

I've programmed them with javascript using Espuino (http://www.espruino.com/), which is fun, but the MQTT support is buggy.

I have also tried my own cobbled together Arduino code with some moderate success.

I tried Sonoff-Touch-MQTT (https://github.com/davidmpye/Sonoff-Touch-MQTT) on the Sonoff-Touch, but could not get it to work properly. I (think) I fried the serial port with my goof ball soldering, so that's why I ordered a second one. I'll try Sonoff-Tasmota when it arrives. Hopefully I can get somebody with greater skills to fix the first one.

So far I only have Sonoff-Tasmota on a single Sonoff-basic, It's the best firmware I've seen so far and is probably better that what I can build from scratch.
I eventually plan to put it on all Sonoff devices and some DIY esp8266 widgets that I am building.

I currently have a single Amazon Echo-Dot and plan to add a couple more for full house coverage. I am running Node-RED and Mosquitto on Ubuntu 16.04
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Nayar Joolfoo

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Feb 18, 2017, 1:04:16 PM2/18/17
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I'm Nayar.

Installed 2 Sonoffs at Home. 


I'm playing with Sonoff-Pow for the moment. Having some issues about it rebooting like every hour. My sonoffs are sending their syslog to a Elasticsearch so that I can try debug.

If you guys wanna log to Elasticsearch too, feel free to PM me. 

David Lang

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Feb 19, 2017, 2:37:11 AM2/19/17
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Hi, I'm David Lang in southern California, I'm just getting started in home automation and only have a handful of devices in use so far. I ordered a pile of sonoff switches (I started with one of everything and then added more of the things that I'm expecting to use more)

I've currently got openhab running on a Pi 2

I've been using Linux sincd '94 and making my living on it since '97. I'm mostly a sysadmin type, but do a little programming and a bit of electronics and radio

Matthew McMahon

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Feb 21, 2017, 1:08:40 AM2/21/17
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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 :).
Thanks
Matt

Jay S

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Feb 21, 2017, 1:16:49 AM2/21/17
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Welcome Matt

To 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

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Welcome Matt

To 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 :).
Thanks
Matt

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Hi Jay,
I tried that cmnd/BBQ/LIGHTS/POWER1, the light on the sonoff 4CH lights when I send it but nothing happens. I can read the stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/POWER1 ok.
I had a look at the console on the 4CH & get this below, turned on & off from the button the sonoff a couple of times then tried from red-node UI.
05:25:05 APP: Serial logging disabled
05:25:21 MQTT: tele/BBQ/LIGHTS/STATE = {"Time":"2017-02-22T05:25:21", "Uptime":0, "POWER1":"OFF", "POWER2":"OFF", "POWER3":"OFF", "POWER4":"OFF", "Wifi":{"AP":1, "SSID":"macas", "RSSI":100}}
05:30:32 MQTT: tele/BBQ/LIGHTS/STATE = {"Time":"2017-02-22T05:30:32", "Uptime":0, "POWER1":"OFF", "POWER2":"OFF", "POWER3":"OFF", "POWER4":"OFF", "Wifi":{"AP":1, "SSID":"macas", "RSSI":100}}
05:35:42 MQTT: tele/BBQ/LIGHTS/STATE = {"Time":"2017-02-22T05:35:42", "Uptime":0, "POWER1":"OFF", "POWER2":"OFF", "POWER3":"OFF", "POWER4":"OFF", "Wifi":{"AP":1, "SSID":"macas", "RSSI":100}}
05:38:41 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/RESULT = {"POWER1":"ON"}
05:38:41 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/POWER1 = ON
05:38:42 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/RESULT = {"POWER1":"OFF"}
05:38:42 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/POWER1 = OFF
05:38:57 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/RESULT = {"POWER1":"ON"}
05:38:57 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/POWER1 = ON
05:38:59 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/RESULT = {"POWER1":"OFF"}
05:38:59 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/POWER1 = OFF
05:39:38 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/COMMANDS1 = {"Commands1":"Status, SaveData, SaveSate, Sleep, Upgrade, Otaurl, Restart, Reset, WifiConfig, Seriallog, Syslog, LogHost, LogPort, SSId1, SSId2, Password1, Password2, AP, Hostname, Module, Modules, GPIO, GPIOs"}
05:39:38 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/COMMANDS2 = {"Commands2":"Mqtt, MqttHost, MqttPort, MqttUser, MqttPassword, MqttClient, Topic, ButtonTopic, ButtonRetain, SwitchTopic, SwitchRetain, PowerRetain, GroupTopic, Units, Timezone, LedState, LedPower, TelePeriod"}
05:39:38 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/COMMANDS3 = {"Commands3":"Power1, Power2, Light1 Light2, PowerOnState, PulseTime, BlinkTime, BlinkCount, Weblog, Webserver, Emulation"}
05:39:38 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/COMMANDS4 = {"Commands4":"DomoticzInTopic, DomoticzOutTopic, DomoticzIdx, DomoticzKeyIdx, DomoticzSwitchIdx, DomoticzSensorIdx, DomoticzUpdateTimer"}
Any Ideas???
Matt

Jay S

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Feb 21, 2017, 11:56:50 PM2/21/17
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What do you mean nothing happens?
The relay seems to be turning on and off ok.

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Feb 22, 2017, 12:54:21 AM2/22/17
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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)

05:39:38 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/COMMANDS1 = {"Commands1":"Status, SaveData, SaveSate, Sleep, Upgrade, Otaurl, Restart, Reset, WifiConfig, Seriallog, Syslog, LogHost, LogPort, SSId1, SSId2, Password1, Password2, AP, Hostname, Module, Modules, GPIO, GPIOs"}
05:39:38 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/COMMANDS2 = {"Commands2":"Mqtt, MqttHost, MqttPort, MqttUser, MqttPassword, MqttClient, Topic, ButtonTopic, ButtonRetain, SwitchTopic, SwitchRetain, PowerRetain, GroupTopic, Units, Timezone, LedState, LedPower, TelePeriod"}
05:39:38 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/COMMANDS3 = {"Commands3":"Power1, Power2, Light1 Light2, PowerOnState, PulseTime, BlinkTime, BlinkCount, Weblog, Webserver, Emulation"}
05:39:38 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/COMMANDS4 = {"Commands4":"DomoticzInTopic, DomoticzOutTopic, DomoticzIdx, DomoticzKeyIdx, DomoticzSwitchIdx, DomoticzSensorIdx, DomoticzUpdateTimer"}

if I press the button on the sonoff box the relay turns on & off ok. (text below is from using the button)

05:38:41 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/RESULT = {"POWER1":"ON"}
05:38:41 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/POWER1 = ON
05:38:42 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/RESULT = {"POWER1":"OFF"}
05:38:42 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/POWER1 = OFF
05:38:57 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/RESULT = {"POWER1":"ON"}
05:38:57 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/POWER1 = ON
05:38:59 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/RESULT = {"POWER1":"OFF"}
05:38:59 MQTT: stat/BBQ/LIGHTS/POWER1 = OFF


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Jay S

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Feb 22, 2017, 1:12:52 AM2/22/17
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Hi Matt,

Have emailed you directly.

Jay

Bartosz Tomaszewski

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Feb 27, 2017, 5:00:58 AM2/27/17
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Hello 
I'm Bartosz from Poland. For now I have 1 Sonoff basic and I'd like to have it running with "Sonoff-Tasmota".

Phil Grant

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Feb 28, 2017, 4:04:57 PM2/28/17
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Hi,
I'm Phil in the UK, I've got 4 Sonoffs 2 with RF, 1 S20, 1 Slampher with RF.

I'm running them with Raspberry Pi3 and Node Red from My phone and just linked an Amazon Dashbutton to control the S20 socket.

Just loaded Arendst MQTT firmware to a Wemos D! with relay shield and button shield to monitor control my hot water.

Cheers

Yoda Master

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Mar 9, 2017, 8:33:31 AM3/9/17
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Hello everyone

I love this firmware. I have recently started developing my smart home and so far I have 10 Sonoff basic and 10 more are on the way via post. And the more I look for a ways to implement - the more sonoffs I order. Stop me, I'm addicted ;-)

My configuration is 8 switches for lights, 4 for central heating, 1 for bathroom electical floor heating, 1 for vents, 3 for 2812 LED strips. In addition 5 temperature/humidity sensors, 2 IR blasters for controlling A/C.

This all will be handled by OpenHab2 running on RPi3 with official touchscreen 7in display. Based on how it works it may be that I will move server side to Orange Pi+ 2e and leave RPi3 with display as Openhab control / surveilance and doorbell


Petr Faitl

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Mar 12, 2017, 3:32:27 AM3/12/17
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Hey guys,

Petr currently residing in NZ. I have merely one Sonoff Basic, to test and see what it can do. If I can squash some bugs (separate post) then I might re-purpose it to reset my router when it stops talking to the outside world. For some reason it likes doing it about once a couple of weeks.

Otherwise I have a lot of different kit from rPi3 running HA, some WeMos still waiting to be deployed, Belkin Wemo light switches and Makers (though they are getting replaced, as they are not as good as they've been marketed. Notwithstanding expensive.) and a few home made circuits to control my garage doors, gates, etc. The one thing I probably like the most is Google Home, which really was the starting block to all my home automation. Hope Google pulls out all the stops to make it even better.

Phil Kolodij

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Mar 21, 2017, 3:46:50 PM3/21/17
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Hi all,

Im Phil from the UK, i have 3 sonoff devices

1 x basic
1 x rf , and
1 x TH16.

the basic sonoff i have re-flashed a few times now i have a hankering for developing a distributed brewery control system with an esp8266 connected to every sensor and valve all communicating via udp packets on a dedicated lan,  However my current plan is to employ the TH16 as a diy 'hive' type central heating controller.

I was rather hoping that i could start by using the off the shelf s/w I even overcame my distaste for smart phones (financial i object to having to top up monthly.)
But i was a little dismayed to discover that while both temp and humidity are displayed for information purposes in the eWelink app neither seem enabled to trigger a change of switch/relay state?  So google led me here..  
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Dmitriy Krikun

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Mar 26, 2017, 4:15:04 PM3/26/17
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Hello, I'm Dmitri, Minsk, Belarus. I use this program for ESP8266, I really like it. The program will have a future if it is finalized. 1. Button name - user replace. 2. Make a convenient and designer WEB interface 3. Make the button on the main page the ability to register user references, to go to other SONOFF by other IP addresses. Thank you for your program, I will wait for its development.

David Lang

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Mar 26, 2017, 4:59:18 PM3/26/17
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button names only show up in the configuration, why would it matter to change
them?

the webserver isn't the primary focus, mqtt connectivity is. There are severe
resource limits on this so whatever you are thinking of as a "designer web
interface" is likely to eat more resources on an already very tight system. Is
there something specific you are wanting?

what do you mean by "register user references"?

David Lang

P.S. software is never "finalized" :-)

Dmitriy Krikun

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Mar 27, 2017, 1:00:28 AM3/27/17
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Sorry for my english, this translates the computer. The central server is not always necessary, the new direction of the Internet of things is communication between them, the neural network. The names of the buttons, if there is sonoff 4ch - it's hard to remember which one is responsible for, and having the inscriptions, it's easy to see-1 bedroom button, 2 kitchen button and so on.

воскресенье, 26 марта 2017 г., 23:59:18 UTC+3 пользователь David Lang написал:

David Lang

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Mar 27, 2017, 1:26:08 AM3/27/17
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well, if you are looking for something that doesn't require a central server,
the tasmota firmware isn't really designed for you. You could adapt it, but at
that point, changing button names is pretty trivial.

If you can come up with a way of improving the web interface without it taking
noticably more space, patches are welcome.

But we warned, there are settings that have been limited to 10 characters to
save on RAM, so things are _really_ tight with all the other functionality that
you are not wanting to use.

On Sun, 26 Mar 2017, Dmitriy Krikun wrote:

> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 22:00:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dmitriy Krikun <dimk...@gmail.com>
> To: SonoffUsers <sonof...@googlegroups.com>
> Cc: dimk...@gmail.com, da...@lang.hm
> Subject: Re: Introduce Yourself

Володимир Андрущенко

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понеділок, 9 січня 2017 р. 22:58:16 UTC+2 користувач Jay S написав:

Володимир Андрущенко

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Apr 5, 2017, 2:35:18 AM4/5/17
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Hi!
Hello World!
I am from Ukraine! 

Володимир Андрущенко

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Apr 5, 2017, 2:36:11 AM4/5/17
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Hello World!
I am from Ukraine!
Regards!

bborncr

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Apr 18, 2017, 3:40:49 PM4/18/17
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Awesome comprehensive firmware! Congrats to the author!

Here in Costa Rica I have several SONOFFs controlled using node-red.

- Original SONOFF
- SONOFF Touch
- SONOFF Dual
- SONOFF S20
- SONOFF TH16 with AM2301
- SONOFF 4CH
- SONOFF SC

urs.epp...@switch.ch

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Apr 22, 2017, 3:33:05 AM4/22/17
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Hello
I'm Urs from Switzerland.
I own 4*TH10 and 4*POW since a few weeks.

I use the following message chain: sonoff <-> MQTT <-> node-red -> emoncms

I primarily play around with it. I implemented AES encryption to secure the data between the sonoffs and node-red, this was a real pain.
Before the sonoffs I worked with NodeMCU and ESP-201 and built battery powered DHT22 sensors with it.

Since yesterday I use a TH10 to measure the temperature in a freezer, and a POW to measure the current and power consumption of the freezer. The reason behind this:
I own a new solar power plant on my roof, 8kW peak. I have no battery to store the energy from the day to be used during the night. But one idea is to control the freezer so it cools down during the day with the free solar energy to about -30 degrees, and then it can be switched off during the night, while it warms up to about -15 degrees. We will see. Just got the measurements working.

Rogier Eggers

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May 27, 2017, 5:39:29 AM5/27/17
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Hello, Rogier here from The Netherlands

Tasmota looks really promising. I just bought 3 Sonoff POW's. I'm looking to control ligths and power consumption. I'm intending to control it using openhab, which is already set-setup. I'm having difficulty to flash the POW's though as discussed in a new thread ;-)

Rogier

Tom Trautman

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Jul 13, 2017, 6:03:21 PM7/13/17
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I am a building automation application engineer.  In my professional life, I program smart buildings and create graphical interfaces.

Earlier this year, I started putting Sonoff switches in my home.  Domotics is my frontend.

Most of my sonoffs are using Espurna firmware.  My most current one is using Tasmoto.  

Derek McFarland

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Jul 26, 2017, 10:34:19 PM7/26/17
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Hello, I'm Derek from Canada.  I'm considering user the 4 Channel Pro to connect a downstairs ornamental gas fireplace flame and blower to the upstairs Nest via Indigo Domo.  No cloud with Indigo and the Nest HVAC state is exposed.

Derek McFarland

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Aug 24, 2017, 12:14:05 AM8/24/17
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I have received a 4CH and a 4CH Pro and have them both flashed to the latest master version of Tasmota which is great.  I would like to include an interface to Indigo Domo and have been told that the attached ino has to be loaded into the device for the indigo plugin to communicate.  I struggled through the 4 CH and 4 CH Pro experience with Tasmota and need some help or hints on how to include the attached ino into the tasmota firmware.  I see duplicate functions like wifi included in both projects.  Any help would be appreciated.

Derek 
indigo.ino-v-1-10-5.zip

Bapt Ist

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Sep 1, 2017, 5:45:19 AM9/1/17
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Awesome firmware! Congrats to theo arends! 

I have several SONOFFs controlled using node-red and domotics  

original sonoof, dual, TH16... 
many wemos d1 mini!
and 1 banggood dual relay and tasmota work on it! :)

Mark Ellis

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Sep 7, 2017, 6:33:30 AM9/7/17
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Hello I'm Mark from South Africa


I'm brand new to home automation. I bought a couple of Sonoff switches from BG on a whim and now I'm planning to change my entire house! 

I'm still learning so please forgive stupid questions :p

Yusri Salleh

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Sep 13, 2017, 10:53:35 AM9/13/17
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hi im yusri from Malaysia

got 10 sonoff basic
1 sonoff bridge
2 sonoff POW
1 sonoff touch
1 sonoff b1
2 sonoff t1

Balu

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Sep 14, 2017, 4:12:49 AM9/14/17
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Hey everyone,

even though Thomas is my real name, people call me Balu (the name of the bear from Disney's Jungle Book in German). And before you ask, it of course has something to do with my character, the way I dance and yes, my figure too... :-p

I am just starting to play with home automation, Sonoffs, Tasmota, Raspberry and Node Red, but it's been an interesting ride so far. :)

     Balu

James Grangeiro-Phipps

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Oct 27, 2017, 2:39:22 AM10/27/17
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Hi All, 
James here - security architect and openhab user

Lots of Sonoffs about the house and garden, built a hardened network for them that seems to be krack proof thus far :)
Loving the code and would like to say thanks to all who put in the effort to keep it live, not much of a developer my self but will try to help where i can.

Jerry83560

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Nov 16, 2017, 9:56:04 AM11/16/17
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Hello group

My name is Jerry, I am keen on home automation.
I have one Sonoff basic presently controlling a lamp with timer or on demand from the eWeLink Android app.
I have ordered two more Sonoffs, on one I plan to flash new firmware, my aim is to control with HTTP from Google app scripts.
I am following the threads on flashing via Arduino IDE with ESP8266, etc. but I am still a bit unsure how to do this.
Suggestions on where to look and comments welcome.

Jerry

Ian Lim

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Nov 20, 2017, 9:16:35 PM11/20/17
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Hi All,

I am Ian from malaysia.

currently my smarthome consist of 

Broadlink, Sonoff, Smartthings and Pi.

Alexa is my main voice control for now before google home arrive.

Using Hassio to control them.



Mel Lee

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Nov 28, 2017, 1:46:36 PM11/28/17
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Mel here from upstate NY in the USA..

just started doing custom ASK n AWS integration with Alexa and wanted to try sonoff devices emulating as a hue to upgrade some of my lightning in the house on as cost effective as possible

Stephen Mann

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Nov 30, 2017, 12:18:07 AM11/30/17
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Hello group.  Just found this group and was wondering what are the features of Tasmota?

I have about 5 Sonoff Switches and one Sonoff Touch around the house, plus a dozen esp8266-01's .  I wrote my own code for them because I didn't know anything else was available, so what is Tasmoda?

Don Willingham

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Dec 2, 2017, 7:51:11 AM12/2/17
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It is an acronym for:
Theo
Arends
Sonoff
Mqtt
Over
The
Air

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

Callum Mckay

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Dec 14, 2017, 11:19:28 AM12/14/17
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Hello,


I'm Callum and I'm from Scotland. I've recently bought a couple of Sonoff basic switches, a lightswitch and a 4ch pro which I managed to fry (see my other post)

I like tinkering with stuff and I have home assistant setup on a raspberry pi

Philip Keymer

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Dec 14, 2017, 6:33:50 PM12/14/17
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Hi Everyone! 

I am using Home assitant to control my Sonoffs currently for lights and DHT temperature - trying to build a pool timer/chrolitnator with a sonoff-Pow.

Cheers

Phil

Cysix

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Jan 14, 2018, 12:04:24 PM1/14/18
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Hey Jay... a bit off topic, but FYI Aeotec has a new micro switch/dimmer that does work in the switch box without a neutral.  Not shilling the product and have never used it myself (I'm in the US), but I thought I'd give you a heads up: https://aeotec.com/z-wave-light-dimmer-switch.  Only problem vs. the Sonoff is that the Aeotec switch is bugger all expensive!

On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 3:10:38 AM UTC-5, Jay S wrote:
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.

Drumkeeragh

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Jan 25, 2018, 12:34:21 PM1/25/18
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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.

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Matt Ward

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Feb 8, 2018, 9:46:02 AM2/8/18
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Hi all, little late here.

I currently have 3 Sonoffs...
1 x Basic with Tasmota and a bad power supply section
1 x Basic with stock 1.55 firmware, can convert OTA to Tasmota when ready
1 x POW with Tasmota

I also use Wemos devices, about 10 with various sensors and buttons, a few Wemo outlets and a couple of Dash buttons, Hue hub and Osram lights and hub.  I have an ancient house with 1990's wiring, so no neutrals to switch boxes... that sucks. 

All are feeding into a Pi 2 running Hassio and a ton of automations and a pretty web interface. 

My goal was to eliminate the need for any cloud connections, except for one remote Basic and Alexa.  I had been dependent upon IFTTT, Wemo, Alexa and E-welink clouds and was not comfortable with controlling 1 give space heater that the kids use.  It all started when I wanted an automation to turn that unit off after a max runtime.  If the cloud went away, it might not turn off!  Now I even automate their curling irons, they shut off 45 minutes after they turn on!  All of my automations, except a lamp at work, will run without any internet connection and without my main router even being up.  Forcing all Lifx lights to 1 ssid, all wemos to 1 ssid and all other stuff from Yeelight to Alexa to a third ssid.

It has been an interesting adventure so far for a 52 yo non-programmer with 2 kids aged 11 and 15.  I squeeze time in to setup and implement new things late at night.  The beauty of it is that almost all devices can still be operated manually or via phone app and clouds if HA goes down.

Currently working to build an in fan ceiling fan controller that will switch speeds and control the lights...  No neutrals or extra wires intalled, just basic single light switch with RF controllers currently.  I was an electrician at one point and currently I am a network engineer, so the physical stuff is doable, programming gives me fits!

Marmitako

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Feb 18, 2018, 11:45:50 AM2/18/18
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Hi all,

Only two sonoff:

* 2 gang wall swicth
* 433 Bridge

Hope to learn a lot reading here ...
bye

Peter Macdonald

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Feb 21, 2018, 7:27:00 PM2/21/18
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Hi Jay,
Peter from Australia here. Recently retired and have the opportunity to pursue my interest in Home Automation. Have purchased a load of Sonoff devices to play with. The Ewelink software is adequate but as others have noted, plenty of shortcomings. Depending on the cloud and the QOS of internet here is not reliable enough. I have just started the steep learning curve for RPi/OpenHAB/MQTT. Patience and plenty of researching on the web will undoubtedly get me there.
Regards,
Peter

er...@erflores.com

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Feb 23, 2018, 6:16:18 PM2/23/18
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Hi,

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!

pier giacomo ornolio

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Mar 11, 2018, 6:06:01 AM3/11/18
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Hello to everybody,

this is Piero from Italy, 
I currently use Sonoff Basic (2), TouchUS (18), B1 (1) and Router (1). On the Touch I mounted Tasmota 5.12.0; on the Basic, B1 and Router I left the ITEAD 1.6.0.

All 18 Touch are installed in a single location (home) and this is the configuration:

-10 Touch divided into 3 groups are configured as button (Pulsetime 2) and drive 3 relays.

-2 Touch are configured each with an additional traditional switch

-3 Touch are configured each with a DS18B20 temperature sensor (located outside the switch) to detect temperatures of 3 different rooms.

All Touch are configured in energy saving mode(sleep 50).

All Touch are on the same LAN on the same wifi Access Point device (DSL router of telcomm company) and connected to a Raspberry PI3 in the same LAN, running MQTT, Apache and SSL

I access all the Touch locally (wifi) and remotely (Internet) using Routix's MQTT Dash and a customized Web application.

Although I have some problems -not critical-, I am very satisfied with this application.

My problems currently are:

a) in case of restart of the Raspi server, some Touch switch to on -in a random way -, although they were initially turned off. Please note that all Touch are configured with "poweronstate 0". Any idea?

b) I have not yet found a satisfactory technique to detect and pub on MQTT the state of the load driven by the Touch Pulse (currently always off except 200 ms when switching). Any suggestion ?

c) all Touch were flashed (Tasmota) with OTA. But B1 and Router have failed to flash either with OTA, or using the USB-TTL serial interface (FT23RL) connected to Arduino. I now ordered another serial converter PL2303-HX, hoping to be luckier.

I am also worried of the news reporting ITEAD software on new devices produced, now manages certificates so ... goodbye OTA, unless Arendst succeed to convince ITEAD to let the certificates usage optional,

Andy Maddick

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Mar 11, 2018, 9:24:38 PM3/11/18
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Sonoff router ?
More details please
Thanks
Andy

pier giacomo ornolio

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Mar 12, 2018, 3:23:56 PM3/12/18
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Andy Maddick

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Mar 13, 2018, 12:07:34 AM3/13/18
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Thanks for the link pier giacomo ornolio
I thought it may have been something else

Greg from Oz

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Apr 7, 2018, 4:27:08 AM4/7/18
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Hi Greg for Oz here.
I have been using sonoff for only 3 days and so far so good although I have manged to kill one sonoff wifi range. It only works now when really close to access point now.
I have previously used X10 and MIsterhouse which I replaced with Domotiga and now I am using node-red and Domotiga.
I have set up a light in the garage door and used gpio14 for a magnetic switch so I know if the door is open or not. The light only comes on when the door is opened and it is dark.
Its really good hardware and it works.
There is one question which I will ask here and later on in the forum and that is how can I use GPIO3 as a switch so I can open and close the door. It just needs to be a circuit that closes the switch for a second and then open again and the door will open. I have read things about 4.7k resistor and pull up etc which means nothing to me yet. I think thats how I killed the wifi on the sonoff. I just plugged it in. oops.
I figure I will put a resistor across the RX(gpio3) and ground? Thats the bit I don't get.
Anyway off to read other stuff on the forum.

Ricardo Sanchez

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May 1, 2018, 8:32:31 AM5/1/18
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Hello all,

I am Ricardo, from Spain, and I was testing sonoff devices and also similar devices from a couple of competitors, but some days ago I discovered Tasmota and I am really in love with it, so much that I have ordered several Sonoff units and some ESP8266 boards, and decided to forget the other closed-source devices.

I flashed my Sonoff S20 with Tasmota 5.13.0 and installed mosquitto 1.4.15 on a local linux machine. Wonderfull! However, while testing the timer feature, I found what seems to be a bug, and I would like to report it to the developper. if this is the not the right place, I'd be grateful if somebody tell me where I should report.

Setting the timers through the web interface works great, but it gives wrong results when trying to do it manually using mosquitto_pub and mosquitto_sub. I do not know who is actually the culprit here, Tasmota or mosquitto, but since the only reason for me to use mosquitto is to manage Tasmota, I will start reporting that bug here.

The following:

mosquitto_pub -h localhost -t cmnd/mytopic/timer1 -t '{"Arm":1,"Mode":2,"Time":"-00:20","Window":10,"Days":"D-MXJVS","Repeat":1,"Output":1,"Action":1}'

(that is, I want the power to be turned on every day except mondays, about 20 minutes (plus/minus 10 mins) BEFORE sunset)

That gives a wrong result in two components as you can see either using mosquitto_sub or checking the timer on the web interface.

Using mosquitto_sub, you see that you actually obtained:

{"Timer1":{"Arm":1,"Mode":2,"Time":"00:20","Window":10,"Days":"1011111","Repeat":1,"Output":1,"Action":0}}
 
That is, Time and Action return wrong values:

Action is actually set to 0 (off), instead of 1 (on). In fact, if you write "Action":2, you actually obtain "Action":1, and son on (weird, one unit less!).

And the "Time" parameter cannot accept negative values. But if I publish a value greater than 11, then I actually set a negative time.

For example, "Time":"13:20" gives "Time":"-01:20", and the minus sign is also visible on the web interface.
However, if I publish "Time":"12:20", mosquitto_sub shows "Time":"00:20" (without any minus sign), but the web interface shows that you have actually obtained -00:20.

In short, if seems the the JSON string is either missinterpreted or missrepresented in these parts.

Maybe most people prefer the web interface, but I like scripts, so I would like to be able to rely on mosquitto_pub and mosquitto_sub to change and check settings.

I hope this can be solved. If Tasmota is not the culprit, please let me know to report the bug to mosquitto devels.

Best regards, and long life to Tasmota!

Ricardo.

Don Stefano

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May 3, 2018, 9:58:54 AM5/3/18
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I'm Stfean from Germany. I'm using tasmota with about 10 Sonoffs and openHAB connected via mosquitto.

I have 3 RF Bridges, 6 Basic and 2 Rfs.

Marcel van Dorp

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May 10, 2018, 8:43:27 AM5/10/18
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Hi,

I'm Marcel from the Netherlands and just started with Domoticz. I have 4 Sonoff Basic (and 2 dual waiting for delivery). I use a raspberry Pi2 with Domotics.
I was unable to get ESP-Easy working (unit freezes after some time), but with Tasmota it is working great!

Regards,

Marcel

Ron L

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May 24, 2018, 10:44:52 AM5/24/18
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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)

My current setup utilizes the Sonoffs configured with MQTT with my Broker running on a Raspberry Pi 3.

Very impressed by these tiny devices and with the Tasmota firmware Theo has developed.  Looking forward to working with this group.

Colin Law

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May 24, 2018, 11:05:48 AM5/24/18
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On 24 May 2018 at 15:44, Ron L <rgl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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.

Make sure that each time you change user_config.h that you change the value for
#define CFG_HOLDER
that tells it to load the new settings when it reboots.  I use a datetime value like 0x18051550 but any change will do.
 

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)

For sonoff basic I use env_default = sonoff and just ignore irrelevant stuff in user_config, However my version has not got sonoff-classic (I have not updated for a couple of months) so not sure what that is.
 
Colin

kiat....@gmail.com

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Jul 19, 2018, 12:38:32 PM7/19/18
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Hi all,

I'm Kiat also from the UK (in north-east Lincolnshire) currently full time renovating our house, including getting a full power + data rewire by a professional electrician. Network is uncertified Cat6A with APs and security cameras, all over POE.  My IoT setup is evolving (I'm a complete home automation newbie) focusing on lights first.

Primary server: OpenHAB v2
Voice controller: Google Home
Interior lights: remotely dimmable Tradfri LEDs via Zigbee (IKEA remotes, Google Home)
Exterior lights: remote ON/OFF via WiFi and PIR (Tasmota-Sonoff, B.E.G. Luxomat PIRs, LED floods)

Looking forward to learning and sharing here!

Kiat

Simon Coggins

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Sep 21, 2018, 7:26:02 AM9/21/18
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Hi!

I'm Simon from South Wales.

Got a handfull of Sonoffs. Been using 2 for turning lamps on and off for a year or so now and they're working great.

Hoping to do some more involved projects like connecting sensors and WS2812s to the spare GPIO of the basic.

Also looking to replace my central heating control with something controlled by sensors, some Sonoffs and Node-Red.

Lenovo K910

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Sep 26, 2018, 3:34:47 PM9/26/18
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Hi Simon!   Best regards from Berlin (Germany, Europe).

Please be so kind to tell me,
how You managed to add Your posting in this thread "Introduce Yourself".   I can't find a button like "add a new posting to this thread"...

will You be so kind?   Thanks to You.


Bubi

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Sep 28, 2018, 12:46:32 PM9/28/18
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Hi everyone,
I'm from Italy (so I'm using US size touch devices and EU plugs).
I'm evaluating to change the firmware of my devices but I'm very new to ESP so is quite hard to understand what to do.
I hope that someone will help me before I fry everything!

Paul Robinson

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Oct 14, 2018, 11:57:29 AM10/14/18
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Howdy All,

Paul from AU and Started using tasmota a little while ago after getting my hands on some sonoff kit.

Been using tasmota a bit lately on my own hardware, so I thought i might join to share my own creations, quite impressed with how well tasmota works for the platform.

John Duffy

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Oct 25, 2018, 5:33:12 AM10/25/18
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Hi,

I'm John from Leeds, UK.

Retired software developer mainly Windows/.NET and ERP/Oracle projects.

Always been interested in Home Automation - started off with the X10 which was a major disappointment!
Fortunately I have been able to retro-fit a Sonoff basic into the X10 appliance module and I have quite a few of those.
I fitted a Sonoff 16amp with temp sensor into the utility room heater when the built-in electronics failed.

I have a few projects on the go currently Now that I am retired I may even have some time to devote to them!
1. Home Automation integration with Texecom alarm system.
2. Custom bedside lights using Sonoff duals and Tasmota via MQTT
3. Garage door control from phone. I must have bought at least 8 of those useless Marantec key-fobs at ~£30 each!

I am developing the HA system on a RPi using OpenHab and Node-Red.

Looking to learn and hopefully contribute at some stage.

Regards to all.

John

Angelo Santagata

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Oct 25, 2018, 6:07:48 AM10/25/18
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Hey all,

Im Angelo, Live in London. By day Im a professional software architect for a big "californian" company who are having their conference this week  :-) Home , love hacking tinkering with gadgets and I try and do some coding.

Currently I have an old MacMini (running Ubuntu) running
- HomeAssistant
- Grafana 
- InfluxDB
- Mosquitto (MQTT)

Currently using the Sonoff RF bridge to monitor my windows, when my alarm is set I send a MQTT message to HomeAssistant and then check to see if all the windows are closed:-) awesome. I also have other rules in HA to turn the lights on/off when Im not at home, turn the light on when someone rings my door bell etc.

I recently retired a heating project (https://github.com/asantaga/PiHeating)  using a raspberryPi/Relay and communicating with the Max! heating system to provide total zoned heating, boiler control with geofencing. Alas I had to kill it off because the Max! Cube doesnt like being polled and regularly looses its settings:-( :-( 

Anyway, more projects to come!

Angelo

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Greg from Oz

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Waldy Wiz

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Waldy Wiz

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Nov 19, 2018, 11:26:05 AM11/19/18
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Howdy all, I'm Waldy from the UK with:

1 x Sonoffs basic
1 x Sonoff S20

having trouble connecting with the former so will be posting shortly for help

Roger Costa

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Nov 21, 2018, 10:13:27 AM11/21/18
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Hello, 

I´m Roger, live in Portugal.

1 x sonoff 4ch Rev2
1 x sonoff touch EU

Alfredo

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Nov 27, 2018, 2:04:43 PM11/27/18
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Hello All,

I'm Alfredo from Spain and I have more Sonoff that I can actually track ;-) Mostly Basic and Dual, plus un S20 plug connected to Home Assistant via MQTT... I also have one Sonoff I just purchased for which I have no clue what I've been sold, and will follow up shortly asking for further advice!

Reginald Lewis

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Dec 13, 2018, 12:24:48 PM12/13/18
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just saying hello my name is reg and i must saay I am glad to be here

ephemeralp...@gmail.com

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Hullo

Rob here in the UK. 

9 x Touch Panel light switches - KingArt - N1  (honestly like these a bit more over the sonoff ones, they're just cleaner... still a knock off tho, lol)
Going to add socket controls soon.

Massive thanks to all the folks, esp over at sonoff-tasmota GIT & wiki who did this work..  absolutely brilliant.


Forked to refine and add support for the device, capturing scribbles here. 

Running a stripped custom build with home OTA updates. 

Controlling with OpenHab setup on a Pi, fully local, then linked to myOpenHab for remote access.

Way too much fun, so probably going to be messing with things for a while. 

Philip Knowles

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Welcome. Amazon have some reasonably priced (£22) UK double sockets (individually controlled) which are neater than adding the extra external ones.

Regards

Phil K

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Marcin L.

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Jan 13, 2019, 5:19:07 AM1/13/19
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Hello from Poland.
I have several Sonoffs Basic, Light Bulbs and HA server in the middle of configuring home automations. 

Michael Bartmann

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Jan 13, 2019, 2:22:56 PM1/13/19
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Hi, I'm Michael from Germany.

I currently have

4 x Sonoff-S20,
4 x Shelly-1,
1 x Sonoff-Basic,
1 x "Jinvoo" 3-gang touch switch (as generic device, works fine)
1 x "strange Tuya/EU clone" (working, but mapping of dimmer result to topic still not very usable)

All run 6.2.1 and the Tuya clone runs 6.3.0, because 6.4.1 does not work for me.
(It reconnects Wifi every 2 minutes, presumably because my access point ranges overlap a lot and the device decides to switch over!?)

Cheers

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