Sonoff T1

[Alan W]

I have just bought a 2 gang and a 3 gang Sonoff T1 light switch and flashed with Tasmota. I traced the headers on the board and rested pins in the header holes rather than solder them. It all worked well though and both now have the software running.

I am having a few problems though and thought I’d see if anyone else is experiencing the same.

1) Even with a 90% WiFi signal, the switch is incredibly unstable. Sometimes the web interface becomes super slow, other times it is unreachable. This is generally solved with a software reboot via MQTT. Although sometimes it even disconnects from MQTT and requires a hard reboot (as there is no other way to interface to the switch). Once it has rebooted, the device works well for a while and the web interface is fast and responsive.

2) With the Tasmota software installed, the physical touch buttons on the switch are almost non responsive. They occasionally work well and then for no reason will not work at all. Obviously this means the switch is useless for the purpose it was intended for.

I have the switch post out messages to a syslog server and bizarely, even when the switch fails to connect to MQTT and is unavailable by the web interface, it continues to publish log messages to the syslog (which resides on the same physical box as the MQTT broker). Although there is nothing in the syslog to indicate why the switch becomes slow and/or unresponsive/unusable.

This is using the latest version of Tasmota 5.9.1c.

Has anyone else been having these problems? Is there any way to debug what the unit is doing whilst it is slow and unresponsive and why a reboot temporarily solves the problem?

Many thanks,

Alan

[Tim Karnhof]

You have to modify the switch. you can put some stripes between the frame the second board. the board moves some millmeters to the glass front. i modified all my touch/t1.

[Marek D]

@Tim, can You post some pic how You did it? or explain more?
strips between front touch glass and esp pcb (to increase the distance)
or between power/relays and esp pcb (to reduce the distance between esp pcb and front glass)

[Steve Froggatt]

Hi Alan

Are you able to provide a picture as to where you connected to GPIO0, I think i got it right by putting Pin15 to Resistor R19, but not sure

regards

Steve

[Alan W]

Hi Steve,

I powered just the main (micro controller) board using a breadboard with a 3V3 supply. When putting the chip into flash mode, I connected the ground from the breadboard directly to the GPIO 0 pin on the ESP chip. This is the second pin down on the right hand side of the chip when the header pins are at the bottom. This pin is connected to the LHS of the R1 resistor I believe which is a bit bigger target to aim at with the 0V. All worked well though except the problems I outlined. The switch seems a little sluggish/non responsive sometimes.

[Alan W]

Apologies, that should obviously be R19, not R1.

[Rasmus Eneman]

 I have the same problem with the physical buttons beeing very unresponsive. Was anyone able to solve this and can explain how they did it?

[Justin Tan]

I got my unresponsive button fixed here

https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/wiki/Control-other-devices

SetOption13 1 Enable button single press only for immediate response. Disable by holding 4 x SetOption32

https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/wiki/Commands

[k...@mashtabator.ru]

Hi,

I'd set "SetOption13 1", but no significant change in behaviour. Please help.

[Scott Gowans]

"SetOption13 1" worked perfectly for all my T1's, making touch action instantaneous.

"SetOption13 0" on the console to return to default.  Too easy.

FYI, running Tasmota 6.5.0

[Ken McMullan]

2) With the Tasmota software installed, the physical touch buttons on the switch are almost non responsive. They occasionally work well and then for no reason will not work at all. Obviously this means the switch is useless for the purpose it was intended for.

My single channel T1 with TASMOTA works fine on the web interface, etc. but I have noticed that half the time, the switch does not respond to touch. It always responds eventually, but it can take 2 or 3 goes. I think it erroneous to state 

"Obviously this means the switch is useless for the purpose it was intended for." Let's not forget that we have modified our switches beyond their intended purpose!

Perhaps we haven't configured TASMOTA properly? I'll be looking at switchmode and switchstate.

 

[Phil]

Try a router restart??  i have had intermittent and random mqtt broker loss of connection and web gui issues which turned out to be down to my router/AP  now at first sign the router gets a clean reboot and everything is back to normal.

As i access everything via a wifi connected lappy which suffered no networking issues the wifi root of my sonoff tasmota wifi woes went unrealised for too long.