Sonoff Basic - default to ON when reconnected

[Jan Stenvall]

Hello,

First of all I'd like to say thanks for making this great project available for us to use! And in combination with the community, this little sonoff thing is marvelous!

It seems that the relay is not activated (not ON) which means that the lamp or whatever is not lit. This renders my tentatives low on the WAF scale.

Now, I have a question (after searching in the code base), where I can change/manipulate the default state of the relay once the sonoff is hooked up to the mains outlet?

Is this possible at all to do?

Thanks in advance for any suggestion or help!

Best Regards,

//Jan 

[Thomas Fänge]

Hi Jan,

There is a command for this (as well ... ;)):

PowerOnState 1

3.1.1

Turn relay(s) on after power on

According to the Wiki, this will set the default value of the relay (could also be off or last saved value).

(I have not tried it myself, but I guess it should work.)

Best regards,

Thomas

[Jan Stenvall]

Hello Thomas,

(Tack så mycket) Thanks alot for your answer. It led me to search for the OnState character sequence, and I found this in user_config.h:

#define APP_POWERON_STATE      3            // [PowerOnState] Power On Relay state (0 = Off, 1 = On, 2 = Toggle Saved state, 3 = Saved state)

So, I guess that setting the parameter  APP_POWERON_STATE to 1 should do it. I'll test that and post the results tomorrow.

Thanks again!

//Jan

[Thomas Fänge]

Hej Jan!

Kul att hjälpa till!

Yes, you could change the default value that way, but don't forget to update CFG_HOLDER, otherwise the changes are not updated.
Easier is maybe just to send a MQTT message and update the settings, only needed to be done once.

Cheers,
Thomas

[Jan Stenvall]

Hello,

Outstanding piece of software!

I did as you mentioned, I executed the command and it worked like charm! Excellent!

However I did have some difficulties understanding how to execute the command. As an info to for other users (or beginners like me), to execute the command you can either use an mqtt client to send the info to the sonoff device. You can also use the console available on the device. The command is in my case (1 == power on after reconnect) 

cmnd/<devicename>/PowerOnState 1

A big thanks to all that makes this piece of software, and equally a big the guys on the forum!

//Jan