Home Automation - Smartkit

patrick123 said:
I have found that most of the Sonoffs seem to "bounce" the relay during powering up until the software sets it according to specs.
This is the main reason why I removed it as my gate opener and short of me making some form of "buffer circuit" to avoid this, my gate will only be controlled by my remote.
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Its why I like self built options for important things like doors and gates, dont want them opening unintentionally. For everything else off the shelf items like Sonoff and Shelly are great.
In your own firmware you just set the pin to low on initialize.
 
patrick123 said:
I have found that most of the Sonoffs seem to "bounce" the relay during powering up until the software sets it according to specs.
This is the main reason why I removed it as my gate opener and short of me making some form of "buffer circuit" to avoid this, my gate will only be controlled by my remote.
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I have never had this ever happen to me even once after configuring it properly.

The most important being parts being...

1. Keep relay off on Power On. (Default is ON)
2. Make sure you understand Retain settings and set them accordingly.
 
What have I created.

I just asked my 5 year old kid to please turn off the one set of down-lights and instantly got the response “No dad, why don’t you ask Siri to do it”.

Guess I better get on that Shelly project double quick.
 
BetaProject said:
How often does that happen on Tasmota? I've been using the ESPHome firmware on my Sonoffs for the past few months, and have had no dropouts, but I hear that Tasmota exposes functionality that ESPHome doesn't.

Might buy a few more devices and run Tasmota on them, but if dropouts are a thing, I may just stick with ESPHome.
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ESPHome is the easier one to do simple stuff and better if you using through home assistant due to the native API, no MQTT needed.
Tasmota is *way* more configurable if you want to do advanced stuff with it but a bit more work to integrate into home assistant. Setoption 19 1 does help to make it auto discoverable but it doesnt work for everything.
 
SauRoNZA said:
What have I created.

I just asked my 5 year old kid to please turn off the one set of down-lights and instantly got the response “No dad, why don’t you ask Siri to do it”.

Guess I better get on that Shelly project double quick.
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I swear I'm cr*pping on the junior sales rep every single day. These Europeans are just not as efficient as the Chinese.
 
phaktza said:
I swear I'm cr*pping on the junior sales rep every single day. These Europeans are just not as efficient as the Chinese.
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Yeh it’s like they expect **** to sell itself.

But beyond that my bottle neck is actually getting in the roof first to see what needs to go where.

If I have two switches to one set of lights how would the shelly work with that? Must bridge one of them?
 
Rocket-Boy said:
ESPHome is the easier one to do simple stuff and better if you using through home assistant due to the native API, no MQTT needed.
Tasmota is *way* more configurable if you want to do advanced stuff with it but a bit more work to integrate into home assistant. Setoption 19 1 does help to make it auto discoverable but it doesnt work for everything.
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Is it possible to flash to ESPHome from Tasmota?

Random question but I would only consider taking a look if that were possible.

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Oh I see it’s actually quite possible except that I don’t have Hass.io so don’t have the add on.

Would probably be a bit silly since I have a fully working MQTT setup already.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I have never had this ever happen to me even once after configuring it properly.

The most important being parts being...

1. Keep relay off on Power On. (Default is ON)
2. Make sure you understand Retain settings and set them accordingly.
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Yep, They are set like that but I still get the little bounce when powering up the unit which is sufficient to trigger the gate opening.

Goobie said:
Forgive my ignorance here, how do I set this in the firmware?
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This link should give you a better idea.
End random "Ghost Switching"
 
SauRoNZA said:
Is it possible to flash to ESPHome from Tasmota?

Random question but I would only consider taking a look if that were possible.

****

Oh I see it’s actually quite possible except that I don’t have Hass.io so don’t have the add on.

Would probably be a bit silly since I have a fully working MQTT setup already.
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Yup its super easy to flash ESPHome from Tasmota, you just use the firmware update link and choose the ESPHome .bin file. You can compile a .bin from inside home assistant to make it easier.

You can also compile it from arduino IDE if you arent using hass.io.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
Yup its super easy to flash ESPHome from Tasmota, you just use the firmware update link and choose the ESPHome .bin file. You can compile a .bin from inside home assistant to make it easier.

You can also compile it from arduino IDE if you arent using hass.io.
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Meh, too much work.

Why can’t it just be pre-compiled?
 
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