Home Automation - Smartkit

R280 incl
Sonoff T1 1-Gang



For this weekend only. Inclusive of VAT. While stocks last


R340 incl
Sonoff T1 3-Gang



For this weekend only. Inclusive of VAT. While stocks last
 
phaktza said:
R280 incl
Sonoff T1 1-Gang



For this weekend only. Inclusive of VAT. While stocks last


R340 incl
Sonoff T1 3-Gang



For this weekend only. Inclusive of VAT. While stocks last
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Damn the one time I dont look here and the product Im after goes on special :(
I need a couple of T1's for my house Im building.
 
The_Unnamed said:
My only concern with using the Conbee for Zigbee comms is with getting local devices that act as zigbee repeaters?
Most recommendations online are to use smartplugs, which are not available for South Africa.
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Any mains powered zigbee devices will act as a repeater, battery powered ones will not.
So light bulbs, sockets etc will repeat but sensors wont.

I have two Xiaomi temp/humidity sensors for the bathrooms that work on bluetooth and talk back to an ESP32 which then relays the info to home assistant. I use the humidity readings to turn on and off the extractor fans in the bathroom when needed.
 
So I thought I was very bright to use the Sonoff inching switch (https://www.smartkit.co.za/product/...eless-switch-5v-12v/?attribute_voltage=5V/12V) to operate my gate motor remotely for visitors. I did this by allowing the sonoff to bridge the remote button on the Centurion D5 gate motor. It works very well. I press the button in the eWelink app and the sonoff "pushes" the button for 1 second and the gate opens. Push it again and it closes.

Little did I know that when the sonoff looses power and powers up again it momentarily latches the relay as part of the booting cycle in the process opening up the gate. (The power on state IS set to OFF in the eWelink software).

Thing is, I had this set up for more than a year and only notices it now. Could this have been introduced via a new firmware update. I am pretty sure it wasn't always like this.

Can somebody else confirm this as normal?

Thanks
 
Goobie said:
So I thought I was very bright to use the Sonoff inching switch (https://www.smartkit.co.za/product/...eless-switch-5v-12v/?attribute_voltage=5V/12V) to operate my gate motor remotely for visitors. I did this by allowing the sonoff to bridge the remote button on the Centurion D5 gate motor. It works very well. I press the button in the eWelink app and the sonoff "pushes" the button for 1 second and the gate opens. Push it again and it closes.

Little did I know that when the sonoff looses power and powers up again it momentarily latches the relay as part of the booting cycle in the process opening up the gate. (The power on state IS set to OFF in the eWelink software).

Thing is, I had this set up for more than a year and only notices it now. Could this have been introduced via a new firmware update. I am pretty sure it wasn't always like this.

Can somebody else confirm this as normal?

Thanks
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I have these on my gate and garages and electric fence, don't seem to have this problem . You could set it to keep state which would be off?. Why don't you wire it directly to the d5?
 
spikegv said:
I have these on my gate and garages and electric fence, don't seem to have this problem . You could set it to keep state which would be off?. Why don't you wire it directly to the d5?
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So, I set the state to KEEP, flipped the power off and on (it is powered by 5V USB supply) and the gate opened.

Why don't you wire it directly to the D5?
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It is, sorry my mistake, I meant that the Sonoff bridges the remote hardwired switch connections on the D5 (the wire runs from the D5 to the button in the house, where the Sonoff bridges it)

QUESTION: What firmware are you running? I'm using Ewelink, firmwares 3.0.1 and PSF-B01-GL
 
Goobie said:
So, I set the state to KEEP, flipped the power off and on (it is powered by 5V USB supply) and the gate opened.


It is, sorry my mistake, I meant that the Sonoff bridges the remote hardwired switch connections on the D5 (the wire runs from the D5 to the button in the house, where the Sonoff bridges it)

QUESTION: What firmware are you running? I'm using Ewelink, firmwares 3.0.1 and PSF-B01-GL
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Im not super familiar with that particular sonoff model, do you have to connect to a specific GPIO on it or is it already connected via terminals? I know with ESP chipsets if its connected to a certain pin then it gets pulled high or low at boot depending on which it is.

I have had similar issues in the past but I was using home assistant and mqtt at that time and it was related to retain flags being set.
Im pretty sure its a similar issue you are having but I dont know that type of setup you are using well enough to say where to change things.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
Im not super familiar with that particular sonoff model, do you have to connect to a specific GPIO on it or is it already connected via terminals? I know with ESP chipsets if its connected to a certain pin then it gets pulled high or low at boot depending on which it is.

I have had similar issues in the past but I was using home assistant and mqtt at that time and it was related to retain flags being set.
Im pretty sure its a similar issue you are having but I dont know that type of setup you are using well enough to say where to change things.
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It looks like this with dedicated terminalssonoff.png
 
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