Home Automation - Smartkit

Seems it was caused by the Retain flag on the
MQTT broker putting it in a boot loop.

Raises a bit of a concern, hopefully it's reliable enough to get stuck in a triggering loop, burning out the electric lock.

At least I now have a semi smart doorbell, push the doorbell button, photo gets sent on telegram, and screen pops up on iPad with camera view, both allowing the door to be opened.
 
xrapidx said:
Anyone have any ideas on this - connected a Sonoff SV to my entrance door lock... Set PulseTime to 10.

It triggers once, then drops off the network - and the only way to get it back is to reset it, reconfiguring everything?

I've tried Tasmota versions 6 through 8.
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what is your full setup, i have a feeling you are pushing power through it and haven't made it a dry contact.

Do you have a power supply to a striker lock with your sv in between? what is powering your sv?
 
xrapidx said:
Seems it was caused by the Retain flag on the
MQTT broker putting it in a boot loop.

Raises a bit of a concern, hopefully it's reliable enough to get stuck in a triggering loop, burning out the electric lock.

At least I now have a semi smart doorbell, push the doorbell button, photo gets sent on telegram, and screen pops up on iPad with camera view, both allowing the door to be opened.
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Never ever use retain in Home Assistant.

There isn’t a single instance I can think of where it makes sense and doesn’t just cause endless kak.

That being said I’m not convinced that is causing your issue.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Never ever use retain in Home Assistant.

There isn’t a single instance I can think of where it makes sense and doesn’t just cause endless kak.

That being said I’m not convinced that is causing your issue.
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Not bad advice but not 100% accurate. There are instances where retain is useful.

For example.
When you send a command, don't use retain.
But on receiving a state update like is switch on, then you want retain. So let's say HA gets restarted, then it can just get the last state again from the retained value.
 
Tinuva said:
Not bad advice but not 100% accurate. There are instances where retain is useful.

For example.
When you send a command, don't use retain.
But on receiving a state update like is switch on, then you want retain. So let's say HA gets restarted, then it can just get the last state again from the retained value.
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Yes but you want that retained on the device’s side, NOT by Home Assistant where it can often be wrong and also doesn’t update again.

HA retain is terrible, useless and broken.

Let your device do it instead.

If I relied on HA retain then it would all be ducked every time I came home during load shedding as it would remember the state it was before the power went out instead of the real state.
 
Steamy Tom said:
any recommendations for an alarm to integrate into home assistant? i am familiar with ids but their stuff doesnt seem to support it? i have read good things about konnected?
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anyone did anything like this? i see konnected doesn't seem available locally. im guessing the other option is paradox?
 
Steamy Tom said:
anyone did anything like this? i see konnected doesn't seem available locally. im guessing the other option is paradox?
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We're getting them in (konnected version 2)once they're officially released in the bigger countries. Unfortunately we can't get the current version type approved.
 
phaktza said:
We're getting them in (konnected version 2)once they're officially released in the bigger countries. Unfortunately we can't get the current version type approved.
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nice, do you have any idea of a lead time? 3 months/6 months/1 year etc?
 
ToxicBunny said:
Pity...

Hoping it gets sorted soon... Looking to expand the stuff in the house in the not too distant future when I'm no longer broke.
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Been thinking of getting the Shelly too. Can we just import them, even if they aren't certified here?
 
Steamy Tom said:
what is your full setup, i have a feeling you are pushing power through it and haven't made it a dry contact.

Do you have a power supply to a striker lock with your sv in between? what is powering your sv?
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SV is powered off the below PSU - 12v and GND to SV In, NO and GND to SV Out. The Striker is also connected to SV Out and GND - just realised that might be part of the problem.

Didn't make it a dry contact - wondering if the SV shouldn't be connected the PUSH instead - on the output. (PUSH is currently connected to a keypad)

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Tander said:
Been thinking of getting the Shelly too. Can we just import them, even if they aren't certified here?
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I'm sure we can... I just like the idea of buying locally and having that local "support" aspect.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I'm sure we can... I just like the idea of buying locally and having that local "support" aspect.
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Well, I am still waiting for my last order from Banggood. Hopefully it arrives this week. I'll order some Shelly's in the next batch - as there is no local stock sadly.
 
xrapidx said:
SV is powered off the below PSU - 12v and GND to SV In, NO and GND to SV Out. The Striker is also connected to SV Out and GND - just realised that might be part of the problem.

Didn't make it a dry contact - wondering if the SV shouldn't be connected the PUSH instead - on the output. (PUSH is currently connected to a keypad)

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yeah you have a wiring issue for sure, i would expect the SV's output to go directly to the striker lock, it is the relay now.
 
xrapidx said:
SV is powered off the below PSU - 12v and GND to SV In, NO and GND to SV Out. The Striker is also connected to SV Out and GND - just realised that might be part of the problem.

Didn't make it a dry contact - wondering if the SV shouldn't be connected the PUSH instead - on the output. (PUSH is currently connected to a keypad)

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Yeah I reckon you are resetting it through electric shock there with bad wiring.

If you can trigger it with just a wire between the push terminals, you absolutely need to make it a dry contact otherwise you will fry something.

But also what the hell are the control terminals for? Maybe try and find a manual for the thing.

You could still power the SV from the power supply you just can’t connect back to it and basically create a circuit in the process. The push terminal does make sense if said keypad button triggers it to open.
 
Steamy Tom said:
any recommendations for an alarm to integrate into home assistant? i am familiar with ids but their stuff doesnt seem to support it? i have read good things about konnected?
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I used to have an X64 from IDS for which I wrote my own Python scripts that subscribe to the my custom MQTT topics and you can then control your alarm via HA. The problem with the IDS guys are that their cloud services seemed to be almost more down than up (in my experience), so I replaced their system with a Paradox system (for which there already is a HA plugin : https://community.home-assistant.io/t/paradox-alarm-mqtt-hassio-addon/38569).
 
SauRoNZA said:
Yeah I reckon you are resetting it through electric shock there with bad wiring.

If you can trigger it with just a wire between the push terminals, you absolutely need to make it a dry contact otherwise you will fry something.

But also what the hell are the control terminals for? Maybe try and find a manual for the thing.

You could still power the SV from the power supply you just can’t connect back to it and basically create a circuit in the process. The push terminal does make sense if said keypad button triggers it to open.
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I think control is to change the output time that gets sent to the lock... let me try make it a dry contact and see what happens - tried connecting it to PUSH - but it does nothing.

It does look like its resetting everything when fired currently, I see the SV reconnects to Wifi
 
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