BigTimer by Thomas: Hi Peter, I’m using BigTimer since a while and it is really helpful to control things. Your work is amazing! I have one change request. I created a flow to override the on / off values enabling other people in the household to change values via the dashboard. This works perfect for the On Time and Off Time with on_override / off_override. But I’m also using On Time2 and Off Time2 as I control a lamp for my chickens in the morning and evening. I would like to recommend to create an on2_override and off2_override to be able to override the second timer as well. Your feedback is highly appreciated Best regards Thomas Dec 4, 19:22
The Ridiculous Windows 11 “Show More Options” and How To Bypass by : Mine is Windows 11 home 22H2 Dec 4, 18:33
The Ridiculous Windows 11 “Show More Options” and How To Bypass by : I should have been clearer – mine is very much up to date Windows 11 Pro 64-bit edition. I’ll fix that. Ta. Clearly the fellow in the YouTube video had the same issue as me. Dec 4, 17:52H801 LED RGBWW Strip Controller + 4-relay ESP8266 Board by : Does anyone have the schematics oft the H801? Dec 1, 14:11
Tasmota and Node-Red Long-Term by : I’m not so pessimistic about the node-red dashboard, because: the new version is in the works ( https://flows.nodered.org/node/@flowfuse/node-red-dashboard ) Reason “The Node-RED Dashboard has served us well for many years and provides an intuitive way to create live dashboards for Node-RED flows. However, the original dashboard is based on Angular v1, which is no longer actively maintained. We recognized the need for a secure, updated and innovative successor. That’s why we embarked on this journey.” the state of play: https://dashboard.flowfuse.com/user/migration.html Nov 30, 09:10
BigTimer by : Did you ever get to the bottom of this Kevin? I came here looking to see if I could figure this out, I see the same about ~50 second delay before BigTimer fires. Nov 30, 03:11
Sonoff NSPANEL – I STILL like It – Update by : Pero nodered-contrib-ewelink ha dejado de funcionar Nov 29, 22:06
- Sonoff SNZB-02D Zigbee LCD Smart Temperature & Humidity Sensor by : I’ve not used the NSPanel Pro’s “thermostat” at all. Way to simple to be used as a real-world thermostat. Nov 24, 23:36
Sonoff SNZB-02D Zigbee LCD Smart Temperature & Humidity Sensor by : Hi Pete, I have an Nspanel Pro with an SNZB-02D temp sensor, it pairs fine and reports data. However it is not possible to set the sensor as a thermostat, it simply does not show up in the ewelink app. Sonoff told me it is not possible to use it as a thermostat but in your video I can see that is possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j71aaj3adg So, could you please tell me what is the way you did? Thanks a million, Janos Nov 22, 19:48- ChatGPT BooBoos (guest appearance from Bard) by : Ok and thanks for the great feedback gentlemen… DID YOU WATCH THE LAUNCH??? Nov 18, 19:05
ChatGPT BooBoos (guest appearance from Bard) by : Maybe someone has found a great place to store their acorns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZkAP-CQlhA I’m not a ChatGPT guru, but I agree with Dave: tell the AI what it did wrong or what is missing, don’t start with a fresh command each time. Nov 18, 17:18
- ChatGPT BooBoos (guest appearance from Bard) by : Not gone off teh boil with this – but strangely, my checking for internet connection has coincided with the worst 4G connectivity I’ve ever had. I’ve tested 2 different 4g routers, 2 different accounts with different companies and running Speedtest from the routers themselves to remove any doubts about my PC (hadrwired) connectivity… I’m getting pings as high as 600ms, effectively reducing my 4G speed from 100-150Mbps download, to almost zero at times – day 3 and counting. Nov 18, 11:56
ChatGPT BooBoos (guest appearance from Bard) by : Even though things aren’t always working the way we expect, us rookie developers can learn a few new tricks from the stuff these AIs return to us. The silver lining point of view… Nov 15, 17:18
- ChatGPT BooBoos (guest appearance from Bard) by : Hi Doug Your last response.. you used “write a python script to test if my internet connection is active every 5 minutes and return a result only if there is no internet connection” Well, I tried that identical request – copied from yours.. – assuming we’re talking chatGPT… “Certainly! You can use the requests library in Python to perform a simple HTTP request to a reliable server (e.g., Google’s DNS server) to check for internet connectivity. Here’s a Python script that tests your internet connection every 5 minutes and prints a result only if there is no internet connection:” It just so happens my RPi has requests installed already… here’s what it came up with for ME… import requests import time def check_internet_connection(): try: # Try making a request to Google’s DNS server (8.8.8.8) response = requests.get(“http://8.8.8.8”, timeout=5) response.raise_for_status() # Raise an error for HTTP errors (4xx, 5xx) except requests.RequestException: print(“No internet connection.”) return False else: return True if __name__ == “__main__”: # Run the check_internet_connection function every 5 minutes while True: check_result = check_internet_connection() if not check_result: # Perform additional actions if there is no internet connection # For example, you can send a notification, log the event, etc. print(“Performing additional actions for no internet connection.”) time.sleep(300) # Sleep for 5 minutes (300 seconds) So I ran it and … python3 goog3.py No internet connection. Performing additional actions for no internet connection. Unfortunately for chatGPT there WAS and IS a connection – to be sure I immediately did THIS. ping google.com PING google.com (142.250.185.14) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from mad41s11-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.185.14): icmp_seq=1 ttl=118 time=816 ms 64 bytes from mad41s11-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.185.14): icmp_seq=2 ttl=118 time=1043 ms 64 bytes from mad41s11-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.185.14): icmp_seq=3 ttl=118 time=1629 ms 64 bytes from mad41s11-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.185.14): icmp_seq=4 ttl=118 time=742 ms 64 bytes from mad41s11-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.185.14): icmp_seq=5 ttl=118 time=2030 ms Some day maybe 🙂 Nov 15, 17:05
- ChatGPT BooBoos (guest appearance from Bard) by : See my reply to you. If I put it right here we endup in a spiraling narrow page. So it’s at the end 🙂 Nov 15, 16:58
- ChatGPT BooBoos (guest appearance from Bard) by : Ok, this gets better – I asked Bard to do my LAST example – a Node-Red flow… it made a flow (JSON) but when I tried to pull it into Node-Red it came without wires 🙂 Just 3 nodes sitting there.. [ { “id”: “n1”, “type”: “http request”, “url”: “https://www.speedtest.net/api/sync?units=Mbps”, “method”: “GET”, “ret”: “txt”, “x”: 140, “y”: 100, “wires”: [ { “target”: “n2” } ] }, { “id”: “n2”, “type”: “function”, “func”: “function(msg) {\n\tvar data = JSON.parse(msg.payload);\n\tif (data.download.speed < 40) {\n\t\tmsg.payload = \"Slow Internet Detected\";\n\t} else if (data.download.speed === 0) {\n\t\tmsg.payload = \"No Internet Detected\";\n\t}\n\tmsg.payload = data.download.speed + \" Mbps\";\n\treturn msg;\n}", "wires": [ { "target": "n3" } ] }, { "id": "n3", "type": "debug", "name": "Internet Speed", "wires": [] } ] Nov 15, 11:17
- ChatGPT BooBoos (guest appearance from Bard) by : Note – I then disconnected the broadband and note the last 2 lines of output – so every minute I’m getting status info – and on failure I get 2 additional lines to signify no connection.. all good but again not what I wanted – which was nothing until loss of connection then just the one-liner… Do we have a version issue or incorrect indenting? Over to you… Nov 15, 11:08
- ChatGPT BooBoos (guest appearance from Bard) by : Good morning Doug Before we get too starry-eyed about Google – I just asked Bard my exact same first question as you did – and got a DIFFERENT ANSWER – this one failed miserably. I changed 5 minutes to 1 minute as I have a reset button for my 4G router (which feeds my main router) and it only turns off for 30 seconds – add another minute for it to get a signal again.. Below you’ll see me invoke goog.py as I called what it gave me….and the awful result once the connection was lost…. python3 goog.py Traceback (most recent call last): File “goog.py”, line 14, in ping_google() File “goog.py”, line 6, in ping_google response = subprocess.check_output([“ping”, “-c”, “1”, “google.com”], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, universal_newlines=True) File “/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py”, line 395, in check_output **kwargs).stdout File “/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py”, line 487, in run output=stdout, stderr=stderr) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘[‘ping’, ‘-c’, ‘1’, ‘google.com’]’ returned non-zero exit status 2. pi@mainpi:~:09:43[1]> So I tried your code – calling it goog2.py – failed due to no indents – thanks Wordpress. So I put in what I thought were the correct indents in your code and… I’ve included a screenshot of the code.. (only change – 60 seconds) and here’s the incorrect result… which came out immediately.. python3 goog2.py PING google.com (142.250.201.78) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from mad07s25-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.201.78): icmp_seq=1 ttl=118 time=122 ms — google.com ping statistics — 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 121.668/121.668/121.668/0.000 ms It’s still looking like there’s no way out of having to know what you’re doing… which kind of defeats the object.. is there something wrong with my indenting (image)? Nov 15, 11:00
ChatGPT BooBoos (guest appearance from Bard) by : …which, I agree, may not be that helpful. Also, I’ve found that in my first prompt, asking it to double check that its answer complies with the request, or even ‘do a code walkthrough, simulating execution, to validate…’ can work. Odd and not intuitive, yes. Nov 15, 08:30
- Cheap Sonoff-lookalike BASICs – Erm – NO. Aubess – YES. by : I use Node-Red to avoid being dependent on the cloud…. and check out my new blog entry on ChatGPT – https://tech.scargill.net/chatgpt-booboos/ It could be in the not too distant future that it could write some useful glue code for Node-Red…. not totally convinced yet based on the experiments I just did. Nov 14, 20:47
- Cheap Sonoff-lookalike BASICs – Erm – NO. Aubess – YES. by : Part in part. There is some solder as you see in the photos but not right across the track. Nothing to stop you thickening it up if you have an iron. Pete Nov 14, 20:44
Sonoff iPlug S60TPG UK Smart Plug by : Difficult to tell from the photo but is there a gap or standoff at the back of the plug? I bought some Teckin wifi plugs and when you plug them in to a UK power socket the back of the case conflicts with the power switch. If you push the device fully in to the socket it pushes the switch off. This design flaw was changed in later revisions. Not an issue if using an extension lead. Nov 14, 14:25- Cheap Sonoff-lookalike BASICs – Erm – NO. Aubess – YES. by : Are the traces for power just the PCB or are they covered with solder like the Sonoff devices? Not sure on the current capacity of the traces only. Nov 14, 14:22
- My New Drone/Bicycle Strobes by : Well, the Strobon units do indeed look good (not that pretty but lightweight – I can see 2 of my light pushing the Mini2 over it’s 250gm) – HOWEVER I’ve been through the ads and cannot find the Strobon C-2 units available in Spain – UK would be nearest but thanks to Brexit you can imagine what the price for two will be… As for the other lights – I missed the point completely – you can fasten them to the underside of the back props – elastic band or adhesive – all supplied with the lights… I’m still listening… Nov 12, 17:36
- My New Drone/Bicycle Strobes by : Ok you may have sold me on these… turns out there’s no-where to fit the lights I bought whereas there is that handy spot on the DJI Mini 2 which looks like it WILL fit these lights (Cree being the people who make the LEDs). Not cheap so I’m wondering if I need 2 or not…. I went for the Mini2 as all you have to do is register here in Spain at under 250 gms (not even that if there’s no camera and hence the drone would be a toy). I’ve no idea if others do actually register but I thought better safe than sorry – it’s free. I also read up a lot before actually turning the drone on – which might be why I’ve not crashed it (yet). It stays in the case at the slightest hint of wind. And I pondered the same thing about the weight – but I’ve seen pedantic civil servants in the UK who WOULD go after the fine detail in general. Anyway I’m off to look at that ad, just hoping there are no duty/tax/postal surprises here in Spain. Nov 12, 17:02
My New Drone/Bicycle Strobes by : Which drone have you gone for? These ‘Flytron’ strobes are popular for drones, the DJI Mini 2 has a bit to spare below 250g, but they’d push the 3 / 4 Pro over (technically – not sure who is realistically going to actually check the weight exactly!). https://store.flytron.com/collections/led-light-systems/products/strobon-c-2-dual-cree%C2%AE-standalone-drone-strobe-with-usb-type-c-charging Nov 12, 13:57
- Cheap Sonoff-lookalike BASICs – Erm – NO. Aubess – YES. by : Interesting you say that – for a while I was using Ikea and Lidl stuff but at least here in Spain, Lidl stores seem to have lost interest in much of that – and the Ikea controllers I used didn’t have as much as the option to power up in the previous state so I binned mine. I don’t use Home Asistant – don’t like it personally and am much happier in Node-Red Dashboard – I always ensure Tuya Zigbee will run on Zigbee2MQTT (hence MQTT controllable from Node-Red) – most Aqara sensors will work with Zigbee2MQTT – I’d rather not use Smartlife if possible. I haven’t yet succceeded in getting Tuya and Node-Red collaborating – can’t get past the project setup. A long time ago when Tuya-convert worked I was a lot happier. Matter – I have my first devices already running on Matter but none of the miriad of ESP8266-based devices will go near Matter – and the Google Home/Matter hookup is far from perfect – Alexa seems OK with it but Alexa audio recognition isn’t as good as Google IMHO. “Hey Google – Living Room ON”. No problem. “Alexa, Living Room ON” works half the time, other times I get “I’m sorry, I don’t understand” or “Living Room can’t do that”. I’ve sworn more at Alexa than at our cats. Nov 11, 12:10
- More Sonoff Zigbee Goodness by : Hi I do all my phone stuff on 5Ghz and the PC is hardwired 99% of teh time, but so many IOT devices (ie all ESP stuff) will only work on 2.4Ghz – even some cameras. I bought a shielded cable – didn’t help with the SSD – ultimately, covering the lot in foil completely solved the problem. Thanks for the quick feedback. Pete Nov 11, 11:50
Cheap Sonoff-lookalike BASICs – Erm – NO. Aubess – YES. by : Aliexpress knockoffs…. Ikea is Rolling out more and more Zigbee stuff, most Lively in partnership with Tuya, also Lidl is doing the same. If you deploy all over the house, think home assistant and component which are safe from reliable sources. Maybe start looking at matter / thread (too late for you). Why home assistant? To avoid being dependent on the cloud If you internet is cut off. Nov 11, 11:45
- More Sonoff Zigbee Goodness by : Funny you should say that… I have, what, 25 Zigbee devices and several WiFi access points – no issues there BUT I DID recently discover (and report back to router manufacturers) that USB3 can interfere with both Zigbee and 2.4Ghz WiFi. I added a USB3 large external SSD to my NAS, the WiFi router in the same room simply gave up and I could not get some Zigbee stuff to work until I was advised to wrap the SSD and it’s associated cable in foil (alien abduction style) – and I am 100% sure that fixed the problem I had – it’s sitting there a month later looking utterly loony – but no problems at all. I’ve not yet noticed any WiFi/Zigbee issues but I’ll take that on board. Generally I do use Zigbee mainly for sensors and the odd repeater. Nov 11, 10:57
- More Sonoff Zigbee Goodness by : And that opens another can of worms, now I’m starting to deploy this stuff around the house in rural southern Spain, mostly these and other “Mini” controllers simply refuse to fit into my standard Spanish wall switches… I may have to re-think the backing boxes – I wonder if I’m just unlucky or have others come acros this? Nov 11, 10:46
- More Sonoff Zigbee Goodness by : I’d say most similar devices would have equali difficulty with 12 gauge solid copper wire – surely any recently rewired or recently built USA building will now be using thinner wire for light switches now we’ve stopped using filament lamps? I’ve certainly had no problem in Spain or the UK even with pre-LED/CF wiring… perhaps the answer is simply to write to such companies (who in my experience are fairly responsive unlike most couriers and phone companies) and remind them that America is a big market and thy use 110v for lighting and could they make connectors a little bigger in new products? – they’d be daft not to oblige. I find contacting Chinese companies directly in a well-meaning matter very often gets results. Pete Nov 11, 10:43
More Sonoff Zigbee Goodness by : Problem with these devices is they WILL NOT accommodate #12 gauge solid copper wire (Romex). I know I know, lighting circuits are typically wired with #14 gauge romex but a large number of homes in the USA use #12 gauge romex for ALL lighting and duplex outlets. #14 gauge solid copper (Romex) works perfectly….#12 gauge solid copper (Romex)….not a chance ! I believe the problem is that the onboard wire clamps are selected for 220VAC which allows for a much smaller gauge wire (16 or 18 gauge) because Sonoff mostly sells to the 220VAC world market. Just my opinion Nov 10, 06:22
- My New Drone/Bicycle Strobes by : JUST. More’s the point, there’s not enough room on the underside of the Mini 2 drone to fit one without obscuring a vent… but then I just twigged to fastening them to the rear pro legs.. Nov 9, 16:39
Tuya Smart Knob from AliExpress by : Triple click change between normal and command mode. It’s annoying feature, you click multiple (more than twice) times as you think controller did not catch first click and suddenly remote stops working. Then in zigbee logs you see it’s in command mode. Nov 9, 14:14
Tuya Smart Knob from AliExpress by : I think I got the exact same knob a couple of weeks ago, although mine came from Moes. Not sure if you missed yours, but mine came with a metal plate in the box, and there is a magnet on the back of the knob, so you stick the plate to the wall, and the knob to the plate. Then you can pull it off whenever you want to. That all said, I have not actually tried connecting it to anything yet, so am interested to see the weird behaviour that you experienced, and wondering if I will see the same! Nov 9, 13:41
- Beautiful Christmas tree Lighting this year by : Correct. The nodemcu board has 3v3 out and also the original 5v in. I’m using 5v. Nov 3, 13:32
Beautiful Christmas tree Lighting this year by : I read you have a 5m strip with 2.5 cm spacing. In the video it seems you power the strip from the ESP/NodeMCU? Is that correct? Nov 3, 13:07
- Beautiful Christmas tree Lighting this year by : Yes, for anyone looking in a WLED for the first time (I’ve been using it for ages and as of last week have a 64*8 2D array showing “Merry Christmas Ho Ho Ho!”) – it’s as well to check out the LED settings properly – maximum overall current, default brilliance etc…there’s a lot in there and though LEDs are generally marketed as POWER SAVING – not it you have hundreds of them 🙂 I’m currently my first set using a USB hub which can put out 3A per outlet. Indeed as a general principle, some time ago I binned my old 0.5A, 1A etc USB plug-in-the-walls and generally think of 2.5A as normal – with QC and PD USB for our phones…. but that’s a whole other conversation 🙂 Right that’s it, I’m off to get another set… when the weather starts to go off in November you can’t beat lots of pretty coloured lights to improve the mood… 🙂 Nov 1, 08:46
Beautiful Christmas tree Lighting this year by : And the version of the Brizlabs lights that I got was around $22 for a 20m string of fully RGB lights. I’m not sure why they show a solid colour when they are fully capable of individual colours. Obviously a fully addressable string CAN be a solid colour, but the reverse is not always true. Just silly marketing, IMO. Nov 1, 08:24
New Sonoff SNZB-01P, SNZB-02P T/H Sensors + MiniR4M by : I am unable to create a routine with this device (SNZB-0P2) as it doesn’t show up in Alexa Smart Home. It sits in Alexa as a Device but not as a Smart Home Device. Oct 31, 19:40
- Beautiful Christmas tree Lighting this year by : That was quick, Rogan, I’m only just finishing the article as we speak! Yes they do seem similar – and yes you could use an ESP32 if you have one handy – way overkill in my example as the ESP8266 works a treat but for anyone buying a board now the price difference is minimal and possibly if I go for a much longer string, the ESP32 could be beneficial. My lights are WS2811 – not totally sure of the difference… anyway I know both work with WLED and of course it has FAR more mode control than those IR controllers. Ok I checked – yes – Amazon.es for example https://amzn.to/46N9PaK My AliExpress purchase was 5m (16ft) but 192 LEDs… Not suer why in your ad they only show the CYAN colour – I’m not sure which of the options you went for…. it SEEMS like the full colour 200 LED version is $33 ?? Feel free to expand on that… 🙂 Oct 31, 15:52
Alexa-Applestrudel (formerly Cakebaked formerly Remote2) by : I’m in the same boat. Not seeing any activity coming into Node Red, where it was working as recently as a month ago. I’m guessing it’s a cookie/auth/cache issue, since it sounds like scargill’s stuff is still working. Oct 26, 20:32
Another New Sonoff Sensor – the Zigbee Human Presence Sensor by : Mmmm I’ve yet to come across any sensor that I’d describe as very good at discriminating pets from humans – indeed most of my cameras are happy to mistake passing moths for people. Oct 26, 10:50
- Another New Sonoff Sensor – the Zigbee Human Presence Sensor by : I dont let the cats in my office 😁 Oct 25, 11:18
The All-New Raspberry Pi 5 !!! by : You’ll probably have to make sure to set the “use X” preference then. I suppose it might work with the XWayland support thing since basically everything I tried does. But fairly soon all Linux systems will be Wayland based and you’ll need some alternative access route. I can’t imagine that it will be hard to find options. And Pi 5 is now shipping so you should be able to get one soon. Oct 24, 19:15
Xiaomi Mijia 1S Second Generation Smart Vacuum by : Hi Pete, I’ve got a first generation of this model, bought it new in 2016, its still up and running. Liked it so much that i bought a second hand one last year and this one is cleaning my bedroom. Grteetings, edwin. Oct 24, 06:22
Upgrading an old Tasmota and MUCH MORE by : That’s simple enough. Glad you got it sorted. Oct 18, 17:29
- The All-New Raspberry Pi 5 !!! by : i use Mobaxterm for everything – it needs to work in there or this will be the shortest RPi relationship I’ve ever had 🙂 Oct 18, 15:57
- Upgrading an old Tasmota and MUCH MORE by : Yes.. discord.. scargill. When i get home. Out for morning coffee… Oct 18, 11:30
- Upgrading an old Tasmota and MUCH MORE by : Hi PKKRUSTY That seems sensible – and thank you for that – BUT that doesn’t stop an MQTT command from turning on the unit… AND… it doesn’t work. With the temperature at 44.9 I tried putting this into the console.. rule1 on ds18b20#temperature>43 do backlog switchmode1 15; power1 0; var1 0 endon on ds18b20#temperature Oct 18, 07:46
- Upgrading an old Tasmota and MUCH MORE by : Hi KB Yes I did remember rule1 1 thanks. Anyway I’ve scrubbed all that…. what I’m really after is something simpler… I simply want the sonoff to respond to button presses and MQTT in the normal way – UNLESS the temperature is over X degrees in which case the device hsa to stop taking ON/OFF commands or button presses – and the output needs shuttinh off until the temperature drops to say X-10c. For the sake of argument X could be fixed at 80c. IF you DO get the urge to tackle this – don’t forget so74 OR put a pullup resistor on the DS18B20 (the former seems more sensible). SFROMIS in the forums reminded me if using a rule to refer to DS18B20, not DS1820 as in the outdated Tasmota docs. I’m up to here in market/chemist and other chores first think in the morning or I’d be up half the night trying to crack this. Oct 17, 20:53
Upgrading an old Tasmota and MUCH MORE by : It looks like their Docker setup is actually built on Nginx, you might be able to adapt that. https://github.com/TasmoAdmin/TasmoAdmin/tree/master/.docker/rootfs/etc/nginx Oct 17, 20:35
- Upgrading an old Tasmota and MUCH MORE by : hi All good EXCEPT – clearly this was written for Apache fans. I use nginx these days and there is no such thing as some of the apache folders mentioned or nginx equivalents – so I can’t proceed with that. Pete Oct 17, 19:30
52PI Raspberry Pi Mini Tower NAS Kit by : It does support UASP, which is required for decent performance over USB. I also got TRIM working, which is required for the long term health/performance of the SSD. Oct 17, 17:52
- Upgrading an old Tasmota and MUCH MORE by : Now I’m utterly confused. I put that rule1 (modified to DS1820) into the console and set rule to 1. I added in the backlog command – and rebooted. The button on my Sonoff still directly controls the relay – ideas as to the next step? Oct 17, 17:38
- Upgrading an old Tasmota and MUCH MORE by : Meanwhile for those of us with Google Home and Alexa, the MQTT alternative works well. I would like to get that Tasmota’d BASICR4 working on matter but my attempts to date fail at the last hurdle. Comments welcome. Oct 17, 13:44
Upgrading an old Tasmota and MUCH MORE by : matter will never arrive on tasmota esp8266 because of memory limits, details here: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Matter/ Oct 17, 12:26- The All-New Raspberry Pi 5 !!! by : saw in some videos that you need to use tigervnc to support new gui, not ultravnc or realvnc Oct 17, 12:16
- Upgrading an old Tasmota and MUCH MORE by : Already made on change – that resistor isn’t needed if you use “SO74 1” in the console – which activates an internal pullup. I’m now looking at the Tasmota page you suggested “Simple Thermostat Example”… in their example – maybe simply changing minumum temperature to 0 and max to 60 ??? I’m familiar with rules but only ever used short ones… Is this simply entered as one line? Rule1 ON system#boot DO RuleTimer1 70 ENDON ON Switch1#State DO event toggling1=%mem1% ENDON ON event#toggling1=0 DO mem1 1 ENDON ON event#toggling1=1 DO mem1 0 ENDON ON Rules#Timer=1 DO Backlog var1 0; RuleTimer1 70; Power1 0 ENDON ON tele-SI7021#temperature DO Backlog var1 1; RuleTimer1 70; event ctrl_ready=1; event temp_demand=%value% ENDON ON event#ctrl_ready>%mem1% DO var1 0 ENDON ON event#temp_demand>%mem2% DO Power1 0 ENDON ON event#temp_demand Oct 16, 13:25
Just a Quicky – Tasmota Remota by : For Apple there is a different App called “Tasmotrol” which works great for me, although it feels a little less technical than “Tasmota Remota” and I´m not sure if it supports the same amount of devices. Also they charge for a pro version when you want to use more devices after their free trial. But their support responded to my questions and it seems to be under constant development… Oct 12, 17:50
- New Sonoff BASICR4 and Battery-Powered S-MATE 2 by : but here he shows how to do the same with a basic r4, using a double rocker switch… how it does, i don’t know, probably an additional capacitor inside which keeps the power or for the little time of the switch to change it’s position? take a look at 1:30 for how it connects them, this way there’s always a side of the switch connected to the live line Oct 12, 10:45
- New Sonoff BASICR4 and Battery-Powered S-MATE 2 by : That’s what S-MATE is for – I had mine up and running – sadly due to sheer late-night incompetence I blew it up – waiting for a replacement to arrive. Oct 12, 05:11
- New Sonoff BASICR4 and Battery-Powered S-MATE 2 by : Pete, take a look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQrmfpxAqo8 Oct 11, 23:41
- Another New Sonoff Sensor – the Zigbee Human Presence Sensor by : Yup… and no I don’t have a link yet. The device is new and Sonoff have been on hols – just back – so hopefully they’ll give me more info for users in the coming days. I’m not on commission incidentally – I like to keep my reviews independent 🙂 Oct 10, 01:31
Another New Sonoff Sensor – the Zigbee Human Presence Sensor by : Thanks for this quick review! Do you have a link where to buy? Z2M should work so to see: https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman-converters/pull/6144 I see above is already mentioned in the comments.. 🙂 Oct 9, 21:25
- Another New Sonoff Sensor – the Zigbee Human Presence Sensor by : Thinking about it, yes I’ll simply send values 1 and 0 to Grafana as results come in, 1 being detected, 0 being noone there. Oct 6, 12:29
