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Yep, that's indeed what I meant. But also about ESPEasy specifics. I do have some block diagrams to explain concepts and naming schemas, but is this sufficient for someone who isn't used to think in logical blocks? Ton also made some tutorials on how to start implementing some functionality. But can...

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Just a few checks: - A/B not swapped? - GND wire connected between Modbus device and MAX485 board? - DE/RE pin on the MAX485 board both connected to the DE/RE signal on the ESP? - Collision detection disabled/unchecked? (For collision detection to work, you need to have the /RE pin connected to GND ...

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Can you give some concrete examples of what you're missing? Also it is really really hard to write documentation for devs to start developing on some platform as you don't know what level of experience someone has. If you try things too verbose, people won't read it. If you turn the verbosity a bit ...

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Oh and one other tip... Whenever you're using a MQTT controller and are still debugging on low level issues like which pinout to use, it is best to disable the controller until you found out which pins to use. The reason is that any MQTT controller may cause some blocking calls when (re)connecting a...

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You should set the serial port to "HW Serial1", not 0 On serial0 there is the ESPEasy console. The chosen pins should not be a problem as far as I can see: https://espeasy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Reference/GPIO.html#best-pins-to-use-on-esp32-c3 Also not used for Ethernet: https://espeasy....

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8M1M is about flash size (8 MB) and file system size (1 MB) LittleFS is the file system and since about half a year this also implies it is using the latest ESP-IDF5.1 SDK code OPI PSRAM means the PSRAM is connected using 8 lanes (currently "OPI" wiring is only possible for ESP32-S3). For ...

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since a comma (,) is an argument separator, you may need to add quotes to the 2nd arument Publish esppool/read,"[Pool#sensorstats,1,success]" No idea if the rest is OK as this doesn't look like ESPEasy syntax. Do you try to access these kind of stats? https://espeasy.readthedocs.io/en/late...

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Also found this remark:

There are boards out there without a bottom ground plane, where E- is not connected to ground.
That can be corrected by soldering a wire between E- and gnd of the HX711.

Source: https://forum.arduino.cc/t/random-value ... /1072007/5

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Just some other idea... I have not yet seen fake chips of this one, but since every successful chip will appear as fake one if you wait long enough, it is a possibility. Can you take a close-up of the chip and board of the working one and the not working one? N.B. also any resistor values if possibl...

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Are you 100% sure the pinout on the new boards is the same?
Can you test with 1 strain-loadcell to see if it is acting expected?
I have the feeling the pins might not be connected the same way to the HX711.

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What kind of flaws? Is it something we can work around in software? For some sensors I added some "overdrive" mode where I detect 'clipping' of the IR channel and then just assume the same ratio as before the clipping and then extend the calculations for high Lux values like today. Today i...

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I know some DHTxx sensors (not sure which) could get "locked" into some bogus state when they get saturated. You then need to keep them in a warm and extremely dry place for a while to get working again. (e.g. in uncooked rise in the sun or near some food dehydration device) BME280 is prob...

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Please note that Zigbee/Thread is not yet supported in ESPEasy.

WiFi 6 is supported in ESPEasy, but not yet the "let the AP know I will be away for N minutes/hours and still remain connected" feature.

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The HX711 does use extremely low voltage signals, so it is quite sensitive to noise. Try eliminating any noise on the power. e.g. add some 100 nF capacitor close to the power lines of the HX711. Also make sure there is no strange current flowing so inspect the ground of the connection between the bo...

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Which exact ESPEasy build are you using? (see for exact filename the sysinfo page)
I assume you're using a recent build with "LittleFS" in the name as those use the recently refactored Arduino network code.

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On ESP32-xx builds, the suggested text might be reviewed.
I think the LED is even on ESP32-classic on a lot of boards connected to GPIO-2

Problem with some purple ESP32-S2 boards is that those can be a hit-or-miss regarding stability.
But when it works, it is quite responsive indeed.

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You can try to open up some of those really cheap WiFi repeaters and see what these use internally. So maybe just add some 50 ct DC/DC module from Ali Express and you can power them by the available 24V DC. Very likely they have 2 separate PCBs. One for power and one for the actual WiFi repeater. Th...

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Which exact build are you using (filename as reported in the sysinfo page)
Publish is part of MQTT and if you don't have any MQTT controller included in your build, then the publish command isn't present in the build.

ESP01 is extremely limited due to its 1M flash.

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Currently such a mesh feature is not yet present in ESPEasy. Using 2 ESP's is also quite a hassle and I think in the end a cheap 15 euro WiFi repeater which you can use for just your ESP's (or other devices, but don't expect fast speeds from such repeaters) is way easier and maybe even less expensiv...

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Don't use the C2 unless it is built in somewhere. Even Arduino doesn't officially support it. I have submitted several bug-reports of incorrect register addresses to Espressif and I am sure I haven't checked them all. So it is more like a surprise to see it is actually running quite OK. Like we say ...

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I did add the p2pnode#Connected and p2pnode#Disconnected events in this build: https://td-er.nl/ESPEasy/latest/ on p2pNode#Connected do LogEntry,'ESPEasy p2p node %eventvalue1% added: %eventvalue2% with build %eventvalue3%' endon on p2pNode#Disconnected do LogEntry,`ESPEasy p2p node %eventvalue1% no...

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Maybe these "super mini" boards are better suited for this use case as they are nearly as small as those "ESP-01" boards (about 3mm wider). The ESP-01 (and the ESP32-C3 variant of it) do have 8 pins which are rather bulky. These "super mini" boards do have an USB-C conn...

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I also saw this specific bugreport with a "supermini" board: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/issues/9545 It seems to be related to how the serial console is used on the board with native USB. You could disable the console on tools->Advanced page and/or set the serial port to Ser...

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only 4M flash :( ** NOTE: using source code base 20240414 , ESP32-s3 I compiled " custom_ESP32s3_4M316k_CDC " NeoPixel (basic) doesn't work ESP32-c3 I compiled "custom_ESP32c3_4M316k_CDC " NeoPixel (basic) worked perfectly That's extremely odd as the C-series is using a complete...

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Is this a 4M flash unit or 16M?

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Also which IDF are you using?
I do have a board here with about 150 neopixel LEDs and an ESP32-S3.
It is running on IDF5.1 code (Thus LittleFS build)

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I can look into the rules parser accepting NaN, but I'm a bit hesistant to mess with that piece of code as it is now working (very) well and quite fast. And this parsing code is used everywhere in the code. Sending task configuration to receiving nodes does require changes in the p2p code and is plu...

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Just to be sure, you need to end the block with "endon", like this: on Rules#Timer=3 do taskvalueset,3,1,-1 endon Not sure if the rules parser can understand "NaN" Also parsing "NaN" in other platforms is a bit tricky as the only way to check for "NaN" is like...

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If WiFi connection is bad, then lots of network connections may timeout. Timeouts are 'blocking' like they keep the loop() call occupied. ESPEasy p2p is UDP, so that should not really be blocking, but sendToHttp might be and if you have a MQTT controller configured then that is notorious for slowdow...

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One thing you might want to try is to force "b/g mode" (see tools->Advanced page)
And of course not using "ECO" mode.

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Anyway, since the impact of changes needed to do it properly are quite big -as I explained-, I would like to know if the proposed rules do make it workable for your use case. Then we can take this into account when adding the "error state values" and "error handling" and for sure...

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My example to use it via rules is meant to get it working _now_ as other fixes mean adding code, making a build etc. So by creating a working setup via rules, we also get an idea of what really is a practical use case and then decide what to do to make a universal 'fix' for this. We do have the idea...

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@jgrad:

That's why I suggested to check the checkbox (tools->Advanced page) for "Allow TaskValueSet on all plugins:"

This should allow to set taskvalues on non-Dummy tasks.

Doesn't that work for you?

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Right now there isn't any such setting to set values when not being updated for N amount of time. However I think you might be able to do so via rules, as the task does send out an event when it does receive an update. So something like this: on info#update do TimerSet,3,600 // Task #3, set timer to...

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I have not done this myself, so not speaking from experience. But since ESPEasy only can connect to a single MQTT broker, you need to let HA and Domoticz use the same MQTT broker. You can try to create publish commands to emulate the Domoticz required formatting of the messages and then use rules to...

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Maybe also nice to look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIdHBDSQHyw It does create LoRa packets using 'bitbanging' of PLL registers to generate chirps at 900 MHz on a GPIO. This is on an ESP8266/ESP32-S2 and CH32V203. This is absolutely not nice to the Ether as it will be putting quit...

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Keep in mind this is for 1M flash and cannot be upgraded via the web interface, only flashed via serial.

The reason I mention this is that there are ESP01 and ESP01S boards.
The latter one has 1M flash, according to this thread

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"then" is not needed here. See: https://espeasy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Rules/Rules.html#if-else-if-elseif-else And inside the "On Drukknop#Switch do" block you don't need to refer to "[Drukknop#Switch]" as it is also present as eventvalue. This way you actually have t...

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Maybe you should also set some limit on the number of emails being sent, as the node will be "forgotten" after 10 minutes (or was it 5???) so it might hit the email call several times in a row until it is forgotten. N.B. you can also nest variables, so you can keep track of sent emails per...

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Are you sure your sensors aren't affected? It does seem like they might have been as the bug is that the actual ABC-duration can only be lowered and not set higher anymore. Also the S8 doesn't make large steps in adjusting the base level as it only applies some fraction of the encountered offset. Fo...

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Makes sense. What kind environment are you using them that keeps on having such a high base level of CO2? I guess I could add the commands to disable or change ABC on the S8 again, as there probably aren't any S8's being sold out there which do have this firmware bug which renders the sensor unusabl...

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About the SenseAir S8... I'm really surprised to see it is actually outputting such values. I know the S8 is a bit sensitive to overvoltage, so is it possible you had yours exposed to voltages > 5.2V? Like from one of those cheap USB chargers? This might have damaged the lamp inside. Also can you ta...

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Boards which do not have the PPS pin exposed, often do have some LED which is essentially internally connected to this pin. I know the BN220 for example does have some (blue?) LED which is connected to the PPS pin. In ESPEasy I do keep track of when the first message in a burst was received as this ...

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Without posting the code it is near impossible to give a good suggestion where this might go wrong. Like Ton mentioned, IMPROV is used to interact via the serial port when you have the ESP connected to your PC and try to connect with it via the web flasher. The IMPROV code does only interact with th...

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Turning the GPS in an exact pulse every second is quite easy when your GPS module has a PPS pin. This pin will generate a pulse exactly at the start of a second... when it has a fix. Depending on the GPS module, the behavior of this PPS pin may differ. For example not outputting a PPS pulse, or at a...

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Maybe also add %u_build%(N)

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What kind of switch in the settings do you mean?

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Not sure if the AMOLED display needs some specific controller which might not yet be supported.
https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t4-s3
I guess Ton will probably know more about this

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You can often also hear the difference as they really don't sound healthy.

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Nah if you put SMR drives in some kind of RAID configuration you will end up loosing data.
Regardless of your NAS OS.

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