Let's Control It

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Plenty of electric valves, also with 12V and some shipping from the US, on AliExpress.

Most important of all: Don't forget to post a video with the sprinkler automatically shooting the raiders!

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This discussion is drifting off a bit...

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With the garage door closing after three minutes after the first motion detection inside the garage. A giant living mouse, uh … turkey trap. Awesome.

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Planting something the monsters can’t stand, smell- or taste-wise? Difficult issue, not to be solved with an ESPEasy firmware update...

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Give the wife a pair of nuraphones . She can enjoy her favorite tunes, while the bird canon blasts and won't hear a bit. Perfect insulation (combined in-ear and overear) + awesome, if not to say mind-blowing sound quality when needed + ANC + built-in mic with Social Mode on tap of the capacitive sid...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wItHytj9BDs

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In the end the turkey garden planter attracts even more turkeys, while the males might try to mate...

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How about hiding the camera and microwave sensor in an animatronic wolf, which howls and growls on detection. All problems solved. Also available: Lion or T-Rex.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/ ... 33706.html

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The problem with the microwave radar in my opinion is that reacts to any motion, which could be in worst case a piece of paper or a plastic bag flying by (think of „American Beauty“). Pretty good choice for indoor scenarios, but problematic outdoors with „nature“ according to my experience with „Off...

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Well, they advertise with raccoons, skunks, cats, dogs, deers and swans ... so I'd simply give it a try. My car sits in a big, dry, warm and cozy parking garage where they have a couple of these installed in order to keep the marters away. Seems to work.

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Silly question: How about simply installing an ultrasonic animal repeller, like this one?

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So, why did you order the HFS-DC06 and HB100 then? ;) :P What speaks a bit against the RCWL-0516 is the rather short range (on 7 meters unobstructed; amongst others I need to cover a 11 x 1,5 meter hallway), and if you actually need a shorter range, SMD soldering is required (0805 resistor @ PCB pos...

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This means a WiFi access point in the 5 GHz band may not interfere with radar and thus as soon as it detects something that looks like radar, the AP will stop sending for 10 minutes. So that leads to the question: How far away from router or 5.8 GHz Wifi devices does a 5.8 GHz Radar Sensor like the...

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But because I was curious I also ordered a 10GHz microwave motion sensor to try out. Should be in my hands in 3-6 weeks. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000382657591.html That’s the HB100 which I've mentioned above and which I have also on my desk. We gonna test that as well. Problem is that it „f...

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Those are "DFS" channels. Meaning the AP needs to keep silent for 10 minutes as soon as it detects radar signals when using those channels. And these devices probably trigger such a DFS filter. Can you translate that for RF idiots like me? So does that make the HFS-DC06 (and any other 5.8...

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Here’s a „Datasheet light“ for the HFS-DC06 I found on the web.

HFS-DC06 Datasheet.pdf.zip: (194.11 KiB) Downloaded 275 times

My fear is a bit that the 5.8 GHz might interfere with the Wifi channels 157 to 177, which operate in the 5.8 GHz range. There are some user reviews on Amazon which claim exactly that.

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I didn't find the time yet to experiment with the HFS-DC06 (and HB100, which I have also), but my partner in crime and I intend to do so shortly. A solution is badly needed, PIR just doesn't work in some of my environments (e.g. through the glass door of the shower). As for the voltage of the HFS-DC...

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mrwee wrote: ↑10 Aug 2021, 22:11 I actually find that Shelly devices works fine with standard firmware and MQTT. Not much need for flashing

No MQTT running here. Can it be also operated using the standard firmware, but without the Shelly cloud? I’m thinking of http requests and e.g. JSON output.

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I’m looking into replacing some of my Homematic Dimming Actors with Shelly Dimmers 2 running ESPEasy. Questions are as follows:

Fully supported by ESPEasy? Setting & reading dim values?
Which device/plug-in to use?
Can the two switch inputs be read independently or are those in parallel?

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File format? Why both in parallel? Why not simply drop the Build number or replace it with the release date of the binary, which represents the Github release number/date?

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Can someone explain us the Firmware Build number (see image below)? Where does it originate? And why does it stagnate, whereas the date in the binary keeps (of course) increasing/proceeding?

: Firmware Buildname.png (137.93 KiB) Viewed 4440 times

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Gotcha. We are using the Generic HTTP Controller alone, so we don't see any problems here.

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I might overlook something here, but according to what we (me and my partner in crime here in Germany) know at this point, we need to GPIO info only for devices we want to control/switch. There are not many of those controllers. Well, I went randomly through the device pull-down menu, and found that...

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so we at least have one build in this month... way too long between builds Better properly and flawless, than frequently, often and buggy. a) IDX is used for sending to the Domoticz controllers, so not available for other purposes. That is if one is using Domoticz. If not, it can be diverted from i...

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Right now we don't have something like this. But I guess it would make sense to have an entry/filter on the JSON url to show everything that's also shown on the pinstates page. There all "monitored" pins are shown. The JSON Output shows the GPIO states, but unfortunately not the number of...

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Also just tried http://<ip.address>/control?cmd=TaskValueSet,1,1,1 and http://<ip.address>/control?cmd=TaskValueSet AndRun ,1,1,1 and while both URLs visibly change the value of task #1, value #1 to "1", the relais doesn't follow and turn on. Hu? What’s the point of setting the Task Value ...

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Thanks for the swift reply. Got to discuss it here internally. What about this one? Alternatively: Is it possible to add a placeholder string to the (Generic HTTP) Controller Publish query, which publishes the selected GPIO pin of a device (as set in ESPEasy’s Device > Task Settings > GPIO)? That wa...

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We’d like to switch a relay on an ESPEasy via HTTP, but not using the usual method knowing and providing the GPIO pin http://<ip.address>/control?cmd=GPIO,5,1 , but instead using just IP/hostname Taskname (= Device) Value Name Value. So switching from e.g. a server without the server knowing the GPI...

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@TD-er Actually, when looking into CPU Load differences Rules vs. Controller, I realized that CPU Load with the same settings (CPU Eco, Rules disabled, ...) I had constantly 6% load on a 2020something release, while the same settings under 20210615 show a constant 15% load. Any idea why? Also: What'...

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2 Euro per Watt annually? What kind of strange meters do you have in there in the NL?

Watts/p.a. instead kWh? You are kidding me...

Anyhow: 1 Watt * 24 * 365 = 8,76 kWh. So, that’s € 0,228. Green power or fossil?

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TD-er wrote: ↑22 Jul 2021, 22:01 Don't forget to multiply it with the number of installed units running ESPEasy

Hey, stop making fun of me...

How much is the kWh in the Netherlands BTW. Germany is € 0,30 and rising.

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No battery here, 230V PSU. But every tenth of a Watt counts on a 24/7/365 scale.

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Got it working. Thanks. So back to the second part of my initial question: Is the Controller advantage of the Rules method even noteworthy? I mean how much more CPU load are we we talking about, when using Rules. For me the argument would be energy consumption (I'm using the CPU Eco Mode setting, wh...

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Is there a detailed documentation somewhere on how to enable this? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do need to create a Switch input – Switch to reflect the relay state. Problem though is, that I can't select the GPIO-5 to which the relay is connected (see attached image). On the other hand you said t...

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We are currently successfully monitoring the state of the relay using rules, but are asking ourselves now:
Is it also possible to push the relay state via „Controller Publish“ (Generic HTTP)? Using which kind of device?

And: Does it provide any advantage over the use of rules?

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Nice find. Thanks a lot. As I wrote above, that board had some sex appeal to me, because of the chip antenna and IPX connector, but obviously this clone (or all D1 mini Pros, even the genuine one?) has a flawed design. Time to come up with something better, if not to say: the ultimate ESP boards 😉. ...

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No need to hurry. I'm loaded with work anyway at this point. Will try to sketch my few ideas as soon as I find time, and approach you accordingly. No sooner than August I think. Hopefully the chip crisis relaxes a bit within the next 12 months.

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First of all, this would have to be a non-commercial, open-source, hobby project. As such, I also wouldn't populate the mains power parts on the board. So design (and perhaps offer) the pre-populated board, but leaving the responsibility to solder the high voltage parts to the individual user, along...

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@TD-er My PSU board was actually by JLCPCB as well. Designing my ESP8266 board is an interesting idea, but way beyond my capabilities. Perhaps we could turn this into an open-source community project in a not so distant feature, in order to create the ultimate, compact, modular and flawless ESP base...

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Too bad it is hard to chose a "better" one, as those bad boards are also sold for way higher prices. Typo? Did you mean the good boards are sold for way higher prices? Question is: Any recommendations for less flawed D1 mini Pro clones from AliExpress? I hesitate to bypass the mentioned p...

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@ThomasB: Managed to carefully remove „your“ mentioned cap next to D4 using the Hot Air Gun on a fresh board (the plastic terminal would otherwise melt). Makes unfortunately no difference: no sign of life when powering through 5V pin. MicroUSB as always flawless. (Do I have to solder that cap back i...

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ThomasB, I’ve sent you a PM.

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Your observation that older firmware works perfectly makes this a very interesting bug. Well, this has to be taken not with a grain, but rather a spoon of salt. I wrote this before I made the observation that the board does boot/work/ show signs of life randomly. I mean I yet have to test all ESPEa...

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I went through my ESP8266 collection and found the Wemos board like yours with the 4A2D VReg. It's the version that uses the shielded ESP8266MOD module. Unfortunately this is the board version that is working for you. I identify this board version by the printed antenna and embedded/shielded ESP826...

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No, a short GND-> RST connection doesn't „turn on“ the D1 mini Pro clone. Unfortunately not. EDIT: I pressed the reset button in the past, but that didn't help. And what’s even stranger, is that while a was half an hour ago able to breath life into the every D1 mini Pro clone, within let’s say secon...

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OK, here’s to the experts, from the clueless guy... (Is that actually even proper english!?) Did some more testing providing power to the 5V+GND pins of the suspicious D1 mini Pro. Tried a 5V 2.4A genuine Apple iPad USB PSU (like those, good quality, high efficiency, low/no standby consumption) ... ...

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Again: The D1 mini Pro board with that S2RC/ME6211 VReg did work with my PSU board (have to figure out which release). It DOES NOT work with the LED Blink sketch (which works – just like ESPEasy when powered via MicroUSB). The following D1 mini (non-Pro) board works instantly on my PSU board, and/bu...

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My PSU board BOM Hi-Link HLK-PM01 5VDC 0.6A F1 – Eska 883110 Kleinstsicherung radial bedrahtet eckig 200 mA 250 V Träge -T- F2 – Eska SW-102T Temperatursicherung 72 °C 10 A 250 V MOV – TDK S14K300 Scheiben-Varistor 470 V C1 – TANCAP CT4-0805B223K500C1 Keramik-Kondensator THT 22 nF 50 V 10 % C2 – Wü...

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So I suggest checking the LDO VReg's exact part number and confirm its current rating is robust enough. I think >700mA is ideal, but maybe >500mA rating would be sufficient. Took a close look. VReg marking say „S2RC“, which according to the web is a Nanjing Micro One ME6211. If that's indeed what i...

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Uploaded this blink sketch (.ino file), but not sign of life. Oh... Idiot, me. Just saw, that it is ESP-01, not ESP8266. Got a sketch at hand?

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