HARDWARE
Hardware and setup for flashing is described in the following article:
FIRMWARE FEATURES
- Control over MQTT broker.
- State-report contains additional information of switches state – server gets informed if switch is actually pressed by user or not.
- On ESP a Light-Sleep mode is activated, which allows to reduce consumption from 0.8w to 0.5w, without any side-effects on switches reaction.
- Might be configured with some settings. It’s possible to invert manual switches.
- It’s possible to adjust configuration without necessaty to uninstall and reflash module.
WORKING MODES
- Red LED is on – module is powered on and firmware successfully initialized.
- Blue LED blinks – module in configuration mode. At this moment open WiFi hotspot “Dee-xxxxx” is enabled. Configuration page can be accessed at IP 192.168.4.1. Or, if network connection isn’t lost, it’s possible to access configuration page at local IP address.
- Blue LED is on – module in fully operating mode.
OPERATION CONTROLS
- Has two operating modes: each manual switch state change triggers relay state change; or manual switch turns on/off light only if it moved to appropriate position.
- Enter configuration mode: quickly press some switch 5 or more times.
CONFIGURATION
- SSID, password – WiFi network connection.
- mqtt server, port, client name, user, password – connection to MQTT broker. Note: Client name must be unique! This name also used for Access Point name, and as a Hostname.
- mqtt output topic – topic for output of relay 1 current state. Value is 0/1 for off/on states. Additionally contains a manual switch state by providing a dot in the end.
Examples:
‘0.’ – relay is off, switch is pressed.
‘1’ – relay is on, switch released.
‘1.’ – relay is on, switch pressed. - mqtt commands topic – topic for relay commands input.
- respect switch states – when disabled, each manual switch state change triggers relay state change. When enabled – pressing manual switch, turns on relay. If relay already was on, then does nothing.
- invert switch keys – inverts manual switch logic (also makes effect on mqtt output of ‘.’ symbol).
CONTROL COMMANDS
1– turn on light (closes relay).0– turn off light (opens relay).set– enter configuration mode. Analogue pressing ‘Pairing button’ or quick switch on-off more than 5 times.
SOURCES
See GitHub: https://github.com/ai91/dee
Note that it uses development branch of WiFiManager. This branch can start wifi-manager in non-blocking mode. In this mode the module remains fully operable and can be controlled with manual switches (for example if network wasn’t configured properly). Master-branch still doesn’t support this mode.
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There is also a configuration example of MajorDoMo server (unfortunately in Russian only):
