I’m so excited to try this, I’ve ordered a variety of things you suggested because, well for $5-10 a component, why not!
The only experience I have really is knowing where my alarm panel is, and basic wiring from setting up my entire house on smartness. This will be a good data point for those with zero experience in home brew developing. More when I’m able to try things out, thanks a ton for your hard work!
edit:@heythisisnate, I’ll read through the growing thread to see if there’s something specific, but is it possible to give the sensors a switch or button capability?
disclaimer - I’m no expert.
The reason I ask is for Google home integration - where you could specifically ask something like “are any windows on/off” to find out if a window is open, etc. if it had a switch capability.
Am I the only one that had trouble flashing the firmware? I keep getting a syntax error that points at the 2 of the “20” in file name of the .bin file. esptool.py --port=5/dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART write_flash --flash_mode dio 0x00000 firmware/nodemcu-1.5.4.1-final-10-modules-2017-03-23-20-42-52-integer.bin
Also am i putting the port right? Yous aid it may be different but I wasn’t sure what should go there.
@heythisisnate, i need your expertise. I’m having issues with python. Basically I can’t get any modules or scripts to run. What should happen at the pyhton prompt if I just typed esptool.py?
Thanks. I finally got it flashed. Did you have any problems running Esplorer? When ever I try to launch it a command window poops up for a split second and then closes and nothing happens.
I got my Esplorer here: http://esp8266.ru/esplorer-latest/?f=ESPlorer.zip
You’ll need to extract the zip to a folder on your hard drive, then run the .bat file from that location. (Don’t try to run the bat file from inside the zip.)
Oh nevermind that was the first one I tried. I’ve tried the one you linked to and the one from github. Still no luck. What version of Windows are you running?
Yeah. Alright I switched to my home computer which is Win 10 and it seems to be working. I was trying to use my work computer that is Win 7 and I couldn’t get it to work. Should have known it wouldn’t be easy
That’s funny because I also tried using my win7 worktop but had trouble with the flasher. I think my usb ports had encryption interfering or who knows what. So I moved over to my surface tablet and it worked. You definitely need Java installed for esplorer to work. I know a worktop can have a lot of controls in place that prevent relatively simple things from working because its considered a vulnerability.
It was definitely a Java issue. I installed it but like you said I think there were some controls preventing it from running properly. I opened up the esplorer batch file and all it does is launch the java program so I tried to run the java program directly but it wouldn’t do it. Oh well, at least it works on my home laptop.