So the H801s that have been working perfectly for years (much thanks @erocm1231) have gone wonky on me. Kids were changing its colors back and forth and it stopped working. No worries & I thought it will be a great time to flash them to the latest firmware. But after doing that I am not able to connect to the units!! It broadcasts the SSID and lets me connect w/ “configme” but then I cant load 192.169.4.1 Of the 5 units, only 2 of them have the solid green and red LEDs after the flash.
Am I missing something? Could these units have burnt out? If so, I don’t mind getting new ones.
Is the H801 still the most reliable unit or should I switch over to one of the newer supported models?
Hello! Just wanted to thank you again for developing this, have some beautiful main lighting in my house running of this. I’m having a bit of trouble though - one of the controllers I just tried to set up is non responsive to commands. I’ve tried manually sending commands at the IP address, updating and repeating the firmware. The lights it’s connected to are always on. Any idea what could cause this?
Also, whats interesting is if I set it manually at the h801s ip address, say I click W1, the next page still shows W1 as 00 not FF
I think I know what you mean by your question. That is normal, clicking on the W1 endpoint in the dashboard does not set it to a particular brightness unless you also include a parameter for the desired brightness. The dashboard is best tested on the control tab since there you can control things without just opening the endpoint that allows control.
I’ve got this controller running (modules flashed, smartapp and both device handlers installed). I’ve programmed the modeules, and made some “programs” for light control. Everything works perfectly in the smartapp and module control (device handler).
Problem is with the virtual switches. I had to uncomment out the lines of code in the smartapp (don’t know why they were commented out) before I could see the “make virtual switches” in the connect settings. Switches are created. However, they do not control the light. I see in the smarthings ide that the command is sent, but nothing happens.
The virtual device code was commented out because I switched over to using child devices. There are toggle options in the device preferences to enable the different child devices you want. Then you can use those devices to activate the different functions. You have to have the switch child device installed.
Thank you so much. Because I couldn’t see the virtual switches in the device list, I thought something was not working correctly. I can see them when I associate the smartthings items to google home.
Perhaps one additional question: can I rename the virtual switches somehow? I’d like them to not be “led light - program 1” but be able to say something like “led light - police scene”
My strips aren’t reliable any longer. Honestly I can’t get them to turn on 80% of the time. I have two strips with separate controllers. The just say ‘trying to turn on’ in SmartThings but never do. Occasionally they will. Not sure what to start with.
Did you ever find a solution to this scenario? I’ve hit the same behaviour and the device presents the SSID, I can connect to the device via the IP. BUT nothing is controllable.
However the LED situation is exactly as you have described. Green light flashes every 10 seconds and no Red light appears at all.
Sorry to raise this thread from the dead, but couldn’t find any solution to your problem.
@Dunlapjc - If those are the fixes you are looking to test out then you can test the firmware below. Though beware I may have used different compilation settings to Eric, hence if using the web upload tool then you may need to re-flash through the RX/TX ports on the controller
I tried recompiling and downloading the libraries on Friday, but clearly messed something up and bricked it until I reflashed the old version onto it via the RX/TX ports.
I’ll give this a go!
I installed a momentary button a little over a year ago and had little success with this. I saw the changes in code and fingers crossed this is what fixes it.
Anyone having issues with the new Smartthings app crashing when trying to select their smartlife devices?
I have a few h801’srunning for years now when I try select the device in the new app smartthings crashes. I also have issues with webcore trying to control the devices.
I haven’t fully migrated to the new app as I still have st classic on my phone and the smartlife devices work fine using that.