It’s not too tough to make momentary button. I don’t want to insult your intelligence, but in case you don’t know how:
Log into the IDE
Click “My Devices” at the top
Click “+ New Device” in the upper right corner
Give it a name. Leave Label and Zigbee ID blank. The “Device Network ID” has to be a number no other device is using. A random 5 digit number would work. For “type”, select “Momentary Button Tile”. For version, do “Published”. Select your Location and Hub from the drop-downs. Hit “Create” when you’re all done.
Now you have a virtual switch! Tell your piston to fire when you hit your new button, and you’re good to go.
Many thanks Eric for adding the DS18B20 temperature probe support. I updated the firmware and it worked like a charm. Also updated all my Sonoff’s using OTA for the first time. Again worked like a charm.
Now just looking forward to the Dual and Power support.
If Sonoff uses the same wifi library that I use, it is possible that the device is already connected to your wifi. Flashing a different firmware does not clear the device settings. So check to see. If not, try resetting the wifi settings by holding down the device button 15+ seconds.
That is awesome holding the button for 15 second, green LED flashed 4-5 times…
And then there was a Sonoff hotspot, and everything working perfect now in ST!
You are tha man !! thanx again for an incredible solution
I know people have discussed this in the past but I have never seen it myself, but all three of my Sonoff’s decided to reset themselves yesterday and are back to defaults (default SSID being broadcast).
Has anybody got any idea what triggers it? Just so strange that I had no problems for 2 months and then suddenly all devices reset on the same day (I cant think of anything else which would cause it…). I was thinking a power surge or something as my power did go off, but I have quite regularly turned them off at the wall up until now, so shouldnt be any different… Bizarrely my two H801s are still running fine, so it seems something Sonoff’y…
I have one that I was testing, worked flawlessly for a month, then out of the blue it reset itself as you described. I hadn’t had time to troubleshoot it yet. If I find anything I’ll post.
@PixelEQ@cjcharles This is an sdk level bug. When the esp boots up faster than your AP after a power bump, a credentials wipe occurs.
I was hoping that a fix would be available by now, but it is still open. I’ll look around to see if I can implement a workaround I just didn’t want to dedicate a lot of time to it if there was a fix around the corner.
Someone might have been spamming deauth packets from one of the many wifi jammer type things. When I was playing with that on an ESP it kicked off my flashed sonoffs and they just froze till power cycled, and came back without wifi.
I’m finally trying this. I (the missus actually, but do I dare say that) misplaced one of my GE outdoor outlets so there is not a better time. I ordered 4, hopefully that’s enough. Now for some exercise in patience while waiting for the package.
Thanks for the summary, makes sense and does seem like a tricky problem to fix in a clear/clean way without creating other problems! Though wrapping in persistent(false) and then persistent(true) calls does look like a sensible temporary fix. Perhaps the other way would be requiring a credential reset (using button) during first installation, and then you never reset credentials unless you do the button based reset again.
Thanks for the insight
Hi, what happens when ther is a hub software update? will all devices that are non official be lost?
Non official DTH? asking because i have just started fitting my house with xiaomi sensors and sonoff switches and would want to do all the settings all over.
Thanks
So I spend 6-7 hrs trying to flash my sonoff with the FTDI adapter but nothing worked. Finally with the help of espeasy forum figured that there is a driver issue with fake FTDI chipsets, so I went for CH340 which worked like a charm, I was up & running in minutes.
EDIT: Hold on, the GPIO14 firmware may not be the issue, I flash the generic that is listed in the OP, set it up, works fine. Then as I enter a jumber in GPIO14 with other end not connected anywhere, and the sonoff falls off the network and never comes back, not even after a power cycle, though the button still activates the relay, . I then have to re-flash it, I guess maybe a bad solder job, need to re-check everything.
I have never had any of my devices not work after a hub update. Maybe I’m lucky, but just never had any issues. Community developers use exactly the same methods of communicating with devices that the SmartThings team does. It would be really unlikely for official devices to work but community devices not to after an update. Unless SmartThings changed all of their device handlers (in which the community would know about it).
@vbhoj74 I haven’t had any problems with that firmware. Right now GPIO14 is programmed to have a momentary switch attached to it. I will shortly release a firmware option to change that to a toggle switch.
I’ve uploaded new firmware and device handlers for all Sonoff devices. It includes the work around for the wifi credentials bug that has worked in all of my tests. I have also posted a beta firmware and device handler for the Sonoff POW (look in my github repository).
There are a lot of changes with these updates so make sure you update both the firmware and the handler at the same time or things won’t work properly in SmartThings.
Also the following config options have been added:
All
Auto Off - Turns the device off after x seconds. @liteglow you can try using this in the momentary configuration that you are needing. Set it to 1 second and see if that works for you.
Sonoff
External Switch - If you connect an external switch to GPIO 14, you can configure it as either Momentary or Toggle. I believe this is working, but haven’t had a chance to test it fully. Let me know if there are any issues.
Sonoff TH
Temperature & Humidity Offsets
Sonoff POW
W, A, V Report Intervals - Ability to set how often these are reported
holding the button for 15 second, green LED flashed 4-5 times…