ST_Anything v2.9 ESP8266 - 5V hobby Servo Control?

[Ryan780]

There is a few project out there for blinds.

[RELEASE] ESP8266 / Arduino servo controlled smart blinds

Good news and bad news; I got the boost up to the point where I can fully open/close the blinds on battery, no problem. But the ‘Enable’ functionality isn’t working so instead of using ~15-20uA while sleeping I’m burning 200-250uA. Still gives me about 6 months of battery life but not where I want it to be. Also, my battery monitor isn’t working so I have to troubleshoot that too.

Battery Powered Solar Recharged Automated Blinds

I’ve been working on this project for around 9 months now and I finally have a satisfactory solution. I was inspired by @jetpuf’s implimentation using the ESP8266. My solution had to be a bit more creative in order to have low enough power consumption to run on batteries and allow for solar recharging (with a small and discrete solar panel). My solution was to add a central ‘hub’ which is always connected to WiFi which can communicate with the blinds. The blinds are generally ‘sleeping’ and only awake when they receive a command from the hub (over 915Mhz RF). The Hub consists of a WeMos D1 Mini with a RF shield (using RFM69W) and the blind controller uses a Moteino from lowpowerlab.com which also has a RFM69W. The moteino is seated in a custom circuit board that I created which handles th…

[OBSOLETE] Absolute Simplest ESP8266 Smart Blinds, no mqtt, rest, bridge, or broker, just your board and your hub

This is my fourth and final code to control window blinds in SmartThings with a NodeMCU ESP8266 chip and a servo. Why my fourth try? Because all of my other attempts involved setting up a RaspberryPi, configuring Home Assistant, an MQTT broker, SmartThings MQTT Bridge, configuring paths, etc, etc… All I wanted was for it to JUST WORK! But at the end of every attempt I still had the same issues: Stability and Delays. So here we are with my fourth attempt: Absolute Simplest ESP8266 Smart Blinds. Using just a micro web server on the ESP8266 and a simple HTTP GET command in SmartThings, response time is almost instantaneous and there’s no middle point of failure or complication. Intended for a standard servo (not a continuous rotation servo) and amount of tilt degrees are commented in s…