***SONOFF - WiFi Wireless Smart Switch***

Would you use a Sonoff..?

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Hurricane09 said:
Anyone use these to make a drying cabinet? I'm thinking I can IKEA hack a cabinet, use one Sonoff with a mini humidifier, one with a mini dehumidifier and one to control the fan. Should be able to regulate the cabinet that way and keep everything in a nice cure range.
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I am just finishing up my first grow and used a big cardboard box with a peltier mini dehumidifier in it as a test. I also put a trash bag over the whole thing to try to keep the stink in. The dehumidifier was connected to a wifi outlet running Sonoff-Tasmota and turned on and off from my Node-RED. When the humidity went over 69 percent it would turn on, then when it was below 63 it would turn off. It stayed around 29C 80% for the first couple of days and ran continuously and pulled 100-110g of water out a day. Pretty funny that these are rated for 250ml/day at 80F and 80% RH and running at pretty much those conditions, I was getting half that. There was condensation on the trashbag as well. The dry took under 4 days before it leveled out.

The flowers were considerably drier on the outside than those I had just hanging in my grow tent, which took 6 days to reach what I assume is a dried state. When doing trimming, the naturally dried stuff was much stickier and resiny than the dehumidified stuff. I had some grand plans of making a larger sealed box with this automatic dehumidifier running but I think the natural stuff may come out better so I might not bother. I'll find out after the cure in a couple of weeks (this was just last week).
 
bizfactory said:
Eh, maybe. What is happening? If you are storing history data for sensors that are polling frequently it will add up kinda quickly but 8gb should be enough to write the image to and boot up.
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I just think my 8gb card is a dud. Its freezing my SD card formatter now. And im having issues/errors with Etcher and loading the Hassbian image onto it...

Only one way to find out i guess... New card
 
Chronikool said:
I just think my 8gb card is a dud. Its freezing my SD card formatter now. And im having issues/errors with Etcher and loading the Hassbian image onto it...

Only one way to find out i guess... New card
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SD cards are shit. I'm sure that's the problem. Just sucks to have to wait!
 
I went with raspbian lite and a python virtual environment. It's all the same code in the end, just how it gets there is different.
 
I like the Sonoff's a lot, but do you also have this late on/off notifications?
Every day I get status messages, but hours too late. Each time I get panic that something has changed and must control everything. It's hella frustrating!
Have switched the notifications off now, but that's not the purpose of notifications, right.
Do you have these late status messages? And what about Tasmota and hass.ui? The same?

Ahh, and to anticipate, it's 99% not the smartphone! Ewelink app will not be "greenified" and it is removed from battery optimizations. No taskkiller, no wakelook blocker and something similar is used.
I'm pretty sure it's caused by the Sonoff server, but wanted to ask other, if it's only on my side or not?
Thanks mates!
 
Update on loop timer stability... I ran for about a month without any problems with the loop timer (5.5 on, 10.5 off), but yesterday I noticed the lights didn't turn off and the sonoffs had lost connection to wifi (my router does seem to be having issues lately - may be the root cause)... Anyway, I cycled the router and the sonoffs, and then turned off the lights. I made sure the loop timer was still set to enable, however, the lights never came back on... That might be a feature (since I manually turned them off), or, it may be a bug that it's not smart enough to figure out the time schedule once it's interrupted.
 
Hurricane09 said:
Anyone use these to make a drying cabinet? I'm thinking I can IKEA hack a cabinet, use one Sonoff with a mini humidifier, one with a mini dehumidifier and one to control the fan. Should be able to regulate the cabinet that way and keep everything in a nice cure range. Figured I'd ask cause you all are a pretty smart bunch and if someone's already experimented I won't have to reinvent the wheel!
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sonoffs used to humidify, dehumidify and exhaust of temp gets too high.
 

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caretak3r said:
Update on loop timer stability... I ran for about a month without any problems with the loop timer (5.5 on, 10.5 off), but yesterday I noticed the lights didn't turn off and the sonoffs had lost connection to wifi (my router does seem to be having issues lately - may be the root cause)... Anyway, I cycled the router and the sonoffs, and then turned off the lights. I made sure the loop timer was still set to enable, however, the lights never came back on... That might be a feature (since I manually turned them off), or, it may be a bug that it's not smart enough to figure out the time schedule once it's interrupted.
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I got a repeater so they have a stable connection. The wlan range is unfortunately only a few meters but mine are in a metal housing. I've not use the loop timer yet, for me, the timer with which I can set up to 8 cycles is enough.
Toi, toi, toi ... until now they worked!
Only the notifications are far too late ..
 
thinking about getting this - anyone offer their experience and pros/cons and ease of set up for a noobie?

is it kind of one of those must-do quality of life improvements or is it very unnecessary and just nice to have?
 
kdt15 said:
thinking about getting this - anyone offer their experience and pros/cons and ease of set up for a noobie?

is it kind of one of those must-do quality of life improvements or is it very unnecessary and just nice to have?
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It's not neccessary but it's really really nice to have the ability to control the lights via an app on your smartphone. Setup is really easy, in principle you need to pair it with your smartphone (in the same wlan) and set on and off times, countdowns or loops. It's very easy because the app is self-explanatory. I recommend to buy them directly from the manufacturer.
They have different versions for many purposes and are significantly cheaper than other home automation brands like apple/google/amazon/... The only thing missing is a 10v pwm dimming function for meanwell drivers.

https://www.itead.cc/sonoff-wifi-wireless-switch.html
 
regoob eht said:
im working on setting up home assistant, im a complete newb at coding, but im slowly figuring it out.
i was wondering, for your lights, howd you set up the schedule or on/off times? thanks for any help. take care
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You don't need to do any coding, just configuration. Anyways, here's the automation for one of my lights. My automations.yaml is much bigger but this should give you an idea.
Code: 
- id: turn_on_cxb
  alias: "Turn on CXB"
  trigger:
    - platform: time
      at: '06:00:00'
  action:
    - service: switch.turn_on
      data:
        entity_id:
          - switch.cxb


- id: turn_off_cxb
  alias: "Turn off CXB"
  trigger:
    - platform: time
      at: '00:00:00'
  action:
    - service: switch.turn_off
      data:
        entity_id:
          - switch.cxb
 
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