WiFi Buttons & Automations - Tasmota & NodeRed

[@Markyboy767]

Searching through these old videos. Man you were doing it all before device groups were even a thing

[@digiblurDIY]

Yup! Device groups invalidated a LOT of stuff which is good!

[@stovedoctor]

Wow. I learned like 100 things In this one video and now I have a thousand ideas for projects

[@andymok7945]

Great video. Revisited this old one video as I have finally gotten around to learn Node-Red, only been 4 years. Installed Node-Red in a LXC on my Proxmox system. Lots to learn. I have one functional flow that speaks a message to my piCorePlayer (media player) and sends a notification to my phone. I have a number of others to create and should be fun and frustrating.

[@digiblurDIY]

You are definitely hit some oldies but goodies! I tried to make stuff relevant as much as I could on older videos. Love some NodeRed still to this day!

[@CamStansell]

Fantastic vid again ! Here in australia we dont have many options for 'approved' devices. but in time im sure more will be available. thanks again for all the great informative videos . so well explained.

[@digiblurDIY]

Thanks for the kind comments! Glad you enjoyed learning things. Definitely take any of these projects and adapt them to your own and feel free to share them back with us here or on the Discord chat.

[@garrox84]

i dont like having smartplugs plugged in for only the button. bad socket occupation, and on the places i would want a button i dont have sockets (bring 230v extension cord to bed for having a smart button seems not so smart). so i made my smartbuttons of rf433 tranceivers with arduino nano and printed cases (yes batteries drain (allthough i send msgs for that too)). but for one.. your creativety with the buttons and with the tasmota rules + nodered are outstanding! did enjoy watching the video for the refreshing ideas u have. thnx for sharing/making!

[@digiblurDIY]

Thanks! I already had a power strip there for plugging in the chargers for various things so it just kinda worked out.

[@sreeprakashneelakantan5051]

Oh, great to know these tweaks!!! So much programmability built into Tasmotta!! Thanks for making this video 🙏

[@arnovdmeer]

There also the double press, so three commands are possible. You can make it more complex by using the color to base rules on. eg you use the double press to change the color and based on the light you have a single press or long press rule, then you can have eight rules.

[@digiblurDIY]

Will probably update the description with a rule I got working to long press and cycle the colors. Wanted to show it but ran out of time.

[@jimbrewer5821]

Thanks Travis. Another great video! Great thinking outside of the box (or plug in this case) on alternative uses for these ubiquitous inexpensive smart plugs. I like the idea of the Washer/Dryer state LED status.

[@digiblurDIY]

Thanks! Lots of use cases for all these various plugs and such.

[@dalescott9330]

This is my story, 3 nights last week Google said "Ok turning of 44 lights!" ugh.... great video!

[@digiblurDIY]

I have a toddler that loves to talk to Google...and you know the rest of the story. Ha.

[@VAKUL-DC]

THis awesome. Due to this tuya OTA have so many collected. and just sitting on the table.now i can put them to use. the ones i have dont have 2 leds. Good Node Red demo. I will give it a try. Than you.

[@craigw4644]

Nice tutorial, thanks again. Found the information very helpful.

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

Very well done video. Now my wife won't complain about me cutting up extension cords for Sonoffs.

[@jamess1787]

First world problem for sure

[@pocat00]

This is a nice video. I like it that you went step by step. It help me out alot......

[@DannyMullen]

Love the ideas! Very creative!

[@BartTech]

Master video!

[@DaveBoxBG]

All is clear, i just do not understand how do you know how to set the GPIOs at 6:00 in the video? How do you know what to pick? Is there explanation on these options somewhere?

[@digiblurDIY]

If you need to figure out the pins on your device and don't know them it is pretty simple. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3XSep6aap17iK8

[@bulldog3494]

Very Nice Video, I love the way you explain it.

[@digiblurDIY]

Thanks! I took the opportunity of the simple button to teach some rules and NodeRed. Good reference material for even myself in the future.

[@squalazzo]

always clear and "in topic" :D thanks Travis :)

[@vanderleisilvasantos5343]

how to change the tasmota wifi network without losing the schedule, great video

[@digiblurDIY]

Not sure I understand.

[@NicholasSouris]

Digiblur got it right again. The $7 outlet is better than 100 hours of work trying to fabricate a switch for $5. It is also wife approved. I even hot glued a childproof cover for the outlet making it water resistant. No more reaching to the wall, past the fancy olive oil bottles to turn on the light above the sink. The garbage disposal provides power near the sink. Said power is already on GFCI circuit so I'm good to go.

[@basilbinu4933]

Great work I was looking for this particular video. I am just a beginner and I am planning to make the normal lights at my house smart with esp8266 and control it with Google assistant using node red. I was confused on how to put an external switch because my parents don't know much about smart lights and they would like to have an external switch. I don't have money to buy the wifi switch you used.So can we make a simple cheap esp switch and configrate it witb node red.I don't know much about programming,so can you explain how to make a smart switch and configrate it with node red.Can we rely on the switch even when the internet is out.Like can we connect the switch directly to the raspberry Pi and controll the lights without internet. Can we use blutooth switches instead of wifi with a raspberry pi supporting blutooth.I just wanna reduce the cost of the whole project. I really like your works Hopping you will help me ❤️

[@digiblurDIY]

Yes, you could use an ESP chip, relay, button etc. It's all the same.

[@samcanno7692]

Best videos! Keep them coming

[@petexaa]

Great video 👍

[@vjimad2]

Thanks Travis great video , is it possible to convert WiFi Buttons to a dimmer ?

[@digiblurDIY]

You could do this as well with a button. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipvUdWmLhsSig7M

[@vjimad2]

thank you very much for your reply

[@JimDumser]

I bought some of the Gosund smart plugs from Amazon on May 14. What is the indication that the firmware is too new for the Tuya Convert process? I get blue fast blink, but then it turns off and goes solid red, with the dots just continuing. Do I need to confirm something in the log files? Are there similar plugs that still work with Tuya Convert?

[@digiblurDIY]

Have you used your Tuya convert before to confirm it works? Typically on ones I have seen updated it reboots after a few seconds of the pairing process and never flashes.

[@JimDumser]

Yes, I've used Tuya Convert before. I don't know if it's rebooting, but the LED goes out after a few seconds and then comes back red. And never flashes.

[@darrenratcliffe7503]

Hi Tavis, great video. Does anyone know how you can (from NodeRed) change the actual switch state via MQTT, similar to how Travis changes the relay power state to light the LED? I have tried everything I know and I don't seem to be able to make it work

[@digiblurDIY]

I didn't disable the relay, only changed its default power state at boot. You change the relay via the power1 command instead of power2 and 3.

[@darrenratcliffe7503]

@@digiblurDIY Thanks, maybe that is the way forward to use a relay1 (there is no relay it is a capacitive switch) against the GPIO instead of switch1 I can then control its on/off state remotely via MQTT

[@darrenratcliffe7503]

@@digiblurDIY Basically I want to change the tasmota "switch1#state" from 1 to 0 by sending in a MQTT command is this possible?

[@digiblurDIY]

Can you explain more of what you are trying to do?

[@roystervi]

Question, if you have 2 presses on one switch.. in your example, you have a long press and a short press, When you do a long press while short press is off , will the short press turn on 1st them the long press 2nd? or if you long press only long press will turn on and the short press will not turn on at all.. hope this makes sense.

[@digiblurDIY]

When you long press only that action is sent and not the short press. Two separate actions.

[@JugaadItYourselfJIY]

Is there any way to put the stock firmware installed on esp8266

[@digiblurDIY]

Could you explain more?

[@JugaadItYourselfJIY]

@@digiblurDIY what I meant is I have seen tutorial s to install the tasmota firmware what I'm trying to do is put my esp 8266 on tuya cloud is that possible?, Please don't mind I'm still a noob so just learning this

[@drak4188]

your videos are nice and easy to understand, do you have one for installing and using MQTT?

[@digiblurDIY]

What are you installing MQTT on?

[@drak4188]

@@digiblurDIY Synology Nas box

[@digiblurDIY]

I don't have that box to know how exactly. I have seen a few talking about that NAS on Discord on the DrZzs server. Might try asking there.

[@drak4188]

​@@digiblurDIY sry should have been clearer, I have docker running on the Nas box, I do have it running now on docker but can't seem to get it to use the directories I have setup for config, data & logs but at least it is running :)

[@digiblurDIY]

Come jump in to discord chat and see if a few of us can help get things sorted out. discord.gg/bNtTF2v

[@pocat00]

I did this using a d1mini in a capacitive touch switch and a sonoff it works really good except the light is not synced with the sonoff I was wondering if I showed you the video if you could help me out . thank you

[@digiblurDIY]

you can't control the light with those unfortunately, like I did in my Sonoff Hyrda Basic video I soldered the bridge point on those make them light up on touch and not be latching buttons.

[@pocat00]

@@digiblurDIY ok thank you heres the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqmWq4mFZ613p6s

[@digiblurDIY]

Yep, same problem I had and wished we could control them but then that would make another GPIO needed. I wished we could at least flip them when doing the momentary mod change to them.

[@aihysp]

cool man i was looking for this , can it give us also the power factor?

[@digiblurDIY]

These don't have power monitoring.

[@chadk4548]

Thanks for all the videos man you are helping me out alot!

[@tseawell90]

Why wont anyone make a decent wifi button

[@MichaelIngraham]

If you use your Friendly Name as your topic - be sure that it does not contain any whitespace. MQTT doesn't like that.

[@digiblurDIY]

Great tip! I always keep them whitespace free to prevent issues.