The Tasmota Rules Ninja has struck again. Great video Travis. You make Tasmota rules easy to understand with your teaching style and sharing approach. Well done! 👏
@@digiblurDIY You are great with the rules. I don't think anyone else takes advantage of these as much as you. I know I count on the learnings from you to copy functionality but I suspect rules are so powerful a lot more can be done with them. I will continue to piece together my understandings as it's definitely helpful to see results from strings of rules. GREAT video Travis!
Revisiting a number of the older videos again. Now that I have smart bulbs. I plan on using my MJ dimmer, just like the one in this video to control my zigbee smart bulbs in the bathroom. I hope to have a number of preset that I can call up. Should be fun. The fact that you can do long and multi-press on all 3 buttons is great. Guess the biggest limiting factor will be the small space of the rule buffers. Been looking at the rules info in the docs. Can do plenty. Still amazed what the team has done with Tasmota for the ESP system.
More absolute gold! All this smart home tech has got to catch on to the masses soon. I really appreciate these niche videos. Do you or could you sometime do a deeper dive into timers? I have started using them to try to fix issues but have ended up making new issues. Had an automation that turned several lights inside and all outside lights upon our arrival at home, if it's dark, then 10 min later, turn them back off. But, I'd let the dog out like 7 minutes after I get home so while she is out, the outside lights go off. So, trying to make the timer extend when the command to let the dog out fires(have a servo controlled sliding door), so the lights stay on but every time I think I have things fixed, I seem to find another issue. I've been trying to do more with HA automations and tasmota, and less and less with Node-RED.
@@digiblurDIY might be forced to go that route, but between the gui improvements and your MQTT help, there isn’t all that much I need node red for these days. I’d love an actual in person class for home assistant and for tasmota.
I’m almost there guys!! I have my pi/hassio on my local finally. Now I’m onto figuring out the rest. Ugh I’m so stupid when it comes to this stuff. I’m still trying to figure out the Tuya convert. Brain overload for me
@@digiblurDIY I've meant to do that!1 ty for reminding me! Ii had it setup before about 75% but then decided to install this on a 128gb sd card. still curious if i need to extend partitions. i'll see ya guys in there & listen you're a good dude for doing all of this and i buy your affiliate links to show my appreciation. I have these REAFOO bulbs waiting to be flashed along with that RGB light switch you did (although seemed complicated) Talk soon!
Really overkill on a 128 but I have done it since that's all I had. I extend the partitions as I ran into issues on some cards. That RGB switch is super simple to do with Tuya Convert though. No soldering.
It is brain overload for all of us. We digest one piece at a time, and call-out for help on the others. It starts to mesh - really it does. keep playing with it, keep reading and keep watching. Can never do enough. Keep in mind Tasmota and Home Assistant have gone through a lot of functionality and principle changes - don't get frustrated because you fell behind. This community is amazing, Digiblur has been at my call more times than I would like to admit. I contribute when I can and I have tried to be a MASTER of Tuya convert to help others. (Proxmox edition especially) Travis really does enjoy helping, keep liking his videos, follow him and that's all he asks.
The problem with that setup is that if the wifi or mqtt is down you lose control of the light. As you recommended on the other video im using this rule to avoid that: rule3 on Mqtt#Disconnected do rule1 0 endon on Mqtt#Connected do rule1 1 endon
I haven't seen any or anyone say they found any. I've seen a couple people swapping out boxes for US sized switches though but that's a little extreme. You can always do a custom multiple button wifi button deal.
I'm like Travis T. I'm very new and your guides have been helpful. I've done the wiring, so my lights are on, and the switch does not control the lights. I tried to use your commands, but the switch is still not controlling the lights. How does the switch on one IP address talk to the bulb on a different IP address? I know I'm missing something... probably a lot, but it doesn't make sense to me how the switch can communicate with the bulb, through a rule at the switch. Thanks for the guides, they've gotten me this far! Edit: Ok, so it looks like this is the part where I set up and use mqtt in Home Assistant. Like I said, I'm probably only a month into using HA and these are my first two Tasmota devices, so I'm still working on that learning curve.
Did you enable the rule? Be sure to check the syntaxes of the rule too. No IP address is needed. It sends it over mqtt and it takes care of the IP stuff.
I'm newer to HA and recently picked up an impulse buy of Gosund DS1 (Dimmer Switch) before I realized there's no real Tasmota config or ESHOME firmware available. I can't find anything other than your first video showing how one might go about checking out how the thing is built, reverse engineer it and perhaps contribute to the ecosystem myself. Any thoughts on where to begin? I've been able to flash a generic Tasmota OTA. To date, I haven't been able to get my HA to properly show a new MQTT device, but I need to follow your video again on it. Thanks for all your help so far - please keep making these.
I haven't done much with that one yet, I know it is an odd ball one! I saw a couple guys talking it about it in the Tasmota discord channel . discord.gg/GxrcAFC
very nice tutorial i been looking for something similar to increase and decrease the set temperature of a thermostat.. i been using the thermostat in the examples which works well.. and i use mqtt dash android app... have you looked at the thermostat example ?
I'm using a Feit dimmer from Costco. It's flashed with tasmota and working perfectly in Home Assistant with dumb led bulbs. It's set up in tasmota with the Tuya MCU. At 90s you say that the long press won't work with the Tuya MCU. Do you know if there's any workaround for this? Happy to explore any rabbit hole if you get me pointed in the right direction.
Correct. Unless you have some way to change the code on the TuyaMCU to send over a long press to the esp8266 and then have Tasmota pick it up as long press.
@@digiblurDIY Gotcha. Thanks for the insight. I have no way to change the code on the TuyaMCU. I guess I'll pick up some M&J dimmers for our high traffic areas and stick to the Feit dimmers from Costco for anywhere else we want a smart switch. It's hard to complain when they're currently $25 for two switches.
What makes the Martin Jerry dimmer different than other Tuya dimmers? Specifically why does this switch have a long press available and they don't? I was thinking about getting a different Tuya dimmer, but I really want the long press.
As I mentioned there is no TuyaMCU so you can do whatever you want with buttons unlike the TuyaMCU style ones where the esp8266 becomes a dumb pipe/wifi radio basically. Makes it very flexible dimmer!
Great video. I just found your channel and it's been really helpful. I just bought the MJ dimmer. I want to install it at my front door to control my front porch light (non dimming dumb bulb). I would like the dimmer buttons to control smart bulbs in lamps located in the living room. These bulbs are lohas bulbs. The bulbs and MJ dimmer are flashed with tasmota. I'm can't bypass the hot wire because then my outside light will always be on. Is it possible to do your setup without bypassing the hot wire and have the dimming buttons only send commands to the smart bulbs? Thanks!
Thanks, glad it helps out! So let me get this right, the dimming is still needed for the outside lights but you want to do some other functions to double up on things to control the lohas indoors?
@@digiblurDIY The dimming is for the living room smart bulbs using the two dimmer buttons. The big bottom button is for the outside non dimming dumb bulb. The dimmer is wired to the outside light, so if believe if I wire it with the bypass like you showed, the outside light would always be on. Can I wire it without the bypass and have the dimmer buttons not affect the outside light? I want the dimmer buttons to only send commands to the smart bulbs in the living room. Thanks again.
Doesn't sound like you need a bypass here. Luckily with this dimmer you can do whatever you want with the buttons. Use the discord link below so we can nail some stuff down and get you some rules to handle this.
Two questions, 1. After adding the switch in this configuration, is there a way to adjust colors via the color picker? I made a separate light group but using that can throw your switch power state out of sync. Thinking of making a switch1 long press to reset the light color?? 2. The power toggle LED on your switch appears to be blue, mine is purple. Is that something that can be changed?
The blue light isn't configurable as it is hardwired. If you don't want the red LED on making it purple then you can use a rule to make it turn off when on or turn off as well when it is off. I have the sample rule on the Readme of the fork. Scroll down to bonus... github.com/digiblur/Tasmota#setup
Would rule 1 work to make to dimmers match eachother? Say if you decrease the brightness on one dimmer, the other dimmer switch will match, and vis versa?
@@digiblurDIY I'm using the Treatlife dimmer switches. I am trying to setup a 3 way like configuration but the dimmer switches will not actually be connected to eachother.
So this is a bit different on the way I normally do things with the Martin Jerry dimmers. But I think you could just post rules between each of them to push the dimmer and power states to each other to make them stay in sync.
@@digiblurDIY just wanted to say thanks. I was able to get 2 dimmers to mimic one another using your example of rule2. rule2 on power1#state do publish cmnd/topic_name/POWER %value% endon on dimmer#state do publish cmnd/topic_name/dimmer %value% endon
digiblurDIY Yes US based at least 9W 900 lumen. I was looking at Novostella (www.amazon.com/dp/B07VLFFX9D) and the Sinvitron (www.amazon.com/dp/B07RSRX1YR). These are for a bedroom so maybe that wattage and lumen is overkill. so am just suspect of the lumen ratings on these less sometimes. Thanks!
Thinking Lohas is having supply issues, might be some others on here that I did : th-cam.com/video/MnmUPF5rRro/w-d-xo.html I just picked up a back of these too and they worked, colors are just okay, whites seem bright. amzn.to/2W34Q4o
rule2 on power1#state do publish cmnd/LPCL-02/power %value% endon on dimmer#state do publish cmnd/LPCL-02/dimmer %value% endon worked to turn on and off the bulb, and if I use the web interface on the dimmer, it adjusts the bulb, but using the dimmer switch itself, did not adjust the brightness, Any assistance would be appreciated !
@@digiblurDIY no it does not, this is my template, {"NAME":"CE-WF500D-3W","GPIO":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,108,0,107,0],"FLAG":0,"BASE":54} there is no 'button' or 'switch', only Tuya Rx (108) and Tuya Tx (107) Based on Tuya MCU (54)
@@digiblurDIY i watched this video, the Tuya Rx and Tuya Tx was already set using the template, but I will re-watch and see what you mean by 'setup' and 'dpids' Thanks.
The Tasmota Rules Ninja has struck again. Great video Travis. You make Tasmota rules easy to understand with your teaching style and sharing approach. Well done! 👏
Thanks! Had a lot of questions how to do this but all part of my evil plan of building blocks for the big cool one!
@@digiblurDIY You are great with the rules. I don't think anyone else takes advantage of these as much as you. I know I count on the learnings from you to copy functionality but I suspect rules are so powerful a lot more can be done with them. I will continue to piece together my understandings as it's definitely helpful to see results from strings of rules. GREAT video Travis!
Revisiting a number of the older videos again. Now that I have smart bulbs. I plan on using my MJ dimmer, just like the one in this video to control my zigbee smart bulbs in the bathroom. I hope to have a number of preset that I can call up. Should be fun. The fact that you can do long and multi-press on all 3 buttons is great. Guess the biggest limiting factor will be the small space of the rule buffers. Been looking at the rules info in the docs. Can do plenty. Still amazed what the team has done with Tasmota for the ESP system.
It's nuts what they pack into a small 500k'ish bin file.
More absolute gold! All this smart home tech has got to catch on to the masses soon. I really appreciate these niche videos. Do you or could you sometime do a deeper dive into timers? I have started using them to try to fix issues but have ended up making new issues. Had an automation that turned several lights inside and all outside lights upon our arrival at home, if it's dark, then 10 min later, turn them back off. But, I'd let the dog out like 7 minutes after I get home so while she is out, the outside lights go off. So, trying to make the timer extend when the command to let the dog out fires(have a servo controlled sliding door), so the lights stay on but every time I think I have things fixed, I seem to find another issue. I've been trying to do more with HA automations and tasmota, and less and less with Node-RED.
I actually haven't messed with timers much as a lot of my stuff relies on other states not available to the switch. I have NodeRed flows for this.
@@digiblurDIY might be forced to go that route, but between the gui improvements and your MQTT help, there isn’t all that much I need node red for these days. I’d love an actual in person class for home assistant and for tasmota.
I’m almost there guys!! I have my pi/hassio on my local finally. Now I’m onto figuring out the rest. Ugh I’m so stupid when it comes to this stuff. I’m still trying to figure out the Tuya convert. Brain overload for me
It's all good! Easy to catch on too. Come join us in Discord and several of us can walk you through.
@@digiblurDIY I've meant to do that!1 ty for reminding me! Ii had it setup before about 75% but then decided to install this on a 128gb sd card. still curious if i need to extend partitions. i'll see ya guys in there & listen you're a good dude for doing all of this and i buy your affiliate links to show my appreciation. I have these REAFOO bulbs waiting to be flashed along with that RGB light switch you did (although seemed complicated) Talk soon!
Really overkill on a 128 but I have done it since that's all I had. I extend the partitions as I ran into issues on some cards. That RGB switch is super simple to do with Tuya Convert though. No soldering.
It is brain overload for all of us. We digest one piece at a time, and call-out for help on the others. It starts to mesh - really it does. keep playing with it, keep reading and keep watching. Can never do enough. Keep in mind Tasmota and Home Assistant have gone through a lot of functionality and principle changes - don't get frustrated because you fell behind. This community is amazing, Digiblur has been at my call more times than I would like to admit. I contribute when I can and I have tried to be a MASTER of Tuya convert to help others. (Proxmox edition especially) Travis really does enjoy helping, keep liking his videos, follow him and that's all he asks.
The problem with that setup is that if the wifi or mqtt is down you lose control of the light. As you recommended on the other video im using this rule to avoid that: rule3 on Mqtt#Disconnected do rule1 0 endon on Mqtt#Connected do rule1 1 endon
That is correct, but if MQTT and/or WiFi is down here that means my power is out and the bulb won't work anyways.
Great tutorial - I'm now going to look for some UK style M&J switches.
I haven't seen any or anyone say they found any. I've seen a couple people swapping out boxes for US sized switches though but that's a little extreme. You can always do a custom multiple button wifi button deal.
Great video as always. Q: Can one control a LifX bulb using a Shelly1 configured to use an external switch. (Just to turn the bulb on/off). Thx.
Yes. That would require a simple Home Assistant or NodeRed flow to pass the event across but definitely doable.
I'm like Travis T. I'm very new and your guides have been helpful. I've done the wiring, so my lights are on, and the switch does not control the lights. I tried to use your commands, but the switch is still not controlling the lights. How does the switch on one IP address talk to the bulb on a different IP address? I know I'm missing something... probably a lot, but it doesn't make sense to me how the switch can communicate with the bulb, through a rule at the switch. Thanks for the guides, they've gotten me this far!
Edit: Ok, so it looks like this is the part where I set up and use mqtt in Home Assistant. Like I said, I'm probably only a month into using HA and these are my first two Tasmota devices, so I'm still working on that learning curve.
Did you enable the rule? Be sure to check the syntaxes of the rule too. No IP address is needed. It sends it over mqtt and it takes care of the IP stuff.
Forgot to link your Fork Tasmota bin File... i see you updated to version 7, yay!
Thanks for the catch! Yep and core 2.6 too!
I'm newer to HA and recently picked up an impulse buy of Gosund DS1 (Dimmer Switch) before I realized there's no real Tasmota config or ESHOME firmware available. I can't find anything other than your first video showing how one might go about checking out how the thing is built, reverse engineer it and perhaps contribute to the ecosystem myself. Any thoughts on where to begin? I've been able to flash a generic Tasmota OTA. To date, I haven't been able to get my HA to properly show a new MQTT device, but I need to follow your video again on it. Thanks for all your help so far - please keep making these.
I haven't done much with that one yet, I know it is an odd ball one! I saw a couple guys talking it about it in the Tasmota discord channel . discord.gg/GxrcAFC
@@digiblurDIY Thanks! I'll take a look there.
Thanks Travis.
Could the upper long-press toggle between warm and cool white, and then us the lower long-press to set up a different function?
Yes, you could do a type of variable like I did in the smart switch control video and have it jump back and forth. Excellent idea.
very nice tutorial i been looking for something similar to increase and decrease the set temperature of a thermostat.. i been using the thermostat in the examples which works well.. and i use mqtt dash android app... have you looked at the thermostat example ?
No I haven't looked at that one yet.
I'm using a Feit dimmer from Costco. It's flashed with tasmota and working perfectly in Home Assistant with dumb led bulbs. It's set up in tasmota with the Tuya MCU. At 90s you say that the long press won't work with the Tuya MCU. Do you know if there's any workaround for this? Happy to explore any rabbit hole if you get me pointed in the right direction.
Correct. Unless you have some way to change the code on the TuyaMCU to send over a long press to the esp8266 and then have Tasmota pick it up as long press.
@@digiblurDIY Gotcha. Thanks for the insight. I have no way to change the code on the TuyaMCU. I guess I'll pick up some M&J dimmers for our high traffic areas and stick to the Feit dimmers from Costco for anywhere else we want a smart switch. It's hard to complain when they're currently $25 for two switches.
They go on sale from time to time for about $15-$18 a piece.
What makes the Martin Jerry dimmer different than other Tuya dimmers? Specifically why does this switch have a long press available and they don't? I was thinking about getting a different Tuya dimmer, but I really want the long press.
As I mentioned there is no TuyaMCU so you can do whatever you want with buttons unlike the TuyaMCU style ones where the esp8266 becomes a dumb pipe/wifi radio basically. Makes it very flexible dimmer!
Great video. I just found your channel and it's been really helpful. I just bought the MJ dimmer. I want to install it at my front door to control my front porch light (non dimming dumb bulb). I would like the dimmer buttons to control smart bulbs in lamps located in the living room. These bulbs are lohas bulbs. The bulbs and MJ dimmer are flashed with tasmota. I'm can't bypass the hot wire because then my outside light will always be on. Is it possible to do your setup without bypassing the hot wire and have the dimming buttons only send commands to the smart bulbs? Thanks!
Thanks, glad it helps out! So let me get this right, the dimming is still needed for the outside lights but you want to do some other functions to double up on things to control the lohas indoors?
@@digiblurDIY The dimming is for the living room smart bulbs using the two dimmer buttons. The big bottom button is for the outside non dimming dumb bulb. The dimmer is wired to the outside light, so if believe if I wire it with the bypass like you showed, the outside light would always be on. Can I wire it without the bypass and have the dimmer buttons not affect the outside light? I want the dimmer buttons to only send commands to the smart bulbs in the living room. Thanks again.
Doesn't sound like you need a bypass here. Luckily with this dimmer you can do whatever you want with the buttons. Use the discord link below so we can nail some stuff down and get you some rules to handle this.
Two questions, 1. After adding the switch in this configuration, is there a way to adjust colors via the color picker? I made a separate light group but using that can throw your switch power state out of sync. Thinking of making a switch1 long press to reset the light color?? 2. The power toggle LED on your switch appears to be blue, mine is purple. Is that something that can be changed?
Which dimmer?
The MJ in this video.@@digiblurDIY
The blue light isn't configurable as it is hardwired. If you don't want the red LED on making it purple then you can use a rule to make it turn off when on or turn off as well when it is off. I have the sample rule on the Readme of the fork. Scroll down to bonus... github.com/digiblur/Tasmota#setup
I am trying to control AC capacitor fan speed using pwm dimming circuit. Can you help me out with tasmota programming?
You'd need to have something on the other end turn that back into some sort of speed number.
Would rule 1 work to make to dimmers match eachother? Say if you decrease the brightness on one dimmer, the other dimmer switch will match, and vis versa?
Which dimmers are you doing this with and are you trying to do a 3 way setup?
@@digiblurDIY I'm using the Treatlife dimmer switches. I am trying to setup a 3 way like configuration but the dimmer switches will not actually be connected to eachother.
So this is a bit different on the way I normally do things with the Martin Jerry dimmers. But I think you could just post rules between each of them to push the dimmer and power states to each other to make them stay in sync.
@@digiblurDIY thanks, I will give this a try asap and report back. It was actually rule2, I meant to say in my original question, not rule1.
@@digiblurDIY just wanted to say thanks. I was able to get 2 dimmers to mimic one another using your example of rule2.
rule2 on power1#state do publish cmnd/topic_name/POWER %value% endon on dimmer#state do publish cmnd/topic_name/dimmer %value% endon
does it have to be a physical button ? could it be a software button sending a mqtt command for example using mqtt dashboard android app ?
You could really use anything. These dimmers are cheap easy and pre-built mains powered devices with three buttons basically.
Thanks for this!! BTW, should I cool it on my 'illicit' jokes on Discord? LOL
These bulbs aren’t available anymore any new bulbs you recommend? Looking for rgbcw.
What lumen/wattage and US based?
digiblurDIY Yes US based at least 9W 900 lumen. I was looking at Novostella (www.amazon.com/dp/B07VLFFX9D) and the Sinvitron (www.amazon.com/dp/B07RSRX1YR). These are for a bedroom so maybe that wattage and lumen is overkill. so am just suspect of the lumen ratings on these less sometimes. Thanks!
Thinking Lohas is having supply issues, might be some others on here that I did : th-cam.com/video/MnmUPF5rRro/w-d-xo.html I just picked up a back of these too and they worked, colors are just okay, whites seem bright. amzn.to/2W34Q4o
thanks for the response
Back in stock again I see amzn.to/2QaUjQO
digiblurDIY, Can this work by physical wall switching only during my wifi is not available ?
As long as you didn't bypass the power on it then yes you could do a rule to flip things around to actually toggle the power to the light.
rule2 on power1#state do publish cmnd/LPCL-02/power %value% endon on dimmer#state do publish cmnd/LPCL-02/dimmer %value% endon
worked to turn on and off the bulb, and if I use the web interface on the dimmer, it adjusts the bulb, but using the dimmer switch itself, did not adjust the brightness,
Any assistance would be appreciated !
Sounds like the dimmer isn't updating the interface? If you change the dimmer itself does it update the console log?
@@digiblurDIY no it does not,
this is my template, {"NAME":"CE-WF500D-3W","GPIO":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,108,0,107,0],"FLAG":0,"BASE":54}
there is no 'button' or 'switch', only Tuya Rx (108) and Tuya Tx (107)
Based on Tuya MCU (54)
Did you setup the Tuya mcu stuff and dpids?
th-cam.com/video/_3WW4NVYHrU/w-d-xo.html
@@digiblurDIY i watched this video, the Tuya Rx and Tuya Tx was already set using the template, but I will re-watch and see what you mean by 'setup' and 'dpids'
Thanks.