ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:13 pm #40517

Those Sonoff - WiFi have the functionality I need, but how it works if for some reason my internet connection is not working?

I need this relays working properly even if I've got no internet, and even if my energy goes off for a while. For this reason I would need the RTC, to make sure that the relay will work at the programmed times.

You may want to look into an orvibo. I have only played around a bit with it viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7914 but I believe it has a programmable schedule.

A number of I2C RTC can easily be used with the ESP8266 - here is an example with an MCP 79410. viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6854&p=36831&hilit=sensor+board#p35199

What to do with a power failure is an important consideration and I am not sure.

Hope this helps.

DrG

- Thu Feb 11, 2016 8:42 pm #40952 Hi Neil56.

Great your indication of https://www.itead.cc/smart-home/sonoff- ... witch.html

You mentioned that you bought some units from them, so i would like to know if it is a reliable website.

I noticed that they take payment from Pay Pal, so that seeems to be ok for me.

Can you confirm if it was ok for you?

Have you received your order?

- Sat Feb 13, 2016 2:42 am #41017 I am working on similar thing and its called thingSocket. The hardware and software are both opensource for people to test and try and evolve.

I have taken the approach to go inside the switch panel instead of an outside approach. I wanted to develop open APIs for any software developer to start utilizing the thingSocket without worrying about the manuals or going through the documentation.

Will be putting some images in the future for understandability.

More details can be found on
Github: https://github.com/automote/thingSocket
Twitter: https://twitter.com/colleseus/status/697724667826573312

- Wed Mar 16, 2016 2:38 pm #43326 Hi Mauricio, sorry about the delay. but i've bought two lots of SONOFF's now and one Nextion display from them.

can't fault them. OK takes a couple of weeks to arrive in the UK but most things from that region do.

would recommend them as a supplier to anyone.

Neil

Neil