Ok, a whole bunch of things have changed … I’ll try to answer and update as I go along in this post. Sorry for the long write-up!
First, there might be a misunderstanding on my part about logs, but you’ve mentioned a couple times to “monitor the serial log from usb connection” and I thought that was what I was doing when I pasted the outputs in above posts. I tried to google it, but I’m not quite getting it so I would appreciate some more guidance as to how to obtain the logs.
I purchased these from amazon and the yaml is as follows:
esp32:
board: nodemcu-32s
framework:
type: arduino
version: recommended
As I was posting some of those outputs the other day while the device was plugged in only via USB (away fro the circuit board), and I’m not sure what happened, but it looked like an event triggered but the time stamp on it was weird … it was January 1, 1969 or something like that. I remembered when I was working on another ESP project that the time was also wrong and the work-around / solution was to use home assistant as the platform, rather than sntp. So currently this is what’s changed in the yaml which seems to have fixed the connection issue (as odd as it seems???)
time:
- platform: homeassistant
Next thing, that happened after I plugged the ESP board back into the circuit … it connected fine, but shortly after, there was a whole lot of beeping that occurred in the house. I looked at the keypad and noticed 2 things, the main keypad (with the wireless) showed “CHECK 100 RF” or something like that, and the secondary keypad went blank aside from just showing “OC” on the screen. Googling this, it means ‘open circuit’ and something went wrong with the wireless module and hence the second keypad lost wireless connection. I also noticed that all my wireless motion sensors on the second floor are also not triggering.
I unplugged my wiring hot-mess (and noticed I goofed on a few connections) and reset everything from the keypad. The second keypad is now back, but the wireless motion sensors are all still not in service (i.e., they don’t trip when I walk in front of them and there’s no message on of the triggering on the keypad).
After fixing the wiring, I plugged everything back in without triggering any further problems. I wonder if I might have fried/killed something when the circuit board had a couple of wrong connections??
As I’m looking through home assistant, I see a slew of new vista alarm sensors, but they all show as “unknown” or “unavailable”. However, the moment I trip a sensor (i.e. open a door, walk in front of motion sensor) the status changes to on/off and their status will update automatically/correctly. I go around the house triggering all the sensors to give it a proper status, but is this correct behaviour? Some things can’t be triggered like motion sensors/door contacts, so how do those update? Anyhow, something later triggers and causes all the sensors all to revert back to “unknown” or “unavailable”.
Appreciate the help and patience!
