Help with espeasy on sonoff

hello,

although i appreciate that this is the HASS forum, i was wondering if anyone else has had issues with flashing a sonoff with espeasy R120

i’ve flashed the sonoff, but when it comes to the part where you need to see a new access point being run on the device so that you can log into the esp and configure it - i see nothing and am at whits end trying to figure this out.

i’m hesitant to “try” another sonoff just in case i end up with 2 bricks…

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Did you reboot your device after flashing complete?

yip

followed the guide (will need to find the link to the video) where you have to press the button to get it into flashing mode - the process works fine as far as i can tell… (screenshot above)

then unplugged the ftdi, waited a sec or two and plugged it in again without pressing the button - no AP found

this tutorial seemed to be the most comprehensive: https://youtu.be/fN_QKOWvG1s

upon device reboot i don’t get the “ESP_0” ap the author mentions…

You’re flashing seems successful! Don’t be scared to unplug it and plug it back several times, try with different devices (pc, tablets), turn wifi off and on again. It’s sometimes tricky to get the ap working. The ap name could be different than the standard one, as it might have changed (dependending on release you’re using).
And btw, beware of 110/220v, be sure to always ground you’re equipment!

tried my notebook, ipad, iphone and an android phone in addition to unplugging too many times to count now - been at this since yesterday… :frowning:

fresh download of R120 from the espEasy wiki (http://www.letscontrolit.com/downloads/ESPEasy_R120.zip)

but going to give R147_RC8 a bash for the hell of it.

Follow these steps and post putty output
http://www.letscontrolit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1607

same issue with R147

HI there,

had the same issue with sonoff R20 and espeasy.
Tried tasmota on same device with no probs.
Just give it a try.

putty just gives a green box - no input is accepted

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don’t (yet) understand how to use tasmota.

the guide/wiki jumps around too much between using platform.io and audrino, thus was hoping that espeasy would live up to its name.

i used arduino ide and it worked like a charm.
wiki ist sometimes a bit flippy but flashing is quite easy

ok, will give it a bash. need to download the ide first

thanks guys so far!

You can also try Espurna

https://bitbucket.org/xoseperez/espurna

hi all - thank you again for the input and feedback.

i figured out that TASMOTA uses quite a few more libraries then are mentioned in the tutorials, thus after copying all the libraries Theo provides in his arduino folder into my IDE, i was able to compile and upload with success.