Hi there. I was looking everywhere for any kind of integration for the iLonda fish feeder. iLonda itself has support for Alexa, Google Assistant, Rokid and Tmall Genie. But that is about it. Has anyone any information if its possible to integrate with those fish feeders?
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An integration would be nice! I love these feeder.
Hello,
I have these integrated, quite easily
just follow
flash it with tasmota
set it up to mqtt and Bob’s your uncle!
I added som smarts so that turning it on, automatically turns it off, to stop it spinning for ever.
All I want to do is reset the counter. I am going to ask on the forum if anyone knows how to send via mqtt the equivalent of entering “Counter 0” into the Tasmoa console.
Other automations I have is,
at noon, checks water temp if > 20, then turns off the pumps, waits 10 min, then does one feed, waits 2 min (gives the time for the fish to realise food is on its way, the another feed, 1 min wait, repeats 6 times, waits 10 min then turns the pump on. If the temp is to low it waits, and tries the process for 2 hours before sending a message , does a small feed ( 3 rotations) , repeats daily. As the fish grow the number and frequency of feeds can be changed.
Huh, so theese are Tasmota flashable 
Nice one. Thanks for the update Adam !
does this help
I have this
now if I
I can up the counter
so the action would be
- service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: "cmnd/Feeder/counter"
payload: "0"
to test
that reset back to 0
Hi guys.
Did anyone ever tried to make this work with esphome instead of tasmota? Or with HA tuya component?
Thanks in advance for sharing.
For anyone potentially interested in using this with esphome, here’s a working config:
# Substitutions
substitutions:
device_name: feeder
# Node definition
esphome:
name: ${device_name}
platform: ESP8266
board: esp01_1m
# Wifi details
wifi:
ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
password: !secret wifi_password
# Directly connects to WiFi network without doing a full scan first
fast_connect: true
manual_ip:
static_ip: !secret feeder_ip_address
gateway: !secret wifi_gateway
subnet: !secret wifi_subnet
## Fallback Hotspot
ap:
ssid: "${device_name} Hotspot"
password: !secret wifi_password
## Web interface for fallback hotspot
captive_portal:
# Enable logging
logger:
# Activate web server (may cause memory issues in ESP8266)
web_server:
port: 80
# Enable Home Assistant API
api:
# Enable OTA updates
ota:
# Binary Sensor to allow relay to be switched when physical button is pressed
binary_sensor:
- platform: gpio
id: button
pin:
number: GPIO4
mode: INPUT_PULLUP
inverted: True
on_press:
- switch.turn_on: relay
# Device connection status
- platform: status
name: 'Status ${device_name}'
switch:
# Switch to restart device
- platform: restart
name: 'Restart ${device_name}'
# Switch to turn feeder on/off and turn on/off LED
- platform: gpio
name: 'Relay ${device_name}'
id: relay
pin: GPIO14
on_turn_on:
- light.turn_on: led
- delay: 3s
- switch.turn_off: relay
- light.turn_off: led
restore_mode: ALWAYS_OFF
# To allow led to be controlled via GPIO
output:
- platform: esp8266_pwm
id: blue_led
pin:
number: GPIO5
inverted: true
# LED control
light:
- platform: monochromatic
output: blue_led
id: led
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Very nice pplucky i have the same device now in use with Tasmota,
But esphome is the way to go.
one question : There is also a counter in the fishfeeder , could you include that also in your config ?
Would you be able to tell me exactly what this sensor is supposed to contain? Does it keep increasing over time, does it reset after some time? Does it reset on reboot (I suppose yes).
I suppose this is the equivalent to a pulse counter in esphome (with total), but not sure. If that’s the case, this additional sensor would do the job:
# Feeder counter
- platform: pulse_counter
pin: GPIO12
name: 'Counter/min ${device_name}'
unit_of_measurement: 'time(s)'
internal: true
total:
unit_of_measurement: 'time(s)'
name: 'Counter ${device_name}'
Hope to get your feedback.
Hi,
Thanks a lot
When i used it in tasmota there was a extra sensor ( counter ) which was updated each time the feeder had fed the fish .
Just have put your extra counter sensor in the config file, and yep it works like a charm, it gets updated each time the fish get fed.
if i reboot the counter starts with zero again
The handy thing is if you take note how many feeds it does before the food container is empty
you can write a automation to warn you when to fill it up again.
I actually made another addition , i have connected a DS18b20 (waterproof temp sensor) to
GPIO13 of the fishfeeder, so i get the watertemp also :
with this extra code
# # Example configuration entry
dallas:
- pin: GPIO13
update_interval: 600s
# Individual sensors
sensor:
- platform: dallas
address: 0x783C01D60740D428
name: "Water Temperature"
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Cool, thanks for your feedback.
That was also my understanding, but maybe it makes sense to also add it to an input number in HA, in order not to lose it at all even if you reboot.
I need to find the time to put this into the esphome cookbook, as I had to try it all from scratch, solely based on the tasmota template and on the pin description in the above link from OpenHab forum
Hope this can be helpful for other people also. .
well looking around Ebay found one of these
for $2.76 NZL think could i add it to the Ilonda fish feeder
looking at the Look here blakadder site
i see a spare GPIO
after some more reading and asking Google
3rd up from the bottom GPIO2 let use that
my road map
let pull it a part and make it fit
eve ball for shorts
test it does it work change the module back to Generic Module
set the old value and add the DS18x20 to GPI02 prayed
did a reboot still praying the TASMOTA GODS
and SHIT it work
as there a temp sensor in there it was .7 out so more reading
so I did a tempoffset .7 in the console and they match HAPPY HAPPY CAMPER
it mounted back in place
putting it in HA
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First of all thanks to everyone who participated in this thread as I got some very useful information here.
I hope my reply here will help anyone down the line.
I was finally able to purchase this feeder a week ago. I then tried my luck and found that this feeder is actually flashable via Tuya-convert, so NO HARDWARE TINKERING!
I did the Tasmota flashing on my PC via VMware by following this Youtube tutorial: Tuya-Convert on Windows - Use VMware to flash Tuya devices! - YouTube but note that this method requires a USB wifi dongle. I got a really cheap one under $10 at my local store (TP-Link TL-WN725N). However, I ran into an issue where the AP mode didn’t work with the default driver, so the drivers here helped me: GitHub - aircrack-ng/rtl8188eus: RealTek RTL8188eus WiFi driver with monitor mode & frame injection support. After the driver issue was resolved, I was able to complete the steps as described on the youtube video and have Tasmota flashed onto the feeder. Tasmota is already included with Tuya-convert.
After that, I switched to ESPHome by following Migrating from Sonoff Tasmota — ESPHome, using the esphome config yaml from Ilonda Wifi Smart Fish Feeder (L88) — ESPHome. This is with the help of the ESPHome homeassistant addon to generate the bin file.
And now I have a cloud-free fish feeder!
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Thanks, i have succeed to set it up following your procedure. That helps a lot !
I flashed the iLonda feeder using tuya convert and everything seems to have worked fine. I’m able to connect to it on my network and can enter various configurations.
However, how do I get it connected to esphome? I’ve got the sketch setup in esphome, is it treated like any other esp device where you connect it via usb and upload the sketch? Need to do anything different since it was flashed with tuya convert?
Reason I ask is because when plugged in, esphome does not recognize that there is something plugged in to the USB port.
When you flashed it via tuya convert, you must’ve had a firmware file in (tasmota, most probably).
If that was the case, you should use esphome to create your firmware bin file and simply use the upgrade option in tasmota UI, pointing to that file.
After the upgrade is finished, you should have converted your tasmota feeder to an awesome esphome feeder.
I had used Tuya convert OS and while it was flashing I do recall seeing some sort of .bin file used as the firmware …
Thanks for the note! Took a little while to figure out, but I think I’ve found where to get esphome to compile and then download a .bin file. Much appreciated!
Unfortunately esphome crashes my HA instance any time I try to do anything now 
(due to high memory use) don’t see a fix yet so far … Will report back whenever that gets fixed …
If you have configured esphome to use web, you can try to visit the webpage via device IP/name.
I’m not sure I completely follow, but I think you’re saying that the esphome add-on allows you to configure so that you can access it via [[IP Address]] @ Port 6052 ?? I’m guessing it has to do with this? I can’t seem to find how to do this …
However, since my esphome is on the same RPi as HA, would it not still consume a lot of memory too regardless of whether it’s frontend is through HA or if it’s through the web? In the link above, it also mentions that this uses up a good bit of memory.
Edit: I had another thought and I think I’m going off topic further and further, but I wasn’t sure how it would play out. Let’s say I run esphome in docker on another machine, would I have to reflash all my existing devices via usb?
Just wanted to post back to say thanks to @pplucky for the suggestion to flash firmware compiled from esphome. It was successfully picked up by the esphome integration and now subsequent updates can be done through esphome.
I had to restore my instance back to a December backup to fix memory issue in order to get esphome to function.