Has anyone been able to get their pump to start on power up? I can get it to turn on but it tries to start at 600. My pump can’t always run at that speed so it tries and stops. I can’t seem to set it to 1250 or 1450 or something on boot. I can do the automation in Home Assistant but I’d like it to function if HA is down. My concerning scenario is power is out for a while, HA goes down, power comes back, if things are freezing I want my pump to default to on at a specific speed.
Neat!
How are you getting that chemical information (pH, calcium, etc.) I see on your dashboard? I have some fish tanks, but currently doing it manually with test strips; I was unaware of any device to measure such things.
Apologies if it is mentioned somewhere, I just stumbled in and skimmed the thread, but did not find anything about it.
1 Like
I’m using a WaterGuru Sense 2, so far I really like it … it’s made me stay WAY more on top of my chemistry.
1 Like
Cool, thanks!
Now I am wondering if something similar is available for fish/aquariums… I don’t see why not, at least in theory…
if you call the pump stop command and then the run command does it start the schedule all over again from the beginning? I have the motor and it has the pause feature which allows you to pause to perform some task and unpause. Would love for this to be able to do just that.
Hi everyone! Great job getting this working. Does anyone know if this will work with the new Evo pumps/controllers. It looks like they have/are discontinuing the VGreen 165/270 and have the new Evo controllers (One-Button UI) that have a RS485 that can connect to the automation of all the different manufacturers but it doesn’t mention that it will work with VLink so I don’t know if it will work with VLink and therefore this code. Any thoughts or comments?
So, basic question here. I have a Century VSGreen variable speed pump, just like in the pics. I ordered the atom Lite ESP32 and the Atomis RS485 base and they came today. I just finally flashed my first ESP8266 device last week, and I am trying to flash this set to control my pump in Home Assistant.
I copied the yaml file that @Scope666 posted to his github and edited the yaml to set my api key, network, etc… I am not sure how to even get this chipset into bootmode. Looks like booting while holding down the larger center button and clicking and releasing the side button ? If I get it into boot mode and upload the modified yaml using esphome, do I need to do anything as far as my configuration in HA ? Terrific work by @gazoodle . I was confused about the two url’s that he posted, and something about a protocol that would need to be uploaded, or taken into account. Is that already “baked in” to the yaml presented by @Scope666 ??
I looked at the docs, they mention holding the reset button on the side for 2 seconds when booting, but they only specify that for the S3 version, not the “normal” Atom Lite. I don’t recall having to hold anything down to flash mine.
For the 2 URLs you mentioned, it’s cooked into the YAML under “external_components”
Thanks for that quick reply. I appreciate the work that you have done by rolling up the changes, per se. I’ll look up if there is anything I need to do with mine, it’s an atom lite.
1 Like