Sonoff SwitchMan M5 3C 3 Gang switch with ESPHome

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The configuration I provided does all that. It sends events in all these cases. You just need to set up your automations to listen for the right events. The events are esphome.switch_click, esphome.switch_double_click and esphome.switch_long_press. The data of the event will include which switch it is from and which button was used.

So, for example, you could listen to the esphome.switch_long_press event with data of:

device: switch-1
button: left

And your automation will only happen when the left button of switch-1 is long pressed.

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Based on Jasper123 great script the events of the long_press, double etc can be placed in a automation. For me it was not clear how to trap these events but I finally understood his comments.

Here is screenshot of how it listen to these events.

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Hope that helps somebody else.

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I somehow prefer to code actions directly in ESPHOME setup rather than firing events to HA and then reacting over there, i.e.

- timing: #short
          - ON for at most 1s
          - OFF for at least 0.05s
        then:
          - if:
              condition: 
                api.connected:
              then:
                - homeassistant.service:
                    service: light.toggle
                    data:
                      entity_id: light.table_lamp
              else:
              - http_request.post: "http://192.168.10.77/light/table_lamp/toggle"

btw,the condition is to go directly to Esphome device if HA is unavailable (fallback option, HA way reacts way faster)

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That is nice!

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Would it be possible to change Jaspers script (which is great) to use the single press to switch on a light through HA. But when HA is unreachable (I.e. server is offline, wifi is down) to fallback to the local relay?

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Sure just check two posts before yours for the solution :wink:

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I attempted asking for help a few times and deleted my posts, each time I thought I had it figured, I later got stuck. Iā€™ll like to implement this condition into Jasperā€™s config because Iā€™m getting an error when I do. Iā€™d like to have a fall back to toggle my zigbee hue light of HA goes down. Thanks.

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Thank you for sharing this. I agree it is simpler and works well.

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I got XNDZā€™s script implemented into Jaspersā€™s and works great, the only downside is that the red ledā€™s are connected to the relays. The double and long press dims and brightens my hue light, awesome. Thanks guys!

Iā€™ll like to know how to power on the relay by default. When thereā€™s an outage (which we experience here often) the M5 would start up being off at default. Iā€™ll rather put this into ESPhome rather than HA automations. Someone please help me with this, thanks.

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Set the restore for relay to always on, like this

switch:
  - platform: gpio
    id: relay_1
    name: "light 1"
    pin: 23
    restore_mode: ALWAYS_ON
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