Tips welcome, ESP for ESPHome with serial Interface to Arduino MEGA for Pins

ESPHome
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So from a conservative standpoint I am totally with you. Especially since I have the cables already in place. I am/was searching for a different solution that allows me to use code from a group of capable programmers instead of my own less pair programmed and checked code.

We will see what solutions it will be, but it seems that I will stick to Ethernet…

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No ignorance :wink:

In my point of view, it works already, have all the mechanism for json publishing/receiving, discovery, system monitoring, log management …
And has been proven by users.

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Sounds good, I’ll have a read tomorrow to ask more specific questions… :wink:

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Some tracks to follow:

  • ZactuatorONOFF enables to control the GPIO output by pushing a json with the gpio number and the state

  • ZsensorADC for ADC reading

  • A PWM implementation for LED

  • ZsensorGPIOinput
    For GPIO reading, currently support one GPIO, we should make it more modular by accepting a list of GPIO from an MQTT command with a json file like used here, if the config message is published as retained it will be stored by the broker.

We can continue the discussion here if you want

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Soooo, I had a look at the code and found the following things that I would need to change/add:

  • There is no support for an Ethernet shield yet, this needs to be coded
  • Adding Pins seems to be limited to a few/one pin per “addon”
  • My DHT sensors are supported, but with limited pins
  • There is a fastled implementation (WS2812)

I found the following features:

  • Autodiscovery in Home Assistant is implemented
  • MQTT is implemented with functions to monitor the MQTT state and the ability to reconnect on failure
  • WLan is implemented with reconnection features

Which leads to this:

  • Is the code able to handle more than one pin per “Addon” (ADC,GPIO,PWM,…)
  • I am able to code the Ethernet functionality. Still this code will need poishing to be able to be committed. How do you handle this over at OpenMQTTGateway?

Cheers,
Christian

PS.: Yes we should continue afterwards in the right forum :wink:

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You have support for the W5100 on Arduino UNO or MEGA. For ESP32 it has to be done.

Yes

Yes

We need to modify it for that, I can help you if needed, note that PWM is in progress, I encourage you to give comments in the PR if you have.

PS.: Yes we should continue afterwards in the right forum :wink:

It will avoid some spam :wink:

Florian

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Hey @CeeCee thought I’d go ahead and try to create an MQTT set up with an esp32, few headaches having no idea what I was doing but got there in the end: MQTT no callback - PubSubClient - ESP32 snippet of the Arduino code/some pointers.

had to set anonymous: from false to true in the configuration for MQTT in the supervisor menu

logins: []
anonymous: true
customize:
  active: false
  folder: mosquitto
certfile: fullchain.pem
keyfile: privkey.pem
require_certificate: false

added the following to the configuration.yaml:

mqtt:
    broker: 192.168.0.200
    username: !secret mqttUserName
    password: !secret mqttPassword
    
light:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Office light"
    state_topic: "office/light1/status"
    command_topic: "office/light1/switch"
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    optimistic: false
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Dear @mishaVee,

thanks for your code. My problem is not to get MQTT running on my Arduino, this works happily until the reset is necessary.
I am thniking of shifting to another form of code to gain more stability. OpenMQTTGateway seems to be a good solution, since it handles all the maintenance (still connected? reconnect necessary? reconning,…) out of the box, and it integrates well into HA (so they say :wink:).

If I go for ESPHome, I will use arduino code for the low level functions and communication to the ESP and the ESP presents Sensors to HA as usually done by ESPHome.

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Hi
Have you got you system to work?
what way did you choose to go?