Water valve - three wire connection

Hello,
I have ball water valve with no spring and three wires
1 inch, 220V AC and 3 wire connection


I have spare sonoff mini and sonoff basic r2 switches.
Is there any safe way to connect it by 1/2 switches?
Or should I buy something else (esphome compatibile)?
I have to be sure that during power outtage (or reboot) the switch will not change it’s state - it will cut off garden irrigation during winter time.
Kind Regards
Maciek

Probably, but you need to post link to your valve documentation. The image makes no sense with N on yellow/green wire.

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that is what was enclosed.
(on first post was on auction)
Kind Regards
Maciek

Wow. Every scheme is different. Is that orange image what you really have printed on your valve? Do you have blue/brown/black wires or something else?

Yes - the orange is printed on valve
and I have three wires: blue, brown and black.

Since the Sonoff Basic R2 devices do now have 2 pole switch contacts (ie: Normally open and normally closed) then there is no proper safe way to use ONLY once of those devices. The best solution (for safety) is to wire in a 2 pole relay to provide the N.O / N.C contacts.

OR

use the Mini (if its’ the one I’m seeing online)

This one?

If so, wire it like this:

Your actual sonoffs can’t control this without additional relay.
I personally would go with Esp32 board and relay module on Esphome.

Just pick your preferred default state and wire that to NC, another to NO.

I have plenty spare ESP32 modules and 4 relay modules,
they have 4 x 2 wire connection

If you can show me how to wire them?

Solid state relays??
They are not the ideal way to control your valve since these don’t have NC contact like normal relays. I’m not saying you can’t use them but you need to take care of the interlock on your code.
Also, some link or datasheet would be great, I’m not even sure they work at 3.3V trigger.

This would be easiest way to go:

OK - thank you
I think I will go and buy Sonoff Dry Circuit as @sparkydave wrote.
Thank you for your help.

If flashing the firmware is straightforward, that’s good option.

Or simply wire a relay into the Sonoff R2 that you have so it provides both N.O. and N.C. contacts. That would be cheaper than buying another Sonoff