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Home Automation

Step 1. - Switches & Firmware

Sonoff Basic On Amazon Rs. 650

ESPEasy

Step 2. - Load ESP Easy firmware on it

A good blog

The firware is ESP_Easy_mega-20190630_normal_ESP8266_1M

The pin connection is easy. Add the header to the pin out from the I2C programming board and connect the RX -> TX and TX -> RX. 3.3v.

Just unplug the 3.3v line and press the reset button while connecting it to go into programming mode and then flash using the flasher which is downloaded with the firmware

Step 3. - Configure the firmware for Sonoff

Under "Hardware":

Wifi Status LED -> GPIO-13 (D7)

Inversed LED -> Checked

Under "Devices":

Edit Task 1

Device: is Switch input - Switch

Name is Doesn't Matter

Enabled is Checked

GPIO is GPIO-12 (D6)

Switch Type is Switch

Switch Button Type is Normal Switch

Step 4. - Test

Off = http://${IP_ADDRESS}/control?cmd=GPIO,12,0

On = http://${IP_ADDRESS}/control?cmd=GPIO,12,0