Favorite Smart Dimmer 2021 - PWM ESP8266 Tasmota & Home Assistant How To

so this is definitely bringing it back old school but hey still today this is one of my favorite dimmers that i could use in the home for doing whatever projects or just whatever type of different dimming or whatever it's just an awesome dimmer i still haven't seen them make any dimmers like this for the eu or australia whatever they just seem to be making them for the north america decorah style unfortunately so yep this is that martin jerry calling the martin jerry og dimmer for you know that original gangster i know there's somebody else named og and that is his initials but it's an awesome little dimmer and currently they are esp based as of the recording of this video you could even buy them today and they still will work with two you convert but they are esp based and you can jig them and you can flash them to tasmota or esp home with using some little jumper wires because they have the via holes there's multiple ways you can do this guy now martin jerry if you are watching this i know you're gonna have to switch this guy soon to that wb3s i'm hoping you're still gonna make this particular dimmer it's an awesome dimmer and i know you've probably sold a lot of them because even myself i bought a lot of them but you may want to think about doing one with the esp chip as well now if there's some type of deal where you can't do a esp-12f module under your same company name hey just do like some other guys do and make another company and just sell some pre-flash tasmota dimmers and stuff with the esp chip i guarantee you the community will get behind you and buy some of your products so enough about that of course now you could if we could still change out the chip if they do change it at that point now this dimmer is pretty cool because it is a three button at once decora there is a on and off at the bottom now you have the down and up some people don't like the look of this but hey it's just kind of that preference there was another one that was testing that it had just three buttons instead of this kind of decor one and they just made this to look like their smart switch which still today as well is one of my favorite smart switches just due to the button on it doesn't take a lot of travel and we can do our the control the red and the blue led on it because it's great for notifications you can turn the red and blue to of course that'll make purple it's great for doing stuff like hey is the washing machine or in the dryer running i can see that from my bedroom or hey is the alarm system armed i can see that with the red or the blue to determine if the alarm system is armed different statuses pretty cool stuff doing automations whatever and they give you those little screwless decora face plates for the single game and great job they are not branded they don't have your stupid brand thing on it so please martin jerry don't start doing that we hate that we just like just regular plain light switches with no words on them good job so if you did want to use this unfortunately with the tuya app you're not going to find that here maybe some other channel down below or somewhere you can go search around for that we're going to take this out the cloud and do our thing with it because it's a really awesome switch there's no secondary mcu to deal with so if you really wanted to you can do long press power long press this control thing do double press single press multi press you can do all the things it's pretty cool with this dimmer now if you're gonna do till you convert with it hey i've got a two convert video but there's not many products out there but this one is at as this time of the recording of the video so of course for future because tilly convert doesn't always work for everybody if you want to open this guy up i find it is easier to use the ground as kind of has a larger little gap and i just take a metal spudger kind of pry it in there like so and then just run that spudger down the side you'll hear it pop and then i'll run it around the other side and open it up if you're really gentle with it you won't break anything just run it around the side it will pop open now when you open this guy you will notice that the ground is done properly unlike some other switches it passes through goes through that way with ground any type of face plates or whatever so do hook this ground up you never know who's going to come behind you now as of this one of course it is the ty e3s they potentially may have to change the chip on that board but you if they did it would be a real simple transplant but hopefully martin jerry it would listen to me and come out with a line with the esp12f pre-flash with taz motor for us as you can see there are some small via holes if you really wanted to flash this guy or you could use that jig that we did in previous videos there's no secondary mcu as i mentioned so it's just pop it on and of course you can still do the old school flash thing and solder to it directly and do your thing it's a pretty cool little dimmer i love the design of it because it is one of the only ones that doesn't have that secondary mcu to deal with so we can control all the buttons and do all the things so real quick this is my test board that i test a lot of switches i do have it set up for doing the single switches and double switches or you want to call those two-way and three-way and yeah the terminology can get weird with i don't agree but that's a whole nother soapbox i have this set up for if i do a powered bolt smart bulb that's powered all the time and no that's not connected right now that's this wire here that is disconnected and then i'll also have this tied into the switch we will do an initial test i will do an actual just typical setup with dimming probably do some other little videos showing device groups and everything the power of this dimmer so i'm gonna go ahead and wire this thing up as i would a normal smart switch so we'll stuff all this in the box i won't be using any screws because it's not doing anything permanent and we'll move this over here so you can see and we will turn the camera light off so you can see the awesome little leds on this dimmer so i know we've shown something like tasmatizer and node mcu pie flasher and esp tool and all kind of stuff on different videos and live streams well this one's actually pretty cool and stupid easy so if you are going to be flashing this or anything else good little tip to you it's real simple to do you just go ahead and hook up whatever type of usb flasher and get it into flashing mode such as doing the gpio zero thing or whatever you're doing for flashing tasmota and this does support flashing tasmoto32 as well and we'll leave the link down below for this of course just as always you go through hook up your thing pick whichever one you want you can also do the release or you can do development and we're just gonna pick straight up release tasmota and we'll say do default hit install nothing to download all straight from the web go ahead and pick your usb hit connect and it'll do initializing if you got everything right you'll see it well it's not doing the boot thing here so we'll give that a shot again hit install cross the fingers there you go you do have things correct and it's going to go through the process and after that you're pretty much done you just cycle the power unplug plug it whatever you got to do and you can use termite or you can use the access point mode and put tasmoto and bring it on to your wi-fi now if you're using the regular release of tasmota it is going to come up as currently as of sewn off basic unfortunately we should change that to go to just generic but what that does actually on this particular switch you'll notice the one of the leds is lit up and if you do go and turn it on or off you can see that actually changes the state of one of the status leds so you're probably thinking well hey i gotta go find a template for this right quick don't go get a template as long as you have the full version of tasmota not the light just the regular full version of tasmoto and you'll notice we're going to jump to the docks right here is all you need to do to enable pwm dimmer and that is of course you can see here is just go pick the pwm dimmer module so we'll do that right now if you go to configuration go to configure module change it from sonoff basic down here you'll find pwm dimmer and hit save that's it no template no digging for stuff on sketchy websites or nothing you're good to go and automatically you can see we do get our dimming value right here in the little slider of course you can change the dimming we can go up and down we can go higher with it and of course we can turn it off and automatically you can see it does have the status leds showing for you it's pretty much there for you to roll with but there is a couple little things i like to tweak on it such as the dimmer range because yeah that does differ between the led bulbs now the documentation there's a ton of stuff in here pcdm went through and did all kinds of insanity with this dimmer i'm not gonna go through all the different pieces and parts to this but there's all kinds of things you can do with this it's a good little read for the documentation i'd like to turn on the red led and no there's no rule needed for it you just go do a set option 87 and it's that simple to go in here and go to console you can either type out set option or you can just do so 87 space one that will turn that on and you will notice when we turn that off you will get that red led at the bottom of the switch which is pretty cool for being able to find that light switch at night but i know some people don't want that red led when the lights are off in the bedroom now the other thing i want to talk about is the dimmer range and like i mentioned every single led is just going to be different even just changing the number of led bulbs in a light fixture so what you want to do is that set the dimmer range to the minimum value of what the lowest the bulb will show but you may have some other bulbs that just kind of suck and they just really turn off at like 40 and then you don't get any scale and it makes it really suck yeah it just this fixes all that i actually have it set at dimmer 25 and the bulb is not on so this is exactly what i'm talking about i even went to dimmer 40 and it doesn't turn on until dimmer 50. and so that would really suck because you'd have to turn it up halfway before the bulb would actually come on so let's try dimmer range 50. it totally changes the scale well now when you come in here and change it say to 100 you can see it gets brighter and then halfway is halfway and then you can go way down which is you can see that's actually dimmer too so it's really now half the range but it takes care of doing all the math for you in that way you're not again changing the functionality of how a dimmer works in someone's mind they're going to think all the way low is the lowest that can go so that's how you will set that for your bulb and you're really going to just have to play around with your particular bulbs and what you see you like the best for the scale and how linear it may be and you may find some balls just suck at dimming so if you know some bulbs that are really good i these older cree ones i have i haven't bought any new cree bulbs in a while they just lasted several years from me definitely shoot us a comment down below and what you found some good dimmer range bulbs now i know they've done a bunch of stuff in esp home and whatever but yeah kind of more on the tasmota side for these pre-built devices especially when we get to the device group stuff so stay tuned for that you're really going to be impressed if you haven't seen how awesome device groups and how simple it is to set up and how easy it does some cool stuff now of course i'll leave all the links down below hopefully this doesn't run out on the 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Length: 15min 40sec (940 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 02 2021