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I installed 2 iotorero garage door devices. I installed them a different way so I only had run the wire 1 ft instead of like 20 ft. But this meant the magnet is in range of the sensor when the door is open, not closed.
Can I flip the state of the device somehow so it will show the garage is open when it’s close to the magnet instead of closed?
wheat blade
How did you integate it with HA?
stable hemlock
It’s an ESP32. So I connected to its WiFi to setup my WiFi. Then it popped right up in HA
wheat blade
so, ESPHome?
ancient skiff
It's gonna show as closed when it's 95% open.... which is not really what you want for security :\
stable hemlock
so, ESPHome?
Yes
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It's gonna show as closed when it's 95% open.... which is not really what you wa...
smoky ember
Are you using a cover template to create the cover? The code I used had a lambda for open/closed - just had to swap them as my reed switches were NO not NC or something similar… was a long time ago.
On mobile so it’s a bit of a shit to copy paste but this is one of the old ones (running on a Shelly 1)
Plus inverting the binary sensor state
stable hemlock
The cover is just auto made via the button I guess. That’s all I did, added a button to my dashboard and selected the entity. But I’ll look into a template
smoky ember
Ah ok if you didn’t / can’t access the actual Esphome code, maybe see if the reed switch itself has different connectors for Normally Open vs Normally Closed
stable hemlock
Ah ok if you didn’t / can’t access the actual Esphome code, maybe see if the ree...
Ah so this is the yaml for it. So I could make those changes to invert it and the reflash the esp32? https://github.com/athom-tech/esp32-configs/blob/main/athom-garage-door.yaml
wheat blade
yes
stable hemlock
Gotcha. And I can flash it with the OTA firmware update?
smoky ember
Yep. Pretty sure you’d just need to add the invert bit to the sensor for the mag switch.
stable hemlock
Yeah I’d try that first
smoky ember
Yeah, does it let you BYO yaml file for the firmware or something?
stable hemlock
And that yaml and found the yaml on the store page https://www.athom.tech/blank-1/garage-door-opener-for-esphome
smoky ember
Yeah if that’s looking for a yaml file then all good. If it wants a precompiled firmware you might have to suss with athom
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Ah
wheat blade
You can probably just take control with the ESPHome builder and build and install from there
stable hemlock
I figure it would want yaml since it’s provided on the store page
smoky ember
You can probably just take control with the ESPHome builder and build and instal...
This. It’s the ESPHome Builder that compiles yaml configuration into firmware (in very basic terms)
stable hemlock
Ok I’ll do that
smoky ember
Plus with esphome builder you can tweak the yaml, click update, and it’ll compile and upload wirelessly. Super easy for developing in the live environment 😂
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Yeah I’ll take a closer look tomorrow when I’m at my pc. Don’t wanna mess too much from phone / couch
But I took control of both
stable hemlock
so when I click edit on the device. do I just clear all that and replace with whats on github?
Then click install?
because what I see now, I assume is just a wrapper for the yaml thats pulled from github?
smoky ember
Sorry was driving. Yeah it looks like that just replaces the ‘packages’ bit with the yaml from GitHub. Not sure whether you’d need to merge the bits from esphome / api etc but maybe? Eg the yaml still needs your api key and wifi secrets etc
stable hemlock
Gotcha
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Hmm?
smoky ember
Hrmm. Not sure. Did it change IP address?
stable hemlock
Good question
No, still 47
and now it only does this. It did a lot more the first time
stable hemlock
maybe I need to use a usb
When I took control of these in Home Builder, it wanted me to install something which I did not
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@smoky ember any ideas?
wheat blade
Seems like you picked the wrong YAML. The one you originally pointed to clearly says ESP32
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This is what I am trying to install. A mix of what showed originally from ESP Home and the github
stable hemlock
what in the world
somehow got the wrong github at some point
progress i guess
and still...
feeeellling like its not working lol
Started again from within the edit and redoing the YAML again
oh that was wireless, got this
but cooking now maybe
mayybe
wants me to install something, trying that
so can I click stop??
seems like it installed
Just counter intuitive to click “stop” to close this window
smoky ember
Soz been offline. Yeah that looks good. And agree it’s counterintuitive
stable hemlock
Feel like the WiFi isnt working now, cannot take control
No local server running for me to control from
I did another install where this time I tried to invert the binary sensor
After that first install last night it was working as stock
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Feels like this thing is dead in the water now @wheat blade
I can conect to it and Prepare install from here, it finishes, then tells me it cant connect to it, cant configure wfi, isnt discoverable in HA ESP Home Builder
smoky ember
Dammit. Does it show up on your dhcp/router etc?
stable hemlock
Dammit. Does it show up on your dhcp/router etc?
whoops, no it does not. I thought it was the wrong device I was looking at
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I dont even get a blinking light anymore... maybe I borked it
But it does appear as a com port
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Their support discord finally replied and showed me their bins to install
https://github.com/athom-tech/esp32-configs/releases
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added this to substitutions
status_inverted: false
