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by LEDG
Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:09 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Shutting the Forum Down 07/31/2022
Replies: 0
Views: 19634

Shutting the Forum Down 07/31/2022

Hi everyone, It's been fun over the past few years running this forum. Many intelligent people have posted many intelligent things to share their systems and help other members figure theirs out. Unfortunately I no longer have the time required to keep this place running and I've decided to shut the...
by LEDG
Wed Apr 27, 2022 1:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PWM Driver Dimming not as strong?
Replies: 2
Views: 1650

Re: PWM Driver Dimming not as strong?

How is your circuit wired?
by LEDG
Fri Jan 07, 2022 9:32 pm
Forum: Grows
Topic: New build, work in progress.
Replies: 75
Views: 42737

Re: New build, work in progress.

Spicy Lego
by LEDG
Tue Sep 14, 2021 2:31 pm
Forum: Home Assistant Gardening
Topic: Trying to restore previous switch state after Node-RED restart.
Replies: 2
Views: 3030

Re: Trying to restore previous switch state after Node-RED restart.

Is it just the feedback for the switch that's showing off, or is the light actually turning off?
by LEDG
Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:36 pm
Forum: Home Assistant Gardening
Topic: Calibration problem with HX711
Replies: 3
Views: 2369

Re: Calibration problem with HX711

PM'd
by LEDG
Sun Aug 22, 2021 10:56 pm
Forum: Home Assistant Gardening
Topic: ESP issues
Replies: 12
Views: 6862

Re: ESP issues

ESPHome is pretty great. OP and I managed to get his control issues all worked out.
by LEDG
Sat Aug 21, 2021 8:48 pm
Forum: Home Assistant Gardening
Topic: Help with communication would be much appreciated.
Replies: 9
Views: 3335

Re: Help with communication would be much appreciated.

Anything that the Mega sends to the ESP32 will be published to the MQTT topic feedback/debug , so try subscribing to that topic with a program like MQTT Box in windows and see what comes back. You should see information like water level, etc. You can try turning on one of the 8 relays from home assi...
by LEDG
Tue Aug 17, 2021 4:36 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: So glad to have found this!
Replies: 1
Views: 3219

Re: So glad to have found this!

Dang, 25 years! Great to have you; good luck with your build.
by LEDG
Tue Aug 17, 2021 1:42 pm
Forum: Home Assistant Gardening
Topic: ESP issues
Replies: 12
Views: 6862

Re: ESP issues

You may need to install some libraries in the Arduino software. EDIT downloaded libraries onewire, dallastemperature, wifi, pubsubclient, wire and adafruit sensor library and adafruitsensor bme280 library.... i reload a new instance of IDE and everything is orange (i assume that means it found the ...
by LEDG
Sun Aug 15, 2021 2:35 pm
Forum: Home Assistant Gardening
Topic: Help with communication would be much appreciated.
Replies: 9
Views: 3335

Re: Help with communication would be much appreciated.

I initially used a level shifter in between the mega and esp32 to bring the voltage down, but it gave me more problems so I scrapped it. My system has been running with a direct connection between the 2 ever since. If you subscribe to the MQTT topic feedback/debug, do you see any debug info? This sh...