I’ve got quite an unique setup. Our hallway previously had a few lights in the ceiling. I’ve since removed those and added 25 meters of WS2811 warm white LED strips in aluminum profiles. They are constantly powered via power from the attic, and then I simply use Home Assistant or the web interface to control them.
However, this isn’t very cool nor user friendly nor wife approved, and most importantly, if we decide to ever sell the house, the new owner can’t turn on the lights.
The lights are powered at one end of the hallway, and at the other end I have mains power as well as the switch input from all the wall switches. I want to connect those switch wires to an optocoupler and ESP32, which will allow me to wirelessly control the lights, which solves all the problems… except if WiFi is down or if we sell the house.
I know about ESP-NOW and I know about the Wizmote, but what if I want to “emulate” the Wizmote using a separate ESP32 and have the WLED ESP32 (master) connect with the ESP-NOW ESP32 (slave)? That would solve all my problems. What would be even more cool, would be to support dimming via ESP-NOW, but I’d have to investigate that.
The documentation regarding WLED and ESP-NOW is lacking, and I haven’t seen anyone else do this before, but I could be wrong. Any idea?
In my tests during the introduction of espnow ( I was the only one who tested it part of the development work and posted info on the result in discord beta testing channel ) it only worked if both units are disconnected from wifi .They did not work if the master is still connected to WIFI and I did not see evidence from anybody that showed it worked so maybe try it and keep that point in mind .I also tested today on latest 15.0.b7 and it is the same case and the whole thing is a bit fiddly so not really a good option unless you use wizmote or disconnect both from wifi .You could try to extend your network and call it a day
Well you lost me in the first wizmote. Haven’t heard that one. But what I have is car with 6- esp32 with approximately 600-700 12 v LEDs on each run. All is working great until I pull out of the shop and loose my WiFi. Is there a way to config my I phone 16 hotspot to operate the esp 32s and I have a 12v relay for the LEDs. If I can operate the esps from my phone or any other options I’m wide
Open I have way to much time and a small fortune in it to scratch this deal
Wizmote is an espnow remote which works without wifi, google the name and you will see that , for the car you could setup one unit to be in AP mode or if that is not stable then you could setup a portable router
Network coverage? I’ve got some of the best coverage money can buy.
My problem is keeping it working if I sell the house.
I managed to make another ESP32 talk to the WLED ESP32 via ESP-NOW. I’m currently making it all work as I want. Everything is basically working exactly as I want. WiFi is working simultaneously with ESP-NOW
