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beveradb / sonoff-lan-mode-homeassistant

Home Assistant platform to control Sonoff switches running the latest Itead firmware, locally (LAN mode).
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Make clear that the device will not boot to lan #4

Closed tiagoboldt closed 5 years ago

tiagoboldt commented 5 years ago

The device must have internet access to setup itself so blocking its internet connection must happen each time the device is powered.

beveradb commented 5 years ago

Hmm, that hasn't been my experience - in fact, in the video I posted (watch from 16s in), I demonstrate cutting power to the device, powering it back up again and seeing it spend 4 seconds flashing once, then dropping into LAN mode (two flashes every 2 seconds).

What model and firmware version are you on, and what exactly do you see when doing the same thing?

tiagoboldt commented 5 years ago

Let me retry and followup. I'm using an S20, firmware 2.6.1.

tiagoboldt commented 5 years ago

When I plug it in and internet access is blocked, mine keeps blinking once every couple of seconds, trying to connect to the internet. This goes on forever. A few seconds after unblocking its internet traffic, it stops blinking and fixes the green LED. Some minutes after I block the internet connectivity again, it drops to lan mode. So this one requires internet access to set itself up before being able to drop to lan mode. :/

beveradb commented 5 years ago

I've just tweaked this note and merged to show the note prominently in the README.

However, I'm keen to investigate this further over in issue #8 if you're up for doing a bit of trial and error with me? I've got a few more Sonoff devices on the way but no S20 just yet, unfortunately (and can't justify ordering more just now).