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Two questions #15

Open tergontor opened 5 months ago

tergontor commented 5 months ago

First of all, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge that helps the rest of us to be able to install these devices at home. I installed the Eqiva lock yesterday and it works quite well. I followed the steps in the video https://youtu.be/Ev7GehI4arM?si=q-5MG-ZeTJwoDtOR which explains it quite well, but there are two topics in which I have doubts: 1.It seems that the Eqiva and Esphome app are incompatible, or one or the other works but not both simultaneously. It's not that I care much because the one I really want to work well is with Esphome. The problem is that it randomly disconnects from esphome and then the app works. So that this does not happen and it is always connected to esphome, I have set the continuous parameter to true in the esp32_ble_tracker component at the risk of consuming more battery. I suppose the other option is to delete the app but I would like to have it as a backup just in case. Is that so or am I wrong? 2.The example code is based on Wi-Fi, in my case I installed it on an ESP32 WT32-ETH01 board so I modified the example code somewhat by removing the Wi-Fi component and adding the Ethernet. Do you know if we need to add something else that is not in the example code?

Again congratulations for your great work. Greetings and thanks.

KlausHans commented 5 months ago

I just added the lock with a WT32-ETH01. Here is my yaml: https://github.com/KlausHans/Esphome-Yamls/blob/main/eqiva-lock.yaml I did:

Works very well so far. I don't use the app though.

tergontor commented 4 months ago

I just added the lock with a WT32-ETH01. Here is my yaml: https://github.com/KlausHans/Esphome-Yamls/blob/main/eqiva-lock.yaml I did:

  • continuous: false removed from esp32_ble_tracker
  • removed the wifi definitions
  • added ethernet definition for the WT32-ETH01
  • after initial pairing added mac_address, user_id and user_key to eqiva_key_ble

Works very well so far. I don't use the app though.

Thank you very much for your answer. Looking at your yaml it is almost the same as mine. In esp32_ble_tracker: I have the continuous parameter set to true although I could remove it since it is the default. So far it works fine but it hasn't been a month and it is already reporting that the battery is running out sensor.low_battry = true. I guess it's due to testing although it seems that continuous = true also helps. I haven't touched the app again. I'll look into deleting the app and setting continuous to false in case it improves battery performance. Greetings and thanks.

dlbogdan commented 1 month ago

I want the opposite of this. I want to be able to use the iPhone app just in case something goes wrong in the infrastructure and the lock cannot be triggered through the ESPHome device. Any thoughts ?