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Interfacing Pico Keypad with ESP8266 to bypass Smart Bridge Pro restrictions for non-Caseta hardware
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Alternative soldering recommendation #1

Open davidair opened 3 years ago

davidair commented 3 years ago

Thank you for putting together this project and sharing it! I implemented a slight alternative to this approach which is easier to solder (only did ON/OFF though, no dimmers): https://imgur.com/a/ZEIkERp

The wires are soldered directly to the button terminals, in addition to the VCC and GND soldered to the battery terminals. The big difference is that the buttons are ACTIVE LOW, meaning that the GPIO pins need to be set HIGH to prevent the button presses and set LOW to simulate the press.

Tested this setup successfully with an ESP32 (connected 3V/GND to the battery terminals and two GPIO ports to the button terminals).

Note: here is the other side, for completeness: https://imgur.com/a/BX64sMC

mikenemat commented 3 years ago

Wow. So cool to see someone getting value from this! Your soldering layout is better! Soldering to IC legs is not ideal :)

On May 15, 2021, at 4:57 PM, davidair @.***> wrote:

 Thank you for putting together this project and sharing it! I implemented a slight alternative to this approach which is easier to solder (only did ON/OFF though, no dimmers): https://imgur.com/a/ZEIkERp

The wires are soldered directly to the button terminals, in addition to the VCC and GND soldered to the battery terminals. The big difference is that the buttons are ACTIVE LOW, meaning that the GPIO pins need to be set HIGH to prevent the button presses and set LOW to simulate the press.

Tested this setup successfully with an ESP32 (connected 3V/GND to the battery terminals and two GPIO ports to the button terminals).

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davidair commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the inspiration! Last summer I was trying to control my Somfy motor using a cheap FS1000A module following https://pushstack.wordpress.com/somfy-rts-protocol/ and failed to make a working transmitter. When I got Lutron lights this year it got me searching and I stumbled upon your repo. I really liked the idea of controlling remotes instead of trying to implement the RF protocol myself. I ended up buying both a Somfy clone remote and a Lutron Pico Keypad and I was able to successfully connect them both to an ESP32 allowing me to then expose the functionality in a simple web server running on my home LAN and allowing to control them from any device.