insert true/false for tasmota to accept for POWER control

[madjack84]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
iobroker does only send true/false or 0/100 (for lits) but tasmota firmware only accepts 1/0 or ON/OFF.
extend MQTT message set.
Already saw that in many posts, but with no good answer.

Describe the solution you'd like
Please add true/false as
'cmnd/myDevice/power' -m 'true'
for setting POWER to 1

Describe alternatives you've considered
rules don't work properly
"Rule1":"1","Once":"0","StopOnError":"0","Free":435,"Rules":"on event#power=false do power1 0 endon on event#power=true do power1 1 endon"
as iobroker can't generate a message with payload power=false

[ascillato2]

Hi,

I tested the following rules :

rule 1
rule on event#false do power1 0 endon on event#true do power1 1 endon

using MQTT as:

cmnd/sonofftopic/event
with payload true
and payload false

and works fine.

Console Output:

18:42:05 MQT: cmnd/living/event = true
18:42:05 SRC: MQTT
18:42:05 RSL: Topic Recibido cmnd/living/event, Tamaño de Datos 4, Datos true
18:42:05 RSL: Grupo 0, Índice 1, Comando EVENT, Datos true
18:42:05 MQT: stat/living/RESULT = {"Event":"Done"}
18:42:05 RUL: EVENT#TRUE performs "power1 1"
18:42:05 SRC: Rule
18:42:05 RSL: Topic Recibido /power1, Tamaño de Datos 1, Datos 1
18:42:05 RSL: Grupo 0, Índice 1, Comando POWER, Datos 1
18:42:05 MQT: stat/living/RESULT = {"POWER1":"ON"}
18:42:05 MQT: stat/living/POWER1 = ON

[madjack84]

Thanks, the workaround works well :)
However this command is to be used for every iobroker user for every sonoff device.
I think adding true besides on and false besides off in the code is a minor minor thing and adds lots of convenience for many users :)

[ascillato]

True. You are right

By now, this has been added to the wiki as there was nothing about IOBroker there.

Thanks.

[madjack84]

I tried to finde the code line for adding true/false myself.
Unfortunately searching for on or off results in plenty (>300) hits ;)

in sonoff.ino method following MqttDataHandler I can't find the on/off interpretation in the payload conversion section... Do you have a hint where to find it?
I can't debug it unfortunately myself :(

if (!strcmp(dataBuf,"?")) data_len = 0;
int16_t payload = -99;               // No payload
uint16_t payload16 = 0;
long payload32 = strtol(dataBuf, &p, 10);
if (p != dataBuf) {
  payload = (int16_t) payload32;     // -32766 - 32767
  payload16 = (uint16_t) payload32;  // 0 - 65535
} else {
  payload32 = 0;
}
backlog_delay = millis() + (100 * MIN_BACKLOG_DELAY);

int temp_payload = GetStateNumber(dataBuf);
if (temp_payload > -1) { payload = temp_payload; }

[arendst]

My understanding is that iobroker uses node.js

There must be hundreds of solutions to change true to 1/On and false to 0/Off by node.js

[madjack84]

oh sorry for the misleading comment :/
I meant to integrate into sonoffs arduino SW stack not into ioBroker node.js.
Think sonoff acceptance of true/false is the better solution regarding architecture

[0xdefec71f]

Hi,

I tested the following rules :

rule 1
rule on event#false do power1 0 endon on event#true do power1 1 endon

using MQTT as:

cmnd/sonofftopic/event
with payload true
and payload false

and works fine.

Console Output:

18:42:05 MQT: cmnd/living/event = true
18:42:05 SRC: MQTT
18:42:05 RSL: Topic Recibido cmnd/living/event, Tamaño de Datos 4, Datos true
18:42:05 RSL: Grupo 0, Índice 1, Comando EVENT, Datos true
18:42:05 MQT: stat/living/RESULT = {"Event":"Done"}
18:42:05 RUL: EVENT#TRUE performs "power1 1"
18:42:05 SRC: Rule
18:42:05 RSL: Topic Recibido /power1, Tamaño de Datos 1, Datos 1
18:42:05 RSL: Grupo 0, Índice 1, Comando POWER, Datos 1
18:42:05 MQT: stat/living/RESULT = {"POWER1":"ON"}
18:42:05 MQT: stat/living/POWER1 = ON

Hello ascillato,

I have the same problem than madjack84. But for some reason the rule you mentioned does not work for me. I paste this in the console:
rule1
on event#false do power1 0 endon
on event#true do power1 1 endon

and it accepts it:
21:17:51 CMD: rule1 on event#false do power1 0 endon on event#true do power1 1 endon
21:17:51 MQT: stat/OG/Ecklampe/RESULT = {"Rule1":"ON","Once":"OFF","StopOnError":"OFF","Free":446,"Rules":"on event#false do power1 0 endon on event#true do power1 1 endon"}

But on every "true" (or "false") trigger, it just switches off
21:19:08 MQT: stat/OG/Ecklampe/RESULT = {"POWER":"OFF"}
21:19:08 MQT: stat/OG/Ecklampe/POWER = OFF

Can you tell me, what I am doing wrong?
Tasmota 6.7.1

Thank you and best regards

[ascillato]

Please, use command weblog 4 to have more debug information in the console, and then try the event true and event false. Please, paste the output of the console. Thanks

[0xdefec71f]

Thank you for the fast response. Now I have the following:
07:40:45 CMD: rule1 on event#false do power1 0 endon on event#true do power1 1 endon
07:40:45 SRC: WebConsole from 192.168.178.53
07:40:45 CMD: Gruppe 0, Index 1, Befehl "RULE", Daten "on event#false do power1 0 endon on event#true do power1 1 endon"
07:40:45 MQT: stat/OG/Ecklampe/RESULT = {"Rule1":"ON","Once":"OFF","StopOnError":"OFF","Free":446,"Rules":"on event#false do power1 0 endon on event#true do power1 1 endon"}

and at action:
07:41:44 MQT: empfangenes topic "cmnd/OG/Ecklampe/POWER", Datengröße 4, Daten "true"
07:41:44 SRC: MQTT
07:41:44 CMD: Gruppe 0, Index 1, Befehl "POWER", Daten "true"
07:41:44 MQT: stat/OG/Ecklampe/RESULT = {"POWER":"OFF"}
07:41:44 MQT: stat/OG/Ecklampe/POWER = OFF