ESP8266 NodeMCU WiFi IoT Garage Door Opener Relay with Cayenne

Projects Made with Cayenne
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At the moment I have a solid state relay that doesn’t seem t work. It can only be wired one way.

I can flip it but let me ask. When you plug it up should it start beeping and then “Closing Garage!”

This is what it looks like when I hit the reset button.

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[1259] Connected to WiFi
[1260] My IP: 10.80.0.143
Setup Gstate:0
[5001] Connecting to arduino.mydevices.com:8442
[10127] Connecting to arduino.mydevices.com:8442
[15262] Connecting to arduino.mydevices.com:8442
[15432] Ready (ping: 40ms).
Closing Garage!

It runs closing garage right out of the gate.

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// assuming you wire your relay as normally open
if (currentValue == 0) {
digitalWrite(13, HIGH);

the “currentValue == 0” was missing the zero.

Seems to be working better now.

However I keep losing connection to it. “can not connect to remote device”. It seems like if I push the button a few times it fast it can can crashes the NodeMCU (say you want stop the garage half way). I’ll drop pings to it.

64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2253 ttl=128 time=3.399 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2254 ttl=128 time=55.547 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2255 ttl=128 time=3.321 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2256 ttl=128 time=4.433 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2257 ttl=128 time=4.132 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2258 ttl=128 time=4.169 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2259 ttl=128 time=2.809 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2260 ttl=128 time=5.173 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2261 ttl=128 time=5.586 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2262 ttl=128 time=4.781 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2263 ttl=128 time=5.329 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2264 ttl=128 time=5.262 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2265 ttl=128 time=5.957 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2266 ttl=128 time=4.602 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2267 ttl=128 time=4.770 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2268 ttl=128 time=4.077 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2269 ttl=128 time=11.236 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2270 ttl=128 time=5.490 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2271 ttl=128 time=111.644 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2272 ttl=128 time=7.908 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2273 ttl=128 time=5.324 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2274 ttl=128 time=4.548 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2275 ttl=128 time=4.567 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2276 ttl=128 time=5.147 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2277 ttl=128 time=5.687 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2278 ttl=128 time=3.697 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2279
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2280
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2281
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2282
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2283
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2284 ttl=128 time=4.665 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2285 ttl=128 time=40.323 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2286 ttl=128 time=60.140 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2287 ttl=128 time=78.830 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2288 ttl=128 time=5.536 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2289 ttl=128 time=5.254 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2290 ttl=128 time=8.315 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2291 ttl=128 time=6.947 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2292 ttl=128 time=5.245 ms
64 bytes from 10.80.0.143: icmp_seq=2293 ttl=128 time=6.152 ms

Then the pings to the NodeMCU come back but it is hit or miss if will start working again.

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It has been 15 minutes and it hasn’t come back. Of course while I am filming I have to hit the button a million times. I have seen it when after a couple presses it stops responding. It must be timing, like I push the button when it is doing something else and jacks it up.

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It’s possible 5V coming off the ESP8266 to power the relay might be too much of a drain and causing the ESP8266 to reboot or the USB Power Supply itself doesn’t have enough amps.

There is some talk about how to wire the relay with a 5V Power supply with a resistor and transistor here: http://www.instructables.com/id/ESP8266-WiFi-relay-switch/ or maybe someone with more electrical knowledge than me can chime in on a better way to wire this.

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Yea, I have a problem, I got this error “‘Cayenne’ was not declared in this scope” Could you please help me? Here the code:

define CAYENNE_PRINT Serial // Comment this out to disable prints and save space

// Cayenne authentication token. This should be obtained from the Cayenne Dashboard.
char token = “token”;
// Your network name and password.
char ssid = “ssid”;
char password = “password”;

void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600);
Cayenne.begin(token, ssid, password);
}

void loop()
{
Cayenne.run();
}

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Do you have #include <CayenneEthernet.h> or whatever your connection method is in there somewhere?

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@adam, when I include <CayenneEthernet.h> , and try to verify, I got a error too,
CayenneEthernet.h: No such file or directory, the same if I include <CayenneWifiClient.h>
I don’t know what can I do to fix it,
Thank you.

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Have you installed the Cayenne library in your Arduino IDE? Click Sketch>Include Library>Manage Libraries… then search for Cayenne.

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Hi,

I want to control a relay (ON OFF) with NODEMCU ESP8266 and Cayenne.

Can anyone help me ?