livolo Glass Panel Touch Light Wall Switch + arduino 433Mhz

[MystX]

Guys, I see a lot of struggle trying to get devices powered from these switches. Maybe I missed it, but has anyone tried replacing the 3.3v regulator in the switch? I replaced mine with a switched-mode version, which gives you a lot more power to play with. The original linear regulators effectively have a 8.7v drop across them.

With that + a livolo LED adapter I've managed to get a ESP8266 powered on as little as 2x 13W LED bulbs (I've tried 2x 10.5W and it doesn't work). I've tried some of the jumpers people have posted here to get more power, but I'm unsure if they help.

[Nca78]

@MystX said in livolo Glass Panel Touch Light Wall Switch + arduino 433Mhz:

With that + a livolo LED adapter I've managed to get a ESP8266 powered on as little as 2x 13W LED bulbs (I've tried 2x 10.5W and it doesn't work). I've tried some of the jumpers people have posted here to get more power, but I'm unsure if they help.

Why would you want to use an ESP8266 when there are solutions using only a fraction of the power that you can connect to an ESP8266 via a radio link if you really need wifi ? With the wasted power you could run a screen, RGB leds, radar module, ...

[MystX]

@Nca78 So that I don't have to run a radio link and an esp elsewhere =)

But my post was really about the switching regulator.

[Nca78]

@MystX yes the switching regulator is much more efficient, there's a board using it already. And now the new versions have 12V available on the "touch" board so it's much easier to set it up.

[Teo Bartulovic]

Let me explain my problem in details, I need classic impulse switch to trig lights on stairs and hall and it is available in this form factor but the problem is that this push switch isn't available with remote control functionality so my idea is to use either simple one gang switch, or curtain or 2 Gang 2 Way but of course I have to somehow 'hack' them to work as momentary switches...

[Camposmansi]

Wow what a great project, this week I'll see if I get it with 2 way 2 gan

[Camposmansi]

Well yesterday burn a livolo :'(

[Nca78]

@camposmansi said in livolo Glass Panel Touch Light Wall Switch + arduino 433Mhz:

Well yesterday burn a livolo :'(

What did you do ? Wire the 2 way switch the wrong way ?

[Camposmansi]

@nca78 said in livolo Glass Panel Touch Light Wall Switch + arduino 433Mhz:

@camposmansi said in livolo Glass Panel Touch Light Wall Switch + arduino 433Mhz:

Well yesterday burn a livolo :'(

What did you do ? Wire the 2 way switch the wrong way ?

If I burn to the computer, in the end I made a sketch and I will use only the keypad, now I'm designing the PVC

[ady_e_n]

Hi All,

I'm trying a different approach, on how to use just the top (sensor) part of the livolo touch switch, but at the moment, i'm stuck at the PIC16f690 microcontroller functions in order to power up the LED.

I'm using a Livolo VL-C601-2 model and based on the wires on the top part, i tried to make a diagram to batter understand the schematics. (Please note that i'm missing some wires and that i have not drawn all the wires from all the pins as i could not see all of them. If something is wrong, please let me know.)

What i don't understand from the diagram below, is how does the PIC16F690 controls the two LEDs (red and blue) using only the RB4 (13) pin.

From the datasheet link here i can see that the Pin 13 (RB4) has: RB4/AN10/SDI/SDA and supports IOC

Can someone please explain to a noob in electronics how does this work and how does the pic switches from one LED to the other ?