Etekcity Voltson (ESW01-EU)

The Etekcity Voltson brings a 10A relay, two LEDs (blue and yellow), a push button and a HLW8012 Power Sensor in a very small package and at a reasonable price.

Note

There are quite a few hardware revisions out there. Also reginal versions like US, UK and EU are different.

Flashing

Opening the case for flashing varies a lot for different hardware revisions. Mine was easy as it had two tiny T5 Torx screws in the front and four Philipps screws inside. Once you have opened the case, remove the PCB from it and attach your TTL as follows:

5V and GND go to the bottom:

../_images/esw01-eu-pcb-bottom.jpg

On the opposite side, T12 is TX, T13 is RX. During boot you need to connect T11 and T16 pads to GND. Easiest is to flash with pogo pins.

../_images/esw01-eu-pcb-top.jpg

Configuration

As the Voltson has its SEL pin permanently pulled high, we are unable to switch from voltage measurement to current measurement. This will be circumvented by defining the initial mode to be voltage measurement (see HLW8012 Power Sensor documentation) and calculating the current with Ohm’s law: P (watts) = V (volts) x I (amps)

esphome:
  name: voltson

esp8266:
  board: esp01_1m

### you wifi and other settings here ###

### pins ###
# D1 GPIO5  | LED blue    | status_led
# D0 GPIO16 | LED yellow  | led1
# D5 GPIO14 | SW1         | button1
# D2 GPIO4  | REL1        | relay1
# D6 GPIO12 | HLW8012/CF1 | cf1_pin
# D7 GPIO13 | HLW8012/CF  | cf_pin

status_led:
  pin:
    number: GPIO5

output:
- platform: gpio
  id: relay1
  pin: GPIO4
- platform: gpio
  id: led1
  pin: GPIO16

switch:
- platform: output
  name: "Voltson Relay"
  id: switch1
  output: relay1
  on_turn_on:
    - output.turn_on: led1
  on_turn_off:
    - output.turn_off: led1

binary_sensor:
  - platform: gpio
    id: button1
    pin:
      number: GPIO14
      mode:
        input: true
        pullup: true
      inverted: true
    on_press:
      - switch.toggle: switch1

sensor:
  - platform: hlw8012
    sel_pin: 0   # not connected
    cf_pin: GPIO13
    cf1_pin: GPIO12
    voltage:
      id: hlw8012_voltage
      name: "HLW8012 Voltage"
    power:
      id: hlw8012_power
      name: "HLW8012 Power"
      on_value:
        - sensor.template.publish:
            id: hlw8012_current_calculated
            state: !lambda 'return id(hlw8012_power).state / id(hlw8012_voltage).state;'
    update_interval: 10s
    initial_mode: VOLTAGE
    change_mode_every: 4294967295 # basically never
  - platform: template
    id: hlw8012_current_calculated
    name: "HLW8012 Current (calculated)"
    unit_of_measurement: A
    accuracy_decimals: 2

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