Smart Switch Multi Press

Enable Multi Press

To enable the multi press feature on the TASMOTA firmware.

backlog SetOption73 1; SetOption32 10

• Setoption32 : Number of 0.1 seconds to hold button before sending HOLD action message. Value 10 equals 1 second. This option also affects the time required to perform a firmware defaults reset (10x HOLD action time)
• SetOption73 : Detach buttons from relays and send multi-press and hold MQTT messages instead.

Example message:

{"Button1":{"Action":"SINGLE"}}

{"Button1":{"Action":"DOUBLE"}}

{"Button1":{"Action":"TRIPPLE"}}

{"Button1":{"Action":"QUAD"}}

{"Button1":{"Action":"PENTA"}}

{"Button1":{"Action":"HOLD"}}

Node-Red Button Control

As the physical button(s) are now no longer attached to the relay I use Node-RED to control each action.
Here are the steps as shown in the image:

• Here I'm listening to a specific Topic.
• Once a message is received it is then converted form JSON to JavaScript.
• I then extract the action from the required button.
• I then send the appropriate action to the appropriate device.

MQTT

Subscribe to the appropriate Topic on the Broker.

json to javascript

Convert the retrieved data from json to JavaScript.

Data

Now that you have converted the data from JSON to JavaScript retrieve the button action.
If you have more than a one button switch make sure to chage the Button1 to the appropriate ButtonX.

Switch

Create as many switch options as necessary.

Action

Finally change the entity to what you want. On, Off, Toggle or if it's LEDs change colour and brightness to predefined colours or whatever else you may want to do.