ESPHome Smart Plug - WiFi Behaviour

SaaX

Hi guys,

quick question: what’s the default behaviour of the ESPHome Smart Plugs when their currently connected WiFi hotspot goes down? Does it try to reconnect eventually or will it fail over to another one in its list?

I have noticed that none of that happened and am wondering if I have to enable a failover logic myself? I might have been a bit impatient and unplugged/replugged too early 😉

Cheers,
Axel

SaaX

I think I found the answer: reboot_timeout . . . defaults to 15min.

I’ll be more patient next time it happens and hopefully it’ll just work.

jane_t

All my ESPHome devices, seem to reconnect once our Wifi is restored. If I am in a hurry once I fix the Wifi, as it is normally me that broke it, I just power cycle the plugs to get them to reconnect quickly. In our house we have multiple circuits so we can turn off at the fuse box any one of about 20 zones.

g0hww

I was curious about whether the default_state: “ALWAYS_OFF” setting comes into effect if the wifi link is lost. Having read this topic, it seems that reboot_timeout will make the plug reboot and adopt the default_state. This behaviour is what we expect?

BertQuodge

g0hww I’m no expert, but If I drop wifi I see the plug wait for bit, reboot and then adopt the default state.

If you need to trigger something to happen on WiFi being available, or not, you could try something like the, untested, code below:

wifi:
  ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
  password: !secret wifi_password
  on_connect:
    logger.log: "WiFi has connected"
    switch.turn_on: relay
  on_disconnect:
    logger.log: "WiFi has disconnected"
    switch.turn_off: relay

73s

g0hww

BertQuodge
Thanks Bert. chucking in a couple of hyphens in your code did the trick. 73 ..