rstrouse
Somehow I bricked my shade
Hardware
ESP32
Firmware version
2.4.7
Application version
2.4.7
What happened? What did you expect to happen?
Shade stopped working, I powered it of for hours, and tried to sync original remote but it is not responding to anything, it seems totally dead. Usually after power of, when i click up/down buttons in remote, shade was doing a small up/down moment that indicating it is working now nothing is happening. what should i do? Is it possible that somehow I damage the motors?
How to reproduce it (step by step)
This is my first time trying to install it, I followed tutorial to prepare hardware, install firmware etc. everything seemed to fine and I started to adding my shades to ESP, I checked my remote controller button pressed being shown on radio log, I used that address when adding shade, when i click up/down buttons, motor was running but really momentarily, In real remote when i hold a key, motors were working until i stop pressing, but when i was trying to add shade to ESP, even if i keep pressed, motors moved just a small moment of time unless I press again. I tried to pair shade with ESP and I was trying to figure it out what should I do and randomly pressing up/down buttons and suddenly shade stopped working.
Logs
It's possible that the shade became out of sync with the remote. Have you tried hard resetting?
I tried that, but it didn’t work. Based on my electronics knowledge, I assume there must be an H-bridge inside the motor controller. If you send both forward and reverse commands at the same time, it likely shorts the H-bridge and damages the MOSFETs. Maybe something like that happened, but thankfully the company I purchased my shades from agreed to replace the motor under warranty. When it arrives, I’ll probably buy a Tahoma switch and avoid taking the risk again.