Tasmota: Configurable Delay for RF like Sonoff Bridge

[joke24]

Hi,
it would be great to have a configurable delay setting for sending RF commands with the Sonoff Bridge to the switches and sockets.

Issue: Using a Sonoff Bridge with Tasmota and two intertechno itl-3500 3 channel switch.
When using the group on/off function of openhab, all mqtt commands get sent very fast to the sonoff bridge, that sends this also to fast via rf to the switch. So often only half of the lights turn on / off.

You could do this manually with scripting in the home automation system, but it's often a pain and a lot of work to do with every switch. scripting-hell.

Would be great to have a delay to set in ms e.g. 100ms when sending a command, maybe at the end of sending one command, so the other has to wait some time befor get sent out from the bridge.

Thank you, keep up your great work! <3

[andrethomas]

I do not think it's viable to do this inside Tasmota as it would require a buffer to store data received and additional code cycles to defer the sending of each data instance that was received and just make things a lot more messy to handle.

Essentially the RF Bridge should under normal circumstances transmit received data over mqtt as soon as possible. Adding delays in this could lead to missed alarms on PIR and magnetic door sensors if not handled properly.

Unfortunately, I think the only logical solution is that you are going to have to do this on the HA side.

[benzino77]

Maybe this will do the trick for you?
On RF Bridge define this rule:

rule1 on event#allswitchesON do 
backlog rfraw <code_to_on_switch1>;delay 2;rfcode <code_to_on_switch2>;delay 2; rfcode <code_to_on_switch3>
endon 
on event#allswitchesOFF do 
backlog rfraw <code_to_off_switch1>;delay 2;rfcode <code_to_off_switch2>;delay 2; rfcode <code_to_off_switch3>
endon 

do not forget to eneble rule by typing rule1 1

Then from openhab publish: cmnd/rf_bridge_topic/event allswitchesON to send rfcodes to three switches to turn them on (with 200ms delay between each code) and cmnd/rf_bridge_topic/event allswitchesOFF to turn them off.

Backlog, delay and rfcode commands are described here