Remotely controlled Power Socket 250V/10A

It’s nice to make your own stuff sometimes, rather than buying the off the shelf options.

Can I suggest a few minor modifications…

  1. remove those unused plastic stand-offs to allow you to position the relay and the other stuff further apart, and fix everything down so that it can’t move.

  2. think about adding an LED to indicate things, like connecting to Wi-Fi/ Blynk, and the on/off status of the relay.

  3. think about adding a physical push button to allow control without the app. You’d need to synchronise the app button of course. You might also want to add a non-blocking routine so that the physical button can be used if the Wi-Fi or Blynk server are down.

  4. adding an OTA update routine would be handy if you want to update your code without disassembling the socket.

The LED, physical switch and OTA (but not non-blocking code) are included in the example code for these switches…

Pete.

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