HowTo: Tasmota - Configure automatic output shutdown

Automatically deactivating relays are familiar from stairwells, for example. The light is switched on by pressing a button. Without having to press the button again, the light is automatically switched off again after a certain time.

How you can activate and use this function on a Tasmota device is explained in the following article.

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Requirements

Helpful articles:

Before you can use this function, you should have installed your Tasmota device and configured it so that you can access it via your wifi. How to do this is described in the following articles.

Required tool:
- none

Required material:

Activate SetOption26 (display of relay indices).

Some functions are somewhat cryptically hidden in the Tasmota firmware. This also includes the function that the relay indices are displayed.

If you use several relays in your Tasmota device (like the Sonoff 4CH, for example), each relay gets its own consecutive number (index).
If you then want to switch a relay, you can also clearly specify these relays.

“POWER1 ON” then switches, for example, the relay with the index “1”,
“POWER2 ON” the relay with index “2”, etc.

By default, the Tasmota firmware assumes that only one relay is connected. As a result, the display of the relay indices is deactivated. This can get confusing especially when you switch between different Tasmota devices. It is therefore recommended to activate this function by default.
This can be done with the following command:

SetOption26 1

Set PulseTime

Now we come to the actual setting of the overrun function. There is the “PulseTime” command in the Tasmota firmware for this purpose. This can be used to set the follow-up time of the connected relay.

The length of time the relay remains switched on can be set in two different “resolutions”.

Set PulseTime in the range 0.1 to 11.1 seconds (resolution 0.1s):

In the range 0.1 to 11.1 seconds, the PulseTime can be set with a resolution of 0.1 seconds.
For this purpose, the values from 0.1 to 11.1 are represented by the values from 1 to 111.
So if you want to set a PulseTime of 5.6 seconds, you have to send the command “PulseTime 56” to the Tasmota firmware.
In order to get the right value for the command, you have to multiply the desired time by ten and pass it on with the command.

Further examples for the range 0.1 to 11.1:

Hold time of 3.7 seconds:

PulseTime 37

Hold time of 4.2 seconds:

PulseTime 42

Hold time of 9.6 seconds:

PulseTime 96

Set PulseTime in the range 12 to 64788 seconds (resolution 1s):

The PulseTime of the Tasmota firmware can be set in the range from 12 to 64788 seconds with a resolution of one second.
All you have to do is add 100 to the desired time. So if you want to set a PulseTime of 100 seconds, you have to send the command “PulseTime 200” to the Tasmota firmware.

Further examples for the range 12 to 64788 seconds:

Hold time of 37 seconds:

PulseTime 137

Hold time of 42 seconds:

PulseTime 142

Hold time of one hour=60x60s=3600seconds:

PulseTime 3700

Query the current setting:

PulseTime

Deactivate PulseTime:

PulseTime 0

Further information

Have fun with the project

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