I am considering buying an emylo switch - can you please provide some details on how you flashed it OTA
There was an issue with TUYAota recently. Dr. Zzz posted a video about it.
I would hold off until you hear if the team figured out how to get around that issue.
I haven't heard.
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Hey everyone, I have a SmartLife WiFi LED (which I understand uses Tuya on the back end), and a SmartLife Power Strip. Is there a good place I should start? This thread is massive. I would prefer a GitHub readme.md if possible.
I think the consensus here ended up deciding tuyaconvert was a better option.
I know there was an attempt by tuya to update the firmware so it will block the software.
I need to test if it still works myself.
Tuyaconvert loads tasmota on the device wirelessly.
FYI, there is a WEMO driver for Hubitat and it is working very well for me.
I can get some switches that are able to be flashed with tuya-convert. Have you managed to get a HE driver for tuya-convert switches?
See post 169 of this thread - it links to another thread with a driver in the first post.
I have been using this one for a few weeks with my Teckin SP10’s.
I had to modify the driver as described in the other thread since the SP10 is a single socket so would not handle the socket # being sent.
If you need more specifics on this let me know.
Just started using HE and was wondering if Tuya convert is the only way to accomplish? I just have the HE unit and don't have a RPi to host some kind of server which seems to be necessary after reading the entire thread. (or did I read it wrong?)
All I currently have are single socket switches that use the Smart Life app. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Or I could go the IFTTT route but I'm still learning this new platform. But I am not knowledgeable enough to attempt to perform any kind of firmware flashing.
Thank you.
IFTTT works on these but is subject to the normal vagaries of that platform (slow slow quick quick slow)...
In my experience the IFTTT integration with SmartLife is buggy.
The TuyaHubitat driver doesn't work as it is. I've looked at it and it's basically looks abandoned. It can work, I have played with and have made it work but yeah, it will always require a RPi
Indeed. I got rid of all my tuya devices. Last time I tried the driver was working well. However I found the insides of one of my powers trips melted and it continued to work like nothing was wrong. Made me a bit worried having it in my house with my kids.
Anyone know of Zigbee switches less than $15.00 ea? I use the tuya switches because they are $9.99 ea.
If you want a good repeater switch but just on/off control, no energy report, then the Peanut.
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@razorwing Thanks! I've had ST/HE for more than 2 years and never heard of Peanut. I have bricked 2 switches using Tuya-Convert and spent countless hours fighting IFTTT->SmartlLife.
Oh the HOURS and $$$$ I've lost to Tuya!
I sympathize, I have a bunch of the Tuya bulbs and other devices I used in HS. But I wasn't about to tackle them in HE.
I cant seem to find instructions on hoe to set this up on a Raspberry Pi.. Anyone have a link?
I beleive I was able to obtain the Device ID and key using WireShark on a windows server to sniff the network traffic.
Anyway I wanted to share for others who need this info as it seemed to work.
{"ip":"10.1.10.122","gwId":"4142186484XXXXXXXXX","active":2,"ability":0,"mode":0,"encrypt":true,"productKey":"lHjLKv5BXXXXXXXX","version":"3.1"}N'bñªU
I of course replaced some of of the digits with X's to limit having my information available to all but it was a simple process I started WireShark and then opened the smart app on my phone and turned some of the plugs off and on and then filtered the capture for the specific IP address of my device and looked at the capture and was able to obtain the info above. Can anyone confirm this looks like the proper ID and key? Just wanted to share for others since this seems to be the least painful way to obtain this info.
It may be were I have been searching through all the documentation I can find on this to get it up and working on my end or may be I'm just over looking something but how do I install the node.js server required to control these devices? Am I simply missing something?
If you're willing and able to do a little soldering, there are $5-$7 ea esp8266 based wifi switches on amazon that can be flashed with software developed by another HE user.
Here's a link to the my post on the modification of the outlet to prepare it to be flashed.
Mike
