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On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:38:48 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Z mode is the smart dev acting as an accesspoint for the controlling |
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> phone app to connect - so it cant in that mode connect to anything |
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> else. To reflash the firmware with something friendlier you can use EZ |
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> mode to flash esphome onto tuya devices using tuya-convert via a |
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> raspberry pi (needs to be a 32 bit OS ... I am using gentoo but is a |
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> lot easier with raspian). |
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> Tonight I decided to flash esphome onto some "brilliant smartplugs" but |
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> it isnt connecting - its a frustrating process :( but the apps usually |
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> work ok ... after multiple goes. |
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The tuya and similar devices used the esp8266 chipset, so you could flash |
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them with tasmota/espurna/esphome. Now they are switching to different |
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chipsets and none of the previous flashing methods will work. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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If such a program has not crashed yet, it is waiting for a critical moment |
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before it crashes. |
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-- Murphy's Computer Laws n\xB06 |
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