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On 13/1/22 21:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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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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I am hoping this is not the case (supposedly these are still flashable) |
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- Ive just discovered my current problem is my tuya-convert install is |
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broken. |
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BillK |