On 13/1/22 21:29, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:38:48 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
Z mode is the smart dev acting as an accesspoint for the controlling
phone app to connect - so it cant in that mode connect to anything
else. To reflash the firmware with something friendlier you can use EZ
mode to flash esphome onto tuya devices using tuya-convert via a
raspberry pi (needs to be a 32 bit OS ... I am using gentoo but is a
lot easier with raspian).
Tonight I decided to flash esphome onto some "brilliant smartplugs" but
it isnt connecting - its a frustrating process :( but the apps usually
work ok ... after multiple goes.
The tuya and similar devices used the esp8266 chipset, so you could flash
them with tasmota/espurna/esphome. Now they are switching to different
chipsets and none of the previous flashing methods will work.
I am hoping this is not the case (supposedly these are still flashable)
- Ive just discovered my current problem is my tuya-convert install is
broken.
BillK
