Flash some Tuya smart plugs?

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johno1234

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#312155 21-Mar-2024 13:36

Hi, I have a few old Tuya (from DSE/Kogan) smart plugs lying around. I'd like to flash them to something easier to use with Homekit or Homebridge - but I don't want to have to bother with Tuya's development platform and having to refresh API keys etc. Also don't have the tools to do any soldering mods.

Can anyone recommend a method/tutorial to flash them to espHome or something that takes out Tuya, cloud etc and allows them to work with Homekit or Homebridge?

Thanks

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#3209168 21-Mar-2024 14:26

There is no keys for tuya in home assistant now. It asks for a number from your app and then gives you a qr code to scan in the tuya app.

Works fine onone of my tuya account but my main one with 100s of devices it has errors all the time.

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#3209181 21-Mar-2024 15:08

I've got localtuya in homeassitant that until this week had one of those long rectangle kogan plugs. While stupidly home, the dual usb was handy. But then the stereo started turning of and off (and I could hear the relay switching on and off constantly), I binned it.

So you could try localtuya.

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#3209182 21-Mar-2024 15:13

davidcole:

I've got localtuya in homeassitant that until this week had one of those long rectangle kogan plugs. While stupidly home, the dual usb was handy. But then the stereo started turning of and off (and I could hear the relay switching on and off constantly), I binned it.

So you could try localtuya.

If its like the rectangle genio ones, the power supply dies in them - that also happened to the older arlec ones I had from bunnings. Their rectangle ones with power monitoring just give me inaccurate numbers with no way to calibrate inside the tuya ecosystem.

Im thinking I am going to split my home assistant into multiple instances so that I can deploy things and leave them working while I screw with other things and proceed to break it. This is why I prefer leaving things in the tuya and ewelink ecosystems since that way I can still control them while I am breaking stuff.

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