So you are looking for something that measures room temperature, enables the user to select a room temperature, and which sets the central heating on/off accordingly?
As I say, I know nothing like this that is AU/NZ certified. There are millions of them on aliexpress and similar sites, but nothing I know of that is certified.
It is easy to build one in home-assistant. Temp sensors are easy. Relays to turn your AC on and off are easy (depending on the current it draws). The front end to set the temp is harder but there are plenty of options.
Thanks @diramu. I’ll do some digging and see in the commands on mine read as different (have it working somewhat at the moment–def not picking up command from the remote properly though)
I’m looking at Bunnings range of ‘smart’ blinds. They appear to controlled by a plugless Arlec (tasmota) smart plug so I’m guessing the smart plug as all that needs to ‘hacked’. Another nice touch is the blinds are battery operated (USB rechargeable) so no cables.
What’s curious is that there are indoor and outdoor versions of the blinds and the controllers are specific to indoor and outdoor. Their product code is HUBRF11HA and HUBRF10HA which leads me to believe the plug uses RF to control them.
Any luck Brad?
I’ve purchased one of the motion sensors looking to see if I can directly interface with it via BLE. Was thinking I could maybe use a ESP32 device to relay the info to home assistant.
Once it’s been paired to the grid connect phone app, the sensor is discoverable and can be connected to via Bluetooth low energy.
I’ve tried looking at it using hcitool and gatttool on a linux device. I needed to keep waking the device regularly before issuing commands.
It looks like it’s not implementing the full standards for BLE devices. I guess the next thing is to buy the hub and see if the BLE comms can be sniffed.
Tried this as root:
Hey, @Mark, I’ve brought 2 of the Deta Plug bases, and I can’t get them into flash mode. I can get them to slow blink and faster blink. An SSID appears GRID-xxxx, Is this the correct mode to be using tuya-convert? tuya-convert is looking for the SSID vtrust-flash.
Todd
Your raspberry pi should be broadcasting the vtrust-flash SSID. You connect your third device to the SSID (i.e. your android phone), and then you put the device into pairing mode.
Hi Todd, I have tuya-converted a device before? I’m replying off the top of my head (so don’t trust me). I had no problems tuya-converting this plug. Tuya-convert actually recreated the SSID vtrust-flash. So the basic steps are, start tuya-convert, then you connect to vtrust-flash with your phone (you don’t do anything here, but tuya-convert needs a connection?, digiburDIY now so a method, this is not necessary by having a esp make this connection), then put the plug in flashing mode (I think the faster binking) it will probably do this on power up never connected before), the device will find vtrust-flash, and tuya-convert takes over. It sound like the plug, never connected to vtrush-flash and created it’s own SSID. Hope this helps.
It looks like you have it communicating to the mcu, but I’m not sure about the ‘unknown command’. It might not matter.
At this point, you actually use push a button on the dimmer, and see what changes in this message stream. It will tell you the dpid’s it sees.
