I have a bunch of Telstra (Sercomm) Zigbee Plugs for sale if anyone is interested. DM me.
Just a follow up to my last post. I took it back to Bunnings to do a swap for another one. Had a look on the shelf to see if they had any Series 1 units, but all are Series 2. Just finished setting up the new one and it’s doing the same thing.
Here is a screenshot from iot.tuya.com of the Series 1, then one for the Series 2. You can see a big difference between the two.
I don’t know much about how the Tuya platform works, but given that the Series 2 doesn’t have anything for a light, and 26 fan speeds, how does the tuya app only show 3 speeds, and the light works fine, yet the debug shows there is no light??
On a similar note has anyone taken apart one of these I was thinking of grabbing some Ventair fans and putting some modified esp units in
Just spotted a rotary dimmer as well. Looks like the lighting outlet is the only place it is listed so far.
I would guess they would use the tuya MCU and you could make your own esp dongle once you’ve figured out the data points with a breakout for whatever the port type is (usb?).
Although I guess it also depends where the mcu is? In the fan or in the dongle? Perhaps it’s just uart etc by the time it gets to the usb wires.
I’m a bit rookie with this stuff so mostly guessing…
Looks like JimmyJames (a sparky on YouTube) has beaten you too it and is selling the ESPHome compatible versions.
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And at 1/3 of the price, it really does say ‘stick it’ to Tuya
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Do any of you guys have any experience with these ?
I have just stumbled across them, Looks like they are Tuya, But I am hoping they have an ESP inside !
Does anyone know if the NSpanels are certified in AU? The EU version at least is rated for 240V.
They aren’t. The ‘US style’ (larger one) is also 240V rated.
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Hi all, apologies if this is the wrong place, happy to start a new thread if it is.
Looking to get about 20 Shelly’s installed throughout my house. Anyone have go-to electricians in Brisbane Southside region that I don’t have to attempt to explain everything to re: these relays?
You might also try asking on the Whirlpool Home Tech forum. I know there is a fair overlap of members, but I can’t guess how much.
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The name comes from it stirring up the Big Pond way back when there wasn’t (much of) a choice of broadband ISPs. And nothing to do with washing machines 
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I always wondered what the name was referring to, thanks!
AKA Whingepool
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I would love a couple of the NSPanel for my place, but as far as I can see not certified for Australia unfortunately. Seems quite a bit of the sonoff gear isn’t certified here
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Yeah, I have similar all throughout my house in 1/2/3 gang variety like this …
All flashed with Tasmota and working great.
Moving house soon and taking them with me.
I won’t need all them for the new property, so the rest will be sold.
If you are interested, send me DM and I could part with some 
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At $70-ish bucks they’re very appealing. Just for the sake of the chat, what’s the consequences of installing an uncertified device in AU? I suppose you wouldn’t be able to find a sparky to do the work (or sign off on it), and you’d probably have insurance issues if something went wrong with the device.
I thought some folks here might like this picture. My last Kogan smart plug died yesterday - so I opened it up along with its dead brothers to see what I could see.
I’m no PCB expert, but that looks like a design flaw or “planned obsolescence” 
Well, that blows. I had two of them installed, in one instance I replaced a couple of Athom Tech ESP plugs used for washing machine & dryer.
But given we can’t separate the power draw, looks like I’ll have to put them back in.
I did try to plug one in and use a template to subtract the power usage of the plug from the outlet, in order to provide me with power usage of the non-plug outlet, but given their reporting times are not aligned it kept messing up my automations.
Would be nice if one day we had pre-flashed ESP-based wall outlets.
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