Hi all, thanks for the information and advice. I can certainly put some of the Shelly’s in the ground floor roof space (which is the floor of of the second floor) but certainly the roofspace of the old part of the house will regularly exceed 40oC in summer.
I have a similar device with a Brilliant Smart multibox in it. Can switch up to four 240v loads, and four usb 5v loads. (Although the 240v sockets can be controlled individually, the USB are all controlled together).
Ah yes, one of the problems with Aussie home renovations is the disregard for proper insulation, including the roof. Double glazing, a R rating of at least 8, hopefully higher, and a leakage assessment should be mandatory, as well as banning dodgy builders and tradies.
The stranglehold on wiring be electricians must be removed. NZ has far fewer restrictions but the mortality rate from electrocutions is a lot lower. Being a nanny state (and pandering to militant unions) actually kills more people.
Older houses in Australia are the worst.
My ceiling is insulated well - now that I actually installed the batts. The installer just threw bags of batts up there and ripped off the previous owner. The tin roof over it however only has a foil backing. Single glazed windows - and heaps of big windows. External walls are brick, air gap, plywood, foil, insulation batts, then gyprock. Uninsulated floor between levels (now impossible, I’ve checked). Standard construction technique for two decades ago. It’s piss poor.
Other than double glazing, not sure there is much else I can do.
And I doubt that will do much in some areas. One of the worst rooms is the master bedroom. It’s windows are not facing the sun and they have tightly fitted foil backed double cell blinds yet it boils in summer and freezes in winter.
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Do you know which template you used to get the smart diffusers working with TuyaMCU?
External Blinds/Venetians/Louvres will stop the heat hitting the windows - will not do much in winter though!
We have a number of different external solutions - Vental Exterior Venetians for Westerly facing windows, somfy powered blinds on a couple of the Eastern facing windows - work pretty well.
Have you investigated pumping cellulose or expanding foam into the cavity in your walls ?
Craig
Hi Guys,
I am not happy with my Nue Zigbee Fan Light Controller as the difference between low and high is very small, that is, the low speed is too fast. Since I have a fan with a knocking noise I was going to replace it anyway and I have thought maybe a different route. Here is a new fan coming which uses Tuya. I am assuming I won’t be able to flash it OTA, correct me if I am wrong? (I have flashed plug in switches before so can do it)
Anyone with any experience of Tuya Local that could comment on the likelihood of me being able to get the fan to work with that? My quick read suggests that you need to get the local key for it and I just want to make sure that Tuya hasn’t changed somehting in their recent products to make that impossible?
Thanks in advance!
Tuya grab - localtuya key finder
Slightly easier way to grab the keys. You still have to do the iot.tuya setup part. I put a post a couple weeks ago with links for that in this thread. Should be easy enough to add to localtuya.
Hey I just bought one of these fans (Arelec Ceiling Fan / Light), I’m trying to get my head around the options. What is wrong with TuyaLocal? Why is esp32 better?
I need some help flashing my Deta Fan controller (6014HA). It no longer works with tuya convert so the only alternative is to open it up and flash it manually. Does anyone have a diagram of the pins?
Great news people, the next version of ESPhome (1.16), currently in Beta supports H-bridge lights. This means all the Mirabella fairy lights will finally work properly.
Unfortunately I discovered this a little late to make the best use of it, but hey.
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This thread should be split up into sub-threads, if at all possible.
Moderators?
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I disagree. It’s easy enough to use the search function to search the thread for something if needed.
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Does it fix the Tuya flashing issue?
Not if such an issue currently exists. The stock I have though is old so should flash ok. Not sure that Mirabella lights have been blocked from Tuya-convert yet. My understanding is that the sockets are still flash-able so hopefully the lights are too.
There was an attempt at this before here:
But so far nobody used that tag (as far as I can see)
I agree, some topics have become very big and could deserve their own thread, but overall it is nice to come here for all things Aussie/Kiwi.
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That is useful, but how do you tag a post? 
Does that mean the IR controller will work too?
Actually I think you tag a new thread, not a post in an existing thread.
However I can’t see that tag in the edit thingy.
No, my post is purely about the H-Bridge component which is required for the Mirabella string lights.