I just turned off the converter, so cant give the exact error. But something like, the firmware is too new and cannot be converted.
couldn’t connect on reconnect, something like that?
They also don’t appear as a hotspot anymore either, but I did manage to add both the Kmart Gino and the Brilliant to the native Tuya app, so what I was saying before about them being locked to their branded app was wrong.
Is this the same as the box you have?
Just my luck HAHA
I don’t have them yet!
I was planning on picking up a couple when I get home next month to replace some failed Kogan V1s.
This is distressing news if true.
Can they be opened easily (for serial flashing)?
No completely sealed.
I even got a hot gun on the kmart ones, didn’t budge… Well, within the, I might have to take these back level of trying to get them apart LOL
The brill ones are the same;
If you’re not in a metro area, or go to some quiet store, might have old stock.
I did see a brillant smart plug that was in a completely different box and a fair bit bigger than these units, almost brought it to see lol. But no energy monitoring, not much point.
Yeah, see that’s what I thought when I read it as well HAHA… But I dont see myself as having a lot of choice right now 
Its just like these devices, I could use them with tuya local. but… f em
This is what really gets to the makers in the community, it just comes across as rather then sell a device they want to capture your data and on sell that. Screw those greedy “lots swear words” HAHA
Glad you got it working.
Agree that tinkering is always a balancing act between effort, satisfaction and usefulness of outcome - especially when other devices/ methods are available.
This difficulty with wifi devices (non esp8266 chips, tuya-convert failures on new firmwares) make zigbee look better and better.
Has anybody ever managed to get one of these Brilliant Frontier Twin Security Lights working with Tuya Local?
I can connect to it with Local Tuya - but do not know how to configure the different parameters required here:
That looks awfully similar to the jaycar ones.
I bought two, pulled one apart, its plastic welded the whole way around, You trash it trying to open it.
Flash both OTA, used one for 2 weeks with esphome. If you defined the button, it would power cycle the relay on boot. If you didn’t define the button it wouldn’t. It was doing weird stuff. But now it’s wifi is totally dead.
I put them on the Don’t recommend list. I wouldn’t buy anything that doesn’t have a screw holding it together.
I would start with the ID being 107 or 108. The true and false values are usually the on/off ones.
For more in-depth value determination I used the tuyapi python script to work out all the dps for my fan.
See my previous post for an example if the types of dp output.
Link
Edit:
Also check out the wiki on the localtuya GitHub. It has some info on how to work out the DPS
Link
I agree, but I cant find a type I zigbee plug with energy monitoring?
How about Z-Wave? More expensive but they work well (in my experience).
I’ve just go the Centralite a couple of days ago. Easy to pair (zha, Conbee II) and has been working great so far. I still have not played with any automations and it’s only working based on it’s own thermostat. I am new in this stuff and I’ve just started to setup things in the past weeks. So, when I say is that the setup was easy and that this comes from a newbie! Also the price is really good at only 40 usd in Amazon.
My main motivation to get into home automation is to improve the temperature across the different rooms in the house. I am already testing Aqara sensors (also, cheap and easy) and I am now evaluating options for smart vents and smart dumpers (in places where I have access) to control the hot or cold air flow to each room. Let’s see when the “easy” trend is interrupted! 
@tinglis1, I’ve implemented localtuya, thanks for the suggestion. Wasn’t able to get the speeds, nor the light controls other than power to work, but I’ve made a fan template that just calls localtuya.set_dp and it’s working great for the fan. I haven’t gotten around to to doing the light yet but at least I know it will work with a template now.
Glad you had some success. The localtuya project definitely has some development to do but it is good that there is an option that doesn’t involve the cloud or reflashing.
Just in case it helps I have added a screenshot of the config I use for my fan.
I’m not smart enough to do that 
I intend on submitting my changes when I get some time so others can benefit.
Too busy with a newborn baby at the moment to do much more than post on here.
Hey Shane, sorry to hear your Brilliant smart plug couldn’t be flashed.
Just to encourage others, I bought two more of these from Officeworks Glen Waverly VIC today and was able to flash them successfully using Tuya-Convert on a Raspberry Pi so there are still devices on the older firmware out there for those brave enough to try.
Unfortunately it looks like the packaging is identical to Shane’s so there’s no way to know before you buy. I assume if you’re careful with the packaging you could return these if they couldn’t be flashed though.
If anyone is setting these up with ESPHome, I got fairly accurate power monitoring calibrated with the values below and mine all seem to take the same calibration values so it might save someone some time.
current_resistor: 0.00103
voltage_divider: 2160
I’ll post the whole .yaml contents if it’s useful to anyone starting out, I couldn’t find an exact reference so had to piece a few different configs together.
Reading that, I was thinking… Am I just an idiot???
The answer to that question is… Yes I am HAHAHA
I honestly don’t know what I was doing wrong. I think maybe I didn’t have the Pi close enough, or did not have the plug in the right pairing mode.
But, more then anything else, so sorry guys HAHA. I honestly thought it wasn’t working.
Well that’s about 10 hours of stuffing around that Im never getting back
Anyway, these two are on Tasmota and Im off to OW to get a few more LOL
Kill me HAHA
Thanks for reporting back. Looks like they are still the go then. 
That would be useful if you don’t mind.