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I would suggest doing a reset of each device, one at a time, and starting from scratch. It will take a little time, but may help get things working as some of the old settings and rules may be sticking.

Use the config I posted, and change the the mqtt topics to suit the ones you use. I followed the same blog post and although it helped me work things out, that code no longer works, so don’t use it.

I then used only these commands in the console. I did not use mqtt discovery (SetOption19 1) as it doesn’t work correctly, or at least didn’t for me. I’m not sure if the rule1 and rule2 commands still work - you could try and one fan to test, but I didn’t find them necessary.

{"NAME":"Brilliant Fan","GPIO":[0,107,0,108,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],"FLAG":0,"BASE":54}

Backlog TuyaMCU 11,1; TuyaMCU 12,9; TuyaMCU 21,10

Backlog MqttHost 192.168.1.101; MqttUser USERNAME; MqttPassword PASSWORD; Hostname brilliant_fan; MqttClient brilliant_fan; Topic brilliant_fan; DeviceName brilliant_fan; FriendlyName1 brilliant_fan; SetOption0 1; TelePeriod 60; PowerRetain 1;

Change the “brilliant_fan” name to suit each of your fans, and also adjust the mqtt broker IP.

I ended up with an entity that worked liked this. A Switch to toggle on and off, and fan speeds. I hope this helps.
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Thanks, ordered the last one in stock!

Thanks @kanga_who, I will give that a go on the weekend :slight_smile:

I’m trying to do this again with a new plug and having issues with tuya-convert.

Brilliant Lighting BL20925

Did you have it in AP mode (slow flash) or… other mode (quick flash)

Can anyone confirm these are still flashable?

Thanks

EDIT:

Ive tried an iphone, a M10 tab, AP mode, EZ connect mode. Having all devices super close together and having other wifi devices near by off.

Nothing seems to work. Maybe its been patched?

And then its just so hard to buy anything that works (for a decent price) Ive seen the super greedy selling ZigBee power monitoring plugs for like $99

I know there is Athom, but they don’t seem to have anything in stock right now.

So frustrating!

How are you doing the solar control for your Daikin?

Course - turn A/C on when solar is generating XX kW, turn off when generating YY kW?
Fine - adjust A/C power consumption during the day to match excess solar (hourly/ 15 mins cycles)?

I think I did a long press followed by short press like this. Whatever mode that is.

If I recall correctly the blinking pattern somehow didn’t match the description but it worked.

I used a raspberry pi and an android.

https://esphome.io/cookbook/brilliant-mirabella-genio-smart-plugs.html#use-tuya-convert-to-install-esphome-firmware

I tried to flash three Genio bulbs bought two weeks ago and failed, having successfully flashed about a dozen tuya items with the same setup in the past year including older Genio’s. I think the OTA flashing ship has sailed unless I missed some new info…
However they flash fine via serial connection at the moment.

Hi Mark, yes that’s the idea, although I’ve only recently started to control the Daikin AC via an automation, to start the system early in the day to keep the house from heat-soaking in hot weather.
At this point the automation only checks that the solar power is over 4kW (which the maximum demand of the inverter AC unit) when triggered by room temp hitting 24C and sets the units mode and temp.

The new Daikin system seems to be very very efficient compared to the ancient 1994 ducted AC system we had till this one. It has some of it’s own automation that does it’s own fan speed reduction and fan stoppage if indoor temp drops below the set-point, which effectively drops it’s demand to a few watts. As the inverter system demand is only about 1.5kW once the house is cool, I let it run all day till sunset. At that time I decide manually on keeping it on or off, but as summer gets hotter I may try more complex automation.

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Make a lot of sense. I have similar Automation for dishwasher if excess solar is greater than 2400 W for 5 mins then turn on.

My three phase Panasonic ducted AC goes s bit crazy when I turn it on and the power consumption reporting into HA via the cloud is at least an hour delayed so I find I can chew though a lot of power without any fine control.

My AC does have a feature called ‘Schedule Peak Cut’, but it doesn’t seem controllable via the API. I have manually set this to 50% during peak (7-9 & 17-20) which keeps the consumption down during those windows.

I think saw you have local access for your Dakin, which I would imagine means your power sensors are pretty close to real time. I might think about a thee phase Shelly for real time power monitoring.

Yep I am lucky to have an inverter that has an Ethernet modbus port that gives HA about 30 second updates.

I just bought three more from same source (have bought 2 lots of 2 recently, all flashed with Tuya-convert).

So I guess we’ll find out if I’m still onto a good stockpile.

Thanks mate!

I got mine from Office Works in Sydney. They didnt have stock at the store and ordered it in. Maybe it was new from the supplier.

Does anyone have a recommendation for Zigbee smartplug with power monitoring for a normal price?

Thanks

I have got a few of these which work ok - can’t vouch for seller:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/185086897571?hash=item2b1809eda3:g:4MUAAOSwWGBgt4oR

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Has anyone come across a floodlight+PIR that feeds into HA nicely? Seeing as the Arlec ones are WB3S or updated firmware…

Although I just noticed PIR support in the v2 Tuya integration…

Hi Brad

How did you get esphome onto the deta switch?

Cheers
Steve OShaughnessy

Hi Steve

I used tuya-convert to install Tasmota initially then did an OTA update to esphome.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Brad

Chip swap it for an ESP12F

Well beyond my skillset I suspect. If I get motivated and there’s really no alternatives I might grab one and have a crack - but also plenty of other priorities at the moment.

Thanks!

So, I’ve now deployed a bunch of Mercator Ikuu Walter 9w RGB zigbee lights, and am generally quite happy with them. They appear to be Tuya tz3000 lights under the hood.

One wart though – my family prefers the power on behaviour of the Philips Hue lights (that is, if you turn the power switch on the wall on, the lights behave just like normal lights and turn on). Its convenient when you can’t find you phone of Home Assistant is down for some reason.

Has anyone come up with a better way to do this with these lights than to write an automation in Home Assistant to detect the light rejoining the network and then turning it on? I worry about Home Assistant being down while I travel for work and the family being stuck in the dark…