You are correct that this one cannot be flashed with esphome etc but I use the same one with localtuya without issue.
I don’t use the tuya integration for any of my tuya devices, just localtuya.
@sparkydave I don’t have any Zigbee gear at the moment.
Does your comment about those plugs being a router mean you don’t need a separate Zigbee wireless/communicator to integrate these plugs?
Just looking at the e-bay listing - it says Zigbee hub required - so I guess the answer is no.
You will need a zigbee coordinator to use the plugs as it is what creates the network.
A router in a zigbee network can only route traffic between nodes on the network they are connected to.
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Thanks for replying
I’m not going chip swapping either
I think I will go with Frigate person detection triggering zigbee flood lights (Been playing with frigate to replace/complement my Blue Iris install)
A bit more expensive (I have no experience with this one) but a zigbee version is available, which of cause is full local control
Link
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Howdy,
I installed blue iris and deepstack about 6 months ago on a dedicated machine. Great setup. I haven’t fully explored the alert system but it has successfully identified people, dogs, cars, trucks etc.
I followed the instructions on the hookup - Blue Iris + Deepstack BUILT IN! Full Walk Through - Go from beginner to expert in one video. - YouTube
He has some great explanation videos without the bullshit.
Pat
I have been running BI+DS (dedicated PC with 1030 GPU) for a good while now, but am finding Frigate way better/quicker at detecting people
I’m in the process of moving it all to proxmox now, as I want multiple systems running
@Stewface I have it running with Tuya local. It’s not 100%, eg the fan speed having 5 increments which I could only get 3 of in Tuya local. I ended up writing a script to use my Hue remote to change between all 5 speeds. I don’t have the light temperature working, honestly once I got it functional I had more important things to do, and I still haven’t gotten back to getting it 100%.
wrcvr4 - or can I call you Bill?
does frigate still require the coral?
Pat
Neither are my real name 
I have frigate running with CPU detection (standalone install ontop of proxmox in a LXC container)
BI sits in a VM on this as well, with hassio to move in potentially later as well
@hipsi Do you mind sharing the config you used for the skyfan Dc thru local Tuya and I will battle it on my end and see if I make further progress?
@hipsi I contributed an update that has been merged into local tuya to allow for fans with any count of speeds now and mapped to percentage in HA. This should solve your 3 speed problem.
It doesn’t support presets yet.
There is also a know issue with some fans need and integer speed and some needing a string integer speed. When this happens everything works except for speed setting.
It is not in the latest HACS release but will be in the next.
You can get it from GitHub if you want to try it.
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Received my eBay SZ-ESW01-AU units and paired one to my Zigbee network. All looks good, except I am trying to get my head around how the power usage data can be read by HA.
Not sure if this is the right place to ask? I assume to add the output from SZ-ESW01-AU device to the HA energy monitoring I need to convert the power ‘watts’ output by the SZ-ESW01-AU to kWh which Home Assistant energy can understand?
Here’s what I used to convert the solar power watts to kilowatt hours… so can I assume a similar formula might work for the SZ-ESW01-AU device?
- platform: integration
source: "sensor.solar_inverter"
name: "Solar Inverter KWh"
unit_prefix: "k"
round: "2"
Thanks in advance for any advice. And if this is the wrong place to ask please let me know.
Yes exactly just put the entity_id in as the source and it will work. Give it a short amount of time to calculate the initial values and you will be able to add it to the energy dashboard.
Thanks for helping out with this @tinglis1
I think I have landed at the same point at @hipsi
Fan on / off works, so does reverse and forward but speed control doesn’t work at all, using speed control after turning on actually just shuts down the fan. Not sure what settings we are sending to the fan but it’s expecting to get 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Not sure if its string/ integer.
Light I got working on DPS 15, again same issue as it’s expecting brightness to be a value 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and the colour temp it wants a “natural”, “warm”, “warmwhite” (Guessing the exact names) as I need to set it, remove it, reboot, re-add it to get it
Positive it that at least I can turn the fan on / off now. How would I go about editing the files to add specific commands to send? Even if it was just a hack job where you create a dropdown with extra settings?
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Sorry for my tardiness, I’m a bit occupied with other things at the moment. I setup sensors on the DPs so I could see what the light colours and brightness settings were, same with the fan. With that I went and setup a fan template entity which calls the tuyalocal service to send specific values to the DPs. That’s how I got the fan speeds working in my automation using an input_select, which lets me effectively scroll though the speeds with my hue remote.
Looking over it again now what I have looks over complicated but it was the only way I could get it working and I still had other functionality to add to the template which I just didn’t get around to.
Here’s my automation action just to add food for thought:
service: fan.set_speed entity_id: fan.kitchen_fan_test data_template: speed: | {% if is_state("input_select.kitchen_fan_speed_selector", "1") %} 1 {%-elif is_state("input_select.kitchen_fan_speed_selector", "2") %} 2 {%-elif is_state("input_select.kitchen_fan_speed_selector", "3") %} 3 {%-elif is_state("input_select.kitchen_fan_speed_selector", "4") %} 4 {%-elif is_state("input_select.kitchen_fan_speed_selector", "5") %} 5 {% else %} none {% endif %}
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Thanks for coming back on this @hipsi - don’t worry I know what life is like! I have two kids <7 unless hass explodes I rarely get a time to play.
My masterbedroom fan broke with MQTT changes over a year ago, I have to manually open the tasmota landing page still to edit it - I’ve read all I need to do is upgrade my tasmota but that has been a bridge to far.
I got a new fan upstairs so want to at least get this working before it breaks 
I certainly appreciate the insight! I might need some guiding points on exactly how to implement. I’m going to read up on Service Calls - Home Assistant tonight and get my head around it again - it’s all been awhile, I’ve been around in the hay day of HASS when everything was YAML, I haven’t had to jump into the code for a while now - it’s all getting so much easier (and so much less trial, error, wait for a reboot, wait longer because it was only a Pi 2, no use the config check tool because it didn’t exist… Looking back, we have come so far! Great work to everyone in this community.
Does anyone here have a Heat Pump for their hot water and some kind of smart monitoring or control?
I don’t think an off the shelf solution exists and most of them require a 20a circuit which is more than a shelly would take.
I have a Sanden hot water heat pump. I monitor and control it with a Shelly PM. All I do is turn the power on to it from 10am to 4pm (off peak and I’m likely to be generating excess solar power). It’s pretty much free hot water.
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Awesome, good to know it works. Ultimately I’d love something that spoke to HA for energy and tank temperature monitoring (less on the control as I hope to set it once and leave it alone), but the second part could be inferred by temp probe stuck on the outlet.