Australia - Electrically Certified Hardware

kanga_who · November 17, 2019, 4:28am

Blah blah blah. All I can see is excuses

nickrout · November 17, 2019, 4:30am

Each to their blah blah blah own I guess

oscill8ory · November 18, 2019, 1:33pm

I’ve been able to get some Brilliant RGB+W 20699 B22 globes working with Tasmota. I had incorrectly assumed these would be the same as the 20741 E27 globes, but they are different; using an SM16716 LED controller instead of separate PWM channels for the RGB leds. I had to sacrifice a globe to figure out the pin assignment though. I’ve put some more details here, which will hopefully be useful for someone: https://newadventuresinwi-fi.blogspot.com/2019/11/brilliant-wifi-a60-globes-rgbw-20699.html

Jason_Rhodes · November 19, 2019, 11:31am

Brilliant 200 Watt SMART LED Dimmer Mech
seems the best option in my opinion

_Matt · November 19, 2019, 11:41am

A couple of weeks ago, I asked if anyone knew a good way to retrofit a lamp to make it smart.

As fate would have it, a new product due for release shortly fixes exactly that. The Shelly Button (https://shelly.cloud/smart-wifi-home-automation-shelly-button/) is a plastic housing that fits a Shelly 1, and includes a button.

Sounds perfect to me. I’ll let you know how it goes when my shipment arrives.

sparkydave · November 20, 2019, 2:05am

Only thing with the Shelly… its not going to be-

Aeotec used to do an inline switch which does exactly the same thing as this Shelly, yet it was Aus certified. Unfortunately they are discontinued.

kanga_who · November 20, 2019, 2:16am

Just put a smart bulb in the lamp and use something like Xiaomi Zigbee button to control the on/off. I use them all around the house for different tasks. They have the advantage of single, double and long clicks to performs different tasks as well.

DavidFW1960 · November 20, 2019, 2:32am

or a smart plug… that’s what I use.

kanga_who · November 20, 2019, 2:34am

Agreed, I do the same. I think his wife wants a physical button to press from what I can tell.

DavidFW1960 · November 20, 2019, 2:36am

yeah… can’t live with em can’t shoot em… I use Hey Google so never need a physical button… even my wife will (begrudgingly) use that.

_Matt · November 20, 2019, 7:27am

Yeah. My bad. It won’t be certified. I was just following up on my previous (and on-topic) post.

exxamalte · November 21, 2019, 11:05pm

I have been trying to get the Brilliant Fan Controller to work, and followed your suggestions, @thecubical, so thanks for sharing those. I have compiled the firmware (Tasmota 7.0.0.4) and uploaded using tuya-convert just fine.

With the above configuration however, the fan power and the light are reversed. I have auto-discovery activated in HA, and just with the above, 3 entities appeared - a status sensor which is working fine, a light and a switch. Turning the light on and off did nothing, while turning the switch on and off controlled the light.

I swapped the configuration of dpId 1 and 9:

`{"TuyaMCU":[{"fnId":11,"dpId":1},{"fnId":21,"dpId":10},{"fnId":12,"dpId":9}]}`

Now, the light entity in HA actually controls the light.

Not sure though if this change has any other unwanted side-effects.

I have an LED light connected to the fan, so the dimmer does not really work in this case (i.e. light is not dimmed, but starts blinking when dimmer value is below a certain value), and I added the following

DimmerRange 100,100

Now, I am trying to get the fan speed working, and struggle a bit.

I slightly modified the proposed rules. In Rule1 I changed the MQTT topic to include the device, and I changed “Event” to “Fan”. In Rule2 I had to change Power2 to Power1 because in the above I changed the fan control to fnId 11.

Rule1 on TuyaReceived#Data=55AA03070005030400010016 DO Publish2 esp_25_fan_bedroom/stat/Fan/speed 1 endon on TuyaReceived#Data=55AA03070005030400010117 DO Publish2 esp_25_fan_bedroom/stat/Fan/speed 2 endon on TuyaReceived#Data=55AA03070005030400010218 DO Publish2 esp_25_fan_bedroom/stat/Fan/speed 3 endon
Rule1 ON
Rule2 on Fan#1 DO Backlog Power1 1; TuyaSend4 3, 0 endon on Fan#2 DO Backlog Power1 1; TuyaSend4 3, 1 endon on Fan#3 DO Backlog Power1 1; TuyaSend4 3, 2 endon
Rule2 ON

And here is the HA configuration for the fan:

fan:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Fan Bedroom"
    availability_topic: "esp_25_fan_bedroom/tele/LWT"
    payload_available: "Online"
    payload_not_available: "Offline"
    state_topic: "esp_25_fan_bedroom/stat/POWER1"
    command_topic: "esp_25_fan_bedroom/cmnd/POWER1"
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    speed_state_topic: "esp_25_fan_bedroom/stat/Fan/speed"
#    speed_state_topic: "esp_25_fan_bedroom/tele/STATE"
#    speed_value_template: "{{ value_json.Speed }}"
    speed_command_topic: "esp_25_fan_bedroom/cmnd/Fan/speed"
    payload_low_speed: "1"
    payload_medium_speed: "2"
    payload_high_speed: "3"
    qos: 1
    speeds:
      - low
      - medium
      - high

Now, controlling the fan via the supplied remote control works fine. I can see the correct MQTT messages being populated, and the fan entity in HA is updating correctly.

When controlling the fan from HA I can see that the correct MQTT messages are sent (most of the time), and the correct actions in the fan are taken with corresponding MQTT responses.
Example setting speed to “high”:

esp_25_fan_bedroom/cmnd/POWER1 ON
esp_25_fan_bedroom/cmnd/Fan/speed 3
esp_25_fan_bedroom/tele/STATE {"Time":"1970-01-01T01:33:09","Uptime":"0T01:33:10","UptimeSec":5590,"Heap":25,"SleepMode":"Dynamic","Sleep":50,"LoadAvg":19,"MqttCount":1,"POWER1":"ON","POWER2":"OFF","Dimmer":100,"Fade":"OFF","Speed":1,"LedTable":"ON","Wifi":{"AP":1,"SSId":"xxxxxxxx","BSSId":"xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx","Channel":11,"RSSI":90,"LinkCount":1,"Downtime":"0T00:00:06"}}
esp_25_fan_bedroom/stat/RESULT {"POWER1":"ON"}
esp_25_fan_bedroom/stat/POWER1 ON
esp_25_fan_bedroom/stat/RESULT {"Speed":3}

However, in multiple occasions one of the speeds (low in one case, high in another) just stopped working. No MQTT message is populated. The HA log shows nothing happening; unfortunately the MQTT Fan does not log anything at all, but even when I manually added log messages, there is no action when changing the speed in the UI (I now owe you a look into my web browser console to see if there’s any error message).

One thing that I suspect is that the speed_state_topic is not working, i.e. HA simply doesn’t know what the current value is (except for when using the remote control).

I tried several options:

    speed_state_topic: "esp_25_fan_bedroom/tele/STATE"
    speed_value_template: "{{ value_json.Speed }}"

But as you can see, when HA publishes a speed of “3”, the “tele/STATE” message payload hasn’t updated and contains "Speed":1.

The other thing I tried was modifying Rule2 to not only send the speed value to the MCU, but then publish the speed back onto MQTT, but did not work, i.e. no message was published.

Another thing I thought about was the following, but this doesn’t work either properly because there are other payloads published on that same topic, not just the speed.

    speed_state_topic: "esp_25_fan_bedroom/stat/RESULT"
    speed_value_template: "{{ value_json.Speed }}"

Does anyone have a working configuration, and could point me into the right direction? This is my first Tasmota device, and I have to admit that it has a steep learning curve when you can’t rely on predefined templates. There might the conventions that I am simply not aware of.

NoTan2 · November 23, 2019, 1:19am

Looks like Bunnings have dropped the Brilliant Wifi Plugs. A couple of weeks ago my local store was selling them for $10 so I bought 3 more. Went back today and they’ve disappeared. Nobody seemed to know where they’ve gone. Not on the website anymore either.

Perhaps they were just a promo item?

Oh well - lucky I bought lots of them over the last couple of months. $10 was a great price while it lasted.

kanga_who · November 23, 2019, 1:53am

They were only ever a limited purchase item, I was told that by a department manager at my local Bunnings a few months back. When each stores allocation ran out, that was it.

I have a feeling the Arlec grid stuff is going the same way, seems they aren’t restocking it so far.

NoTan2 · November 23, 2019, 2:12am

That’s a shame then. Wish I’d known. I seem to be the only one who was buying them at my local. There were at least 50-60 left when I bought the last three. So I don’t think it’s likely they ran out.

My two closest stores have had low stock on Hue bulbs for a while as well. Time for a trip to Ikea - I’m keen to try some Tradfri.

Thanks Jason.

kanga_who · November 23, 2019, 2:24am

The other good plugs to get are the Kogan power monitoring plugs, get the 4 pack for $65, sometimes $60 on sale.

Easily flashed with Tuya convert.

NoTan2 · November 23, 2019, 2:38am

Of course - that slipped my mind. I’ve been meaning to order some since they were mentioned in this thread. Didn’t realise they were still $65.

Thanks again.

tom_l · November 23, 2019, 2:50am

Out of the 19 Kogan power monitoring smart switches I’ve programmed I had one that refused to flash ota with Tuya convert .

Fortunately the two tri-wing ‘security’ screws holding the case together are easily removed with a small slotted screwdriver. Then the case pries apart from the two plastic clips each end with a bit of force. The ESP board is labelled clearly and flashing with a serial cable worked first go.

Compared to the sonoff S26 (that has no power monitoring) the Kogan switches have vastly better wifi reception.

kanga_who · November 23, 2019, 2:53am

I would have binned the thing, for the price, you can afford to throw 1 or 2 out of 19 if they want to be difficult.

tom_l · November 23, 2019, 3:03am

The thought never crossed my mind. Pig-headed I guess.