Guess I should have come back here sooner as @reef-actor beat me to it.
I also connected up a analyzer and saw the same. A few other notes… Comm is at 19200/8N1. All transmissions both direction are terminated with ESC.
I think the responses back from the 8051 to the esp8285 are mostly to send a confirmation to the cloud. For some reason the esp also confirms to the 8051 rather messages got to the cloud, don’t know why it would care and expect it’s ignored (esp sends “AT+SEND=fail” or “AT+SEND=ok”).
All commands issued from the IR remote are sent to the esp with full information, such as:
AT+UPDATE=“switch”:“on”,“light_type”:1,“colorR”:0,“colorG”:255,“colorB”:0,“bright”:100,“mode”:3,“speed”:50
I don’t know if my board has the ability to sync to music. I didn’t see “sensitivity” in any of the messages either direction and didn’t notice anything resembling a microphone so there may be variants of the board or else I need to somehow enable this(?).
Thanks for looking into a basic tasmota config using mqtt. I’ll try it out later after I put on tasmota. If there is anything else that needs to be examined on the protocol before I kill the OEM FW let me know soon and I can test it.