Cheap-O WiFi Switches WORK (Thank You IFTTT)

Hardware
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Purchased a pack of SP10 WiFi Switches because they were on sale. SP10 WiFi Switches at Amazon

Added them in the Smart Life app. Then following the instructions in this post using IFTTT I was able to easily use them in our house!

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Thanks! I was looking at those and wondering if they’d work with HA.

My next question would be: Is there any way to access them directly, on the LAN, without going out to IFTTT?

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I have seen several videos on YouTube on how to do this but it requires disassembly and soldering. :nerd_face:

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Try Tuya-Convert.


This allows you to change the firmware without soldering.
I believe anything that uses SmartLife App is a Tuya based device.

I have used it (with no experience) after some troubleshooting (you need Ethernet connected I guess and also had to change the config file as my WiFi and Ethernet were named differently).

Anyway, this allows you to push a BIN file (tasmota, espHome, etc.) to put custom firmware on the device.

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Thank You @DeadEnd - I’ll give it a try this weekend!

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I’ve used tuya-convert and successfully changed 2 devices to being local sonoff instead of server based. But, in my ignorance, I bricked one of them . . . whoops! The other isn’t bricked but I can’t seem to get it to talk to my home assistant mqtt (built-in) instance. I’ve done a netstat to make sure the port is listening but can’t seem to get things configured. If you can point me to some guide it would be greatly appreciated. --TIA–

Here is the info about the sonoff firmware running on the plugs:

Program Version 6.5.0(release-basic)
Build Date & Time 2019-03-19T12:25:14
Core/SDK Version 2_3_0/1.5.3(aec24ac9)
Emulation None
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mDNS Discovery Disabled
ESP Chip Id 9927310
Flash Chip Id 0x144068
Flash Size 1024kB
Program Flash Size 1024kB
Program Size 432kB
Free Program Space 568kB
Free Memory 17kB
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Figured it out on my own. :nerd_face: