I’ve recently purchased a few Grid Connect devices including door sensor and temp sensor and have been running them for a couple weeks and am pretty happy with them so far… more so because of how cheap they are in comparison to other sensors.
I would love to be able to integrate them into HA however, there is no Grid Connect API or back end to tap into. To resolve this I’ve set up my devices using the Tuya app which does, in fact, have a HA integration but it does not cover sensors. I’ve searched through what API’s are out there but still haven’t found support for sensors.
I’m wondering if anyone has had any luck getting sensor data from these Grid Connect/Tuya devices??
From the documentation I’m reading, there doesn’t seem to be support for this as the devices only connect to the network when their status changes.
Hi Adam, I am in the same boat. Did you ever get this solved. I have seen others talk about tasmota/esphome for other Arlec/TuyaSmart devices. I was wondering if you had success before I head down that road. Might save me a lot of reading/ tweaking/ exploring. George
Hey, I unfortunately didn’t have much luck and have had the project on hold tbh. The only methods i’ve been seeing are as you said, re flashing etc. using tasmota/esphome.
I ended up buying an ESP01 and a DHT11 temp sensor and run that for temps and humidity using MQTT. Works flawlessly. Just need to use some code that puts it into a deep sleep mode so i can run it on batteries. Both those sensors will set you back about $5 so a pretty cheap option in my opinion. I used this tutorial
Im yet to create a motion sensor option though. That’s next on my list.