Hama WiFi-touch wall switch 00176551 (tuya-convert)

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Hi everyone,

First of all, i’m a newbie and very appreciative of this project. I’m getting to know the system and it’s use. I have some smart products in my house that are supported by default but I also have a Hama switch that isn’t (link below).

https://www.hama.com/00176551/hama-wifi-touch-wall-switch-flush-mounted-white

How would I go about to add this device to my Home Assistant?
If this isn’t the place to ask this question or if there is an obvious place I should have started that I missed just let me know.

Thanks in advance, kind regards,
Stefan

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It looks like a tuya device. To be sure, install tuya or smart life app, put your switch in pairing mode and see if you can pair it with tuya or smart life.

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Hi Francis, thanks for the tip!

The device works with an app from Hama “Hama Smart Solution” that works with an account that I have to log into that only works via their cloud. I don’t like to share the data with them nor do I like it that it’s conditional on my internet connection. I don’t know if this Hama device will be recognized by Tuya and it works with Cloud polling so also with an internet connection.
I can’t seem to find a “Smart life” integration for Home Assistant so I wouldn’t know how that would work.

In my best case scenario I would be able to integrate this switch on my local network only…
What are your thoughts on that?

Meanwhile I’ll try to pair it with Tuya and/or Smart Life to see where that leads.

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The ‘Smart Life’ integration is called ‘tuya integration’ with platform: smart_life

But if it works with either tuya or smart life, chances are you can use tuya-convert to flash tasmota on it and make it a real local integration. But first you need to know if it really is a tuya device.

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Ah, that explains it. Great, I’ll get to work with renewed vigor.
Thanks, I’ll report back when I have new information.

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Allright, finally had some time to look at it.

It definetly is a Tuya device, from the moment I started the Tuya app it was clear. Did some reading about Tuya and understand a bit more why it was probably a Tuya device in the first place.

Did a first quick scan of the tuya-convert github, it seems I have to figure out what kind of firmware would fit my device…

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Read some more and watched some videos and I think I know what I need to do.

  1. I’ll need to flash it with tuya-convert
  2. Figure out the configuration of it in Tasmota

I found videos from digiblurDIY that seem to cover the whole process.

@francisp Thanks for helping me look in the right direction, if I run into more problems or succeed I’ll report back here.

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Reporting back on my succesfull Tuya covert of the Hama switch. :smiley:

The converting process was rather straightforward with the instructions from their Github page and my rpi 3 B+ and for reference this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt5-iZc4_qU.

Finding the right configuration took a bit of trial and error, but it’s now fully functional but this video helped to get a hang of the basics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDoIkd58HRM. I’ve added the configuration to the Tasmota repository, up for review at the moment.

Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction and good luck for those who are facing a similar situation.

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