Integrate Kogan SmarterHome products into HA

Hi, I recently purchased this Kogan Smart Doorbell. I have it set up and working in the TuyaSmart app. I have the Tuya integration set up in HA but the doorbell (and one of my lights) isn’t showing up. All of the other devices from the TuyaSmart app are visible. Can anyone provide any advice on how to get this to show up in Home Assistant?

I’m thinking spend devices simply don’t show in HA.

My heater does but my baby monitor does not which is frustrating. Was hoping to ditch the Kogan/ tuya app.

I’ve started to dip my toes into the Home Assistant waters, and am happily using my Tuya integrations. During the pandemic, and the toilet paper hoarding, I decided to buy a Kogan Smart Toilet Seat (bidet). This pairs well with Kogan’s Smarterhome application, but I cannot seem to connect it to the “normal” Tuya app. I can’t seem to put it into the “manual/slow beep” pair mode, only the “normal” pairing mode.
Anyone had simliar problems? Or has an idea on how I can sort this out? I’d love to get the bidet to enter/exit energy saving mode and turn lights on/off based on motion sensors/time of day/my phone’s indication of whether or not I’m asleep.

*Edit: Figured it out by accident. The Kogan manual wasn’t really clear on how to enter the two different pairing modes, but by holding the dry and rear wash buttons for a longer period it went from normal pairing mode into forced pairing mode. The difference can be heard in single beeps (normal) vs double beeps (forced). The forced pairing mode starts the local wifi access point on the device. From there, in the Tuya App,
it would still refuse to find anything automatically, so I manually selected the “smart toilet” under small appliances (it was the closest to what I wanted), selected “slow blink” mode. Tuya then prompted me to connect to the wifi from the device and 3 seconds later it identified the smart bidet, and it is now in Home Assistant for me to put some rules around :smile:

Huzzah!

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Does anyone hvae the smart kettle from Kogan working with the Tuya app, etc? Is it a Tuya rebrand? and then use that with localtuya?

LIke yea, I could tasmota it but my solidering and eletronics skills are minimal so would prefer a software based solution. Yes, I see there is an OTA solution using tuya_convert but according to their website (https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert (the repo is also quite old and the tool now seems unmaintained)) things are being shipped with patches or different chips so ymmv. I don’t want to destroy kettles. :slight_smile:

Thanks

EDIT: It seems it can be done: Kogan Smart Kettle - #35 by Sabellwind

Did you fgure if the heater panels works? Looking at buying some now as well

Nope. The main issue was it was never in the Tuya app. It seems to be a “Kogan Special”. I guess I could flash it with Tasmoto, but I’m not confident that I would fry the firmware.

But there is a workaround using the Google Home SDK. Using it, you can turn it on and off by using HA to send messages to Google Home. TBH, I haven’t tried it yet. It’s on my to-do list.

Thanks mate, I have google home integrated so think I might give it a go and see.

I ended up buying local Arlec heater from bunnings which I believe is basically what Kogan rebrands as well just like Arlec.

Can confirm the smart panel heater works with Tuya Local and I can control it from HA

I know this is a bit of an old post, but was thinking of getting a Kogan bidet seat too. What specific one did you get? also what sensors did it expose when you put it into HA? interested in what it makes available to you.

Is this the one you got?

Are you happy with it?

Any quality/reliability issues?

https://www.kogan.com/au/buy/kogan-smarterhome-smart-antibacterial-wash-dry-electric-bidet-toilet-seat/

Just noticed you asked the same Q;)

Did you buy something yet?