Migrating to ESPHome from Tasmota

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For anyone interested:

  • Tasmota changed a lot of things from version 7.2 and to help prevent bricking when OTA flashing they blocked downgrading too far and it seems to also block flashing to alternative firmware.

  • I posted on the Tasmota support chat and was instructed to downgrade incrementally, so to flash 7.2, then to flash just below 7.2 to get out of the restriction and enable flashing to ESPHome.

Unfortunately this bricked my only mini before I got to try the ESPHome bin. I got back to 7.2 OK but then the flash to 7.1 ‘basic’ bricked it. All I can think is that remnants of 7.2+ messed it up.

The little device was working great with Tasmota though so I’ve ordered a few more but won’t be doing OTA flashing. Luckily I have access to a 3D printer so going to have a go at making theplen’s jig (here on Thingiverse), then I’ll make sure to flash a blank bin first to get a clean firmware.

I ran into this just the other day. Try going to the Tasmota console and typing “SetOption78 on”

Thanks. Very interested to hear if this works, would have saved me a shedload of trouble.

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