Thanks for the neat template!
Yeah it took us a while to find a solution for the PIR.
The full thread can be found here.
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That looks like a good bit of detective work, well done.
I’m not too impressed with these sensors though. I have an extensive 433 Mhz installation and I may stick to the Sonoff pet friendly 433 Mhz sensors.
Yeah they aren’t that good for the price, would you recommend the Sonoff sensors?
Hi people, first post here…
Has anyone tried to flash ESPHOME to a Genio RGBW globe they bought from Woolies?
I tried to flash ESPHOME to the Woolies version and had nothing but issues with even turning it on and off. Could not get any colour at all other than half a second flicker of yellowish green.
I bought a kmart version today, flashed fine first go with the same yaml and binary as I used for the woolies version. All up and running first go in home assistant.
The version you buy in boxes at woolies seem to be different to the kmart versions in packets. They have different part numbers and both weigh slightly different amounts… enough for me to notice picking them both up anyway… I decided to weigh them…
Kmart - 1002339 - 69gm
Woolies - 1002608 - 64gm
So either the Woolies one I bought was faulty to start with (I never tried it with the genio app before flashing it) or they may be internally different. I haven’t opened it up to confirm though.
Can anyone confirm this?
Cheers
I have the sickly green issue with a Genio bulb, so maybe it’s faulty. I think mine is… I have other Genio bulbs that are fine.
@aogorman - if you already have a 433 MHz bridge they are good value at $9 US + delivery. Last for ages on battery, less false positives than the Genio, but that may be because of how I have the Genio configured.
Don’t buy the Sonoff reed switches, they only have open notification not open/closed. I use the GS-WDS07 because you can pull them apart and do cool things:
Only issue with 433 MHz is that building penetration compared to wifi is not as good, mainly due to lower transmit power. This however translates to longer battery life.
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Hi Johan,
Regarding the Mirabella Window and Door sensor. Did you use Tuya-convert OTA? if so could you explain your method? My attempts to flash it have been unsuccessful. While tailing the smarthack-wifi.log file I can see the sensor connect to the WIFI AP however once it is in ez pairing mode it disconnects.
There were some comments about not converting while on battery power for the PIR sensor - causing the same behaviour. Does the door sensor have an external power option?
Not that I can see. I made sure to activate the reed switch while trying as I have seen people mention that keeps the sensor from sleeping.
I think the crux of the issue is it disconnects from the AP while in EZ pair mode, as soon as the red light stops flashing, I can see it connect to the AP again.
I manage to get the door sensor flashed OTA today and don’t know how it happened but it took a lot of resetting and activating the reed switch now I just need a template for it.
hi can you post the configuration for the kogan cool/warm white LEDs pls?
I’m interested in flashing the door sensor too, pleased to hear OTA is working with it.
Ill have to give it a shot later.
I bricked mine now trying to work out how to make a template for it and not sure if it is soft or hard brick but it doesn’t seem to work with serial reflash but will keep trying.
I’ve had a scan through the last many pages but couldn’t find it.
Do the RGB Led strip from Kmart flash ok?
https://www.kmart.com.au/product/mirabella-genio-wi-fi-led-strip-light/2754878
Can only speak for the 3m strip: yes
Can I asked what you flashed with ?
I put ESPhome on mine and am disappointed with the 5 to 10 second response time.
I got it flashed with tasmota. Just needed to reinstall tuya-convert. I must have been missing something earlier. Now just trying to tackle the config.
I have created Mirabella Genio Door & Window Sensor I002575 HKWL-DWS02W topic to track the progress of this integration. @jivesinger @a_lunatic @JohanPotgieter
If you could post what you know, that would be great.
Wondering if someone could help me here, this is my first time flashing Tasmoto
I used the tuya-convert method listed here
http://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/tuya-convert-walk-through-february-2019/
using a Rasperry Pi 3 B+
All went well and it flashed quickly and easily.
I then used the ESPhome addon for home assistant to generate the firmware file using the code from
which also succeeded. The device flashed successfully and i can see it is connected to my wifi and can see the ip address that it has. The only thing is i cant access the webserver using it’s ip address to finish configuring the mqtt. Have tried multiple browsers and rebooting it once
By default, esphome doesn’t have a webserver.
You can enable it by including
webserver:
in your devices esphome config.
It’s not used for setup though, thats all through the yaml file.
The webserver is more for checking the status of inputs and outputs.
As for your MQTT problem, personally I’d just add
api:
to your config and let esphome do its auto discovery magic.
If your dead keen on MQTT though, post your config and we’ll see what up 
EDIT:
Actually, if you used that config you linked to, api is already enabled so the light strip should already be showing in Home Assistant ?
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