Parkside Battery Charger LocalTuya Integration (switches not working)

Lodiy · January 11, 2022, 10:36am

Hello! I’ve been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi for the past few months and have been learning more about adding devices without an existing integration.

For the renovation of my house, I’ve been buying more and more into the Parkside brand. They recently released a new “Parkside Performance” charger that allows setting things such as charging current.

It turns out it runs on Tuya, so you can add it in Home Assistant with the Tuya/LocalTuya integration. I prefer non-cloud based configurations so I added it using LocalTuya after plugging/unplugging batteries and changing options in the Lidl Home app.

Here’s the overview of the Id’s and their purpose. I didn’t find all of them, I’m guessing they are used for when a “smart battery” (with inbuilt Bluetooth) is connected.

ID	Description	Values	Type
1	Charge Start Switch	True/False	Switch
2	Name	PLGS 2012 A1	Sensor
3	Charge Current (mA)	967, 963, 537	Sensor
4	Battery Voltage (/1000)	18754, 18928, 18974	Sensor
5	Battery percentage (%)	49, 50, 51, 52	Sensor
6	?	0	?
7	Charge Type	ECO, quick (Performance), standard (Balance), individual (Expert)	Sensor
8	60% Switch	True/False	Switch
9	Overheated notification	True/False	Switch
10	?	0	?
11	?	0	?
101	Max charge current (mA)	3800	Sensor
102	Time to Full (in minutes)	19, 61, 60, 103	Sensor
103	10 minutes to full charge notification	True/False	Switch
104	Fully charged notification	True/False	Switch

I configured it for LocalTuya in configuration.yaml:

host: 192.168.X.X
    device_id: X
    local_key: X
    friendly_name: Parkside Battery Charger
    protocol_version: "3.3"
    entities:
        #Functional Switches
      - platform: switch
        friendly_name: PBC Charge Switch
        id: 1
        current: 3
        voltage: 4
        
      - platform: switch
        friendly_name: PBC 60% Cutoff
        id: 8
        
        #Push Notification Switches
      - platform: switch
        friendly_name: PBC Overheat Notification
        id: 9
        
      - platform: switch
        friendly_name: PBC 10 Minutes to Full Notification
        id: 103
        
      - platform: switch
        friendly_name: PBC Fully Charged Notification
        id: 104
        
        #Sensors
      - platform: sensor
        friendly_name: PBC Name
        id: 2
        
      - platform: sensor
        friendly_name: PBC Charge Current
        id: 3
        unit_of_measurement: "mA"
        
      - platform: sensor
        friendly_name: PBC Battery Voltage
        id: 4
        scaling: 0.001
        unit_of_measurement: "V"
        
      - platform: sensor
        friendly_name: PBC Battery Percentage
        id: 5
        unit_of_measurement: "%"
        
      - platform: sensor
        friendly_name: PBC Charging Type
        id: 7
        
      - platform: sensor
        friendly_name: PBC Max Charge Current
        id: 101
        unit_of_measurement: "mA"
        
      - platform: sensor
        friendly_name: PBC Minutes to Full
        id: 102
        unit_of_measurement: "Minutes"

The sensors work great and I can use them to create graphs/glances for the charging status.

However, the switches do not work. I can see the current on/off status updating when I change toggles in the Lidl Home app, but toggling the switches from Home Assistant does not work (toggle switches to the previous state after a few seconds). Is there a step/configuration in the YAML I’m missing to make switches work? Help would be appreciated!

It turns out that switches won’t work if the Tuya app is running on your phone. Closing the app made the switches work.

nicolae.fratila · January 27, 2022, 8:06pm

Can you add some pictures please with the switches and the entities? How many charging ports it has?
Thanks

Lodiy · January 28, 2022, 9:02am

Hey Nicolae, here’s a picture of the entities and switches. There are two more unknown entities which I’m sure are used for the new bluetooth smart batteries, I’ll be able to test/add those as soon as the battery arrives. It has one charging slot.

Entony · February 19, 2022, 9:53am

this is my layout for charger
How can change charging mode in HA?

r.vanderkooi · February 20, 2022, 7:57am

Hi, i have also the same charger of Parkside… but do you have add this device first to Tuya website? and connect with the Lidl Home App? i can’t find this steps…

Lodiy · February 21, 2022, 9:26am

Looks good! I’m not sure how to set the charge mode. I tried getting help on this, but got the response to look into making custom components, templates, etc but I couldn’t figure it out using the documentation.

Lodiy · February 21, 2022, 9:28am

You can connect the charger in the Tuya app (Lidl-Home app is simply a copy of the Tuya app with a custom theme) and then access the charger in HA by using the LocalTuya integration. You’ll have to fetch the localkey using tuya-cli.

Entony · February 21, 2022, 10:05am

Hi, maybe you must reset your charger. (Hold 2 buttons on charger) And then you can add charger to “Tuya Smart” app. Then you need set up Tuya Local integration (in HA) with a Tuya IOT development account. (Tuya - Home Assistant). it’s a little complicated process.

Timmerman · January 27, 2023, 10:00pm

FYI: ID 6 is the battery temperature.
If you change ID 7 to the “select” type, you can set the charging mode using HASS:

evlo · March 11, 2025, 5:09pm

is there a template for esphome to replace the tuya module in this device?

cibernox · April 20, 2025, 12:12am

Does anyone know if it’s possible to link the batteries into home assistant too?

I’m not sure how they work. Do they have to be connected to the phone via bluetooth or can batteries connect to the changer with bluetooth and then the charger acts as a hub and relays that information through wifi?

If it’s the latter, seems like we could show the batteries themselves on home assistant

cibernox · April 21, 2025, 2:32pm

I can answer myself (kind of).

As far as I can tell, no, the charger does not seem to act as a bluetooth proxy. It remains to be seen if it can be forced into doing that.

However, if you enable the bluetooth integration in home assistant and use the tuya BLE integration (a fork because the main one seems broken with the most recent versions of HA), the parkside batteries are visible and can be added.

However, the integration is not configurable using the UI as the localtuya one is, so in order to add the mapping between the tuya IDs of each field and HA entities, you need to edit the python files of the integration itself.

I started doing that with some of the fields and it does work. I need to build bluetooth proxies with ESP32 boards because my server is way too far from the place my tools are stored, but with proxies being as cheap as 4-5€, if they work, it would be easy to add a few proxies around the home so batteries can report their status reliably.

I’ll experiment a bit more with this and if possible push my changes upstream to the integration.

MiguelAngelLV · August 12, 2025, 8:57pm

Hi. I made a video (in spanish) about how replace the original chip by a ESP32 and install ESPHome in the charger.

Atiroocky · September 17, 2025, 4:54pm

Great work.

From your video，I too replaced the wifi module to make this device work with esphome.
But in my case，I swapped the wbr3 chip with an esp12f chip.
I had to solder a bridge between gnd and gpio15 allow esp to boot.

~~One important thing with the esp12f in the yaml config is to setup~~

esp8266:
  board: d1_mini

else tuya mcu communication will fail.

After restart，it looks like some datapoints are missing. It needs few restart to initialize tuya mcu communication ok and expose all datapoints.