just bought a sonoff mini, and there are no diy jumper pins inside. I’ve only upgraded the fimware via ewelink, from 3.5 to 3.6.
I tried to follow all the tutorial and videos on line but no luck. all I got is a pingable device, connected in diy mode (I guess) to my wifi lan but if i start the OTA flashing procedure via rester POST commands, it doesnt connect.
I already flashed a few sonoff basicr3 so I know I’m missing something Mini-specific…
any help? has anybody already dealt with those no-jumper sonoffs?
I never bothered to check if there were anything like “DIY Mode” jumper pins, I just reflashed all of mine the typical way by connecting to it via serial and reflashing like normal.
I can confirm that this method works perfectly.
I ended up with a semi-bricked device so wired up the UART interface to flash as per the previous response.
I have had safety issues with Sonoff devices so moving forward I’m going touse Shelly’s which look as small but are designed to be messed around with so have built in pin headers etc.
thanks everybody.
my bad: when connected to the device’s own access point, IP 10.10.7.1, I entered my LAN wifi credentials instead of the “sonoffDiy” hotspot ones.
Everything went on smoothly then, it’s a 5 minutes job and no need to mess with jumpers or soldering irons.
Hello,
It sounds like you finally managed it… I could not!
I followed the instructions here https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Sonoff-DIY/
but nothing… the hotspot instructions you mentioned are the ones from most popular tutorials like Dr ZZs ones?
Anybody else having issues?
To clarify I purchased recently a few sonoff mini and none of them come with the jumper but they to allow DYI mode so there must be a way (yes I know I can solder and I have done it in the past but I am really not good at it and I would have to do it in 6 or 7 devices so I would like to avoid it hhehe
That is fantastic, thank you very much!
I got to the point where I had the otaUnlock: true but after that the written instructions said: “flash it according to instructions everywhere on the Internet” but that was just not possible as, for example, using the DYI tool I could not see my device, even if I had put in there my routers wifi credentials (and not making that sonoffDiy network like it says in 2543 tutorials out there).
I actually gave up and thought I would simply use the AlexxIT way (that works pretty well) but since I have 2 devices already where I got to the point of the last of the bullet points you wrote…I will follow the video and give it a try!
Thanks again for the help and the detailed instructions!
Takes just few mins to connect to the pads. Tried for hours to solder directly to pads, but would get 3 soldered then one would fall off. In this pic I have to connect to pads on this light socket on both sides of PCB.
Did you have any trouble getting back to the 10.10.7.1 page after doing this? I initially used my local network SSID but even though I can get the device back in to compatibility mode and connect to the ITEAD-*** network, I just can’t get that 10.10.7.1 page to load, in order to change the SSID.
I managed to solve my problem with this. I was convinced that I had made a mistake by using my home network credentials for the sonoff, because it wasn’t being detected by the DIY tool. However, I experienced the same problem with a fresh sonoff, while using the sonoffDiy credentials.
After setting otaUnlock to True, using RESTer, I have to restart my laptop and the sonoff whenever I want to use the DIY Tool and then in connects, no matter what network I use, as long as both devices are connected to the same Network.
I was never able to make this work. Followed every “method” to no avail (Sonoff DYI tool stuck at 0%, POST method is all 200 OK but never actually flashes the firmware). Why does Sonoff implement a “DIY” mode in this ridiculous way is beyond me. I have flashed many devices in my time but gave up on this.