Sonoff RF Bridge and Home Assistant

[Vaughanza (Vaughan Lundin)]

Hi
I just received my Sonoff RF bridge 433 Mhz and some Pir’s and door sensors, Please could you advise if the only way to integrate Sonoff bridge into HA by flashing the bridge with alternative firmware, like Tasmota.

So if I need to add Sonoff bridge to HA, I have to flash it with another firmware ( Tasmota )

Thanks for your time.

[Hypnotia (Pavel Murtishev)]

This is exactly what you will have to do. Flashing Tasmota enables MQTT and many other usefull features.

[Vaughanza (Vaughan Lundin)]

Thanks appreciate the help.

[elRadix]

once you have done that, you can following to this topic with some examples

Integrating RF devices with sonoff rf bridge on Tasmota Firmware

This solution is much cleaner than spoofing mqtt messages: - platform: mqtt name: "Lounge Window" payload_on: "5D4533" device_class: window state_topic: "rf_bridge/tele/RESULT" value_template: "{{ value_json.RfReceived.Data }}" off_delay: 180 rather than what most people propose in this thread: - platform: mqtt name: "Lounge Window" payload_on: "5D4533" payload_off: "5D4533off" device_class: window state_topic: "rf_bridge/tele/RESULT" value_tem…

[Vaughanza (Vaughan Lundin)]

Thanks appreciate it . Will give it a try