I would like to keep the original functionality of devices as I dont fully trust HA just yet, I have had to rebuild it several times now. In addition to this I am only using HA locally.
Thinking the same thing… Make the integration easier for non developer and maintain ability to control using original app. Does we know whether the original firmware protocol already reverse engineer?
It would work without the firmware modification, but you would not be able to use the app any more. But as @DanielGalle said, you could control the devices via Home Assistant from remote…
I concur with what @kirkjb and @aneip said. I too would like to integrate my Sonoffs with HA, but have absolutely no desire to change the firmware to do so for a number of reasons. I currently have 8 Sonoffs and they are VERY responsive, more responsive than most of the rest of my home automation tech. Although I am certainly not a programmer, I can’t believe it would be that hard to make these devices work natively with HA. As it is, it took almost no effort to make these Sonoffs work with Alexa. And, in hass.io it takes almost no effort (for the end user) to make something like a Wemo work; all you have to do is type “wemo:” in the configuration.yaml file. Couldn’t we (and by “we” I mean not me, but rather some others who know what the heck they are doing) add Sonoff functionality to home assistant/hass.io so that they would be discoverable and controllable with their factory firmware? These Sonoffs are SO affordable that I expect them to be nothing but more common each day. I just bought a six pack of them for $6.00 each, landed. Can’t beat that! One last thing for any of the devs who might read this. You guys are doing great work! Keep it up, please. I have managed to get four of my coworkers to download and install hassio and they are all loving it.
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