Theengs Plug - BLE Gateway 90 devices supported + Smart plug + Energy consumption

DigiH · July 11, 2023, 4:46pm

Thanks for mentioning the broken link, fix is on the way.

As for the auto-discovery - auto-discovery is turned off after 30 minutes of the initial start up to prevent auto-discovered and added devices which might just pass your house or are activated at your neighbours.

Once you get new devices which you want added through auto-discovery you can switch it back on until they are all added then turn it off again to prevent the above.

https://docs.openmqttgateway.com/use/gateway.html#auto-discovery

ebeighe · July 11, 2023, 9:14pm

oh, that was easy. thx.
I see, now that i look, there’s a slider right on the the Plug in HA

1technophile · July 27, 2023, 7:26pm

Back in stock!

1technophile · August 5, 2023, 8:11pm

Review by @hometechhacker

GUS1 · August 15, 2023, 3:29pm

Any plans to support the switchbot blind tilt.

DigiH · August 15, 2023, 4:51pm

Hi @GUS1

We’d love to support the Blind Tilt, but there still seem to be some issues with it not properly reporting in the advertisement data (yet)

github.com/OpenWonderLabs/SwitchBotAPI-BLE

Report Blind / Tilt position in Manufacture Data

opened 08:21AM - 16 Apr 23 UTC

AdyRock

enhancement pinned

### Current Situation To get the position a BLE command is required to request …it ### Proposed Change Add the position value to the Manufacture data along with the battery state, like the Curtain does in the Service data. ### Additional Context If the position data is in the Manufacture data then it would be readily available and not require a time consuming command to be sent. The Curtain bot works really well like this, so I would be really grateful if this could be added to the Blind / Tilt as well.

If you feel like helping and possibly figuring out if and which advertisement data might contain useful information, please open a discussion at

ebeighe · January 3, 2024, 3:29am

@1technophile hey there – i changed my mqtt broker’s IP address. How do I reconfigure Theengs Plug to use the new address?

1technophile · January 3, 2024, 1:52pm

Hello,

You have several possibilities:

reset the plug with a long press of the button or the following Home Assistant command ( available from Settings → Devices & Services → Devices - Enter TPLUG)

Reconnect to the WiFi portal and enter the new MQTT broker
change the server with an MQTT command
System commands (ESP only) | OpenMQTTGateway v1.7.0

ebeighe · January 3, 2024, 9:16pm

hey thanks. I did end up doing a hard reset and that is fine.

I did first try to sent the command. not sure why that didn’t work. It published ok. and showed up (I was watching it on mqtt-explorer); then went dead for maybe 15 seconds, and then started back up using the original broker; presumably reverting to the last working settings.
It seemed like it never tried to contact the new broker (but, come to think of it, i don’t know that for sure)

ebeighe · January 3, 2024, 10:19pm

(EDITED to add: Thinking back, I think I had taken it upon myself to change mqtt_auth to true, which wouldn’t be correct for my installation; and that was probably why it failed)

1technophile · January 3, 2024, 11:24pm

Thanks for the feedback

sdaltons · January 17, 2024, 2:11am

Hey @1technophile

I have one of these and love it. I have a MUE4094RT night light and I’m having trouble getting it to pair. Do you have any tips on connecting it?

Thanks!

1technophile · January 17, 2024, 2:20am

Thanks for the feedback! Glad you like it.

Let me check this and I will go back to you tomorrow.

1technophile · January 17, 2024, 6:03pm

I found the issue, seems that this device advertise different lengths of servicedata (these are the data used for decoding) and we were taking into account only the larger ones.

If you are interested, you can send me by PM an email and I can provide you a test binary.

sdaltons · January 17, 2024, 6:24pm

I’m not surprised that it’s something specific to this device as the Theengs plug has picked up all my other relevant devices with ease

Would I need to leave auto discovery on for a while in hopes of it capturing the needed service data?

Other thoughts:

The plug is in the basement monitoring the energy used by the washing machine and I put it there because I have a smartdry in the dryer right next to it. The device I’m asking about is on the main floor. I wonder if there could be a range issue with the device (not the plug as it picks up devices on the 2nd floor without issue). I could possibly use a different plug on the washer and move my Theengs to a more centralized location, but only if it would still pick up the smartdry.

Anyway yes I will PM you.

1technophile · January 17, 2024, 8:15pm

I will do a range test with this particular device but I think this is related to a change of MUE4094RT firmware. I will send you a test one for the Theengs plug to confirm.

sdaltons · January 17, 2024, 10:10pm

Thanks, I will look out for it. No idea why I accidentally deleted the above reply lol

sdaltons · January 18, 2024, 3:44pm

I will continue to monitor but that seems to have done the trick. Appreciate it!

1technophile · January 18, 2024, 3:57pm

Great to hear!

ebeighe · April 30, 2024, 10:51pm

Hi there – i just got a couple of Govee GVH5105’s thermometers…
I see them in MQTT explorer, e.g.:
{“id”:“C3:38:30:33:2E:37”,“mac_type”:1,“adv_type”:0,“name”:“GVH5105_2E37”,“manufacturerdata”:“01000101043b3d64”,“rssi”:-82}

But they aren’t showing up in HA.
The last time i had this problem when i added some switchbot thermometers, my problem was I didn’t have SYS: Auto Discovery turned on.
So this time, I made sure to turn it on but no new Govee’s are appearing in HA.

What else can I check?