Trying to find out ultimate touch switches

Hardware
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Hi, i would like to replace my dumb switches (i’m in that process in … 5+ years? :slight_smile:

I have bought some samples over the years.
I have sonoff TX1.
I have some noname 3 gang switches i destroyed trying to flash them with esphome - it needed to cut some traces, because RX or TX pin was connected to other chitp (i succeeded, but in the process, the touch pads buttons lost it’s sensitivity and cannot be touched with glass on).
I have some other esp switches with dual frame under one glass, but i find out, it does not fit in my wall boxes.
i have some MOES zigbee switches, which seems like a way to go, but they don’t sell this version with one glass over double box.

I have come with list of (soft) requirements:

  • easy to adapt, so zigbee or matter (or i can flash it with esphome, if it’s easy, no trace cutting involved)
  • ability to control backlight (most zigbee switches i saw does not have this ability)
  • ability to send double press, or hold (most zigbee switches does not do that? can be done in esphome with some templating?)
  • ability to decouple button from relay (not needed , it’s just to eliminate the click sound of relay when using always powered smart bulbs anyway)
  • maybe get rid of relay? (MOES zibgee switches does not click)
  • ability to be used in dual frame
  • touch switch with glass panel

but there seems to be none product which ticks all of them.

I want to also try Sonoff M5 , because it can be stacked over multiple boxes, but it’s not glass touch and i don’t want to have different looking switches in every room. I was thinking about abandoning those double boxes and putting only one 3 gang switch to one of the boxes and 3d printing some fancy cover on the other one …

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Not looking into TX ultimate?
It’s still a touch switch with a haptic feedback like on iphone except it doesn’t have a glass surface though

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Seems i missed that. It’s looking great. Are all features available localy or after flashing with esphome?

Only problem is , it does not come in double box (not 2 gang) version. I’m more and more thinking about abandoning those double boxes and using only one of them and printing some fancy cover on the second

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For decoupling and use with smart bulbs, you’re gonna need esphome or tasmota since the stock firmware doesn’t include that. There’s some work done to include voice assistant inside which kinda makes it the ‘últimate’ switch

It does come with customized plates (only 2 so far though), maybe you could print your own with some reflective surfaces to make it glass like at least.

Not a lot options out there with those double/triple boxes.

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I can see, there is some project GitHub - SmartHome-yourself/sonoff-tx-ultimate-for-esphome: ESPHome Custom Component for Sonoff TX Ultimate to integrate all the goodies with esphome. Any experience with that? I would like to use all the features with esphome (i see multitouch, vibration, swipe ) …

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Installed first two of them as test.
They are awesome.
Will order more

Only problem i have, is that i cannot fit bluetooth proxy to esphome firmaware, it compiles over 2MB. It would be great for triangulation

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What’s the storage for the tx ultimate esp32?

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I’m not sure , but it says, that my firmware is over 2MB.
When i was backuping original firmware with esptool , it said it has 4MB.
But i was able to backup only 2MB images (it died on 50% when i wanted to backup 4MB)

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Check the esp info with command

esptool flash_id

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It’s already in the wall :wink: Maybe i will try on the next one.

I think, i was using flash_id and it was saying 4MB, so i was trying to backup 4MB of firmware, but it always died on 50% data transferred