Sorry for the late resonse. I flashed it with Tasmota via OTA. I have given up on this device. Not worth the trouble for me.
I just wanted to verify that you were able to get it flashed with Tasmota and at least connect to the web interface. This indicates that it isn’t a ESP8266 based chip.
Yes. I was able to get it flashed with Tasmota and connect to the web interface.
Just checking, but it sounds like no one is able to get these fan conversion switches to work effectively in HA. Is this correct? I have done a work around with scenes in Alexa app and then just trigger the scenes as entities in any automations. Also have the scenes on dashboard and trigger like switch, I just have to use like 6 scenes. I have fan on low, fan on med, fan on high, fan off, light on, light off. It is not as pretty as 2 buttons, but it works.
Let me know if anyone has found the solution for these little buggers. Thanks!
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I have a Wi-Fi tuya fan controller, Fnado F2-U, which looks exactly like the Ostrich controller pictured above. It works great with HomeSeer v4 OOB using the Tuya plugin. Leveraging Alexa like @richn (above) is not really an option for me and appears Tasmota does not support it. Are there any other options? Has anyone tried LocalTuya?
Thank you
Local tuya and the new tuya apps will control the fan but not the light. There just doesn’t seem to be a template for it.
I’m controlling the light and fan with local tuya, and was even able and to turn the obnoxious beep off. They key is mapping the tuya ID codes for the device. Fan is 1, light is 9, beep is 17
Mine was this aubric one but it looks identical
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I gave up on these trying to get them directly into HA. I already had a Bond hub, so I just programmed the remotes (I have 5 of them) into Bond and can control all the fans via HA that way. What’s annoying is that I also have the Tuya/Treatlife 4 speed WiFi wall switches, and those don’t work at all with anything other than Alexa/Google Home and the various flavors of Tuya phone apps. No idea why they would cripple the functionality like this. They clearly support it if you flash the devices, which of course is just another huge PITA. Now in the process of replacing all the Tuya/Treatlife wall fan controllers with ZWave fan controllers. WAAAAAAY less hassle.
Has anyone found a fan/light controller that works out of the box?
Is local tuya being shutdown at the end of this month?
Where did you hear this? Local tuya is a custom Hacs Integration separate from the official tuya Integration. Local tuya also just released an update not that long ago. Things that are about to shutdown generally don’t receive updates.
No. The existing tuya integration is being replaced with the tuya v2 integration (which is currently in HACS). Local tuya is a third tuya integration, independent of tuya and tuya v2.
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I seem to remember seeing a thread somewhere that tuya was changing the API, but maybe that doesn’t affect local
@mwav3 can I PLEASE have your steps on how you accomplished this? This and some stupid iDoo/iRing doorbell (also a Tuya device) are the last of the integrations I need to get working in HA to finish my project that I promised my in-laws over a year ago that would have done in…well less time than over a year ago. All credit goes to you. I appreciate the time and effort it took you to figure it out and in an open community I will openly thank you as that is the best I can do.
Sincerely,
Some guy who is smart enough to know when he’s not smart enough.
Ok first I’m assuming you have the Tuya local security key for the fan. If you don’t, follow the directions here - https://github.com/codetheweb/tuyapi/blob/ab60e0d11fef6e9c4d73cd3f46bdda2a71f98f99/docs/SETUP.md
Once the local key is obtained, go to the integrations screen in Home Assistant, click “add integration”, then search for “local tuya”. Your device should appear in the next screen under a dropdown as a code with an IP address. The ID will match the id obtained from the TUYA developer website
Next, type a name for the device as you want it to be named in Home Assistant
Under “local key” - copy the key from the Tuya website
Next will be a dropdown for “add entity”. We’re going to add 3 entities - a fan, and two switches (one for light, one for the beep)
Add the fan first - see screenshot for mappings. ID 1 for on/off, 3 for speed. Change the speeds to 1, 2, and 3 for low, medium high:
Add switch next, uncheck “do not add more entities” We’re adding the light as a switch, NOT a light, since there is no dimmer and it is just on/off. The light is mapped to ID 9. Click submit when done:
This is optional to turn the beep on and off. If you want to control the beep, after you hit submit for the light, uncheck “do not add more entities”. Add as a switch mapped to id 17 for the beep:
When the 3 entities are added, leave the box for “do not add more entities” checked and hit submit. It will exit the configuration screen at that point and you will now have 3 entities - a fan to control the 3 speeds and on/off, a toggle for light on/off, and a toggle for beep on/off
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Thanks for your help there Tim, saved me a lot of time with your easy to follow guide…quality! 
Hi tim, thanks for the guide
How is the speed 1 & 2 on the fan?
Is it any slower than before installing the fan module?
I’m using sonoff ifan03 and the fan speed 1 & 2 are just too slow for me.
I’m considering getting the qiachip fan controller (also tuya) to try it out
The speed is noticeably slower for low and medium vs the factory fan low and medium with the Aubric, which is a common problem for a lot of these fan controllers.
I’ve read the newer sonoff ifan04 fixed the speed issue, and low and medium perform much better
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I see, then I’ll try the sonoff ifan04
I had some doubts getting that one
I tried changing the capacitors to match my original fan but that just made it slower
Then also i tried tuya fan controller (with wall fan switch) but that caused humming sound. Apparently something to do with PWM control
This Guide still works! I do not know how you figured this out but I’m glad you did. I’ve been trying to figure this out for the past 2 weeks!
I figured out the value in the parenthesis that shows when you configure it is what that value is currently on the device at that moment. So basically I would turn the light on and off, see what value changed, and then figured that ID number was the light (true = on, false =off). Same for the fan, and also the fan speeds. I just got a different fan controller that had a dimmer and the values were slightly different, so hope this helps if someone is trying to setup a tuya fan in the future and is trying to map the ID numbers to the entities.
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