Vivitar WiFi Powerstrip

Third party integrations
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Just purchased a Vivitar Powerstrip, while the app works fine i am looking to bring control into Home Assistant. Some googling has not been fruitful.

Anyone have experience with this product, or able to provide some advice on where to look?

Cheers :slight_smile:

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Set the devices up with the Tuya Smart app and then configure the Tuya component.
Vivitar use Tuya cloud (as do many other hardware companies).

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Apologies for the two part - but this one caught me out and I noticed you are also in AU…
Don’t setup the app with a number, use an email.
Only use letters and numbers in the password - no additional chars.
You can set up the account in Australia (ie Australia 61) but when configuring Home Assistant - use country_code of 1. Eg:

tuya:
  username: [email protected]
  password: passw0rd
  country_code: 1
  platform: tuya
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Thanks troykelly, got it up and running works nicely, setting up some automations.

Cheers :slight_smile:

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Great work :smiley: … it’s easy when you know how.
I really like the power strips (apart from the switching delay) and given they are nearly the only ones I can find with AU sockets… that makes them even better.

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The delay is more than I would have expected, but works with one of the lamps that are being turned off, and the rest I have plugged in aren’t time critical, so can live with it.

For the $80 it’s a great find at JB Hifi, and now that I have it integrated with Home Assistant, awesome.

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@navanod
If you want you can load Tasmota on the device as this appears to be based on one of those common WiFi smart power strips.

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Has anyone managed to get this mapped out for tasmota or esphome?

I have flashed one of my two strips and have most of it working but just a couple of things missing.

Might have to crack one open and trace the circuits.

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I’ve got two of these working in Tasmota and very happy with them. I just used the published template and it was pretty easy from there.

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Did you have to open the board up to flash it? Only thing holding me back, not keen on doing that.

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No - I was able to use Tuya convert - followed the directions to set it up on a Raspberry Pi (repurposed one temporarily) and it was fairly simple from what I recall.

(Sorry - just noticed this reply :flushed: )