Finally, they look like EU ones. They also name tuya app which makes the possibility quite high that a esp8266 is inside. Just the price is a bit high… but I need to tell I’m tempted…
The other possibility way to go nowaday is to keep the old/normal/present switches and just add a shelly or any other brand with a switch input behind the wall mounted switch.
But for new installations integrated is always good!
If someone could share findings with the device @tyjtyj linked - would be great!
I searched hard the other day and came to the conclusion that zemismart does not have physical wall mounted switches with eu type. Please proof me wrong with a link
Do you know (or someone else) by accident how this device looks from the inside? A the important pins available to flash custom firmware (as the bug tuya convert uses is fixed nowadays more and more… even with ota!)
@PianSom - Can you provide a link for the flash method you used? I just got a three gang version of the Zemismart and can’t discover the device when going thru the OTA flash process. I was following the Tuya convert process with no success.
@scp028 - well, I guess that rather depends on the hardware you are using!
FWIW I have found that I can usually get away without soldering just by holding pins in place for the short period that the first flash takes. Helps to have a friend handy to push keyboard buttons
Touch is not intuitive or blind usable. It lacks basic physical feedback and it’s a productivity killer. In my studies you will need an average of minimum double the time doing something with touch wall switch than you will need with a ordinary latching or non latching wall switch with haptic feedback.
Not to be insensitive, but why would a blind person need a light switch?
I can see why it would slow one down because, for example on one of my touch switches, I hesitate to determine if the switch did what I want. With a tactile switch I don’t have to slow down as I exit a room to know that I toggled the switch. But you gave me an idea. Since I made the switch using an ESP8266-01, I have one more GPIO that could go to a haptic buzzer, like in the cell phone.
So I bought some DS102 switches (no touch, with physical buttons, EU) that @tyjtyj already mentioned above. Unfortunately, tuya-convert appears not to work, so I will have to try and flash them the old-fashioned-way. Here are some pictures:
As you can see, there is a small board on top with the ESP8266 (TYWE3S) on it. GND and 3.3V are easily accessible from the socket on the bottom. TX and RX are on the bottom-right of the chip on the pic above. No sockets, but should be easy enough to wire.
I will report back on my success (hopefully) when I find the time.
No surprises when flashing. Because I have no idea how to safely solder stuff directly on the chip, I just attached the 3V/GND on the back and held the TX/RX in place using my fingers. Worked without problems:
Ah sorry - I forgot. No, the button is connected to GPIO3. You have to connect GPIO0 manually to ground while plugging in (it’s the fifth pin from the right on the same side as RX/TX - for images see Sonoff Wiki or Hackster.io).
I used the same method: Just hold a jumper wire in place. You don’t need to keep it there, a few seconds during startup is enough.
You also have a esphome sketch for the 3-gang version by accident?
I wonder how they managed to add 3 relays, 3 buttons and 3 leds (in all it would need 9 gpios in my world)? Is there any limitation regarding the leds (forced binded to a relay for example?). My plans is to have leds independent from the relays but rather show the state from a other device from home assistant (and also to control it with the push button…). Any thoughts on this?
The 1-gang version (I can see in your sketch) has one gpio for each relay, button and led