On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:38:48 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Z mode is the smart dev acting as an accesspoint for the controlling > phone app to connect - so it cant in that mode connect to anything > else. To reflash the firmware with something friendlier you can use EZ > mode to flash esphome onto tuya devices using tuya-convert via a > raspberry pi (needs to be a 32 bit OS ... I am using gentoo but is a > lot easier with raspian). > > Tonight I decided to flash esphome onto some "brilliant smartplugs" but > it isnt connecting - its a frustrating process :( but the apps usually > work ok ... after multiple goes.
The tuya and similar devices used the esp8266 chipset, so you could flash them with tasmota/espurna/esphome. Now they are switching to different chipsets and none of the previous flashing methods will work. -- Neil Bothwick If such a program has not crashed yet, it is waiting for a critical moment before it crashes. -- Murphy's Computer Laws n\xB06
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