Re: [mh] Installing Tasmota firmware on Sonoff OTA devices

Nice!  That's a serious number of devices.

On 2020-12-15 3:33 a.m., Giles Godart-Brown wrote:
>
> I'm currently running 61 Tasmota devices, all controlled by 
> Misterhouse, a mixture of Sonoff S20, Basic, POW, and Mini as well as 
> Wemos D1 Mini of various vintages.
>
> For UI I use the MH Alexa gateway and home-grown web pages running on 
> phones, tablets, PC's Mac's, whatever. Please see attached screenshots 
> from an Amazon Fire tablet and a Mac, clicking on a room brings up the 
> page with all the switches and heating settings for that room.
>
> If you cannot use the OTA mechanism Jeff describes below, e.g its an 
> earlier version, you will have to solder a header to the board, but 
> thoughtfully they provided through holes so this is pretty 
> straightforward. Then you need an FTDI board (unless you are using a 
> Wemos D1 mini which supports USB natively) and flashing software, I 
> use Tasmotizer. (https://github.com/tasmota/tasmotizer). There are 
> plenty of resources on the internet on how to do this.
>
> I did have trouble once with a Chinese copy of an S20 that refused to 
> flash OTA and its headers weren't connected to the correct pins (Doh!).
>
> For home-brew sensors (PIR, Smoke, 1-wire temperature, doorbell, 
> curtains, Workshop emergency stop switch) I use Wemos (Lolin) D1 mini 
> with stock builds of Tasmota. It’s a testament to the folks at Tasmota 
> that I’ve never felt the need to customise it.
>
> For managing and monitoring what’s going on I use the following;
>
>   * The console in the Tasmota web interface shows exactly what’s
>     going on and allows you to configure it online
>   * For bulk jobs, like doing an OTA update I use TDM
>     (https://github.com/jziolkowski/tdm) It scans all of your Tasmota
>     devices and shows all sorts of stats, and provides a nice UI for
>     doing configuration, especially rules. Most useful is the Wi-Fi
>     signal strength, it runs fine on Windows, but is a bit odd on Mac.
>   * For mqtt monitoring I use mqtt.fx (https://mqttfx.jensd.de/), OK
>     on Windows and Mac
>
> Jeff and I are working on some additions to MH to make it easier to 
> support Tasmota via  HTML and/or MQTT, I’ve just started a new page in 
> the MH wiki where I’ll write this all up.
>
> As you can probably guess, when I retired I found I had some time on 
> my hands :-)
>
> Giles
>
> On 15/12/2020 05:41, Jeff Siddall via misterhouse-users wrote:
>>
>> Paul,
>>
>> Currently three devices (Basic R3，RFR3 and Mini) can have Tasmota 
>> firmware installed OTA (over WiFi).  I successfully upgraded the 
>> original Minis that came with R 3.5.0 firmware, meaning V2 of the OTA 
>> protocol, meaning no special software required.
>>
>> Many other devices can be flashed using either a serial programmer 
>> (requires hardwired connection) or OTA using custom software (ex: 
>> tuya-convert).  See this site for details about what devices work and 
>> instructions for installing Tasmota:
>>
>> https://templates.blakadder.com/
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> On 2020-12-14 9:24 p.m., Paul Onley wrote:
>>> If someone was interested in trying this which sonoff devices can be 
>>> flashed with the tasmota firmware?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/14/20 7:01 PM, Jeff Siddall via misterhouse-users wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Installing Tasmota on Sonoff 3.5.0+ (OTA) devices is slightly 
>>>> fiddly, but one nice thing about these "DIY" devices is that they 
>>>> requires no special apps to setup.  I installed mine using a 
>>>> browser on my phone and curl on my MH machine.  I also used apache 
>>>> to serve the firmware, but I think I could have just pointed them 
>>>> to the Tasmota OTA server if I wanted.
>>>>
>>>> Here is the basic procedure:
>>>>
>>>> Plug in/turn on the device.  When it boots, enter AP setup mode by 
>>>> holding the device button for 5+ seconds until the blue light 
>>>> begins to flash with a new pattern. Release the button and begin 
>>>> holding the device button again for 5+ seconds until the blue light 
>>>> begins to flash approx. twice per second.  Then use a WiFi device, 
>>>> such as a smart phone, to connect to the Sonoff AP with SSID: 
>>>> ITEAD-xxxxxxx and password: 12345678
>>>>
>>>> Use your WiFi device browser to visit: http://10.10.7.1/ and set 
>>>> the correct WiFi AP parameters.  The device will reboot and be 
>>>> reachable from the WiFi AP.  Use this command to confirm the device 
>>>> is in DIY mode:
>>>>
>>>> curl -X POST |-H "Content-Type: application/json" |||-d 
>>>> '{||||||"deviceid":"", ||"data":{}}' 
>>>> http://<Sonoff_IP_address>:8081/zeroconf/info
>>>> ||
>>>>
>>>> If a response is received with no errors in the reply, then proceed 
>>>> to update the firmware with the setup-sonoff-mini.sh script posted 
>>>> below.  Note that the device will require internet access to 
>>>> perform the unlock.
>>>>
>>>> Below is a simple bash script to take care of most of the typing.  
>>>> Be sure to replace 
>>>> http://<server_ip>/<firmware_path>/tasmota-lite.bin with the right 
>>>> URL for your firmware server.  Also update the sha256sum if you are 
>>>> not using release 9.1.0.
>>>>
>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>>
>>>> # setup-sonoff.sh - Script to automate upgrading Sonoff DIY devices 
>>>> to Tasmota firmware
>>>> # Copyright (C) 2020 Jeff Siddall
>>>> # Last modified: 2020-12-14
>>>>
>>>> # Exit if any of the spawned commands has failed (exits non-zero)
>>>> set -e
>>>>
>>>> # Check for the right arguments
>>>> if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
>>>>    echo "Usage: setup-sonoff-mini.sh <ip_address>"
>>>>    echo "   where <ip_address> is the IP address of the device to 
>>>> upgrade"
>>>>    exit 1
>>>> fi
>>>>
>>>> # Print the current device info
>>>> echo "Current configuration:"
>>>> curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d 
>>>> '{"deviceid":"", "data":{}}' http://$1:8081/zeroconf/info
>>>> echo
>>>> echo "Enabling unlock (note: device requires internet access):"
>>>> curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d 
>>>> '{"deviceid":"", "data":{}}' http://$1:8081/zeroconf/ota_unlock
>>>> echo
>>>> echo "Starting firmware upgrade:"
>>>> curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d 
>>>> '{"deviceid":"", 
>>>> "data":{"downloadUrl":"http://<server_ip>/<firmware_path>/tasmota-lite.bin", 
>>>> "sha256sum":"b8a16f18a018bd6233170ce28a625508c38770d9d8ef195c7afa50f914c4ac9c"}}' 
>>>> http://$1:8081/zeroconf/ota_flash
>>>> echo
>>>> echo "The upgrade will take several minutes, after which time the 
>>>> device will reboot"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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