How to use Sonoff RF Bridge with Home Assistant. How to Flash Tasmota RF 433MHz

[@yoichinikka5274]

So far this is the best video for flashing sonoff . The rest just asking you to cut wire and solder the board. Come on, serial connectors how complicate can it be. Great video.!! This is definitely the right way to do it. No damage to the board.

[@riaanvermeulen2564]

Great vid. Ordered the items to flash my sonoff bridge with Tasmota.

[@HomeSight]

Great! Good luck with the flashing!

[@PGPLAYS99]

Just discovered your channel yesterday. Great stuff, learning a lot..

[@HomeSight]

Hi Brian, only been going for 3 weeks! I'm glad you've found it useful. I have lots more to show yet!

[@tonlemmen5000]

thank you for the video, it worked

[@HomeSight]

Great, glad it worked for you!

[@kellanstevens]

Just found your channel and I’m sooo happy I found it!! Love all your videos, you pretty much have every video I’ve always wanted talking about HA and sonoff stuff, etc. Keep up the good work😊

[@HomeSight]

I’ve got another one in the making at the moment in my Node Red Masterclass. If there’s anything specific you want then let me know on here and I’ll try and sort it! Thanks for watching.

[@kellanstevens]

@@HomeSight Thanks! I don’t think there’s much else, maybe custom RGB effects? If possible specifically for yeelight RGB strips, and/or setting up duckdns for remote access of HA. That would be much appreciated 😁

[@HomeSight]

DuckDNS is certainly on the list. I have one due on a simple RGB strip using a Shelly RGBW and node red.

[@kellanstevens]

@@HomeSight awesome can’t wait to see 😁

[@HomeSight]

Thanks!

[@MrBobWareham]

That's it then say goodbye to EweLink and China, nice and hopefully much quicker when my front door goes I get notified 10 minutes later that the door has been opened so I am looking forward to the next video

[@HomeSight]

Thanks Bob!

[@ChrisHolst]

Your link for the windows flasher need a lot of explanation... it seems to want to flash something called NodeMCU onto the device rather than Tasmota, and figuring out how to change its mind about that is a bit beyond me.

[@HomeSight]

Hi! NodeMCU is a device type rather than a firmware. You need to download the firmware as I show in the video. Sorry if it wasn’t clear!

[@mattwild5066]

I think I just fried my RF Bridge. My fault but to anyone else doing this, make sure the jumper is set to 3.3V on the serial converter - mine wasn't!

[@MrBobWareham]

oops did you get the blue smoke that you cant put back? I changed mine I soldered mine so it can't be changed and marked it 3v3 and I have another one marked 5v

[@HomeSight]

Good shout Bob! That smoke is incredibly difficult to re-insert!!

[@tommacpherson2646]

I think I have also made this mistake, were there any obvious signs that the device is bricked? Mine still has lights etc. but the NODEMCU Programmer just seems to be hanging at "Note:Begin find ESP8266."

[@krisdouglas6536]

hi thanks great videos again. Im just setting up my smart home and waould like to avoid buying multiple things that get replaced. I have heard the Boradlink RF is very good, can operate tv etc, would i still need this Sonoff bridge ? do you own the Braodlink rf ? any advise appreciate please :) or maybe a video on it :)

[@NB-pp9ou]

My Sonoff bridge arrived to day - ordered after discovering your channel last week!! Need to now order the FT232RL and some leads(Probably will order a breadboard kit) My question is my Mac has USB-C/ Thunderbolt 3 ports do I need a USB port convertor? and any suggestions of what type? Many thanks in advance

[@HomeSight]

Man, I should be taking a commission on this stuff!! That’s great, I guess you can just use a USB C to USB mini cable, if you have one of those, or just usb C to USB A (female). I’m glad I’ve helped!

[@NB-pp9ou]

@@HomeSight Definitely should off had affiliates links in the description! Liking the channel a lot, its all very well explained, perfect for a noob such as myself. Loving the 'honey im home' at 10:34... or at least I think that's what was said!

[@HomeSight]

Yeah, I really should! Just doing it for fun at the moment though.

[@tikemyson1679]

Hello. Thank you for the video. May i ask if this device is compatible with non sonoff pir sensors? I have a few of them. It seems like it does not send encoded radio signals, so i think it should work. What is your opinion?

[@HomeSight]

Hi, I have a sonoff RF pir which works absolutely fine with it. Thanks for watching.

[@geertlauwers176]

@@HomeSight i8i8iv

[@teddyruxpin3811]

I bought a Sonoff RF bridge but it looks completely different than the one in your video. Mine has a white external case and the board has a very different pin layout. Any suggestions?

[@SietseLammers]

Same here!

[@ericc1214]

I curious why some of the videos (pinkywafer) show cutting traces and soldering two jumpers - and yours doesn't. Do you know why that would be required?

[@HomeSight]

Hmm, I’m not sure. Possibly to ground out to stop the boot, but the holding of the reset button does the same thing I think! It certainly worked for me and has done on quite a few of these devices.

[@ericc1214]

@@HomeSight I think the modification that pinky wafer is doing has it using ESP home instead of tasmota. And I think ESP home is using a different set of outputs to trigger the transmitter and receiver. I like the direct integration of ESP home with home assistant instead of having to use mqtt

[@pictureright969]

Thanks, how do I switch off the sonoff bridge without powering down? It is working as an alarm that cannot be put off which is a pain, when I am home or has to keep going off because I am there, unplugging the unit doesn't sound right, what should I do

[@HomeSight]

Hi, how are you activating the alarm output? Personally I would do this using a node red flow and check to see if I was home before activating the output...

[@pictureright969]

@@HomeSight you mean ignore the notification if at home?

[@pictureright969]

@@HomeSight I am testing the unit before installing, at the moment it is a pain

[@HomeSight]

I’m not sure I fully understand, are you suggesting you want to use it as an alarm? I assumed you had an input I.e. door contact which you are using to set off an alarm. Is that right?

[@MrBobWareham]

Hi, thanks for the video I have subscribed to your channel I hope you can help I have a Wemose D1 mini and want to use Tasmota on it will this app do the job please thanks? if yes can you do a video on it please

[@HomeSight]

Hi, it’s like you’ve read my mind! I’m literally doing a video at the moment getting tasmota onto a nodeMCU. It’s the same procedure for a D1. Hoping to release it tomorrow.

[@schillaci5590]

The Feb 2022 update changed a lot of things with regards to the binary sensor definition. This video is no longer valid for new versions

[@felipevfontes]

@Underlyingglitch Idk what is happening I've posted the reply twice and it is getting deleted. Well I hope u see this: I've managed to make it work! Ive received the FT232R module and at firtst it did not work. I had to manually install the windows drivers. Then it showed the same behavior of my other USB to TTL converter (HW-597) it was stuck on connecting, alternating from ... to ____. Then I was exploring the driver settings on windows device manager and I noticed that by default it was set to 9600 bps and flux control to "none". I changed it to 115200 and flux control to hardware and it worked!. I wonder if my other USB to TTL is fine and the problem was that configuration. Well I won't test now because I've already tasmotized my rf bridge

[@ianmcneilly2906]

I followed your instructions everything good as far as the HA connection.I get Connect failed to core-mosquitto:1883, same user name and password in HA ,anything special to set in options on HA.

[@HomeSight]

Have you setup the user in home assistant?

[@ianmcneilly2906]

Went to configuration users and added mqtt_user, did a restart on tasmota bridge but still the same ,I flashed ver 9.3.0.

[@HomeSight]

Is there any errors in the log for mosquito?

[@ianmcneilly2906]

Thanks for the reply, errors are as follows: ERROR: [ERROR] Auth error with mqqt_user 1614348411: Socket error on client , disconnecting. 1614348531: New connection from 172.30.32.1 on port 1883. 1614348531: Socket error on client , disconnecting. 1614348651: New connection from 172.30.32.1 on port 1883. 1614348651: Socket error on client , disconnecting , I had a typo in the config file but have fixed it and restarted mqtt and tasmota and where 172.30.32.1 comes from I dont know should I delete mqtt and start again?

[@ianmcneilly2906]

172.30.32.1 comes from my docker address

[@ohepay7343]

i cannot install the flashing tool.. cant download the dmg file

[@HomeSight]

Are you using a Mac?

[@ohepay7343]

@@HomeSight yes I am using Mac. Btw am not technical at all.

[@wangouthangout]

Word of warning this bricked my rf bridge, if you can upload tasmota with another program do it

[@HomeSight]

I'm really sorry to hear that! it's the first time I've heard of this happening, but I guess is always a possibility. I assume you've tried re-flashing again since?

[@wangouthangout]

@@HomeSight It's totally fried, won't establish a connection at all now, I've tried uploading tasmota via arduino ide just to see and nada. TBH it's my fault, I knew this might happen it's the third board I've bricked with that pyflasher. Never using it again.

[@underlyingglitch926]

Mine isn’t dead, if I flip the switch back to normal position it still works with the ewelink software as if nothing changed. I can’t get it to connect to the pc. At first I made the mistake to connect TX to TX and RX to RX, but after switching that it still won’t work. It’s stuck at Connecting….

[@felipevfontes]

@@underlyingglitch926 mine is stuck at connecting too... idk what to do

[@underlyingglitch926]

@@felipevfontes Good to know I’m not the only one. All I read online were success stories, so I kinda felt like an idiot. I noticed I wasn’t using the same serial interface as the one shown in the video. I ordered the exact same model, so hopefully that will help me to flash the device. I’ll keep you posted but it takes a few days to ship. In case I forget, be sure to remind me!