SuperHouse #37: Installing Tasmota using Tasmotizer
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Installing Tasmota onto a device such as a Sonoff is usually done using esptool.py, which is a powerful command line utility but it can be a bit confusing if you're not used to it. Now it's been paired with an amazing graphical interface called Tasmotizer that gives you point-and-click convenience, and adds some handy features for configuring your devices.
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The real power of this GUI is definitely the second part. Really good especially if you do it several times
Thanks Jon. Between this, your flashing tool and a few new Sonoffs adding to a basic "smart" home system is now so much easier.
There is a new board layout of the Sonoff Basic controller. The serial pins are in a different location. They are along the outer edge of the board next to the LED. HOWEVER, the pin outs are clearly labelled, so after I solder in the 4 way header the overall process is the same. I successfully flashed version 2.7.4.5 of tasmota.bin . I am an *extremely* happy camper. THANK YOU!
Love the outrun style graphics . Great tool. Your previous instructions were clear enough to get esp took working. This just makes it a whole lot easier.
Awesome, not seen Tasmotizer before, will definitely be downloading it next time I need to install Tasmota!
Looks like an additional weapon in the 8266 arsenal, ESPTools gets to be the backbone in a lot of ESP IDE's for the programming side. great video.
Just received some new sonoff devices, going to try this today. Thankx for the nice and detailed video as always
This is just bunch of awesomeness and greatness putting in an easy tool to use and presented by a fabulous video/demo. REALLY thank you and much appreciated.
great video, got my stack of sonoff POW tasmotized and lan to wifi access enabled, Happy Days
I've only been using header pins. Never soldered. It works.
Nice. I used to do this via a script that sent serial commands to the device after flashing, but Tasmotizer looks a little more friendly.
Thanks
Wow, this is nice! If nothing else, it seems like a really easy way to fetch and install the latest version of tasmota code. It would be nice if there was some preferences/template for, e.g, your WiFi and MQTT information that's common. Maybe you can stuff that into the template string or something? Thanks for the pointer to this software, and I especially appreciate that it's cross-platform and works on macOS.
You could use a program like Termite to open a terminal and configure it with that after it's flashed but still connected to your pc, i have commands to set ssid and password in a txt file and just copy paste it in the terminal. i'm sure you could find the commands to do the same for mqtt in the tasmota wiki.
Neat idea to use the mac address as the topic for mqtt.
Great! I have been doing the same using Termite and a BackLog commands that I can also give it a static IP if i wanted and everything almost the same BUT the Template, I needed to setup the Template myself after I get the IP and login to the device thta is already on my Wifi network.
Hi Jon. Have now done a couple of Sonoff Basic's without any problem, but with power on, the LED's flash at 3sec intervals. Is there a way of having this revert to lit with switch "On and not lit with switch "Off"
What was the sticky stuff you used on the header pins to hold them while soldiering? Right now I just use little alligator clips to hold them in place before the first pin is soldered.
It's sold here as "Blu Tack", normally used to attach posters to walls. I don't know what it's called in other parts of the world. I think it's called "poster putty" in the USA.
@@SuperHouseTV No issues with high heat exposure?
@@smitty1245 - In my experience it gets a bit soft with soldering heat, but haven't had any fumes or smoke
@@smitty1245 Johnnie is right, it gets soft if you let it get hot, and it can become stringy and sticky. I commonly use it in situations like headers with plastic bodies, where I can put it between the body and the PCB and not have any contact with the metal pins or pads. Even then it's ok (I've seen people use it to hold through-hole parts in place, for example) but you have to let it cool down before you remove it, otherwise it leaves a mess.
Hi Jon. I've been using Tasmotizer now for a while (thanks for the video), but I am facing an issue that is driving me crazy.
I have 6 Sonoff t3us3c - touch switch - and the original FW never worked. I flashed tasmota to one of them (minimal.bin) and the blinking light never came up. I've tried other BIN's and I always get MD5 of file does not match data in flash!
Am I doing something wrong?
thanks
Hola amigo, sabes si se puede guardar una copia del firmware original que viene de fabrica?
Are those QR codes on your parts bins?
Super Cool. Thanks. I tried to run a 4 foot fluorescent light off the sonoff basic but it never worked. I had to use the wemos / Belkin socket. I guess the light sucked more than 10 Amps. Oh well.
There's no way that a fluoro tube should use more than 10A! That would be a crazy amount of power for a light. There must have been something else going on with the Sonoff.
@@SuperHouseTV I tried 3 different Sonoffs. I had to revert to the WeMo 15 Amp. I know. It's strange. Love your vids.
Is there no mechanism for storing the WiFi and MQTT credentials and having them 'blown' automatically, as an option?
The vast majority of people will only have one network and one broker, I would think.
I'd love that too. There's a new release of Tasmotizer coming this weekend with additional features, and I think this is a likely feature soon. My opinion is that it should store whatever values you put into the settings screen automatically, without needing a save button or anything like that. Just make them persistent.
Until that, I've found it very easy have a saved backlog command with some standard settings. Can be issued via console, http, MQTT or serial.
What console are you using on the MAC?
Hi mate
Can you flash a hubitat the same way?
Another great video.
I would love to play around with this sort of thing but I can't help wondering what the ramifications for house insurance are for connecting these sorts of devices to your home wiring. I'd be surprised if Sonoff gear has the appropriate Australian (and therefore NZ where I live) certification. Here you wouldn't get a legit electrician to connect non-certified gear and insurance companies really do not like unqualified home owners mucking around with electrics and would likely use that as an excuse for not paying out on any electricity related claims such as a short burning down your house.
You can buy approved smart switches in AU/NZ. Trader's Powermesh, M-Elec's Stichty or Deta's Smart Grid are 3 that I know of that any electrician should be able to install with yourself setting up the automation.
@@TradieTrev Thanks, I hadn't heard of those. I'll check them out.
@@TradieTrev wow. $200 aus for 1 gang light switch. Do these even work with home assistant?
Nice, but we still need to do the backlog, and we got a tons of esptool based flashers. But adding a horse to the race doesn't hurts. Everyone has its favorite, I'm stuck with platform.io
Hello, how are you ? I'm from Brasil. I saw your video on how to insert the Tasmota image in Sonoff Basic. That adapter you made, would you sell me a model? If not, how many parts are needed to assemble one? Thank you.
Thanks Jon. I had some trouble installing this on Linux - ran into this error: github.com/tasmota/tasmotizer/issues/15. I use pyenv - looks like it was just my pip was a bit old, so I just ran pip install --upgrade pip and ran pip install again and everything was fine.
That's a good point. I've revised the guide page with more detailed instructions, including upgrading Pip before installation.
I've got a weird issue, that I haven't seen before, with an Arilux LC-06 LED controller that I've tried to put Tasmota on. I have three of them in total and two are working perfectly with Tasmota flashed, and I can access them in a browser, with no issues. The third one is where I have a problem. I can flash it, and can add my SSID info with both termite commands and through the "normal" method with a phone etc. The unit shows up on my wireless network, with IP address etc, as if all is good, but no matter what I do, I cannot connect to it with a browser. I tried ESPurna, which works perfectly, but I prefer Tasmota. Anyone have any ideas?
@8:06 I see the Sonoff L1 is listed.
But I can't find any information on how to flash that controller. Have you seen anything about the L1?
prolly the same as any other esp device, locate the 3.3v, gnd, tx and rx pads on the bottom, solder wires to them, flash with flashtool, remove wires and done ?
wont it work if you just download tasmotizer ?
Hi. Do you have a solution for flashing Sonoff 4CH Pro R2 with Tasmota and Tasmotizer. I have tried several methods, but nothing works.
Sorry, I don't have a 4CH Pro R2 so I can't test it. When you say "nothing works", what do you mean? Does it upload anything at all? CZcams comments are a difficult place to provide tech support so it may be best to ask the question in the Tasmota Discord, or maybe the SuperHouse Discord.
Hi. Thanks a lot for you're answer.
I've managed to flash it now. But what I mean is that it doesn't work in Samsung SmartThings. I need a Device Handler for this. Do you have any code for Sonoff 4 CH Pro?
Regards
Roy
Man was this a PITA! On top of all the extra money I had to spend and the time to do it, it does not work as a simple thermometer. My TH16 ended up in the trash!
Just used it to upgrade my pool controller (which uses a wemos and tasmoto) worked a treat. While I'm pretty comfortable with pulling code and uploading with platform.io or esptool... this is pretty idiot proof way of doing it - so I'll recommend this to newbies at the hackerspace. Would be nice if it could faciliate actually getting the latest bin file from github (or at least point people at the right place)
By getting the latest bin file, do you mean of Tasmota? It does that already, with options to select either the latest release or the bleeding-edge development package. No need to find or download everything, it happens automatically.
@@SuperHouseTV cool. I totally missed that part!
Hi Jon. Avid follower, but very much a Newbie to this at 83. I got as far as "Successfully installed tasmotizer-1.1.1" and then got stuck. Could you explain the purpose of the next bit ".~ /Library etc" as I can't get Tasmotizer to launch. I have it on my Windows laptop but prefer to keep all this tech on my old Mac 27
I never had luck with tasmotizer. It gets stuck all the time after reaching 100%
Everything just for windows or Tasmotizer for 79$/year on „parallel desktop“. No thanks.👎🏿
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