Sonoff and Home Assistant (Best $5 light automation)

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Sonoff in itself is a great outlet and can be use independently with the useful app. But to unlock its true potential, you can flash custom firmware and connect it to your Home Assistant configuration.

Hardware Prerequisites:

Sonoff outlet itself (£5 – £8)
FTDI to upload firmware – this is to upload firmware
Mini usb cable – to connect to FTDI
Extension lead – you can use existing lead if you have it around
Connectors – to connect FTDI to Sonoff
Windows PC

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1. Install and configure Arduino IDE

Arduino IDE is a tool that will allow you to modify and upload firmware to Sonoff

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b) Go to Arduino IDE folder and create “portable” folder
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http://arduino.esp8266.com/versions/2.4.0/package_esp8266com_index.json
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2. Download and customise Sonoff Firmware

Open https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/releases
Save as Source code (zip)
Open and extract the files. I did it in my Arduino IDE folder.

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This is how your Sonoff will communicate with Home Assistant. If you don’t have this installed (it takes 5 min) follow this guide from Ben
In the same “user_config.h” file enter the IP address, port, username and password for MQTT server

2. Time to flash!

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[/et_pb_cta][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row custom_padding=”10px|20px|0px|20px” custom_margin=”|||” padding_right_1=”20px” padding_left_2=”10px” module_class=” et_pb_row_fullwidth” _builder_version=”3.22.3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” width_tablet=”100%” width_last_edited=”on|desktop” max_width=”100%” max_width_tablet=”100%” max_width_last_edited=”on|desktop” make_fullwidth=”on”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.92″ text_font=”Open Sans||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”|||30px”]a) Unpack your Sonoff and open up the box to expose for connection with FDTI
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See picture on the right of how to find the hole in Sonoff and connection with FTDI
On FTDI the correct holes will be annotated
Notice that you need to cross connect TX and RX cables

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3. Customise Shit out of it!

If you entered your correct Wifi SSID and Password your sonoff will connect automatically
Alternatively, you can use WPS to connect to wifi. To do it, press “WPS” on your router and press the button on outlet 5 times after you plugged it in. That is it.

This is only needed if you want to change any config for your Sonoff
Go to your router admin panel (usually 192.168.1.1) and go to attached devices or something similar.
You will see one of the new devices which will have sonoff in its description
Alternatively you can use any of the ip scanners in your phone.

Go to your favourite browser and enter the IP address you just identified
You will see the web interface where you can change settings including MQTT server details

Go to your configuration.yaml file and enter the following code:

switch: 
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "OneExtra"
    icon: mdi:camera
    command_topic: "cmnd/sonoff8/power"
    state_topic: "stat/sonoff8/POWER"
    qos: 1
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    retain: trueextra

zwave:
usb_path: /dev/ttyUSB0

zha:
usb_path: /dev/ttyUSB1
database_path: /config/zigbee.db

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