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Support for Techin, Gosund Type Smartplugs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 3:25 pm
by ckeyes888
Great to have a plugin for the very inexpensive smartplugs by Techin, Gosund and others.

Tuya API info: https://github.com/codetheweb/tuyapi

Carl

Re: Support for Techin, Gosund Type Smartplugs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 3:47 pm
by FlyingDiver
This is probably a better start, since it's Python: https://github.com/clach04/python-tuya

Re: Support for Techin, Gosund Type Smartplugs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:05 pm
by jay (support)
FlyingDiver wrote:
This is probably a better start, since it's Python: https://github.com/clach04/python-tuya


Yeah, that's the link I posted in the other thread. Seems to indicate that direct communication (not through the cloud) is possible once the device is initially set up.

Re: Support for Techin, Gosund Type Smartplugs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:12 pm
by FlyingDiver
jay (support) wrote:

Yeah, that's the link I posted in the other thread. Seems to indicate that direct communication (not through the cloud) is possible once the device is initially set up.


With apparently some really ugly setup required to get the auth certificate.

Re: Support for Techin, Gosund Type Smartplugs

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:31 pm
by jay (support)
FlyingDiver wrote:
With apparently some really ugly setup required to get the auth certificate.


It's never sunshine and daisies with the newcomers to the smart home market, is it? No doubt designed by a hardware engineer... :P