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New Tasmota Firmware for Sonoff 6.4.x and Home Assistant Discovery

David Williams - DEW IT Home Automation Central Coast January 10, 2019February 6, 2019Home Assistant, MQTT, Sonoff Tasmota 0 Comment

This post is my latest in a series of posts about using Sonoff devices in Home Assistant over MQTT. The main reason for yet another post is that the latest version 6.4.x firmware for Tasmota has changed the way it interacts with Home Assistant MQTT Discovery and there are also some other gotchas with the Arduino Core version used. OK I’ll stop talking jargon real soon I promise and hopefully that will make everything more clear. First though, I’m just going to recap and post links to all my articles on the Sonoff Switches and Tasmota already posted on this

Sonoff Switches with Tasmota and new MQTT Addon Home Assistant

David Williams - DEW IT Home Automation Central Coast December 18, 2018Hass.io, Home Assistant, MQTT, Sonoff Tasmota 0 Comment

Originally posted 2018-11-14 12:41:45. I know I have done a few articles now about Sonoff switches and MQTT in Home Assistant. However a lot has changed – also my understanding has changed and so it’s time for another post about this. I’m also going to take a crack at making a video showing how to flash a sonoff switch with Tasmota. For reference, my previous posts can be found here: Home Assistant Updates May 2018 and Sonoff-Tasmota update How to use a Sonoff Switch with Home Assistant So lets look at the changes in MQTT introduced with the new MQTT

Home Assistant Updates May 2018 and Sonoff-Tasmota update

David Williams - DEW IT Home Automation Central Coast December 18, 2018Home Assistant, Home Automation, MQTT, Sonoff Tasmota 0 Comment

Originally posted 2018-05-21 12:56:29. May 2018 will see the release of the latest version of Home Assistant. Home Assistant has been in ‘beta’ for as long as it has been generally available and it seems it is soon to be going to be released as a real ‘product’ if chat on the support chat forum on discord is to be believed. Home Assistant recently changed the way releases are handled so as to release more stable .0 releases than has sometimes been the case and the accompanying up to 6 ‘dot’ releases to fix errors introduced in the new release.