Flashing MagicHome RGBW without GPIO?

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Advanced firmware to add native Apple HomeKit and custom configurations, compatible with any SoC based on ESP32, ESP32-S, ESP32-C and ESP8266 series. (Shelly, Sonoff, Electrodragon, Tuya...)

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Flashing MagicHome RGBW without GPIO? #1287

Closed brymonster closed 3 years ago

brymonster commented 3 years ago

Hello HAA users. recently received another MagicHome RGBW led controller. unfortunately, on cracking the case to flash, the usual GPIO is missing. instead, there is a "boot" solder pad. I tried using this as I would with GPIO (connect to GND as booting with FTDI) but it has not worked yet. I also tried using both V33 and GND. no joy.

anyone else come across this yet?

duyuelryel commented 3 years ago

There is an RXD and TXD pin, but you must to check if the ic is an ESP, because there is an other version of controller with some strange ic what is not compatible with tasmota!

brymonster commented 3 years ago

You are absolutely correct. It does NOT look like an esp chip. Wow this is going to make it hard to buy MagicHome going forward!

duyuelryel commented 3 years ago

Yes. I got the same from ali. But it's still working nicely and i can make it work with this node. I'm not sure if HA or anything else can discover it. https://github.com/dmamontov/node-red-contrib-magic-home

smibrandon commented 1 year ago

I have realized I have the EXACT SAME controller. Have you found a way to control it directly from HA in the past year-and-a-half, by any chance?