The module supports the new DIY mode from Itead. This is probably a good ideea poorly implemented. The firmware on itself uses a kind of restfull API which is much slower than MQTT and more important Home Assistant does not yet support it (at leas not natively).

The initial version of the DIY mode needed a tiny jumper to be installed on the board itself, but since version 3.5.0 of the Itead’s software there’s no need for the jumper anymore. In order to flash it we need to install a local web server, a basic one (my choice this time was nginx). Being on Ubuntu the installation is very simple:

sudo apt install nginx

Then copy the tasmota firmware in the web folder.

sudo cd /var/www/htmlsudo wget http://thehackbox.org/tasmota/tasmota-lite.binsha256sum tasmota-lite.bin

Remember the sha256sum of the file as it’s needed further.

Here are a few steps, on how to flash Tasmota (Open Source firmware that works very well o...