Wyze Outdoor Plug - Best Home Assistant Bluetooth Proxy? How To

so in that search for something that is the best well always looking for some cool home assistant products and yeah the wise outdoor plug gets us there and the cool part is we can use this as a Bluetooth proxy and yeah we've covered that before and what the Bluetooth proxy is if you don't know exactly is yeah they have all these cool in expensive like Bluetooth little thermometers they got the thermo Pro the switchbot ones and there's even a bunch of like different lights and different stuff for outdoors and that becomes a problem whenever you don't have coverage for Bluetooth Outdoors you know you live in the mcmansion and your home assistant server or pie or whatever it is with the Bluetooth adapters you know down deep in the basement you just can't get that coverage so that's where the developers came out a while back with the whole Bluetooth proxy thing and all that really is is it just in layman's terms is you can put a device EI like a not MCU esp32 or different plugs that have ESP home on them and it just listens for that Bluetooth data and it forwards it over WiFi or either net over to your home assistant system so yeah you can already see you can put one of these which is an outdo rated plug put it in the backyard you can pick up sensors like say soil sensors in thef Garden or whatever it may be you can extend all that Bluetooth coverage with Bluetooth proxies so we're going to show you in this video how to put ESP home on this wise outdoor plug because why is it the best well it's a double relay I mean there's two plugs on it has power monitoring there's even a lux sensor so you can see how much light is out there you got buttons it's an ESP 32 there's a killer little antenna inside and the best best part is there's pads ready for us to install ESP home and you can do it with no soldering and yeah I've even seen these on woot and some other different sites for down like $8 us that's stupid nuts for this device here I think they go normally around $15 I can see see them in like Home Depot and stuff like that now if you already done stuff with Bluetooth proxies and everything and you just want to hang out and learn some other stuff I'll cover some stuff in in the vid into the video as well so how are we going to do this without any soldering it's yeah there's not an over theair exploit at this time I don't expect them to be but the cool part is you can just open this with a screwdriver and then we'll use a BDM frame and know that's not some crazy sexual term but these are just little pins and you'll just put them on the pads there's no soldering you still can solder if you want it's stupid simple and so yeah let's get to it and get started so the first thing is really the plug itself they do have the little rubber pieces I've already pulled them out they're just little rubber plugs that go on the screw holes and yeah get yourself a decent little screwdriver you know this is going to be those different Little Triangle little bits my son got me this for Christmas a good while back and I've used the hell out of it it's an iix IT kit and yeah it's so nice to have a nice little kit when you're working on different things I'll leave all the links down to things below you don't have to get this expensive kit you can just get some other little drivers that have the triangle bits then use a screwdriver or a little spudger and pull the back door off of this thing and it's almost like they made this to be open by us because because check this out they have this little waterproof or I guess weatherproof little door on there easy to open up and get to the glory of the esp32 right there inside for us to get to we're going to be looking at these pads right here and you've got the ground TX RX if we can get that other one there with the shadow it says Boot and then the 3v3 pad right tucked up under there on the very top of the frame now if you want to solder this thing go right ahead it's a solid bet he going to get it done you don't have to pull the board out of here unless you really really want to but we're going to be using those BDM pins from that frame just to put the little pins on those pads and that's it you could actually put them around the edge of the ESP module but we're not have needing to do that because they broke them out for us already now you can see The Cool Little frame right here that is that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth antenna it's not that regular little PCB antenna so you're going to get a little better gain out of this thing and they did that because they knew people were going to be putting these Outdoors or Wi-Fi coverage might not be the greatest but we can benefit from that having that Bluetooth scanning on that additional I got like bigger ears kind of you're going to need a USB TTL adapter and this is simp simply has a usba a plug on it go on your computer and then it breaks down to the pins for 3v3 ground txrx this one has two grounds which is kind of cool unfortunately I believe Amazon did change the listing on this one and the pictures are wrong there's a better one that it's kind of solid it had we call it the little red guy on Discord and I'll leave that link down below now if you want a really really good one is the volt link one and this will probably be the last one that you purchased for a while and this was made by a DIY I think o overseas I think in Romania but I may had that wrong he sells them on tendy and they are quite awesome they even have a little Shelly plug here you can plug in the little adapter to you program all your Shelly devices with oh no soldering as well it has a little pin header and plugs in and the cool thing about this one this one has a really good power supply they say that's 500 milliamps sometimes on these the some of the ftdi ones they do not have enough power to flash the esp32s and you'll just fight with it all day and you may need to use an additional power supply if you have an older device that doesn't supply enough power now I haven't had that issue with this one or the little red guy the other thing I use is a little USB switch it's just a simple onof switch with usba on either side of it and why you say what the hell is this for when when you're wanting to toggle the power on this switch or your flashing devices you don't have to unplug and plug yeah I've been there I did flashing with the old sonoff stuff I did it for years with all that junk and I really kicked myself for not getting one of these earlier so what we're going to do here is set up the frame so all these little BDM pins all they are is going to be a place to to put your Dupont Jumper in the top and then it has a little springloaded Needle on the bottom and you just slide it into the frame and then we'll put it actually on the pad itself it's that simple now I do recommend plugging up your Dupont jumpers and everything and then positioning the actual BDM pins afterwards get everything connected up I'm going to use the little blue guy cuz some of the naysayers out there say yeah you can't flash these things they don't have enough power yeah they do um you don't really need the volt link but I do highly recommend that volt link if you run into issues don't have enough power try a different cable try a different computer maybe that computer doesn't have enough USB power and that's not allowing that esp32 to flash because yeah you may have used the entire setup with esp8266 but this is an ESP 32 and they require more power so what I'm using is I like to use a little Dupont jumper that I soldered and that's my splitter you could just take three wires and just twist them together but I'm not going to do that here I'm going to use my little simple setup and split my ground because you need a ground that goes to gpio Z the or the boot pin on there and then you need it to go to the um ground and the other ground on there as well that's pretty much it once you have your pins and you just set them down on the pads I do remember you're going to be doing TX on the USB TTL to RX so you'll transpose the RX and TX because this one sends out and then this one needs to listen and I'll cover that on some of the stuff on the guide here in a minute so that's pretty much it to you don't do any soldering anything you're just dropping down some pins on the little pads and call it a day let's jump into ESP home and get our software ready to install on this plug so don't forget if you don't feel like sitting through all this crap you can go find the full walkthrough guide on my website I'll leave the link in the video description it is step by step every single thing we've covered like including the pictures and exactly which you really can't do by voice was which way the pins go that was that RX to TX and TX to RX and this is the picture of that little red guy can't seem to find Mine mine's somewhere in my stuff that I've changed over to the whole tub World I'll find it eventually though one thing I did want to note do not feed it 5 volts you will end up smoking your device and you'll have to get another one make sure you do feed it 3.3 volts now if you haven't used ESP home before don't fret it's really simple is if you are the hos users you can go add the ESP home add-on or if you're one of the cool kids with the docker container stuff you just go add the docker container for ESP home it's right there in the instructions from ESP home.io now I've already added it here got it my little sidebar got the add-on done I don't have any devices this is my little test machine we're going to build it all here now we'll go through and we'll hit new device and I'm going to say continue and I want to zoom this in and drive myself nuts so we're going to call this wise outdoor to since I already have one and you will need to put in your SSID for your WiFi and your password do make sure that is correct it's going to store it in a little secrets file for you this really doesn't matter a whole lot but if you want to go through it you can pick esp32 now I don't use the encryption it's kind of a soap box item and some of the Discord deals I don't use it I I'm not using my devices on a public network and so a lot of times I hear people just locking themselves out of their devices by overriding their passwords or forgetting their backups or whatever so I just don't really use it I've got bigger issues if I need encryption of my private Network so we'll hit skip and we're going to hit edit and it's going to see it's already has this kind of generic config for you and you'll notice there's your your secret for your SSID and password so if you're live streaming stuff you won't be sharing your passwords but we're going to overwrite all this crap and so go back to the guide and I have the cool thing down here for you we're here in this section here if you want to just hit this little copy button here and then we'll jump back to ESP home and I'm going to control a and delete and I'm going to paste over all of that and so now I have this complete yo code here now if you do need to tweak some stuff with the amperage or voltage later on you find it's a a little bit in the power monitoring you can update that stuff here now the name of course I called it wise outdoor 2 wise outdoor 2 I'm going over write that myself if you've been around stuff with esp32 you are seeing that I am building this ESP IDF and I'll cover that in the closing of this video and what difference that makes um you can see my otaa and my API don't have a password you can add them if you need them web server I've disabled that is because I've heard several times there's memory issues with it with the BL and the whole power monitoring if you really want to enable it you can but does it work great I do not know you don't need need to change anything else that's more up to you if you want to change anything so really just hit save we're going to go ahead and just for funsies come back and we're going to hit validate and we should get this configuration is valid at that point we're going to hit install and we can't do wirelessly just yet that'll be later down the road if you're going to make changes to ESP home you can just make changes the yamoo hit Wireless and sends it right over this first time we do need to do the manual download I can't use the plugin thing can't if you can use this one you're more than welcome to but I like to use the the manual download and then I'm going to do the modern format you need to use that one it's very important this may take a little bit let it build and yeah it's going to download a bin file to your computer and we'll jump back into send it over to the plug when it's finished and if it doesn't download just a little download button behind me here and uh it'll download that b filed to your computer then of course we're going to f like the links in the guide we will there's two methods if you want to use ESP tool P you're more of a little expert on that I do highly recommend that one because you can see the actual logs on them but hey I know everybody doesn't want to install that stuff so let's jump on over and do the web ESP home.io I have heard of a couple issues and I've also seen it myself where the everything goes through with the web goey but it doesn't boost correctly we're going to try it here this time and see what happens but I've had to use ESP tool pi to get stuff to flash correctly if you do need help with that and you get stuck you can find the Discord link down below and we'll walk you right through that so let's jump on over to the web now before you click connect we need to power up the USB TTL that's where that little USB switch comes into play here or you can just plug it into your computer got our Little Tone If you never used it before or in your windows user or whatever OS you may need to go check your drivers to make sure that cp2102 is loaded Windows users go check your Windows update optional updates and you should see the driver there otherwise you need to go download the install the drivers for it so we'll click connect and yeah you'll see we have that cp2102 here just hit connect on it and I'm going to hit install and I'm going to go browse to that bin file that we just downloaded so we got our y's two make sure it's the factory one you did that with that modern hit install and this is where you cross your fingers if all your little pins are correct you know on the little BDM frame you should get this erasing message if not you going need to cut the power off from the USB TTL reposition your pins do make sure you have RX and TX transposed on both sides and then turn power back on and then give it a shot again hopefully you can get it to do the installing here it's pretty awesome once you do your first one you're going to struggle probably a little bit you know cuz sometimes messing with them little pins it's like that old operation games or whatever kind of Pickup Sticks is kind of a pain at first but once you get the hang of them they'll stick right on those pads with those points of course if you're soldering you know the deal just solder up and rock and roll I'm going to shut my mouth and we're going to jump to 100% Okay so so we got our configuration installed we'll hit close and I'm going to go power this thing up and see if we can get it going now I've had issues with the little blue guy the little red guy different ones with they won't power esp32 but they will flash them it'll get the brown out detector so I'm going to go ahead and pull the pins off we're just going to plug this into Main's power never attach USB wires and attach it to Main's power at the same exact time time disconnect use one or the other now once we powered it back up on Mains just plugged it into the wall look now it's showing online and if you have an issue with mdns and you even you can see the IP address and it actually joined up to your network you can go use an option and add it into here called _ address and you can populate the IP address in that way to always use that address for for you as you can see here I'm using a little custom domain loc stuff hasn't always worked out for me but that's probably a whole different deal that we could get into maybe on a live stream or something one day now I can hit logs Wireless logs and start to see all the stuff it's going to populate and you should see the voltage and the Watts and jump back and forth as it goes through on the device itself so let's go see if home assistant sees it I can already see the notification here and we can say check it out now you can if doesn't come up here you can hit add integration manually and add an ESP home one and just put in that IP address but if it has this hit configure it's not any simpler than that just hit submit it asks you what area finish boom look at this already it's picking up all the different Bluetooth adapters how stupid St awesome is that all the different little indoor outdoor meters all my Thermo Pros I Beacon yes it will fill up your stuff with all kind of crazy devices so I warn you there some ink bird stuff as we just continue to go on BT home that's those little Yami little $5 Bluetooth sensors and as you can see if I really want to add these it's all autois discovery this is the awesome part about the Bluetooth proxy is I just hit configure and yeah I want to set up the meter hit finish boom what else is it adding oh it's adding the uh the blind tilts I think even I have a switchbot lock still it will probably add that but I think you got to add the key for it there um yeah it's puts everything in here so now when we go into we've got switchbot so I've got that blind tilt device I've got got the indoor outdoor temperature sensor sitting there on the desk but hey I could put all this outside if I like and I guess I forgot the real part we can go in and go see what actually the plug is actually doing is you do have the two relays that turn off and on you since it is a smart plug and you've got the amps you got the Lux maybe need to change the Lux into something else I'm just reading the voltage from that lights sensor just so you can see let's take my phone and we'll put the light on it we should see the Lux sensor jump up here I want to say it's under the face I have it only update like every 10 seconds so you can see it jumps up there I think 3.3 is going to be the full you know light I've got a light pretty well blasting into it right there so you can see it it is a analog so it's not just stay on and off you can get a value maybe do some sort of template sensor if you're one of the pros there you get the Watts the volts the whole thing get the restart and the Bluetooth freaking proxy that is awesome I'm sure it's found a ton of other devices while I have been running my mouth so pretty cool stuff there Bluetooth proxy ESP home no soldering stupid simple is that now you're probably already wondering what other devices Bluetooth can I put into home assistant with autois Discovery it's not an exhaustive list but we in Discord have tried a bunch of different things and everything and we've listed them all here you can find them on my website just go to digi.com all the link is down in the video description got all the links for you here to find all the cool devices for autodiscovery right into home assistant all using the Bluetooth proxy how freaking awesome is that yeah we even started listing some incompatible devices too so if you got any other stuff to add to the list you can definitely shoot me a comment down below i' love to hear what everybody else is using on their Bluetooth proxies now one thing I did promise to cover in the end of the video was the ESP IDF is if you've been doing the Bluetooth proxy thing and you got some older Bluetooth proxies take note of this warning that they have in here they actually say now if you can is to build your stuff with ESP IDF framework for the Bluetooth proxy and it will require you to do a Serial Flash and to set the memory partitions up correctly on that device so if you have some other node MCU around you just had hanging off of little power plugs or whatever yeah those going to be stupid simple you plug them in change ESP PF and write the new bin file to it that can be problematic if you have some sealed devices so maybe you don't want to just try to convert those over what you can and just hopefully let them ride like you know say some of those switchbot plugs that we've been using they still work well I've seeing how they going to work out but I don't know so that's going to pretty much covered everything on this one and hopefully you can go find you a cool product such as this little you know outdoor plug or you can leave it indoor as well use it around the house they're awesome little Bluetooth proxies especially when you can get the damn thing for $8 so of course you can find all the links the guide everything down the video description and I do appreciate all the YouTube members and patreon members definitely couldn't do without you and yep y'all know the drill press all them buttons and y'all take care

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Keywords: digiblur, digiblurDIY, home automation, hass.io, hassos, tasmota, esp32, esp8266, arduino, esphome, diy, smart home, electronics, zigbee, wifi, digiblur diy smart plug, esphome bluetooth, bluetooth proxy, best smart plug, extend bluetooth range

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Length: 23min 53sec (1433 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 04 2023