Esphome to Tasmota

markj

Hi all, I purchased some esphome plugs a while ago and I now need them to be on Tasmota firmware. Is there a way of swapping this over. Thanks

boathead71

Hi Mark.

Yes there is a way to migrate from ESPHome to Tasmota. I have just done this on all my ESP Plugs due to the device running out of space with the New Versions of ESPHome. But please be carefull. I did brick 2 of my devices. THIS IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. But on the plus side, this did give me a device to work with and Flash Via Serial to ensure the process before I went onto any more.

I did speak to Adam and he will be doing a Video on this at some point.

So the process I Finally followed is below.

Enable the Web Server on ESPHome
Download from Tasmota, the current Tasmota Lite version tasmota-lite.bin.gz (PLEASE READ NOTE BELOW)
Open the Web UI and in the OTA Update browse to the tasmota-lite.bin.gz file and click Update. The device will reboot
On your mobile device you should be able to a Wifi Network. Join this and add in your Wifi Details.
Once the device is on the network. You should be able to browse to the device. (The Device will start with the Lite Firmware)
You can now proceed to load the device via the full Tasmota Firware and Follow Adams Video to confgure the Tasmota device.

(DO NOT USE THE MINIMAL VERSION AS IT IS NOT DESIGNED FOR INITIAL FIRMWARE. USING THIS WILL BRICK THE DEVICE)

Thanks
Nathan.

Shifter

boathead71 I did brick 2 of my devices.

Thanks for the steps. Did you brick 2 using the minimal firmware or did one go with the lite firmware?
LB is out of Tasmota plugs so I have ordered some ESP ones to probably covert across.

markj

Thanks Nathan,

I have already connected this to my wifi, and have a ip address now on my local router range. How do i enable web server?
as a example my ip is now 192.168.1.52:80.
If i have to default the wifi back how do i then do this? the instructions only show for tasmota not esp

Mark

boathead71

Hi Mark,

To confirm the device are still ESPHome or you updated to tasmota. ?

For ESP you will need to add them to ESPHome and enable the Web Server First.
For Tasmota. You should just be able to browse to the IP Issued by your router.

You could install the Tasmota intergration on HA to scan the network. Or there a tool for the Phone.

Thanks

Matt_Brothwell

As a first time flasher( ohh err), i wanted to add a bit more info (in bold) to the steps given to help other first timers out.

Follow the Guide to connect your ESPHome device to your Wireless network (https://blog.mylocalbytes.com/kb/2023-11-09/getting-started-with-esphome).
Enable the Web Server on ESPHome. This seemed to be enabled as default on my plug (batch:2023-10, LB-PLUG-PM-UK-ESP).
Download from Tasmota, the current Tasmota Lite version tasmota-lite.bin.gz (PLEASE READ NOTE BELOW)
Open the Web UI and in the OTA Update browse to the tasmota-lite.bin.gz file and click Update. The device will reboot.
On your mobile device you should be able to a Wifi Network. Join this and add in your Wifi Details.
Once the device is on the network. You should be able to browse to the device. (The Device will start with the Lite Firmware)
You can now proceed to load the device via the full Tasmota Firmware and Follow Adams Video to confgure the Tasmota device. There are many .bin files but tasmota.bin worked for me and is stated as the recommended .bin in the release notes.

(DO NOT USE THE MINIMAL VERSION AS IT IS NOT DESIGNED FOR INITIAL FIRMWARE. USING THIS WILL BRICK THE DEVICE).

Updating the device template from sonoffbasic to ‘LocalBytes PM’.
Details on this can be found here https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Templates/#importing-templates or here https://blog.mylocalbytes.com/kb/2023-02-01/refs-wifi-smart-plug#templates.
When copying the information from the localbytes blog, make sure you do not miss the opening { (i did, a few times….) otherwise the device will not update to the correct template, i’ll add it here for ease:
{“NAME”:“LocalBytes PM”,“GPIO”:[0,0,0,32,2720,2656,0,0,2624,320,224,0,0,0],“FLAG”:0,“BASE”:18}

Hope this helps.

RebeccaH

Hi all, thanks for the helpful info! We have now published a video explaining the process in case it helps!