New Tasmota build intended for distribution with tuya-convert

Greetings!

I bring you a feature request/demand.

Tasmota devs have built a new special binary intended for first flash with tuya-convert. It is available on http://thehackbox.org/tasmota/sonoff-tuya.bin.

After a successful flash we recommend using command reset 5 to completely erase the flash completely and remove any remnants of the factory firmware. Afterwards apply a corresponding template and enjoy.

tl:dr Could you add this binary instead of the sonoff-basic.bin one in tuya-convert?

[kueblc]

Happy to coordinate, respectfully of course. We’re all volunteers here 😃

That said, thank you for your added effort to support tuya-convert users. It goes above and beyond the call of duty and it shows.

[andrethomas]

Just to note not to get too fixed on the naming convention - I plan to change it to sonoff-wifiman.bin since the binary serves two simple purposes.

1. Disable all the drivers for all types of things one would not expect in a tuya device which has the result that it decreases the binary size making it possible to flash OTA without using an intermediate as would be required for the standard sonoff.bin binary.

2. Change the default behaviour of the wifi configuration so that if the device is reset to factory defaults it would automatically go into wifi manager mode instead of just continuously trying to connect whatever (possibly incorrect) wifi settings were found in the settings structure.

As these are introductory changes made to try and assist people who are using tuya devices there are no immediate plans to make a release available for this but the scripts are already in place to perform the development binary builds.

I understand the frustrations associated with trying to co-ordinate changes on different projects each sharing their own ideas and have their own github pages and such - That being said its important to remember that everyone is part of the same open-source community and although emotions do come into play at times one needs to take a principled approach to what will yield the best outcome for the users of the open-source projects - without the users we’d all still be coding our own little private pieces of firmware in our basements (wish I had one of those) 😃