Link to alternative project for Tuya

[matejsp]

Since Tasmota will never support RTL8710BN and other Tuya modules, according to documentation it would be nice to link to alternative project that are focused on this. https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Tuya-Convert/

https://github.com/kuba2k2/libretuya
https://github.com/openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T_App

[sfromis]

Docs pages have edit links for people to proprose changes, Wiki-style, nothing to open an "issue" (which is for bugs) about 😄

[zombieregime]

Yeah, its kind of silly all these people who cant wrap their head around the concept that Tasmota was intended to work on ESP based devices, written by someone who (probably) has the most meaningful experience with ESP MCUs, at a time when Tuya was only using ESP chips, and here is the best part, FOR FREE!!!! But because Tuya up and sources a different MCU for their products that means the author and devs of Tasmota deserve to be treated like they are being unreasonable, when the people complaining havent given the slightest consideration towards the difference in architecture, communication buses, or (freaking gasp) learning to code for the other architecture and contributing to the community of jailbreakers they are relying on for the functionality they expect. "Learn something?! I just want this whatsit from that multinational multimillion dollar company that has a vested interest in protecting their business model to be easily reprogrammed and 'just work' from my phone for free in 3 taps or less! AND IF I CANT DO THAT SOMEONE ELSE IS BEING LAZY!!!" Those types of people, most likely (at least thats how they appear to everyone else who bothered to learn something about electronics instead of copypastaing random code on the internet, then demand someone fix it for them since after all they did hold a gun to that persons head and force them to run homebrew code to overwrite the firmware on something that in no way matched the pictures....so its the authors fault.....).

The maker movement has been both blessing and curse. The ridiculously low cost and readily available components these days still makes my head spin. Motorized linear potentiometers were unheard of if you didnt build high end studio mixer boards, now they're 5 for $20 on amazon! Absolutely unbelievable.... And dont get me started on steppers and servos. However the other side of that is now there are tons of people who think they're hot s#!t in a champagne glass because they can plug a few wires into holes, hit ctrl+c, then ctrl+v, and make something move. But since no one has posted a scratch file on git for controlling the thing they just make a insta post with some stupidly inaccurate title and soak in the sycophantic praise for doing a thing while they move on to copying the next 'top 5 (same old garbage) things to do with a raspberry pi', as cold diarrhea in a dixie cup is want to do... I swear every time I see someone hooking up an i2c device up to an arduino which is then hooked up to a serial to USB cable to a RPi which is then accessed over the command line or VNC I wand to freaking scream and kick a kitten. They know so little of what they are doing they cant see how convoluted it all is and are in no way inspired to (at least) translate the arduino C code into python on the rpi because its not in the tutorial. Or freaking plug the serial USB cable into the desktop! (Picard facepalm and grumbles) ... OK, I should stop, but I could circle this point all night......

Yes, I feel strongly about this subject. No, my mind cannot be changed. Also no, I am not fun at parties (anymore).

PS - For the record, I am thankful for the work that has been put into Tasmota. Thumbs up to the original author and all the devs who helped make it better over the years!

PSS - (pre/post-face: all the "you"s in this post have been generalized proverbial colloquial "you"s, not pointed direct "you"s to the thread Im replying under) If you're new and at the point where you're doing convoluted stuff like that last bit, hey its cool. We have all been there. Dont worry about it. But for the love of pasta, experiment, explore, use what you have learned and do something not in a tutorial. And dont be afraid to google command syntax, even seasoned pros still do it to make sure they have the code grammar correct. Just dont stagnate! You can do it, I believe in you!