The COMPLETE Guide to Tasmota 2019

The Hook Up
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Published 2019-08-28
This guide covers everything from flashing your first device to writing advanced rules. Please use the timestamps below to navigate through the video, and link for reference:

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Tasmota Smart Home Hub Integrations: github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/wiki/Integration…
Tasmota Commands: github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/wiki/Commands
Tasmota Rules: github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/wiki/Rules
Blakadder Database: templates.blakadder.com/

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00:00 Intro
01:45 Flashing - OTA
02:30 Flashing - Wired
03:45 Sonoff .bin differences
04:35 Arduino ESP8266 Core Versions
05:30 Flashing - NodeMCU PyFlasher
06:30 WiFi Configuration
07:15 Initial Setup - MQTT
07:45 Finding/Using Templates
09:10 Hub Integrations
09:30 Alexa Integration
10:20 Tasmota Commands
10:40 HTTP Control (sending commands)
11:10 MQTT Control (sending commands)
11:40 Group Topic Usage
12:30 Web Console Control
13:00 Backlog Commands
14:00 Tasmota Rules Engine Usage
15:30 Tasmota Device to Device Control
16:00 Wrap Up

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All Comments (21)
  • @trentbrown3714
    Nicely done! I've been using tasmota on all my sonof devices for a while now, and yet still learned a lot from this tutorial - thank you!
  • @nThanksForAllTheFish
    I've been using Tasmota for a long while and I still learned a lot from this video - thank you!
  • @jayhawkelectrical
    Thank you! The Backlog has saved me hours of googling to get a light to wakeup to a different color!!
  • @guenterk3305
    Thank you. I have spent hours to figure out the basics of using Tasmota. This video is a great summary of that and has given me some pointers of more possibilities - like the rule engine.
  • @jimmyjohansson84
    Great video! I've got a couple of sonoff basics waiting to be used at home and now I finally feel like I understand enough to get to it!
  • @guatagel2454
    I understand how Youtube knows that I need videos about Tasmota. But, how did YOU knew that I needed this video? Thank you!
  • @jamegrabham9992
    Great Video Rob... I have 55 devices in my house with Tasmota... using HA with MQTT... never knew that devices could work without a hub...never understood templates...thanks for all that you do, and in particular this video...:)
  • @brucerawiri7170
    Great video Rob, nice work. Just about to change my sonoff devices to new WLAN. Had some help from one of great guys on Discord. The Home Assistant community is amazing. Thanks Rob
  • @MatSmithLondon
    Another excellent video. You are so good at bringing things together. I already flash devices with Tasmota, but this vid showed me stuff I didn’t know!
  • @johncrunk8038
    Great video. I haven't played with Tasmota for a while, but it looks like it is really moving along.
  • @Smitty3572
    Another great video and straight to the point.
    Keep up the great work.
  • @sidleach1909
    I flashed my first firmware today - a Sonoff TH16 device - based on the information provided in your video. Thank you for an excellent, well-done video explanation of how to accomplish it. Some things have changed, e.g., the bin file is named tasmota.bin instead of sonoff.bin, and the board is different in the latest Sonoff TH16 devices (Ver 2.1). The circuit board now has a fifth pin labeled "EXP-LOG" in addition to VCC, RX, TX, and GND. I had to use a bench power supply (instead of just using the USB port on my iMac) and tweak the voltage up to 3.5V in order to get one of the boards to successfully complete the flash operation. Using NodeMCU PyFlasher as you recommended had the added benefit that I could erase the firmware at the start of each repeated attempt when one device kept aborting midway through the upload of the tasmota firmware; (it took me a dozen attempts to successfully flash that device). I sincerely appreciate your video. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
  • @lunatik9696
    Excellent vids. The time breakdown is fantastic value added :)
  • @ErnestGWilsonII
    Great video! Thank you for making it and sharing it with us! Thumbs up and I am of course subscribed with notifications enabled!
  • @Lazniak
    Thank you for soo cool explanation video. The best and shortest one I found over the youtube. Great work!
  • @Gregori42
    Congratulations, fantastic job.... it was a pleasure to see this video.....
    it would be fantastic if you make a video explaining how to configure in tasmota the timers by web in the Timers Configuration menu ( not by console).