Help needed: how to connect and use a Brennenstuhl Smart Plug

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I just received a Brennenstuhl Smart Plug board. It supports 2.4 GHz WiFi and comes with it’s own iOS app, installing it is quite straight forward.

Now I want to embed this device in my OpenHab system. But there is no binding, it seems there is also no documentation available from Brennenstuhl, so I am quite lost how to integrate and use this device with OpenHAB.

By now I only managed to connect the device using the http binding, but am stuck there …

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What’s the web ui look like?

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missed to mention that - I was also not able to connect to any web ui

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Ah. shame on Brennenstuhl…

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indeed: https://service.brennenstuhl.com/hc/de/articles/8858294524829-Gibt-es-für-die-brennenstuhl-Connect-Produkte-eine-Anwendung-für-den-Computer

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Based on this Home Assistant thread, I think it’s just a a Tuya device. So, you can use the SmarthomeJ Tuya binding.

Install the SmarthomeJ marketplate:

Then install the binding and follow the directions to set up a Tuya cloud project.

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thanks for this hint. Tried it, also installed the Smart Life app (another app I didn’t want to have), but neither searching for nor manually installing the Brennenstuhl device with it did work. It seems though the Brennenstuhl app is kind of a branded version of the Smart Life app, so I guess the basic assumption that this is just a Tuya device is correct. But seems Brennenstuhl did - intentionally or not, who knows - something so that only their app works with their device.

Anyhow, this is all totally against what I want to have - well, what I actually do have since years with my OpenHab instance - so I decided to give up on this device and continue working with hardware that natively works with OpenHAB.

Thanks everyone for your support!

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