Tuya Wifi Irrigation Timer

[mjeshurun (Miki Jeshurun)]

Hi Friends,

Can anyone tell me if OpenHAB 4.1.3 can control this type of 2 zone wifi irrigation timer?

I can see that it’s compatible with the Tuya app, but I’m not sure if OpenHAB can control it.

I hope someone can help

[JimT (jimtng)]

Most likely you can do it via tuya-mqtt or try the tuya binding

Tuya devices to Openhab via MQTT - a working solution (without flashing)!

Dear OH-community, I found several postings about adding tuya devices to OH. Thanks to @tsightler finally there is a working solution now. Tom rewrote his whole code with some modifications on the underlaying TuyAPI. One of the highlights here is the easy naming (device names instead id’s) and the OH-friendly path (for example: if you have a power strip with multiple outlets, you can access the mqtt-topic easily by tuya/powerstrip/dps/2/state). Please note that the underlaying TuyAPI doesn’t …

GitHub - smarthomej/addons: SmartHome/J addons for openHAB

Alternatively, you can flash it with tasmota or esphome and connect it to openhab using mqtt. This is what I did with mine. I have 3 1-zone controllers around the house.

[mjeshurun (Miki Jeshurun)]

Thank you very much, @JimT
Aliexpress should have free returns on this item, so I think I’ll order it to check.
And if it doesn’t work, I’ll just return it.

[JimT (jimtng)]

This is the one that I use. I bought 4 of them. 3 are in use, 1 for spare. I flashed them with esphome but you can use tasmota if that’s what you prefer.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/32985685144.html

I ordered them in December 2021, and so far they’re still working.