Hey guys! Would really appreciate some help. I can't get the SmartLife app to show power consumption for my circuit breakers, live or recorded. The devices are sold as "24h power monitoring".
The product page in Amazon shows the live stats on the devices screen in the app (which I don't get) and the Electricity tab (don't have that either).
Any ideas?
Thanks!
I have a Tuya P101 AI device I want to hand off to someone equipped to crack it open and hunt for a root shell or identify the MCU.
This device operates like a cheap cloud-tethered smart speaker: it handles wakeword locally but offloads all heavy STT/LLM processing to the Tuya cloud. Because of this, it's probably running a standard cheap MCU (like a Beken or Realtek) rather than a complex Arm/Linux stack.
Software-side OTA exploits are patched out on these newer Tuya SDKs. I'm looking for someone with a logic analyzer and a soldering iron who wants to pop the shell, find the UART pads, dump the firmware, and see if the hardware can be liberated for local I2S audio streaming.
I'll cover shipping from Massachusetts for an established hacker. If you want to take this on, please email djbclark [at] gmail [dot] com and include "free p101" in the subject line. When you write, please include a sentence or two regarding your level of expertise, your prior hardware reversing work, and your current time availability.
Source / More technical context on the Tuya SDK limitations: https://github.com/tuya-cloudcutter/tuya-cloudcutter/issues/901
Does this make sense?
I had my dishwasher on a tuya smart socket for a very long time and the socket from a connectivity and "functionality" perspective continued to work without issue (i.e. could control it). However my dishwasher started to behave funny, such that it would power itself off (as if going into a safe mode) whenever it tried to heat up water (large power draw, but within limits of the socket) (this is after years of it working without a problem). Per the switch it was still active and powered on. But the dishwasher just was having issues. Plugged it directly into wall and it went away.
It confuses me a bit as I'd think the power delivery part of it would simply be a stupid relay (i think that's the term) with the smarts controlling if the relay was open or closed. So while I could imagine the smart part dying (as has happened to some of my tuya light switches) I'm a bit more confused on this failure mode.
Does it make sense? Can one explain to me why this might occur.