[BK7231N / CBU] Tuya S06 IR Blaster S06_CBU_V1.3: Flashing OpenBK7231T_App 1.17.116 on Linux

Hey folks! I am happy to join your community!
Recently bought 3 pcs S06 IR blasters from temu.com with the hope of them being ESP8266 based, as all the experience I had so far was with Tasmota and ESP based hardware.
To my surprise, the devices were something I have never seen before - BK7231N, CBU module. This is how I got here!

The PCB version is S06_CBU_V1.3. Judging by the replies from others in similar threads, this is the most recent version. I read the README.md in the github repositories and managed to flash one of the devices with the latest version of OpenBK7231T_App (1.17.116) using hid_download_py on Linux using the following command:


I used the unpopulated capacitor holes to jam two jumper wires for 5V VCC and GND (lazy and dangerous, I know) and tapped two little wires on the RX1 and TX1 pins. This allowed me to flash the device with very little soldering and without using a 3.3V (as I was too lazy to find a proper regulator and build a breadboard circuit).

So far so good. By reading the forums and experimenting with the GPIO finder I came up with the following peripherals layout:

I find this rather important to share with others, as the pins for other device versions are different.
Both IRRecv and IRSend work as expected.
I came up with a little startup command to add fail-safe behavior to the button on the back of the device:

This enables you to press the button 3 times in a row and trigger the AP mode to be able to reconfigure the device's wifi settings in case of connection failure.

Will add a template as a reply as soon as I get a thread ID.

My question to the developers is:
Is there any hope of one day having a command similar to IRHVAC in Tasmota where you can essentially build the IR packet using human-readable values for mode and temperature? This could help greatly with using OpenBK IR blasters for AC control.



Added after 6 [minutes]:

S06_CBU_V1.3 template:

Thank you for the device review/template. The IR library update is being worked on currently. Have you seen this pull request?
https://github.com/openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T_App/pull/723

Yeah, but I didn't see any mention of functionality similar to the IRHVAC command. Only raw hex packets.

I’d also like to note that I did a swap with esp32-c3-c05 since I needed irhvac. But I noticed irsend for irhvac works intermittently compared to esp8266 which is a bit odd (tasmota issue)

Is the pinout and form factor identical or do you need to make some modifications for this to work? Also, a useful tip for IRHVAC, make sure to add few repeats. This usually resolves the issue with transmitting.