Unrecognized device: Espressif (smart home)

amazania

Hello everyone! I have a device showing up on my router that I do not recognize. It says that it's a smart device called espressif. There is a picture of a cloud going to a house? Does anyone know what this is?

Pooh

espressif is a Chinese Bluetooth\WiFi SoC manufacturer - its products are found in varied SmartThings (IoT) including Security Systems.

VioletChepil

Can you get anymore details from the Device lookup tool we have?
https://community.fing.com/discussion/841/our-new-tool-for-mac-vendor-lookup#latest

VioletChepil

Thanks for that helpful information @Pooh ! 

pcarney53

In my case, by process of elimination, I was able to identify my espressif device as the bluetooth controller to Blink cameras.  It's one specific example of "varied SmartThings (IoT) including Security Systems" in @Pooh answer of 23 October.  In your case, it could be something else similar.  

VioletChepil

Thanks @pcarney53

Soylent

@VioletChepil Do you guys have a method for reporting incorrectly identified devices? For example my "smart" water heater shows up as an iRobot Roomba robot cleaner 😅.

OKC

@Soylent I have a Bully Dog programmer that connects to wifi, downloads a Tune from a tuner, which I take to my truck, plug into the OBD2, flashes the PCM and changes the strategies for variable Valve Timing, fuel injection, etc. Fing recognizes it as a Texas Device / Texas instruments / Ring Doorbell. 

VioletChepil

Hi @Soylent and @OKC
If you have Fingbox we're working on a kind of manual device recognition to help improve this. 
Here is an example: https://community.fing.com/discussion/1121/improved-device-recognition-for-fingbox-users-testers-needed 
You could try that out if you have Fingbox.
This beta should be coming to more devices and then eventually Fing App.
In the meantime, just enter as many details about the device as you can - to improve the algorithms. (Though this does take a long time and user input for less common devices). 

OKC

Violet. I noticed this "Right now, this is only available for: mobile phones, laptops, desktops, tablets, smart TVs and media players." The programmer I have is used to access the cloud to receive the 'Tune' from the Tuner. It also updates firmware etc. I am not sure there is a way to use it in this application but I will look into it.

VioletChepil

Ok @OKC thanks for the feedback. It may not be available on your device yet. But we are hoping to add more devices soon.

Hronos

@OKC, your device, as per this specific "beta test" need to have a browser or browser like service to go into the address specify... is only HTTP(s) so maybe it could...

Ciaran

@amazania A bit late to the party here, but I recently had a similar device name recognised on my network. Through process of elimination and with the help of this thread, I could determine that it was our 'Climote' (again it must use the bluetooth controller for the smarthome heating).  Thanks for raising this query, and everybody's responses. As mentioned, although 'late to the party', this turned out to be useful for me. I have edited the title slightly to include the device name as I am sure others will have similar questions about this device (and hence it will be easier to search).

vulcansheart

I have two Espressif devices on my home network - "Gosund" smart WiFi plugs I got from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072ZX8RTZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Mirekmal

Recently I installed Twinkly lights - seems these are using the same controller :-)

benhelps

It's my understand that espressif devices are in essence just (a brand of) arduino devices. These are often used by hobbyists to make electronic devices and by companies to design prototype devices. Some companies probably decide for whatever reason, to stick with the arduino board once their product hits production. I've used them in the past to design something to monitor my solar/battery setup, report it to my home automation server, and allow custom queries of it

VABelle

The device on my network showing up on Fing was a Simplisafe camera.

joltdude

Espressif chips are a very inexpensive jack-of-all-trades device to give something internet connectivity .... I wouldn't exactly compare it to a arduino... other than being a SoC.... and there are different variants..  Actually have esps' in some Feit smart LED bulbs, a lamp, and even in a phone charger/battery pack..... And a serial to wifi modem emulator......

-J

benhelps

Yeah I just think of it as equivaent as I tend to tinker with ESP8266 etc and call it Arduino :P (without having to separately add wifi)

Liverwurst

Amazon Echo Plus has built-in Zigbee Hub that uses the Espressif chip.

Ciaran

Brilliant, thanks for this @Liverwurst