diff --git a/custom_components/sonoff/core/ewelink/cloud.py b/custom_components/sonoff/core/ewelink/cloud.py
index 36e688f..cbbc33b 100644
--- a/custom_components/sonoff/core/ewelink/cloud.py
+++ b/custom_components/sonoff/core/ewelink/cloud.py
@@ -293,41 +293,6 @@ def sign(msg: bytes) -> bytes:
         ).digest()
 
 
-# noinspection PyProtectedMember
-class WebSocket:
-    """Default asyncio.WebSocket keep-alive only incoming messages with heartbeats.
-    This is helpful if messages from the server don't come very often.
-
-    With this changes we also keep-alive outgoing messages with heartbeats.
-    This is helpful if our messages to the server are not sent very often.
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, ws: ClientWebSocketResponse):
-        self._heartbeat: float = ws._heartbeat
-        self._heartbeat_cb: asyncio.TimerHandle | None = None
-        self.ws = ws
-
-    def __aiter__(self):
-        return self.ws
-
-    async def __anext__(self):
-        return await self.ws.__anext__()
-
-    async def receive_json(self):
-        return await self.ws.receive_json()
-
-    async def send_json(self, data: dict):
-        if self._heartbeat_cb:
-            self._heartbeat_cb.cancel()
-            self._heartbeat_cb = None
-
-        self._heartbeat_cb = self.ws._loop.call_later(
-            self._heartbeat, self.ws._send_heartbeat
-        )
-
-        await self.ws.send_json(data)
-
-
 class XRegistryCloud(ResponseWaiter, XRegistryBase):
     auth: dict | None = None
     devices: dict[str, dict] = None
@@ -336,7 +301,7 @@ class XRegistryCloud(ResponseWaiter, XRegistryBase):
     region: str = None
 
     task: asyncio.Task | None = None
-    ws: WebSocket = None
+    ws: ClientWebSocketResponse = None
 
     @property
     def host(self) -> str:
@@ -545,6 +510,8 @@ async def run_forever(self, **kwargs):
             try:
                 msg: WSMessage
                 async for msg in self.ws:
+                    if msg.data == "pong":
+                        continue
                     resp = json.loads(msg.data)
                     _ = asyncio.create_task(self._process_ws_msg(resp))
             except Exception as e:
@@ -557,10 +524,9 @@ async def connect(self) -> bool:
             resp = await r.json()
 
             # we can use IP, but using domain because security
-            ws = await self.session.ws_connect(
+            self.ws = await self.session.ws_connect(
                 f"wss://{resp['domain']}:{resp['port']}/api/ws", heartbeat=90
             )
-            self.ws = WebSocket(ws)
 
             # https://coolkit-technologies.github.io/eWeLink-API/#/en/APICenterV2?id=websocket-handshake
             ts = time.time()
@@ -592,7 +558,7 @@ async def connect(self) -> bool:
                 raise Exception(resp)
 
             if (config := resp.get("config")) and config.get("hb"):
-                self.ws._heartbeat = config.get("hbInterval")
+                asyncio.create_task(_ping(self.ws, config.get("hbInterval")))
 
             return True
 
@@ -636,3 +602,13 @@ async def _process_ws_msg(self, data: dict):
 
         else:
             _LOGGER.warning(f"UNKNOWN cloud msg: {data}")
+
+
+# https://coolkit-technologies.github.io/eWeLink-API/#/en/OAuth2.0?id=websocket-handshake
+async def _ping(ws: ClientWebSocketResponse, heartbeat: int):
+    try:
+        while heartbeat:
+            await asyncio.sleep(heartbeat)
+            await ws.send_str("ping")
+    except:
+        pass