Tuya devices

Btw, I've been using Local Tuya since the beginning for better response times and control of devices and it worked pretty nicely for what it worked on, I couldn't get any sensors and the energy monitoring was really inconsistent. It's great for lights, switches and automating between different manufacturers (Tuya switch turns Yeelight on), while the original integration takes as long as 10 minutes to refresh status. This week I've been trying Tuya v2 through HACS and it's way better than the current integration. The delay is *almost* as good as local with not even half the work and more …

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Tuya and all the various brands selling their products under private labels. The integration was a pain to set up, the integration seems to have random issues once it's configured, and trying to switch to Local Tuya is another pain. I have tried switching to Local, and most of my Tuya stuff still isn't working.

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The problem As mentioned in https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/80278, Tuya only provides a trial subscription for handling devices in HA. We all know that sucks, and we hope they will change that in the future. But for now we could reduce the pain by NOT DELETING Tuya entities if the subscription expires. When an entity is deleted, ALL the custom configurations we did for that entity is deleted as well (like switch_as_x, custom icons, rooms, etc). The entity is also completely removed from Homekit (instead of just being unavailable), which forces us to setup every single entity …

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