I am surprised to see how overwhelmingly popular Tuya devices are for Home Assistant users. It appears that devices using the official integration are very combersome to setup, they are cloud dependent, and they will often need to be re-setup due to a re-acceptance of the ToS.
Are people actively buying these devices? Are a lot of homes setup with legacy Tuya devices?
I personally have no Tuya devices in my home and after reading the integration page, I would actively avoid them. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/tuya
The integration page shows that Tuya is used by 29.2% of active installations and the number of devices from the graph show a huge gap between Tuya and all other devices. This leads me to think that these devices would be prioritized by the developers. Am I missing something? Are these devices so cheap that they are just worth it for many to deal with the consequences of the cloud and apparent hassle of setup?
Super late, but if you haven’t already got it figured out let me know I’m happy to help
I got it set up. Thanks. I still have the Tuya app running though. Not sure if I can delete that now? Also, turns out the soil sensors are not reliable at all. Connection yes but the reading is wrong. They mostly show 100% moisture which can’t be and the soil temp differs massively in 3 pots in the same location. So not sure how useful all this is.
I would keep the tuya app installed for now. I had some issues where they would go into pairing mode and I had to reconnect them using the app.