I know the new Tuya integration would require new setup steps. This doesnāt answer my question however.
Is the existing Tuya integration (with support for covers) still available if I upgrade to HA 2021.10?
I have no interest in using the new integration until it supports covers and my cover automations are essential to me. Will upgrading (HA not the integration) stop them working?
EDIT: because the replies have been in the form of a YouTube video and less than clear release notes the answer to above is this: YOU CANNOT RUN THE OLD TUYA INTEGRATION IN HA 2021.10.
And has less feature parity than the one it replaced, A lot of people have upgraded and now the v2 is the default are finding a lot of devices dont work
At least release an updated one that is the same or better
Local control - bah they have already said it not happening at the moment, so its defo not on the table which people were sucked into
In the end yes but for the moment things are a bit of a mess.
This could have used some more time in the oven as some common things arenāt yet covered by the new app and things are no working smoothly with home assistant.
Unsure as of yet if this is a tuya bug or a home assistant one.
Upside is being so popular fixes are likely to come fast and furious.
I agree, they couldāve waited another month and released a proper replacement. I guess they wanted to get it out since the current integration will be discontinued in two months.
āAt least half a yearā according to the live stream, not 2 months, so they had plenty of time to continue working on and improving it.
If it has a 6 months shelf life still remaining, it seems odd to have pushed it out while not fully supporting the same devices the current (old) integration does.
Crazy that they did this hard cutover without even feature parity.
This differs from many other integration changes like Z-wave where you could migrate when you were ready. If you upgrade to 2021.10 you WILL lose support for Tuya covers as well as other Tuya devices people have posted about.
Iām really disappointed in this decision to push an āupgradeā with reduced functionality and no transition period.
Also the release notes do a poor job of highlighting this limitation. It says Tuya is now V2 with the need to setup again but doesnāt mention the removal of the Tuya V1 integration explicitly.
Iāve been testing the v2 trough HACS since the beginning and itās been much better (than v1) and easier to setup (than Local Tuya) and Iāll keep using the HACS version while the native integration gets up to speed.
So it was weird to see this released and the fact that itās quite different from what is available through HACS, but I believe itāll be just some bumps on the road as the tuya devs learn how to work with HA (Some PRs had over a hundred comments and dozen of changes before getting merged). Now, if people will āforgiveā that or not, hard to say.
I didnāt watch the live stream yet, was basing myself by the info on the initial GitHub PR so this information makes it even weirder to launch without complete feature parity.
Paulus says in the live stream @25:22 that, āLocal is not planned right nowā¦no schedule for when a local API will come availableā. Disappointing.
For those that are having issues with the new Tuya integration in 2021.10 I found a reddit post where someone has created a HACS custom component from the 2021.9.7 Tuya integration to allow it to work in 2021.10. I will be testing later this evening but hereās the link: https://github.com/andrey-yantsen/home-assistant-tuya-old
EDIT: Have now tested this and it seems to work fine
So now we have Tuya - old edition, Tuya v2 - new and improved edition but less device support, Tuya V2 HACS edition, (different to core but presumed by everyone to be the same) and local tuya.
