I am really fresh with ha, just started discovering its function in my smart home(today). Right now I am feeling a bit disappointed, I just can’t see the huge advantage i gives to my home. I bought a rasp 4b ssd, and for that moneu I get a lot of tuya stuff
I use a really big tuya based smart home, wifi and zigbee products. bulbs, pirs, switches, door sensors, diffuser, plugs and cameras. Now it can see the bulbs and that’s about it, so my first day of ha ended in a big blub.
Is there any good advice for me to point me in a good direction?
I have read about flashing my stuff, but can’t i just do something else. I am worried that not all my hardware is legit for flashing, because I have many brands of tuya and I understood that not everything is compatible with reflashing? And also, 45 devices to flash.
Is HA the way to go for a tuya based home or are there way beter alternatives that integrate with tuya?
Hi Krijn, you dont need to be disappointed. As I see Tuya has come into the for front of home automation in the recent past only and it takes time for developers to find tricks to fully integrate it completely with HA. But in the mean time we have workarounds to make it work. I beileve that you might be using the Tuya integration with HA. It must have added your switches, bulbs, fans, climate devices etc. Now with your door sensor and pirs we have a work around. We can use the ping integration in combination with template integration.
The first binary sensor does the actual work. It uses the ping platform with the lowest interval of 1 seconds (because these sneaky things disappear quickly after waking up).
The second, template binary sensor, then creates the illusion of motion being detected for a while and then turning to an off state based on an input_number of idle seconds. I believe even the Tuya cloud would be doing the same as the sensor doesn’t really wake up to tell the cloud when motion is no longer detected. You can ofcourse configure idle seconds to your liking (mine is set to 10 minutes or 600 seconds).
For cameras I believe you will be having the rtsp and snapshot urls which can be used with
For diffusers, dont know this would work but I think you can try
If nothing works you can always add your tuya devices to google assistant and then send commands to google assistant from HA with this addon
For the time being these things are scattered but with time somebody will find a way to combine all these together
Really nice of you for the long answer, but why is HA so dramatic with everything?
I have one wifi plug, that is shown in ha.
The rest of my triggers are not, mainly beceause i use zigbee triggers ofc.
But i use a wifi connected zigbee hub, and just that isnt working with HA.
I think i have made a mistake by thinking HA had a good interface, If i watch the youtube beginner videos its nothing new only really much more complicated then the tuya app. With the same results.
I think my problem is i don’t really have a mixed bag of smart home hardware, its almost all tuya.
So all my products are compatible with each other, the huge work i need to do to get the same results with HA is way to much work.
Its a shame, local rules. But with the cost of what?
Its true that HA is not so simple but not that difficult too and it is improving. I still remember the first time I tried HA and then it was really complicated as most of the work can be done only with yaml editing.The UI was not at all developed. But it has improved a great margin in vey less time.
From the setup you explained its a tuya ecosystem. In such system as you said majority of things can be done with tuya app itself. HA is grounded on a expanded ecosystem with multitude of devices, brands, platforms.It certainly does take some time for one to get caught up with this platform. But eventually we find the true purpose of this.
Will explain just one of my use.
I am robovac which works with google home alone. But my home ecosystem is based on amazon alexa which is better of the two. HA helps me to control this robovac with alexa. It even gives me much more options to control this vacuum than what is being provided with google home. Its a giant help for my family.