Better Tuya Lights - Custom Component

swiftlyfalling · November 2, 2018, 10:44am

There’s no denying that Tuya lights aren’t the greatest, at least not through Home Assistant. The integration is cloud based (despite the devices accepting local control) and very, very slow. However, the hardware is dirt cheap, and sometimes that takes precedence.

If you have Tuya RGB Bulbs, you may have noticed that, if you set them to, say, Blue, then turn them off, then set them to Red, they come on blue, and then a few moments later change to Red. That’s annoying.

I’ve edited the Home Assistant Tuya Light Component to fix this. Just place this file at custom_components/light/tuya.py and restart Home Assistant.

github.com

dlashua/homeassistant-config/blob/master/custom_components/light/tuya.py

"""
Support for the Tuya light.

For more details about this platform, please refer to the documentation at
https://home-assistant.io/components/light.tuya/
"""
from homeassistant.components.light import (
    ATTR_BRIGHTNESS, ATTR_COLOR_TEMP, ATTR_HS_COLOR, ENTITY_ID_FORMAT,
    SUPPORT_BRIGHTNESS, SUPPORT_COLOR_TEMP, SUPPORT_COLOR, Light)

from homeassistant.components.tuya import DATA_TUYA, TuyaDevice
from homeassistant.util import color as colorutil

DEPENDENCIES = ['tuya']


def setup_platform(hass, config, add_entities, discovery_info=None):
    """Set up Tuya light platform."""
    if discovery_info is None:
        return

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This small change to the existing component allows the “on” command, the “color” setting, and the “brightness” setting to be sent to Tuya all at once, causing the light to come on with your intended color and brightness the first time.

Tommmii · November 14, 2018, 1:03pm

Do you see a solution to making them work locally ?

radinsky · November 26, 2018, 10:48pm

Any chance to add the SUPPORT_TRANSITION?

harry1 · March 22, 2019, 10:10pm

Hi,
Does the file path have to chnage since the breaking changes in the 0.89 release.
Thanks