I purchased this Tuya IR Blaster and I either did not read the product description carefully enough, or I got it confused with another type of Zigbee IR blaster I was looking at while I was comparing options. Because I could have sworn it said it could be used with any Zigbee gateway, but now that I read it again it clearly says it can only be used with a Tuya wired gateway.
I’m wondering if there is any way HA can be used as a Zigbee gateway for the Tuya app to get around that requirement. Because I can get the device to pair with HA using ZHA just fine, but it only shows up as a switch and battery entity. I’m assuming the only way to actually program it is through the Tuya app. But I can’t pair the device unless it is first paired with a gateway and I have not seen any way to expose HA as a gateway to Tuya.
Guessing the answer is probably no, and if so, lesson learned and I will be more careful next time. But if anyone knows of a way to make this work that would be awesome. I did see this post > Tuya/SmartLife IR Blaster support where someone mentioned a workaround, but it is not explained. So maybe a workaround does exist?
As a backup option, if anyone has any suggestions for IR Blasters that do work well with HA without needing a separate hub, that would be great too.
Thanks