Ok, I apparently had to make a post asking for help before the Tech Gods would grace me with the answers. The Caledon Ceiling Fan goes into pairing mode so it can be added to the Tuya app just like it says in the manual — by flipping the light switch on and off five times — but you have to end it in the “on” position, and wait 15 seconds for it to start blinking. Also, it doesn’t consistently start blinking when putting it in pairing mode, but sure enough the Tuya app autodiscovers it on the local network (assuming you are on 2.4Ghz and not 5GHZ Wifi with your phone/tablet).
I was able to follow the rest of the protocol seamlessly.
I will also add that I tried Local Tuya and Tuya Local, and Tuya Local works much better for retrieving the local key and ID of the devices without having to go creating a developer account on Tuya’s IOT platform.
What the IOT platform was useful for was querying the DPs (data points) for the integration so you know what each one does, and what accepted values it takes.
Now my Caledon fans are working. I will create a new topic to share the DP dumps that worked for this fan, as it is the most affordable I found in stock at my local Lowe’s.