Hello together,
during the last few weeks/months, I got more and more disappointed with my Tuya smart home devices. We have 19 devices we use through the HACS in Home Assistant. Every view weeks, one of the device receives for what ever reason a new local key, and I’m forced to change it again. Of course, my Tuya cloud trial subscription expired, and I have to go the bluestack old app way, to read out the new local key.
I really like the Tuya devices, because the hardware never really disappointed me, but the locked software is a bummer.
Shelly is also part of our smart home and right now my choice for new devices, because of the great integration in HA.
One of my biggest problems are our 10 RGBW controller, I use them for many background illuminations and also to control the RGB stripes in our kitchen.
Therefore, I use this device:
It’s the perfect controller for me, because of the 6A per channel. Shelly has an alternative (https://www.shelly.com/de/products/shelly-plus-rgbw-pm?srsltid=AfmBOoqNkEFEqCxMJON03DXxUiKQUVMmN4WymVleQpyttZPLbnDp7_me) but based on the specs, it can’t compete with the other model (only 4A per channel max). At some places I use 4–5 A per channel and I don’t want to max out the specifications. Also, it does no look good, when I have to mount the controller on the back of a monitor or so.
I know, I can flash the Tuya devices with Tuya Convert, but to be honest, that’s not my preferred solution and I do really not like Tuya. ESPHome is my solution of choice in such cases, I already use it for some POE ESP32 in our house, and it works great.
So, is there any other brand which offers great “open source” hardware which can easily be included into HA without any work around and also offers similar specs? Shelly can’t be the only solution?
Thanks for your answers 