HA tuya help

Configuration
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Ok, this is my first post, and I am totally new to the home automation setup. So I am confused to say the least.

I downloaded home assistant on my ubuntu system running docker. The system is up and running. I have 2 power strips made by geeni, and from what I have seen I can use the tuya app, and the HA will use my Tuya username and password.

However I cannot figure out where to enter the username and password. I entered the information in the configuration.yaml file, and restarted the system, but i dont see anything that looks new, or what to do after adding the username and password to the configuration.yaml file. Can anyone help me understand this process.

Thank you.

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After you add the tuya component to your configuration it should show up as a switch in your states menu. Once you can see it you just add it into your frontend.

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After I add the information to the file, do I have to reboot the server, or just HA?I’ll post my confirmation.yaml to make sure I have everything entered right. Do I need a MQTT broker or anything for it to work?

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You should just restart HA. I don’t know about MQTT since I don’t use the tuya integration but it doesn’t look like its needed.

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you dont need mqqt for tuya.

excerpt from my (working) configuration.yaml

tuya:
  username: myuser
  password: mypass
  country_code: 61

Note the spacing - username/password/country_code are ALL indented 2 spaces. This is essential.

Your version of the above should work assuming
a) you have tuya smart app running on a phone, and your powerstrips controlled from it.
b) the devices are correctly supported by the tuya integration in HA - not all devices are.

Update configuration.yaml appropriately, and restart HA.

leave it for a couple of minutes (to allow the integration to initialise) and then as forsquirel states, check the states menu:

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Once this is working you can expose the switches in the main GUI by editing it and adding them to a card…

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That got it working, thank you for mentioning the spacing, it seems to have done the trick.

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