Leaving a note here to whoever comes here after me.
My device is PH-218 WiFi smart online 8 in 1 tester.
After some trial and error, I manage to set it up with TUYA LOCAL integration.
The official HA Tuya integration only gave me the current temperature.
The LOCAL TUYA integration gave me error: Connection to device succeeded but no datapoints found, please try again. Create a new issue and include debug logs if problem persists. I was even toying with the idea of direct api call to tuya iot platform.
The more I read about the localTyua solution the nervous I got, what a hassle…
Maybe a bit late (or not) did someone used the EspHome CB3S recent integration with this unit?
It could make things easy to install (only 1 time hardwired programming needed) and really easy OTA…
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Can get my hands on the device next week, my yaml (starting whit these lines) does compile without errors!
Correct functioning needs to be confirmed…
If only I had known earlier, that HA - Discovered - “Add” was essential; this is the key to obtaining the reply value 4 for “TuyaMCU network status” requests.
Without this, no data is exchanged between TuyaMCU and CB3S.