Hello all, I have Quinetic switches and I have them connect with Amazon Alexa but I can’t connected to home assistant. Has anyone been apply to connect them? If so how did you do it? Thanks
Bumping this as I’ve also got a whole home lighting setup based around quinetic receivers. Can’t add through tuya integration as the kinetic switch app doesn’t allow the QR code etc. tried adding the hub to tuya app and it’s not available as a device type.
I wish tuya would decide on an app and stick with it
Well guys, if it’s Tuya, it can be a PITA…
There are some topics on that switch here, you might check them out.
It’s not necessarily the switch that’s the problem I don’t think, as they can be added directly, it’s when using the qugate hub which is required to link their RF only devices to the internet. Unfortunately it seem that we just can’t get the qugate into HA
I’m currently working on just exposing dummy switches into Alexa and using that as a middle ground
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Was thinking of buying Qinetic switches but quite surprised at the lengths people are having to go to in order to get them working with HA… is there a better alternative that works easily with HA please? Thanks!
Hi, (first post!). I’ve just installed HA and looks great but disappointed that these Quinetic receivers are not supported, even though they work off the Tuya platform. I have 14 around the house and they work great so thought I’d investigate what was needed to get them working. Here is what I have found so far.
These switches use the “Kinetic Switch” app (I’m on Android) but read that they are supported by the “Tuya Smart” app as well. I reset one module and managed to get it added to “Tuya Smart” by manually adding it as a devices under “Others/Others (Wi-Fi)”. It seemed to work ok and could easily pair all the switches with it using the app.
When I refreshed the HA Tuya integration (which I already had set up for another device) it showed up but did not have any entities and just said ‘unsupported’ after the description. I looked at the device diagnostics json and noticed that the Tuya Category shows as ‘dj’ which is for Lights. I then looked at the Python code for Tuya and noticed that ‘dj’ did not have any entities defined in ‘select.py’ and the ‘dj’ part of switch.py or light.py didn’t have the entity needed which is “led_switch”, The Tuya documentation also calls this “switch_led” so is probably non-standard.
I managed to create a copy of the Tuya code and put it under ‘custom components’, added the entity in select.py and ‘switch.py’, restarted HA and hey presto the switch appears on the dashboard and works fine apart from the word ‘none’ appearing in various places.
So that’s as far as I’ve got but have no idea where I go from here as just wanted to see if it was possible before taking it further. Would I contact the device developers to propose a change made?