Simple way how to run Tuya service with http request?

1

Hello. With upcoming split of Smart Life and IFTTT, I am exploring how HA can be used to trigger tuya scenes. So far it seems extremely complicated to “normal” person compared to IFTTT.

So may I ask please - is there a simple way to trigger Tuya scene with simple HTTP request, similar to IFTTT, where you can just send something like https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/acc-on/with/key/(API_key) and trigger event or scene?

Thanks very much, Jan

2

Not sure if you got this sorted - have you tried this method as seen in this post by @johnflorin

As can be seen in the documentation, the Tuya integration supports the following entity types:

Climate
Cover
Fan
Light
Scene
Switch

Now, Tuya has many many other device types and it’s not immediately obvious that Scene enables support for many of them!

In my case it was a pet feeder that I wanted to integrate into HA, so I did this:

  1. Add device to the Smart Life app
  2. In the Smart Life app, go to the Smart menu, Tap-to-Run, “+”
  3. Select “Launch Tap to Run”
  4. Select “Run the device”
  5. Select your non-supported device
  6. Select the desired function (in my case Feed) and parameter (in my case portion number)
  7. The Scene (in my case with some Chinese text in the name) gets added to Smart Life
  8. Set up the Tuya integration in HA (make sure your Tuya password only has letters and numbers)
  9. The Scene shows up in the HA integration!

After that, it’s easy to rename it, add it to Alexa & Google Home and thus achieve HA & voice control over the device.

The scene creation in the Tuya app has a whole bunch of other options, this is just an example for my pet feeder, but it looks like time & other stuff can be used to trigger it as well.

Enjoy!