True Smart Life integration not Tuya

I would like to see a true Smart Life app integration. A few years back, when I tried Home assistant for the first time, we could kind of cheat the system and integrate Smart Life devices into Home Assistant using Tuya even though switches states were not updating their current status, it kind of worked. But now, it has become cumbersome to integrate Smart Life devices as you must sign up with a different platform. Smart Life can integrate with a lot of other IOT platforms but has not any integration per se with Home Assistant. Tuya and Smart Life are two different entities → https://support.tuya.com/en/help/_detail/K9hrdz10p224e

Moreover, according to their Term of use policies (right there were you want to sign up for their Tuya Smart Developer Center, you must abide to China’s laws, which should never apply outside of China.

“2.3. Tuya hereby suggests that during the use of Tuya services, you shall abide by the laws of the People’s Republic of China…”
Source: Tuya Smart Developer Center from this page : Tuya Smart Developer Center

I am not going to switch apps since all my devices are only compatible with Smart Life, I tried!!

Hi Thierry, I agree with all that you say. I have many apps sitting on pxy1.tuyaus.com, that talk to either

Tuya Smart
Grid Smart
Mercator Iküu
Solar ACDC
Kogan Smarter Home

but it appears that never shall they meet in one single app (/s) and be completely ignored when suggesting integration to homeassistant.

In Australia, Arlec support that whitebox some of these apps is not offerring any thoughts on integration to homeassistant, offerring MQTT interface nor any plans for Matter support. It feels a bit stale for the moment.

I am sorry I only offer commiserations, sharing your frustration in geek.