I gather the new official tuya Intergration is supposed to be local, but does this mean it will work without internet after setting it up?
Since it is still linked to ones tuya account and uses API. I’m wondering if it still requires some sort of internet connection for authentication.
Anyone know?
The Tuya integration is cloud dependent during operation. The integration class is “cloud push”.
LocalTuya is available via HACS, but is not “official” and may lack support for some devices. It works fine for some plugs I purchased early on, but that’s the extent of my experience.
It seem even localtuya needs to first get the cloud api keys, the smart life app continues to work even afer moving it to dead Iot VLAN.
Yes, there is initial cloud set up. Devices have to be set up in smartlife first. Afterwards LocalTuya should function without internet.
Using LocalTuya does not prevent smartlife, or even the core Tuya integration from working simultaneously.
I would expect the devices to work via smartlife from any vlan unless that vlan has internet access blocked.
Tuya devices aren’t designed to work purely locally, at least they need Internet connection when being set up. And honestly I don’t think there are many readily available pure-local(doesn’t need Internet at all) smart plugs on the market. TuyaConverter used to be a workaround, but Tuya enhanced the encryption and changed the chips to something else other than ESP8266, making them un-flashable.
That being said, I have 13 Tuya devices at home and they all work reliably in the past few month.