Tuya lights

Third party integrations
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Hi I have several Tuya switches and lights that are showing up in the entity registry.
I added 2 more and can’t get them to show up in entity registry.
In system options Enable newly added entities. is set to on.

Seems like it is not updating. What else can I look at?

2

Hi can someone please help. Maybe my entity registry is corrupt? how can I fix?

3

“Did you try turning it off and on again?”

4

Thanks for the reply
Actually yes. Even removed them from Tuya and reset and still nothing.
I just installed 2 different brands I purchased at Costco today also using Tuya and they both showed up automatically.

I can just replace the 2 that don’t work well but actually like the look and easabillity of use compared to others. wierd that all are found by HA except these 2. Even have 2 switches from Moes without dimmers and work fine…

5

Where did you register your devices? Tuya Smart, Smart Life or Jinvoo Smart?

And also what platform do you have setup?
https://home-assistant.io/integrations/tuya

6

all in Tuya smart

tuya:
  username: "[email protected]"
  password: "xxx"
  country_code: "1"

tried adding tuya as platform but didn’t change anything so I removed, But I know it works since it found dimmers installed today as is

7

Try defining another platform, like Smart Life.

(also create a account within their app)

tuya:
  username: !secret tuya_username
  password: !secret tuya_password
  country_code: !secret tuya_country
  platform: smart_life
8

Has anyone worked out which platform to use when the app used to register the lights is “PlusMinus” (this is the one that is recommended to replace the Lumiman app).
I previously registered them using the Tuya app - but the lights do not appear in HA so I reregistered them in PlusMinus.
I tried the 3 listed in the Tuya component page and also tried inventing a few (like plusminus and plus_minus) but they all fail. The ones with invented platform names return an error from Tuya saying that the platform is invalid which is fair enough.

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Replying to myself … I gave up on getting the Lumiman/PlusMinus RGBW lamp working with the Tuya integration. I considered going down the LocalTuya route but decided to take another look at Tasmota.
It worked.
So have now installed Mosquitto on same box as HA and it is working well.
Also enabled the Hue emulation in Tasmota and Alexa discovered it and gives me On/Off and colour setting.

10

You mean you were able to flash Tasmota on to the lights which needed the PlusMinus app? Do you have any documentation around that?

11

It was the regular way to flash Tasmota onto Tuya lights using Tuya Convert
https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Tuya-Convert/

However, you are replying to an old post of mine and since then the Tuya firmware that ships with the newer bulbs cannot be hijacked in the same way.
I haven’t researched recently to see if someone has found a software-only way around it.