Tuya LOCAL with energy monitoring and without tuya-convert

[mitchins (Mitchell Currie)]

This helped me solve it!
It was not obvious that even though the switch/base entity had options for power/current, they didn’t work and I had to add the sensor component manually.

[paul12 (Paul)]

@MickW69

Finally got my plugs working on local Tuya, with energy monitoring. For those still trying: the part that had me stumped was I kept doing it at night when I had time, so the plug was off and the power readings had no values to compare.
So for example in the above video at time 7:17, if you have something running when you do the get device details, it will have the amps/watts etc listed.
So the step at 9:07 when you select the values (I read this elsewhere) will only list new values when first added, so to match up the power usage codes try and do these 2 parts as close together as possible. (may have to remove the device and re-add to get it with values)

I am struggling on this bit

[DSorlov (Daniel Sörlöv)]

On the topic of localtuya I just submitted a PR to @rospogrigio for the WE and EA datacenter regions. This as Tuya now have started to enforce a strict one-datacenter rule to the trial accounts in their api. This means that I as a WE user cannot anymore have the cloud account connected to EU datacenter also and so I cannot addd my cloud account. Simple fix and hope it helps some more people.

[mhoogenbosch (Martijn Hoogenbosch)]

Is this integration still supported? I can see 1k issues and 101 pull requests. The last version dates from mid 2023 (although HACS tells me it has been updated the day before yesterday, which i can’t explain).

Or should I invest time in moving to another tuya plugin? Are there any alternatives? Because I love the local element of Tuya.