Tuya switch

Configuration
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Anyone tried to get this going with the Eurom Heaters or any other re-branded Tuya Heater?
I got one hooked up and configured via the Tuya component but it is really unreliable, gets unreachable after a couple of days and need to be power cycled.
Would love to get local control over it to see if it fixes the problem.

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Probably this can work out-of-the-box BHT-6000 Thermostat (tuya) support
Or at least can be a start point (most probably parameters ids won’t fit, but device specific ids can be retrieved with https://github.com/clach04/python-tuya and the following code)

import pytuya

d = pytuya.OutletDevice('<devid>','<devip>', '<devlocalkey>')
data = d.status()  
print('Data %r' % data)
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No. In fact, you need to take it out. You are effectively defining your own custom tuya component. If you have the built in tuya component in your config file, the custom component will not work.

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Are you saying you have “scan_interval: 5” in your configuration.yaml, and have monkey patched the tuya.py code to comment out the " if not self._cached_status or now - self._cached_status_time > 30" conditional?

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Yes,
so the timing is given by hass and not by the component. To make a try i’ve commented out the if-statement and adjusted the indentation, and it works great.

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With scan_interval: 5 I’ve found that sometimes the commands where not caught (probably the readings blocks the settings).
Now I’m testing with scan_interval:10 but something must be implemented to suspend readings when dps were set.

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This does make tuya switch to work locally to turn on and off only.
I am using tuya rgbw light,
which doesn’t show any option to change colour, scene, brightness, etc.
Please guide if some one get lights to work.

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pytuya itself supports rgbw light, https://github.com/clach04/python-tuya/
it has only to be integrated on the ObedientOwl tuya switch device

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Trying to make this work with Tuya Curtain Switches (double-checked Device IP, Device ID and Local Key), but they show up as Switch (On/Off only) instead of Cover (Up/Stop/Down). Is there anything I can do to mark them as Covers? Thanks!

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I don’t have RGB lights to play with. Feel free to document the changes you made to add support for setting colors.

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Any help on making my arilux rgbw would be appreciated.
I am on Hass.io installed on Raspbian strech lite on rpi3b+
Thanks in adv

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Unfortunately I didn’t have an RGB light to make some try. I can only suggest to integrate the ObedientOwl code (that uses pytuya) with all the ability of the pytuya code. In pytuya code there’s the BulbDevice class that supports rgb lights. Get the ObedientOwl code, integrate it with RGB support (watching the code of other RGB light already supported) and adapt the commands to match the pytuya BulbDevice support

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Hi, I followed the instructions by ObedientOwl on Jan 24th. But seem to be getting the below error. Could anyone point me in the right direction!?

Blockquote2019-02-26 08:11:28 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Error during setup of component tuya
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/setup.py”, line 154, in _async_setup_component
component.setup, hass, processed_config) # type: ignore
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py”, line 380, in iter
yield self # This tells Task to wait for completion.
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py”, line 304, in _wakeup
future.result()
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py”, line 293, in result
raise self._exception
File “/usr/lib/python3.5/concurrent/futures/thread.py”, line 55, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/tuya/init.py”, line 54, in setup
username = config[DOMAIN][CONF_USERNAME]
KeyError: ‘tuya’
2019-02-26 08:11:28 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Unable to set up dependencies of tuya.switch. Setup failed for dependencies: tuya

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I’m running home assistant .88.1 with no luck on the tuya.py and init.py

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Thanks for this,

Are you able to use tuya on lan still with home assistant 0.88?

Thanks

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Just in case you guys don’t already know about it, you can use this to flash Tuya devices OTA and then put ESPhome on them to get them working natively in HA without any worrying about custom python components etc… much easier than the trouble I read in this thread

ESPhome

ESPhome HA API

Another handy link

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Thanks for that, I saw a video regarding the flashing method.

It looks like when you flash, they become sonoff devices?

I don’t see a tutorial specific to putting esphome in them.

Beginner here, using HomeAssistant in docker in Synology.

I guess if I flash with a raspberry pi, does the raspberry need to be running all the time?

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No, you can flash them directly to ESPhome using the instruction at the very bottom of the tuya-convert git. (flash a third party .bin file)

Create the .bin file with ESPhomeYAML and then use the method mentioned above to flash it to the ESP device. There is a tutorial on the ESPhome site that explains how to migrate from Tasmota but you don’t need to since you can simply flash the ESPhome .bin file directly.

No, once flashed the ESP communicates with HA directly (via your wifi that is)

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thank ya, seriously considering it, just don’t know how this plays with google home, that’s like a whole new can of worms that I have to educate myself.

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It will still be controllable with Google Home, via HA, just not directly (ie: without HA), but I see that as far better than using a Tuya cloud