FAQ

Frequently asked questions

those are more typical questions when working on the project, rather than frequently asked already

What are TUYA devices

Tuya is a Chinese platform for easy building smart home and IOT devices for consumers. Wikipedia - Tuya_Inc Those devices are often combined with the Smart Life App on mobile devices to allow control, create scenes and allow basic home automation. Tuya devices require a permanent internet access to the cloud where the devices are controlled from.

What is local_tuya

tuyAPI is a Max Isom reverse engineered library to access TUYA devices from the local LAN, without require cloud connectivity. Still for those devices their cloud connection runs in parallel (unless the network is isolated).

tuya_mqtt.net uses an implementation of tuyanet

How to get the LocalKey for a device

There is already plenty of documentation about getting the ID from the TUYACloud.

Use Google or try some YT videos Local Key für Tuya Geräte super einfach bekommen + Geräteeinstellungen abrufen