localtuya vs tuya-home-android-sdk

localtuya

local handling for Tuya devices (by rospogrigio)

Tuya Smart Life App SDK is designed to promote the development of apps with multiple smart device features, such as device pairing, device control, firmware updates, scheduled tasks, and smart scenes. (by tuya)

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localtuya		tuya-home-android-sdk
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40	Mentions	1
2,596	Stars	39
-	Growth	-
5.5	Activity	0.0
4 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
Python	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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localtuya

Posts with mentions or reviews of localtuya. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.

How to read the power consumption of a Smart Plug using Tuya API?
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 23 Jun 2023
Looking for a few products and ideas Lighting/Plugs mostly.
6 projects | /r/smarthome | 3 May 2023

Tuya devices, and the Tuya-based Monster, Greeni, etc stuff can be connected to HA using the Tuya Integration, or converted to local-only using Tuya Cloudcutter and connected to HA using Local Tuya, or even flashed with Tasmota, ESPHome/Libre Tiny, or OpenBeken.
Are there people that are interested in reverse engineering the Tuya Smart app?
2 projects | /r/homelab | 19 Apr 2023
My first tuya fail. How to distinct tuya only from normal devices?
2 projects | /r/ZigBee | 18 Mar 2023

It's still on my list of things to try so I don't have personal experience, but I think https://github.com/rospogrigio/localtuya can help you. Maybe start with reading the readme to see what limitations exist for Tuya devices.
Turn on/off Tuya smart plug with ESP32
2 projects | /r/esp32 | 13 Mar 2023

localtuya
Cloud Sh!t
2 projects | /r/smarthome | 10 Mar 2023

You can control them locally with this integration for Home Assistant: https://github.com/rospogrigio/localtuya
Die Lampe.
2 projects | /r/de | 26 Feb 2023
Smart light bulbs
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 31 Jan 2023

We got some cheap Tuya bulbs from Kogan. Unfortunately they were too new to flash with tuya-convert, but they can still be controlled locally through Home Assistant with localtuya.
Fed up with Tuya strip lights. Never works properly. Is there any other way to add them to homekit. Tuya homebridge plugins are not great.
1 project | /r/homebridge | 25 Jan 2023

There is the [Local Tuya](https://github.com/rospogrigio/localtuya) integration for Home Assistant. This will eliminate the cloud dependency of the Tuya devices you have. Once you have them in Home Assistant you can expose them to HomeKit just like HomeBridge does.
Alexa routines accessible in home assistant?
3 projects | /r/homeautomation | 6 Jan 2023

Don't the Treatlife devices just use the Tuya backend? If so, you can add them directly to HA using the cloud based official Tuya Integration, or the local-only Local Tuya via HACS.

tuya-home-android-sdk

Posts with mentions or reviews of tuya-home-android-sdk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-28.

Build a Smart Light App for Android with Tuya App SDK
2 projects | /r/u_ArOtwo | 28 Sep 2021

Step 5: Integrate light control SDK Before you proceed with integration, you need to try and successfully run the light demo app. The light control SDK depends on part of the Home SDK, which will be described in this step. Dependency description // Home SDK dependencies. You must use SDK 3.20.0 or later versions. implementation 'com.tuya.smart:tuyasmart:3.20.0' // Control SDK dependencies implementation 'com.tuya.smart:tuyasmart-centralcontrol:1.0.2' Note: tuyasmart-centralcontrol is compiled in Kotlin, so you need to import the Kotlin library to ensure dependencies can be properly used. If you have imported the Kotlin library, you can ignore the following configuration. Integrate Kotlin

What are some alternatives?

When comparing localtuya and tuya-home-android-sdk you can also consider the following projects:

tuya-home-assistant - Home Assistant integration for controlling Powered by Tuya (PBT) devices using Tuya Open API, maintained by the Home Assistant Community and Tuya Developer Team.

Sonoff-Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at [Moved to: https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota]

tuya-connector-nodejs - nodejs sdk

Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

tuya-convert - A collection of scripts to flash Tuya IoT devices to alternative firmwares

tuyasmart_home_android_sdk

tuyagateway - Local Python Gateway for Tuya devices

ha_tuya_custom - Tuya Custom Component for testing

tuyapi - 🌧 An easy-to-use API for devices that use Tuya's cloud services. Documentation: https://codetheweb.github.io/tuyapi.

templates - Tasmota Device Templates Repository. Your one stop shop to get templates for devices running Tasmota!

homebridge-sun-position - Homebridge plugin to expose the position of the sun for automation