tuya-home-assistant vs localtuya

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. (by tuya)

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local handling for Tuya devices (by rospogrigio)

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3	Mentions	40
846	Stars	2,617
0.6%	Growth	-
2.7	Activity	5.1
6 months ago	Latest Commit	15 days ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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tuya-home-assistant

Posts with mentions or reviews of tuya-home-assistant. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-09.

Setting up Tuya IoT
1 project | /r/smartlife | 21 Nov 2022

Check which data center you need to use, it may not be as obvious as you'd think it is: https://github.com/tuya/tuya-home-assistant/blob/main/docs/regions_dataCenters.md
Smart life contact sensors
2 projects | /r/homebridge | 9 Oct 2021
Home Assistant & Ceiling Fan/Light Switch TreatLife entity
1 project | /r/smartlife | 13 Aug 2021

Are you using the new v2 Tuya integration? If so, not all devices are supported yet. And even the existing built in integration doesn't support all devices. Both of those links have nested links that should tell you whether or not that particular device is supported in HA.

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

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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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

tuya-connector-nodejs - nodejs sdk

tuya-homebridge - Homebridge custom plugin for controlling Powered by Tuya (PBT) devices in HomeKit. This plugin is officially maintained by the Tuya Developer Team.

hass-tryfi - Home Assistant integration for TryFi Dog Collar GPS monitoring.

tuya-home-android-sdk - 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.

tuyaha - Implements the special Tuya Home Assistant API.

tuyagateway - Local Python Gateway for Tuya devices

amazon-dash - Hack your Amazon Dash to run what you want.

ha_tuya_custom - Tuya Custom Component for testing

wyzesense2mqtt - Configurable WyzeSense to MQTT Gateway intended for use with Home Assistant or other platforms that use MQTT discovery mechanisms.

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