tuya-iotos-embeded-mcu-demo-wifi-ble-samrt-lawn-mower VS tuyapi

Step 3: Firmware development Before the application development, you need to port the MCU SDK to your project. Then, flash the general firmware and Tuya’s license to the network module. This way, the mower can communicate with the cloud. The demo routine also includes FreeRTOS to facilitate your development. After the above preparation is completed, you can proceed with the application development. Download the sample code: tuya-iotos-embeded-mcu-demo-wifi-ble-samrt-lawn-mower Drivers for motor, servo, and ESC Have four motors connected to each wheel for movement. Two servos are used to control the ESC as well as the position of the blade connected to the ESC. The ESC controls and regulates the speed of the blade rotation. Write the initialization procedure for the above components, which are implemented in servo_motor.c .

If I want to buy switches or sensors from Ali/Tuya can I pair them to any hub or do I need to use the tuya api: https://github.com/codetheweb/tuyapi?

If you prefer Zigbee in general - cool. But saying Zigbee is better than Wi-Fi because there's this one sucky application Smart Life that forces your phone connected to 2.4 to let you setup doesn't make sense. Just use a different application to set it up. Or you can block Tuya IPs for fully local operation. https://github.com/codetheweb/tuyapi/

My LED lights are by a company called Smart Life, and their service is provided by Tuya (don't know if they're the same) But I essentially looked into this code repository and followed the guidelines https://github.com/codetheweb/tuyapi then all I had to do was connect it to a twitch bot running on my computer and converting the color into numbers that the lights understood :)

You can link your account to their developer tools, and use tuyapi (https://github.com/codetheweb/tuyapi ) to get them set up, and use BN-Link devices that are $25 for a 4-pack

It doesn't seem like Smartlife has any public/open API. There's an unofficial hack but it seem to communicate over TCP/IP which Automate currently doesn't support: https://github.com/codetheweb/tuyapi

Try these steps https://github.com/codetheweb/tuyapi/blob/master/docs/SETUP.md

By the way, those Minoston outdoor outlet switches use the Smart Life app which seems to be also used by Tuya devices, and there is some talk of controlling Tuya stuff in C4 with an MQTT driver. There is some Tuya code on the web (https://github.com/codetheweb/tuyapi) so you could probably control that with a little bit of work in C4.