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Tuya devices popularity (openhomefoundation.grafana.net)

submitted 1 month ago by richie510@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I am surprised to see how overwhelmingly popular Tuya devices are for Home Assistant users. It appears that devices using the official integration are very combersome to setup, they are cloud dependent, and they will often need to be re-setup due to a re-acceptance of the ToS.

Are people actively buying these devices? Are a lot of homes setup with legacy Tuya devices?

I personally have no Tuya devices in my home and after reading the integration page, I would actively avoid them. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/tuya

The integration page shows that Tuya is used by 29.2% of active installations and the number of devices from the graph show a huge gap between Tuya and all other devices. This leads me to think that these devices would be prioritized by the developers. Am I missing something? Are these devices so cheap that they are just worth it for many to deal with the consequences of the cloud and apparent hassle of setup?

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to buy their stuff and use tuya-convert to flash Tasmota onto them. But they kept updating the firmware to lock that out, and I ended up returning a batch of 15 smart plugs because none of them would flash. They were too much of a PITA to try to crack open and flash the ESP8266 manually so I returned the whole batch as defective, left a scathing review, and blackballed the whole brand.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Bro you did that to yourself. That is such a backwards way of doing it. I love ESP home but there's no reason to go through that for tuya bulbs in 2026

Tuya Local on the HACS. Uses cloud just to get the local keys, then they are purely local.