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What is this whole Tuya thing?

  • 12-01-2021 6:57pm
    #1
    grogi
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    As above... Can someone give short overview?


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  • #2
    degsie
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    https://www.tuya.com/


  • #3
    grogi
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    degsie wrote: »
    https://www.tuya.com/

    Site is super overwhelming...

    Is it a protocol, chipset or something else? What do they work off, dedicated radio or standard 801.11?

    Few pointers like that to grab the context, if you have a moment or two.


  • #4
    degsie
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    grogi wrote: »
    Site is super overwhelming...

    Is it a protocol, chipset or something else? What do they work off, dedicated radio or standard 801.11?

    Few pointers like that to grab the context, if you have a moment or two.

    Have a couple of tuya bulbs, work off 802.11 and compatible with Echo.


  • #5
    emaherx
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    grogi wrote: »
    As above... Can someone give short overview?

    IOT eco system widely adopted by chinese manufacturers of cheap smart devices.


  • #6
    emaherx
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    grogi wrote: »
    Site is super overwhelming...

    Is it a protocol, chipset or something else? What do they work off, dedicated radio or standard 801.11?

    Few pointers like that to grab the context, if you have a moment or two.

    They are usually wifi based but there are also Tuya Zigbee Hubs.


    It's pretty much a cloud based service and app shared by many usually chinese manufacturers and is based on the MQTT protocol.


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  • #7
    grogi
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    emaherx wrote: »
    They are usually wifi based but there are also Tuya Zigbee Hubs.


    It's pretty much a cloud based service and app shared by many usually chinese manufacturers and is based on the MQTT protocol.

    I guess the ZigBee hub exposes the ZigBee devices to Tuya cloud, so they can be addressed by using same API as the other devices.

    Does it work offline (exp. sending Lan packets to the devices), or it always need connectivity to Tuya data centers?


  • #8
    emaherx
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    grogi wrote: »
    I guess the ZigBee hub exposes the ZigBee devices to Toya cloud, so they can be addressed by using same API as the other devices.

    Does it work offline (exp. sending Lan packets to the devices), or it always need connectivity to Toys data centers?

    Officially they always require connectivity to Tuya servers. They don't currently have a LAN mode like Sonoff.

    But I use a third party Integration called TuyaLocal with Home Assistant that allows local control.


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