This is exactly the tutorial i followed and afterwords checkt this community.
Sorry i forgot to tell a important message :-o that the homey app is telling me in the timeline ‘You are still using a old depricated API and drivers, please switch to new drivers’
The preferred API should be on “official”.
If I’m right, the timeline msg won’t appear anymore.
If you installed devices when the setting was not set to official (yet), you’ll have to remove them, set the preferred API to “official”, restart app and install devices as new ones.
This was the exact timeline msg which inspired Jackass to write his howto
Each and every step in the process is as important.
Everything had been working fine for 5/6 months and for the past 2 days nothing has been working, no product is responding. I don’t understand what’s going on, when I execute an action I get the following error:
Hi, trying to get Conecto smart plug working with Homey, When adding the the device, getting screen “New devices found” but empty list and text “Please configure the app first”
I have 2 other plugs and a led string from another manufacturer successfully connected in Homey app. The new Conecto plug is working fine in Tuya Smart app. I can see the device in Tuya Developer platforms project, online and having same data center and authorization for Homey as other working devices.
Not sure what your suggestion would be. I have checked Homey Tuya Cloud apps settings and back then December 2022 when i set up my first device, having all done as instructed (also using official API only)
Since December 2022, have added two smart plugs successfully, first one November 2023, second January 2024 and both have been found by Homey Tuya Cloud app without problems.
I can certainly do the reconfiguration of the whole thing if that is likely helping but has there been some change now after January which would have made my app configurations no more valid?
Edit: had my IoT core trial expired, could this be the cause?
No, it would just ‘cripple’ all of your Tuya cloud devices on Homey, until your trial period has been extended.
Well, check & double check every little step in the configuration.
And… back then, was the preferred API set to “Official” while you added those devices to Homey?
If not, they, or some, still use the old API, which causes the “configure app first” notification.
Remove those devices, make sure the preferred API is set to “Official” and then add the devices again.
Since last week every couple of days the Tuya cloud app does not seem to work anymore (it stops receiving device updates). When I restart my app it seems to work once again, for a couple of days.
The behavior in the app differs per occurrence; once it was running still but trying to “save” settings in the app it gave a super weird error (didn’t screenshot it) until I restarted the Tuya Cloud app, then it worked once again.
Second time (couple of days later) the app itself was still running and even clicking “save” in settings worked but it did not receive any device updates until I restarted the app.
So in all scenarios the app still remains available, including the flows.
When that doesn’t make a difference:
If you have an offline backup holding the previous firmware, I’d restore that version.
Note: With Homey cloud backups, you can’t restore a backup holding a previous firmware version unfortunately.
