Hello Dylan,
(EDIT: Which app do you mean by “Official Tuya Cloud app”? It doesn’t exist:
Theres one “official” Tuya app by Athom, not usable by new users;
And there’s one “community” Tuya Cloud app by Jurgen Heine > the one you seem to bash.)
Wow…I really appreciate your work and dedication, but I just read your last long-ish update and couldn’t really believe my eyes: I hope you’ll remove this childish and blunt comparison to the Tuya Cloud app:
Community developers should not bash eachother like you do here, right? You actually give Jurgen “the finger” from what I read… Don’t go down to that level, you don’t really need that, honestly.
I think it’s just cheap and very unfriendly.
Thx.
Of course you can emphasise the benefits of zigbee over cloud connections in general, like privacy, dependency and such. Nothing wrong with that.
About the bullets:
1.
Absolutely not true. The API is fine, but to use it for free, longer than 6 months, users need to prolong that supscription twice a year.
Many don’t know / forgot and then complain the app just stopped working.
People have difficulties configuring the app, because they don’t follow instructions to the letter. This is not because the API or app is faulty.
It’s all in the very extended manual in post 1 of the TC community app topic.
I’d like to see a test please. The Tuya wifi devices respond almost faster than Homey zigbee. Note the word almost ![]()
3
And? Many Homey apps out there need API keys or additional accounts, whatever, nothing new.
Yes Zigbee doesn’t need that, true. But that’s just the nature of a local protocol and a cloud protocol.


