I purchased a Zigbee Vibration Sensor that works in the Tuya SmartLife app. I am trying to connect it to Homey so I can use it as a WHEN in an Advance Flow.
When I try to connect it to Homey, I select the Tuya app, select the Vibration sensor, and then it directs me to connect it to the Tuya Smart or SmartLife app. I have the Smart Life app on my phone as I use it for some Wi-fi plugs. But I cannot connect the Vibration sensor in the app on my phone because it is zigbee, and my Android phone obviously doesn’t have zigbee capability.
If I try to connect it in Homey by selecting Zigbee device instead of selecting Tuya and Vibration Sensor, then it connects, but it only connects as a generic zigbee device and does nothing.
Any assistance to get this connected would be appreciated. Thanks.
The official Tuya app is cloud only. It relies on your zigbee devices being connected to a bridge in the SmartLife app.
INSTRUCTIONS
The Tuya App for Homey is compatible with both the ‘Tuya Smart’ and ‘Smart Life’ apps for iOS and Android. Before connecting your Tuya-enabled devices to Homey, ensure they are first linked to one of these apps.
Besides that, there is always the option of using zigbee2mqtt, but this would involve a more complex setup requiring a zigbee dongle and the zigbee2mqtt service running on another computer, an MQTT broker and the zigbee2mqtt app on Homey.
