So instead of asking help with that app, youâre asking for a new app?
The complicated process is not the fault of the Homey app but the fault of how TuYaâs systems work, so a new app will not miraculously make the process less complicated.
Thank you, I submitted a request through your link. Do you know another brand that can manage this equipment so that I can download another Homey application?
Yes, what Iâm looking for is a new application that is based on the Smart Life app and can retrieve account information to control RGB LED strips and an air conditioner.
Yes, I tried it, but I couldnât get the LED strip to be discovered. Do you think it would be possible with this application and this strip? Perhaps itâs because itâs already associated with the Smart Life app and needs to be dissociated before linking it with Tuya Cloud?
After analyzing, this application is as complicated as the other one, as it also requires the creation of the API access token. Itâs this part that I want to ignore. It would have been simpler if the API access token were available directly in the Smart Life application, as is the case with some other apps. I tried to create the key API access token through the procedure, but it didnât work. Too bad, I thought it would be easier. I made a purchase for nothing.
Very unpleasant contemptâŠ
we donât buy Tuya devices because they are cheap but also because often there are no other availability for the features they offer.
Not everybody is a millionaire eitherâŠ
Please respect people and their choice. They just would like Homey to support their device (or homey will fail )
This has nothing to do with any of that. Thereâs a reason why TuYa devices are cheap: itâs much easier for manufacturers to put a ready-made TuYa chip in their devices instead of having to set up their own infrastructure, and in my experience especially the really cheap devices are of questionable quality (and if we venture into conspiracy theory territory, you could wonder who would benefit from having all those millions devices being connected to cloud servers controlled by a Chinese entity).
I donât mind people buying TuYa devices at all, I have some myself. But TuYa doesnât really want other home automation systems to be able to control their devices (why not? who knows, perhaps they just want to be able to collect all your personal data themselvesâŠ) and they make it very difficult to do so if you want to persevere. Thatâs not the fault of Homey, or Home Assistant (which has to deal with the very same situation).
If you want to use TuYa devices with âalternativeâ systems like Homey, you have to put up with the roadblocks that TuYa puts up before you can do so. Itâs not Homey making the process difficult, itâs TuYa themselves. Complaining about it here is useless as nobody can do anything about it.
Few users notice the following sections in the 1st post of the Tuya Cloud topic, which states you can use almost any Tuya (based) device with Homey, but not directly as Tuya Cloud app supported device:
When you have any questions , please use the Tuya Cloud topic.
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