Installing smartlife app into hubitat

[scottransell]

I just got my Hubitat C8 and I have a lot of WIFI plugs being used with other WIFI equipment. They are all installed on my smart life app and wounder if possible, to take the app and move it to Hubitat to run it through it, When I try to find devices on Hubitat it wont find them? Making it impossible to use for what I wanted. Thinking this Hub might be more then what I was wanting, but not being able to do what I wanted it to do.
Any help would be appreciated. Not a big tech person, understand the basics.

[bertabcd1234]

If you are new, I would recommend sticking to devices known to be compatible. In general, this includes most standard Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Matter devices, as well as some network-accessible devices where the manufacturer offers a documented, preferably local, API that makes it possible for other systems like Hubitat to integrate:

List of Compatible Devices

Unfortunately, Tuya does not, but they have a cloud API that is at least in beta. There is no built-in integration at this time, though new ones are always being looked at based on user feedback.

That being said, there are often "community" apps or drivers that support more devices (or sometimes even just more advanced features on devices that are already compatible). I found this one for Tuya with a search:

[BETA] Tuya Cloud Driver (Limited device support)

I developed this cloud driver for my personal use because I have some Tuya WiFi bulbs that can't be converted to Tasmota at this time and so I decided to port some of the code Tuya published on Github so I could get basic control of them from Hubitat. I have limited ability to support this driver but think it is useful and functional enough to share with the community. Features: Downloads your device list from Tuya and creates child-devices automatically Supports push updates from Tuya for n…

I'd suggest taking a look and seeing if it might work for your devices!

[chrisbvt]

Welcome!

For plugs, all you really need is a Samsung account, and the SmartThings app on your phone to set things up.

I came here from SmartThings, when Samsung killed the Groovy cloud. In the SmartThings app, you can add SmartLife as a "Linked Service", and then it will pull in all your plugs and switches and make them SmartThings devices. I hated it at the time because it would not pull in dimmers or anything more complex, but it it was great for outlets and switches.

So, there is a Hubitat community app called HubiThings Replica:

[RELEASE] HubiThings Replica

A Hubitat application to allow real-time bi-direction updates between Hubitat and SmartThings devices, modes, scenes, weather and push notifications utilizing the SmartThings OAuth Cloud API. Includes the ability to have multiple ST locations with multiple ST hubs replicated to a single Hubitat hub. It is not a requirement to have a ST hub to operate mirror functions to cloud native ST devices. This solution requires a reasonable degree of understanding of both Hubitat and SmartThings. The orig…

After you install that app, you go into the settings for it to link it to your SmartThings account. Then you can authorize from the list of devices it pulls in from SmartThings, which ones you want to become Hubitat devices.

The result is a Hubitat device, linked through the cloud to SmartThings servers, linked through the cloud to Tuya Servers, linked through the cloud back to your local device and Hubitat hub. But it works.

[LearningHubitat]

That has to be the most convoluted path I have ever heard of to get plugs to work but you know you said the most absolutely important thing we ever need to hear.

@chrisbvt

But it works.

All jokes aside thank you for the explanation.