Moving from HA to Hubitat? or not. Tuya WIFI devices

[user6263]

Hi
This is my second attempt/approach to Hubitat Hub. I had C-8 and today I remembered why I did not moved to it from HA.
I have around 25 Tuya WIFI devices (Switches, Bulbs, Dimmers) , and some zWave and ZigBee PIR.
So after Paul Hibbert's new advert fo C-8 Pro I decided to try again and buuuuuuu.
Again I do have issue with adding local tuya driver/devices.
I am suing smart home systems for over 20 years.
X10, homeSeeer and now HA for a long time.
I decided to give HUBBITAT a try but or I am too old or I just can not find any simple Step by STEP of how to do it?
Is there anyone who can simply step by step point me to how to do it and where from to download it,
I searched the community, google and YT but do not see any simple answer. Just old posts about tuya IOT cloud. So is it not working locally or I just do not know how to find it?

[rlithgow1]

Hubitat does not support tuya wifi devices directly. There is a beta community integration to attach the tuya hub to hubitat. Hubitat only will directly support wifi devices that can be controlled directly (without cloud) like LIFX, or nanoleaf or shelly, etc. Any cloud integrations tend to be left to the community...Hubitat is all about local control... Tuya zigbee devices connect right up to hubitat.

@kkossev is our resident Tuya genius.

[user6263]

Thanks for the answer so what you are saying there is no way to connect the wifi bulbs locally even that I have them local in HA? So I know the IPs IDs and Keys for them?

[rlithgow1]

Not without the tuya hub. Hubitat isn't interested in cloud in general. Only real exceptions are Rachio and Voice control.

You may be able to use node red to connect them. See here Discussion of local control of Tuya Smart Wifi devices without flashing firmware

Some stuff can be converted to Tasmota (which can then connect to hubitat) or you might also look at this... DOn't know if it still applies or not

[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…

[aaiyar]

@user6263

so what you are saying there is no way to connect the wifi bulbs locally even that I have them local in HA? So I know the IPs IDs and Keys for them?

It's possible - at least for some TuYA WiFi devices. Read the details in this thread. And you don't need Node-RED. You can set them up as cloud devices, and then change the child device driver to one that controls the device locally.

Discussion of local control of Tuya Smart Wifi devices without flashing firmware

Discussion of local control of Tuya Smart Wifi devices without flashing firmware I decided to dive into this over the weekend. I am guessing some people out there have figured some of this out already on their own and maybe it is hiding in this forum somewhere. I decided to try out a node-red implementation. There are a few out there but this one looked like it had the best documentation and was being maintained still: Here is my Flow I have setup so far for a LED light strip which will keep…

[tjfontaine]

Seeing as you already have Home Assistant, leave the TUYA plugs integrated through that. Then add (in hubitat) the HOME ASSISTANT DEVICE BRIDGE smart app. This will allow bi-directional communications between HA and HE ... I do all my automations and programming in HE - but I have some selected wifi devices tied in using this method. (Roborock vacuum, Tapo Cameras, Tuya devices, wifi TVs, etc). It really works great - I really like the one-two punch of Hubitat and HA.

Reply to this if you need help - I have documented how I did this.