I am surprised to see how overwhelmingly popular Tuya devices are for Home Assistant users. It appears that devices using the official integration are very combersome to setup, they are cloud dependent, and they will often need to be re-setup due to a re-acceptance of the ToS.
Are people actively buying these devices? Are a lot of homes setup with legacy Tuya devices?
I personally have no Tuya devices in my home and after reading the integration page, I would actively avoid them. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/tuya
The integration page shows that Tuya is used by 29.2% of active installations and the number of devices from the graph show a huge gap between Tuya and all other devices. This leads me to think that these devices would be prioritized by the developers. Am I missing something? Are these devices so cheap that they are just worth it for many to deal with the consequences of the cloud and apparent hassle of setup?
I would convert them over to esphome. Once they started locking them down I quit buying them.
IMHO the developers are waiting for tuya to do what all the others have and shut down the servers. Once that happens there will be around 29 percent of HomeAssistant users really angry.
I’m guessing a lot of people started off with tuya devices and then found HomeAssistant they continue to use them because they have them and they still work. It you are thinking about buying some reference my previous statement. It’s not if but when they will stop the cloud servers.