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?
Every bulb I have is Tuya. They are sold under Feit, Merkury, and other names too. I got a lot of these for $2.5 on sale at walmart.
After setting up with Tuya Local (not local tuya) they all work instantly and never disconnect.
Sure they aren’t as vividly saturated as Phillips hue, but they are 1/24th the cost… My entire home filled with bulbs cost the same as a SINGLE bulb from Phillips