node-red-contrib-tuya-devices

Support for Tuya devices in SmartHome projects using Node-RED.
The goal of the project is to allow using local devices supports Tuya in Node-Red

Getting Started

Prerequisites: Node-RED installation. For details see here.

Install via npm

$ cd ~/.node-red
$ npm install node-red-contrib-tuya-devices

then restart node-red

The Tuya devices are represented by config Nodes (single Node per device). The flow Nodes references a device node and can exists multiple times in different flows. It can be defined a project object to group and control all Tuya devices in the local network. The IP addresses of the devices will be detect automaticaly. If configured a cloud access the device capabilities will be downloded and cached localy.

First steps

Insert Tuya manager node. In the manager config form:

• Add new tuya-project. In the project config form:
  • set the name for the project
  • Add new tuya-cloud. In the cloud config form:
    • set the AccessID, AccessKey and Any deviceId (needed to recognise the userId and all devices mapped to the same user account)
    • optional can be set the Tuya cloud userId if known and a name for the config node

If the cloud configuration is correct and the manager node has received at least once a message with topic 'updateDevices' all mapped devices will be listed in the config. The device capabilities will be cached localy. With the plus button can be added a config node for every local device. This config nodes contains all setting nedded to use the device localy and can be selected in the configuration of the Tuya device nodes.

Changelog

v1.1.x

• Make possible to use local devices connected by gateway
• Refactoring local chache
• List cloud devices and models in the manager node configuration and create config nodes using '+' button
• Model elements can be manualy translated by editing of the file "translations.json" in .node-red\projects\node-red-contrib-tuya-devices\resources{projectname}\

v1.0.x

• Initial implementation
• Supports WLAN Tuya devices

TODO

• add support for devices using gateway
• flow examples
• Make possible to translate cloud tokens (service descriptions) to english. Existing cache can be translated using manager command with topic 'translateDeviceModels'.

Disclaimer

The software is provided as-is under the MIT license. The author cannot be held responsible for any unintended behaviours.

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