Domoticz-TinyTUYA-Plugin

TUYA Plugin for Domoticz home automation

Controls TUYA devices your network mainly on/off switches and Lights and in the future maybe more devices.

Installation

The plugin make use of the project Tinytuya there for is a IoT Cloud Platform account needed, for setup up see https://github.com/jasonacox/tinytuya step 3 or see PDF https://github.com/jasonacox/tinytuya/files/12836816/Tuya.IoT.API.Setup.v2.pdf for the best compatibility, set your devices to 'DP instruction' in the device settings under iot.tuya.com.

Native Domoticz

Python version 3.8 or higher required & Domoticz version 2022.2 or greater.

To install:

• Go in your Domoticz directory using a command line and open the plugins directory.
• cd ~/domoticz/plugins for most user plugins directory.
• The plugin required Python library tinytuya sudo pip3 install requests==2.23.0 charset-normalizer==3.0.1 tinytuya -U
• Run: git clone https://github.com/Xenomes/Domoticz-TinyTUYA-Plugin.git
• Restart Domoticz.

Domoticz Docker

To install:

• Go in your Domoticz Docker directory using a command line and open the plugins directory.
• Run: git clone https://github.com/Xenomes/Domoticz-TinyTUYA-Plugin.git
• Add to your customstart.sh file the next lines after the 'apt-get -qq update' command.

  echo 'install tinytuya'
  apt install libffi-dev build-essential pkg-config libssl-dev -y
  pip3 install cryptography==3.4.8 requests==2.23.0 charset-normalizer==3.0.1 tinytuya -U

• Rebuilt the Domoticz Docker container.

  docker compose down
  docker compose up -d

• Monitor the install this can take some time. docker logs -f domoticz

Updating

To update:

Native Domoticz

• Upgrade the tinytuya library sudo pip3 install tinytuya -U
• Go in your Domoticz directory using a command line and open the plugins directory then the Domoticz-TinyTUYA-Plugin directory.
• cd ~/domoticz/plugins/Domoticz-TinyTUYA-Plugin for most user or go to the Docker volume mount plugins/Domoticz-TinyTUYA-Plugin directory.
• Run: git pull
• Restart Domoticz.

Domoticz Docker

• Go in your Domoticz Docker directory using a command line and open the plugins directory.
• Run: git pull
• Rebuilt the Domoticz Docker container.

  docker compose down
  docker compose up -d

• Monitor the install this can take some time. docker logs -f domoticz

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Configuration

Enter your apiRegion, apiKey, apiSecret and Search deviceID (This id is used to detect all the other devices), keep the setting 'Data Timeout' disabled. A deviceID can be found on your IOT account of Tuya got to Cloud => your project => Devices => Pick one of you device ID. The initial setup of your devices should be done with the app and this plugin will detect/use the same settings and automatically find/add the devices into Domoticz.

Usage

In the web UI, navigate to the Hardware page. In the hardware dropdown there will be an entry called "TinyTUYA" configure and add the hardware there.

Test device

I had only a RGBWW light to fully test the script, if there is a fuction missing in the plugin you can provide the json data for you device by edit and running the debug_discovery.py in the tools directory and posted in issues on Github.

Change log

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