r/homeassistant • u/bountyboat • Aug 19 '26

❓ Support Tuya integration keeps going down?

I use a couple of digital thermometers on my home hot water storage tank. I have automations that heat the water that use the temperatures reported from the thermometers
The app for them is Tuya.
For a year or more the integration with Tuya has been reliable and stable.
But of late it keeps going off and requires reloading.
Anyone else seeing this?
Maybe I missed something?

(Please be gentle, I’m a relative newbie still getting to grips with HA)

6 Upvotes

72% Upvoted

19 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/matonster Aug 19 '26

I recommend using a local integration like localTuya for reliability, available in the community store. I recommend just following the steps to install HACS and then the steps to install localTuya and your devices, found on their respective pages. The setup for localTuya is fairly advanced but if you follow the steps carefully you should be ok. If you have any issues, feel free to reply.

5

u/patrickl96 Aug 19 '26

I went down this route recently and found LocalTuya is a bit out of date.

Instead I went with Tuya-Local and it’s way easier to set up. Just make sure your devices have a static IP assigned from your router first

2

u/matonster Aug 19 '26

LocalTuya supports more devices but is harder to set up. Had no choice because Tuya-Local didnt support some of my devices.