Is there any other way to find the Tuya Localkey.?
I have my device flashed with tasmota, and Module type defined as Magic Home(34).
Yes, with the so-called “man-in-the-middle”-method. In a nutshell, it includes setting up a proxy on a smartphone and let the bulbs connect to the phone during the initial setup, while you capture the information sent by the bulbs with the proxy.
Find a instruction here:
In my case, the bulbs already have been set up, and I did not have a iPhone I found the method with emulator more convenient as you have a plain text file where you just need to copy&paste the local keys.
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Thank for this great work.
Did anybody try to include a tuyaapi smart plug with power metering. they are around 15 Euro (Wlan Smart Steckdose AISIRER).
Regards
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The procedure for bulbs and plugs is basically the same.
With a plug, the tuya topic starts with
tuya/socket/22345555...
So just replace “lightbulb” with “socket”.
Regarding metering, I guess this will not work right now, cause the script doesn’t support it yet. You may do a feature request at GitHub.
Cheers
Really nice comprehensive guide.
@AgentK Nice work getting on the MQTT setup.
I’ve added links to your post and github on my post and github.
I’ve got a python script which automatically gets all the device ids and ips of the devices on your network. It removes the pain of having to manually find the id, and arp and then greping the mac. Feel free to copy or use it in your guide/github. It also gets the device state if njstuya is installed, but works fine as a standalone. https://github.com/unparagoned/njsTuya
python njstuyamonitor.py -v
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Hello everyone,
I am working on a video to show people how to use the tuya binding but, am having a little bit of trouble. I keep getting this:
(node:28317) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Error communicating with device. Make sure nothing else is trying to control it or connected to it.
at Socket.client.setTimeout (/etc/openhab2/scripts/tuya-mqtt/node_modules/tuyapi/index.js:471:35)
at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:273:13)
at Socket.emit (events.js:182:13)
at Socket._onTimeout (net.js:453:8)
at ontimeout (timers.js:436:11)
at tryOnTimeout (timers.js:300:5)
at listOnTimeout (timers.js:263:5)
at Timer.processTimers (timers.js:223:10)
(node:28317) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:28317) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.
I would really appreciate any help I can get. Thank you in advance!
I’ve only been using OpenHab for a few days but would really like to get my smart plugs connected to it.
Could somebody please give me some more info on how to install the TuyaAPI-MQTT Client on a windows 10 install of OpenHAB.
Thanks.
Sounds like you have probably are using the wrong ip or key. Getting the device status doesn’t use the key, so that’s probably your first port of call to figure out which.
There is some development going on to upload custom firmware like tasmota to tuya devices without physically opening it and bypassing tuya cloud. It’s still under heavy development.
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Does anybody know if the way to get the local key has changed?
I’ve followed the guide to connect to it with a rooted version of bluestacks and I’ve navigated to the file stated “preferences_global_keyeu1538398658843UYtHD.xml” but my file only contains this.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>
<map />
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Well I’ve managed to get it working. In doing so I think I’ve found an easier was to get the local key.
The below has worked for me on my android phone.
1. Install "Package Capture" from play store.
2. When you first open it it will ask you to install a certificate, this is needed for it to work.
3. In the top bar there are two "Play" symbols. The one with a 1 allows you to capture packets from certain apps.
4. Click on that and select "Smart Life" from the list of apps.
5. It will popup about setting up a vpn and will then start capturing packets.
6. Open Smart Life and on the screen showing "All Devices" pull down the screen to cause a refresh.
7. Go back to Packet Capture and hit the Stop button at the top.
8. You should now have an entry below showing x number of captures.Tap that to open it.
In mine I had to open the last packet in the list that was marked as SSL.
9. Scroll down through the first few blocks and you should see a large JSON block
This contains a lot of code but if you scroll through it you should see line like the ones below
"devAttribute": 0
"name": Smart Socket 4"
"timezoneId": "Europe/London"
"localKey": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
I’ve used the local keys i found doing this to setup two smart plugs and they are both working a treat.
In that large JSON code block it should list every device you have and all their local keys.
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That’s what the instructions used to be and I thought they changed for a reason. But I’m going to steal your nice summary rather than referring people to potentially more complicated and less reliable methods.
I’m glad you found it helpful. I’ve since setup my 6 smart sockets after getting all the details from that one capture.
Thanks for your walk through.
Yes, monitoring the power is available. There’s a another topic called dps/. For my smart plugs, topic:
tuya/socket/1274756684f3ebb88ee7/XXXXXXX/192.168.1.222/dps/6 is the volts (e.g. 2372 - needs to be divided by 10)
and
tuya/socket/1274756684f3ebb88ee7/XXXXXXX/192.168.1.222/dps/5 is the watts (again, needs to be divided by 10)
I have set these up as two additional channels.
There’s also mA at dps/4, but I don’t have that configured.
For ref, I have these plugs: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TECKIN-Outlet-Wireless-Control-Required/dp/B07CVJYV3G/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1549473531&sr=8-3&keywords=teckin+smart+plug
Hi guys,
i have PIR Motion sensor added in the SmartLife app. The PIR Sensor it is NOT compatible with Alexa. So, is it possible to get status from the PIR Sensor, which is detected by the SmartLIfe app using this script, and then manipulate the status for other purposes? I’m planning to connect to the OpenHab 2.4, get Status and the create rule to control other devices.
Thanks in advance, Andreja
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Hi,
Thanks a lot for this guide. It works great.
I have first used it on Tuya smart plugs that can be found on Amazon and then found cheap compatible devices (4.24€) on AliExpress. I have tested one and it works:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/APP-Control-Basic-Wireless-Wifi-Switch-For-Smart-Home-Automation-Relay-Module-Remote-Controller-10A-90/32961149555.html
Thanks for sharing this topic. Via this wrapper https://github.com/unparagoned/njsTuya I learned that my Tuya device (led dimmer switch) also has these dps values .
For some reason I can’t control my dimmer switch within OpenHAB using this tutorial, but I am able to controll it via njsTuya or even via homebridge-tuya (so my device id and key is fine). I’m also able to track OpenHAB mqtt output via a windows mqqt.fx client.
Now I’m trying to figure out why my dimmer switch isn’t reacting to my command topic. Does anyone here maybe has a suggestion on where to look for a fix?
Via njs tuya I get the switch on with
node njstuya.js -ip <deviceip> -id <deviceid> -key <devicekey> set "{ \"dps\": 1, \"set\": true }"
and off with
node njstuya.js -ip <deviceip> -id <deviceid> -key <devicekey> set "{ \"dps\": 1, \"set\": false }"
Suggestions on this are very welcome.
I’ve never used tuya-mqtt and don’t have much experience with mqtt or js, so I’m probably completely wrong here. But it looks like the dps values are being displayed but you can’t set them. All the functions are already there to do it but I couldn’t see how they are joined up. I had a quick look and added a few lines, which seems like it should do what you want. But I haven’t tested it or know that it will run. So try using my modified tuya-mqtt file. I just added a couple of function to the mqtt_client.on function, it’s all below.
mqtt_client.on('message', function (topic, message) {
....
if (exec == "command") {
....
if (exec == "dps") {
var status = topic[6];
device.set(status);
}
if (exec == "dpsJ") {
var status = topic[6];
device.set(JSON.parse(status));
}
if (exec == "color") {
...
Git hub link Link https://github.com/unparagoned/tuya-mqtt/blob/master/tuya-mqtt.j
So there already are functions to publish the data, I added a couple that receive messages and send the dps commands to your device. So I used a similar format as they are published. But it’s not exactly the same I don’t know if that’s bad or will brake things.
I added two topic or whatever, dps and dpsJ. The J means that the DPSCOMMAND goes through a JSON.parse before being sent on.
I guess if you send a message to to something like this it might work.
type + "/" + tuyaID + "/" + tuyaKey + "/" + tuyaIP + "/" +dps +"/" +DPSCOMMAND"
So something like this
socket/32kdjtuyaIDsdfdf/3dfxtuyaKey/123.123.1.0.1/dps/"{ \"dps\": 1, \"set\": true }"
socket/32kdjtuyaIDsdfdf/3dfxtuyaKey/123.123.1.0.1/dpsJ/"{ \"dps\": 1, \"set\": true }"
Hey @RikM,
if you only want to turn your switches on or off, you can do this via the MQTT-Topic "tuya/socket/<deviceid>/<devicekey>/<deviceip>/command/" with the message “on” or “off”.
The changes of @unparagoned are possible, but not fully MQTT compliant. I will probably use a similar function in the future to set other DPS values via MQTT. But for your problem this should not be necessary at the moment.
Currently you can only switch Tuya devices on and off, and change the color of light bulbs. If this really doesn’t work, I’ll be happy to help you. Just write me an issue ticket on GitHub and I’ll see what doesn’t work.
Please make sure that it’s really my script and not a misconfiguration of Openhab and MQTT.
If you want more functions, you can simply create them as issue ticket at GitHub.
I hope the information will help you.
You are correct that people will be able to use it as is to turn most devices off and on without requiring any dps options and I’m not that familiar with your script so you might be doing something really fancy. But when you TuyaDevice.set(true) using tuyapi and don’t provide a dps setting it defaults to using "dps": 1, which works for most but not all devices. So unless they can specify the dps settings, they won’t be able to toggle the power on or off. I had someone who tried dps 1-10 without any success, their devices uses "dps": 101 to do anything. You were doing some really fancy stuff with dps for the color lights but I think I think most people want the dps options just for basic power toggling rather than some kind of fancy feature. I, myself didn’t realise some devices didn’t work with the default settings until a few people brought it up. You kind of have everything there in your code already, you even get the schema and show the various dps states, but just not those last few lines to set or change those states.