Sorry rossko57, looking back I agree that was a poorly formed post. I assumed a great deal of foreknowledge which was unfounded. I will do better.
Regardless, I would appreciate it if you could leave out the colourful snark. I realise you’re frustrated with random internet strangers asking befuddled questions, but it comes across as needlessly aggressive irrespective of intent. Again thanks in advance for taking the time to respond.
This is the tutorial I mentioned:
Tuya MQTT tutorial
I initially did post there, and perhaps it would have made more sense, but it felt like I was derailing the thread and subsequently removed it.
I have openhabian 2.4 installed on an RPi 3B+
I have the “misc-mqttbroker - 2.4.0” embedded MQTT broker installed and the “binding-mqtt - 2.4.0” MQTT binding. To the best of my knowledge the Thing I’ve made is online and fine, as reported by PaperUI.
Ignoring the colour channel/item pair for now. I’ve made a channel for the light, named headboard, and linked to a switch. I don’t think that warrants a picture. There’s a lot of extra detail in this part about getting the UUID/localkey pair of the light but I’m confident that’s fine.
Where I come unstuck is troubleshooting from here. Part of the process involves this project:
TheAgentK’s tuya-mqtt bridge
I’m inclined to think that my problem lies here, with my MQTT messages going through but never being translated properly. I just don’t understand the inner workings here; I find it difficult to grasp the programming side of things.
I do appreciate the difficulty in diagnosing and offering solutions in this environment, so apologies again. If I’ve omitted anything or there is something that needs clarifying let me know, I find it difficult to backtrack and break down processes without feeling like I’ve over explained the details to death.