# Tuya LED strip installation

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/tuya-led-strip-installation/77652>\
**Category:** Installation\
**Created:** [July 8, 2019, 6:36am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/tuya-led-strip-installation/77652 "2019-07-08T06:36:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![daunte](https://community.openhab.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@daunte](https://community.openhab.org/u/daunte)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/tuya-led-strip-installation/77652/3 "2019-07-09T01:51:46Z")

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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.

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This is the tutorial I mentioned:  
[Tuya MQTT tutorial](https://community.openhab.org/t/step-by-step-guide-for-adding-tuya-bulbs-wi-fi-smart-led-smart-life-app-to-oh2-using-tuya-mqtt-js-by-agentk/59371)

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.

 ![MQTT%20thing](https://community-openhab-org.s3.dualstack.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/c/5/c591fa2f7f350e8e692ab557fc4f11a4dc744318.png)

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](https://github.com/TheAgentK/tuya-mqtt)

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.

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