This update seems pretty tame from the release notes, but I was worried about the python update.
I have a lot of HACS integrations, and several HACS custom repository integrations that are updated very slowly when things get updated around them.
I’m happy to report that all of my integrations work just fine after the update.
I am surprised to see how overwhelmingly popular Tuya devices are for Home Assistant users. It appears that devices using the official integration are very combersome to setup, they are cloud dependent, and they will often need to be re-setup due to a re-acceptance of the ToS.
Are people actively buying these devices? Are a lot of homes setup with legacy Tuya devices?
I personally have no Tuya devices in my home and after reading the integration page, I would actively avoid them. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/tuya
The integration page shows that Tuya is used by 29.2% of active installations and the number of devices from the graph show a huge gap between Tuya and all other devices. This leads me to think that these devices would be prioritized by the developers. Am I missing something? Are these devices so cheap that they are just worth it for many to deal with the consequences of the cloud and apparent hassle of setup?
I had this same issue with one of those little cube $10 voice hardware things. I was using the locally run wake word and it would crash HA every time I activated the wake word. I also have the Voice PE hardware and this never has caused the issue. I couldn’t find anything about it and didn’t really use the extra satellite much, so I just took it out of service for the last month.
So a tuya dev account can make them local, this is the piece I was missing. Now I want to get one just to try it out.