I've recently purchased some tuya led light strips. More specifically, wifi RGB controllers as light strips and light controllers are mostly interchangeable.
I successfully added the controller to my tuya app and have successfully gotten the tuya plugin in HS4 to recognize the light strip controller. It created a device parent with 4 children. It all works as I would expect except for the MODE child device. See the bold sections towards the bottom.
1. State - tells me if the controller is online or offline - works fine
2. Switch - on/off controls that turn the lights on or off. - works fine (I use HS4 control and the light behaves as I would expect and the tuya app recognizes the change in light status almost instantaneously).
3. Mode - set up with 4 options : White, Color, Scene, Music - does not work fine - see below for more details
4. Color Mode - brings up the color picker - works fine (I use HS4 color picker and the light behaves as I would expect and the changes are recognized on the tuya app). would be great if HS4 color picker when selected would show the current color that had been selected with the app. Not a deal killer for me, but would be nice for that it to be two way.
MODES:
White: turns lights off, but there is no corresponding change on the app. This seems wrong to me. What is HS4 telling tuya to do such that it turns the lights off and there is no change in the app showing what was done? Does this have something to do with it being RGB and not RGBW? This is more of a curiosity and not the purpose of this post.
Color: turns the lights to the last color chosen (whether it was chosen in the color picker in HS4 or the app). - Works fine
Scene: turns the device to the last scene that had been selected in the app. there is no way to choose which of the 8 scenes (night, read, working, leisure, soft, colorful, dazzling, music) from the tuya app. It would be great to have the ability to customize this more and select a specific scene rather than the last one
Music: This does nothing to the lights, but does change the app into a state where the icon shows a spinning record player. This controller does have a microphone where it will change the lights to the music that it hears (reason I bought it). In the tuya app, the music mode is actually the 8th scene and there is no other button in the app that can replicate this behavior of the app displaying a spinning record. It seems like the HS4 plugin knows there may be a music mode, but for this controller, the music mode is one of 8 scenes.
Is there anyway to augment the plugin so that the music button selects the 8th scene (which is the music one) or to add the ability for the scene selector to choose one of the eight scenes.
I successfully added the controller to my tuya app and have successfully gotten the tuya plugin in HS4 to recognize the light strip controller. It created a device parent with 4 children. It all works as I would expect except for the MODE child device. See the bold sections towards the bottom.
1. State - tells me if the controller is online or offline - works fine
2. Switch - on/off controls that turn the lights on or off. - works fine (I use HS4 control and the light behaves as I would expect and the tuya app recognizes the change in light status almost instantaneously).
3. Mode - set up with 4 options : White, Color, Scene, Music - does not work fine - see below for more details
4. Color Mode - brings up the color picker - works fine (I use HS4 color picker and the light behaves as I would expect and the changes are recognized on the tuya app). would be great if HS4 color picker when selected would show the current color that had been selected with the app. Not a deal killer for me, but would be nice for that it to be two way.
MODES:
White: turns lights off, but there is no corresponding change on the app. This seems wrong to me. What is HS4 telling tuya to do such that it turns the lights off and there is no change in the app showing what was done? Does this have something to do with it being RGB and not RGBW? This is more of a curiosity and not the purpose of this post.
Color: turns the lights to the last color chosen (whether it was chosen in the color picker in HS4 or the app). - Works fine
Scene: turns the device to the last scene that had been selected in the app. there is no way to choose which of the 8 scenes (night, read, working, leisure, soft, colorful, dazzling, music) from the tuya app. It would be great to have the ability to customize this more and select a specific scene rather than the last one
Music: This does nothing to the lights, but does change the app into a state where the icon shows a spinning record player. This controller does have a microphone where it will change the lights to the music that it hears (reason I bought it). In the tuya app, the music mode is actually the 8th scene and there is no other button in the app that can replicate this behavior of the app displaying a spinning record. It seems like the HS4 plugin knows there may be a music mode, but for this controller, the music mode is one of 8 scenes.
Is there anyway to augment the plugin so that the music button selects the 8th scene (which is the music one) or to add the ability for the scene selector to choose one of the eight scenes.
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