tuyaiot2mqtt

Connect Tuya IoT Development Platform to local MQTT server

This little script connect Tuya IoT Platform to local MQTT server. In this method is possible to catch specific messages that Tuya devices only send to cloud and not possible to hande it with local tuya API (like alarm system alert, doorbell push, etc...)

This method is build a MQTT connection between Tuya and your computer. It is the most "deeper" connection that possible to use it with regular user. So it really fast. But of course, it depend the Tuya servers availability!

Attention!

• This script not able to control tuya devices! My goal is only catch "cloud only" messages, I control all devices with tuya-local integration.
• It only work that you register https://iot.tuya.com/ website and create a project! Follow this rule to do this: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/tuya/
• To this script work, need to add "Industry Project Client Service" to your project and enable "Message Service"
• This script send formated json to local MQTT, but this unsuitable to send it to Home Assistant or other Smart Home system directly! Need to deal with it. The simplest way, that use Node-RED!
• If Tuya servers are not available, of course this script is not working!

INSTALL

dependencies:

• Python 3
• Pip3
• tuya-connector-python
• paho-mqtt

Install Python 3 and modules, and clone this repo. (install modules with sudo pip3 install --user argument, if you want to use it systemd service!)

Edit tuyaiot2mqtt.py, fill out the "config" section.

Available regions:

Location	MQ_ENDPOINT
China		wss://mqe.tuyacn.com:8285/
America		wss://mqe.tuyaus.com:8285/
Europe		wss://mqe.tuyaeu.com:8285/
India		wss://mqe.tuyain.com:8285/

Run this commands:

chmod +x tuyaiot2mqtt.py

./tuyaiot2mqtt.py

Done!

Run as systemd service

install tuyaiot2mqtt.py

sudo install -D -m 764 iot2mqtt.py /opt/tuyaiot2mqtt/tuyaiot2mqtt.py

create a new systemd service:

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/tuyaiot2mqtt.service

copy this:

[Unit]
Description=tuyaiot2mqtt service
After=multi-user.target
[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /opt/tuyaiot2mqtt/tuyaiot2mqtt.py
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Run as Docker Container

dependencies:

Install latest Docker Engine

https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

• clone this repo
• go do "Docker" folder
• Run sudo docker build -t tuyaiot2mqtt . to create docker image
• Fill out the .env file to the necessary data
• Start Container with this command: sudo docker run --name tuyaiot2mqtt --env-file .env --restart always -d tuyaiot2mqtt

Install from Docker Hub

• download .env file from this repository and fill out.
• run this command: sudo docker run --env-file .env --restart always -d --name tuyaiot2mqtt vampywiz17/tuyaiot2mqtt

This script and all dependencies are tested in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS