Tuya Inc.

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Tuya Inc. is a Chinese IoT platform developer and provider^[clarify?]. Tuya's technology is included in many consumer devices, from cheap dollar-store electronics to high-grade designer lamps.

Tuya Inc.

Basic information
Founded	2014
Type	Public
Industry	Smart electronics, platform-as-a-service, artificial intelligence
Official website	https://tuya.com

It is often not visible from a product's description that Tuya components are used. In the majority of cases, Tuya-equipped devices require online registration before the smart device will connect to WiFi. As customers of the platform can rebrand Tuya's Smart Life cloud-connecting app, only by inspecting the chips on the circuit board can customers know whether Tuya components have been used.

Tuya started out with devices built on the more common ESP8266 and ESP32 chips, but later switched to their own line of chips. Tuya's chip line is designed to be drop-in pin-compatible to ESP chips, but differs in its API. Tuya thus prevents users from installing ESP-compatible custom firmware, which is needed to use Tuya-equipped devices independently, without reliance on Tuya's servers^{[elaborate why this is bad]}.

External links

• Tuya company website
• LibreTiny (formerly LibreTuya) - arduino compatible open source firmware (mainly) for Tuya chips
• ESPHome does incooperate LibreTiny and allows full local control over supported MCU's from Realtek and Beken
• Tuya Cloudcutter - A tool that disconnects Tuya IoT devices from the cloud, allowing them to run completely locally
• comprehensive but still incomplete list of manufactures using Tuya