How should this work?

[kpmkpm]

Thank you for the awesome integration.

I am a bit buzzed though. I have installed this manually and can add devices and entities with HA UI. In instructions there seems to be a way to also write device and entity information in the configuration.yaml. I think this means the HA configuration.yaml located (in my case) in /home/homessistant/.homeassistant? However, while adding devices with UI, no lines are added to configuration.yaml, and I am wondering there are they stored?

It seems that (local) access to the devices seems to drop if I am also using the Tuya smartlife app with my mobile at the same time. It even seems to do this occasionally even if I use different user which has the devices shared? Or should I somehow block the devices to access internet and they should only be either using localtuya integration or "offical" tuya intergration not the both at the same time.

[JasperS2307]

@kpmkpm

If i'm correct, the configuration of the devices you add is saved (in key=> value format) as following:

First, there is the configuration of each entry which is stored in /home/homessistant/.homeassistant/.storage/core.config_entries (if you keep the original structure), this contains information about the DPS points, IP, keys, name, ID, source and what entities u selected to create, basicly, everything u saw and/or set when adding the devices.

Example entry:

{
    "entry_id": "1234567890abcdef",
    "version": 1,
    "domain": "localtuya",
    "title": "ayuTPlug office",
    "data": {
        "friendly_name": "ayuTPlug office",
        "host": "10.14.11.241",
        "local_key": "1234567890abcdef",
        "protocol_version": "3.3",
        "entities": [
            {
                "friendly_name": "ayuTPlug office",
                "current": 18,
                "current_consumption": 19,
                "voltage": 20,
                "id": 1,
                "platform": "switch"
            }
        ],
        "device_id": "1234567890abcdef",
        "dps_strings": [
            "1 (value: True)",
            "9 (value: 0)",
            ...
        ],
        "product_key": "1234567890abcdef"
    },
    "options": {},
    "pref_disable_new_entities": false,
    "pref_disable_polling": false,
    "source": "user",
    "unique_id": "1234567890abcdef",
    "disabled_by": null
}

Second, there is core.device_registry, information about "model", "manufacturer", name, ID, area, disabled (if u did) is stored here.

{
    "config_entries": [
        "{entry_id}"
    ],
    "connections": [],
    "identifiers": [
        [
            "localtuya",
            "local_{unique_id}"
        ]
    ],
    "manufacturer": "Unknown",
    "model": "1234567890abcdef",
    "name": "ayuTPlug office",
    "sw_version": "3.3",
    "entry_type": null,
    "id": "1234567890abcdef",
    "via_device_id": null,
    "area_id": "office",
    "name_by_user": null,
    "disabled_by": null
},

Third, there is core.entity_registry, containing, maybe u guessed it when reading the name, information about the entities.

{
    "entity_id": "switch.ayutplug_office",
    "config_entry_id": "{entry_id}",
    "device_id": "{device.id}",
    "area_id": null,
    "unique_id": "local_{}",
    "platform": "localtuya",
    "name": null,
    "icon": null,
    "disabled_by": null,
    "capabilities": {},
    "supported_features": 0,
    "device_class": null,
    "unit_of_measurement": null,
    "original_name": "ayuTPlug office",
    "original_icon": null
}

About the second question, I believe its a known "issue", maybe #87 can be interesting to read as well