FAQ

Low Power Devices

A device that has Low Power Mode, applied on such as Wi-Fi door locks and sensors.
The device will report its status every x minutes. Most of the time, the device will go into sleep mode, and most likely it will disconnect from the network. Some Device has an option to control the reports peroid. In order to add this device, you need to specify the device sleep time in the device configartion.

If you add the device while it's sleeping and it's disconnected from the network, it won't connect
If you changed any value on the device while it is asleep, the new states will be applied when it wakes up.
Try to avoid WiFi Sensors devices and go for BLE or ZigBee.

IR Remotes

Usually, the IR remote devices doesn't have DPS status, so if you encounter an error no datapoints could be found If the device information is incorrect, this won't work.
you can ignore the handshake (which fails if no DPS is found) by adding 0 in the manual DPS field.

ZigBee Gateway

The ZigBee gateway isn't supposed to be added unless it has more features other than just being a hub.
Otherwise, if you added them, you will encounter an error stating no datapoints could be found.

Devices Discovery

By default, LocalTuya includes a discovery feature that scans for Tuya devices within the local network and lists them in the config flow. However, this function requires Home Assistant to have the same subnets as Tuya devices

Cloud Pull

The cloud pull feature is just something I added to inform users that there might be some DPS that can be used, but weren't reported by the device. Most of the cloud-pulled DPS aren't really useful; they might be encrypted or have empty values. However, it won't change the fact that the device contains these DPS, so using them is up to the user.