[XorNot]

Do you think there is any hope of convincing Tuya to make their devices easily flashable?

They'd be the unquestioned king of the space if us local only people could reliably convert them to ESPhome, and they're the way a lot of brands end up making things "smart".

[farawayea]

Tuya's entire business model is about getting their customers' data and getting them to pay for their services through vendor lock-in. They're not going to give up on all that juicy data collection and on the money they currently charge.

[eternityforest]

I just wish they had a proper local protocol that didn't involve some dev account thing that might or might not expire and need manual fussing...