Fiskekake@vlemmy.nettohomeassistant@lemmy.world•Looking for quick and easy door sensorsEnglish
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1 year agoI have some cheap ass Tuya Zigbee sensors from AliExpress. In my experience they are reliable, quite small, i sill haven’t changed the battery, and they are super cheap. Make sure you get the Zigbee ones, not the wifi version.
I’m by no means an expert, and I’m not sure what API keys you are referring to. I know that Tuya smart devices usually have two versions, a wifi and a Zigbee one. The wifi ones require you to add them using a terrible smartphone app, and the integration with Home assistant sucks. The Zigbee ones work like any other zigbee device, locally controlled. I have several Tuya Zigbee devices which works great, they are integrated in home assistant using zigbee2mqtt.