Tuya- Smart Life, Smart Living

Every time this app updates, functionality plummets. On Google Home, everything shows as offline. The Tuya app can't tell if something is off or on, so you have to hit power until it figures it out. I have one light that fully disconnects every other day. I have to manually turn it off and back on to reconnect. Of course this means none of the group settings or timers work. Removing all bulbs in my house from the app and reconnecting them in hopes it works multiple times a year isn't convenient.

The devices are always off-line. It doesn't matter if I'm home or away, it doesn't stay connected for long and the only way I've found to be able to connect again is is to physically touch a button in the device. I bought these to use while I'm out of town, so what's the point if my devices are never online? That said, when they were connected, thankfully I created meal plans and even when my devices will not connect or they say they're offline, it still feeds the pets at the predetermined time

only reason it's less than five stars is that this app is only one of I think at least four other apps. they all work with the same products however the accounts are not connected and so before I understood all of this I have different devices set up on different apps and so the controls are only available for each device on each app the only saving grace is Google home which allows me to connect it all together without having to ReDiscover the devices on one app. need consolidation into 1 app.

Even though the cat litter box is automatic it hasn't been cleaning or it gets stuck sometimes. There is nowhere in the app to setup a cleaning schedule. There is only a delay time after the cat goes. I had to Google instructions on how to set it up & it is not easy or straightforward, not user friendly. You have to go to the smart tab, then automation, then create a scene. Too much & too difficult to figure out. It says set action to perform cleaning but there is none.

Horrible to navigate through looping meaningless menus, it makes you change every light bulb individually rather than creating a saved setting to switch between. Crammed with useless ai slop features that don't contribute anything useful, just further exists to frustrate you. Literally wouldn't use this if I had another option unfortunately, but who has the time to create something that works these days. Disappointing.