With the recent shutdown of the Tuya Smart Life service on IFTTT, many people are left wondering how to integrate their Tuya Smart Life devices with other smart devices around the home.
SEQUEmatic now supports direct integration with Tuya Smart Life. Combined with the IFTTT webhook service, SEQUEmatic can bridge that gap! Read on to learn how.
First, you need to link your SEQUEmatic account to Tuya. Navigate to your settings page and click the Linked Services button.
Next, click Link account next to the description of the Tuya Smart Life service.
You will be redirected to the secure Tuya Smart Life login page, where you should login with your Tuya credentials.
Tuya will explain what it means to link your account, then you will need to click Confirm authorization to complete linking.
Once linking is complete, you will be redirected back to the Linked services page. You’ll notice the link which previous read Link account now reads Unlink account, confirming your account was successfully linked.
If you ever wish to disconnect your Tuya account from SEQUEmatic, you should return to this page and click the Unlink account link.
If all you want to do is hook a service from IFTTT into your Tuya Smart Life device, then the SEQUEmatic sequence is very simple. However, if you’re new to SEQUEmatic I’d encourage you to explore the other step types and see what else you can achieve. Sequences can be very powerful and you might be able to create an even better home automation than you had before!
Anyway, the sequence you need will look like this. You can also view this here in the shared sequence library.
Let’s go through this step by step. First you should select the IFTTT webhook trigger. Enter anything for the event name, as long as it’s meaningful to you. Leave all the parameter fields blank. Here’s what I used in the sample sequence:
Then, you just need one other step which is the Tuya Smart Life step. I’ve chosen a single device, but you could also use a device group or scene. Select the action you want to perform or the property to modify as well as the new value, and that’s it! Here’s the step I created in the sample sequence.
While you’re here, if you want multiple Tuya Smart Life devices to be triggered, you can add any number of Tuya Smart Life steps to the sequence.
Next head to IFTTT and create a new applet. The trigger, or if this component, should be the other smart device which should cause your Tuya Smart Life device to be triggered. In this example I’m using an eWeLink plug. Set up the trigger as you need, and then click next to create your action.
The action, or then that component, will use the webhooks service. There’s only one action available in this service, the make a web request action.
The only field you need to set in this action is the URL field. Head back to the SEQUEmatic sequence, and copy the URL provide in the trigger. Once copied, paste it into IFTTT.
Click through to save the applet, and your finished product should look something like this.
Now, when the other device (in this example the eWeLink plug called water feature) fires, it will make a webhook call to SEQUEmatic and trigger the sequence. The SEQUEmatic sequence will then control your Tuya Smart Life device!
If you have any questions getting set up, head over to the Q&A forums, post in the comments below or contact me here.
