Best stable replacement for rospogrigio/localtuya

[justadri]

Hello HA stans, I'm trying to figure out which fork of the venerable rospogrigio/localtuya is going to be the best to use long-term, since the current version of the integration has some unfixed bugs and it seems that the repo has been dormant for a while (in relative terms). I'm looking for stability and active development. A few discussions seem to favor this repo as the worthy successor, and it seems to be the one most people are interacting with, but there are a ton of forks out there, at least 2 of which look more active and have open PRs to this fork:

• https://github.com/Xferno2/hass-localtuya
• https://github.com/CloCkWeRX/localtuya-experimental

CloCkWeRX's repo in particular has been very busy, trying to merge all the forks and even submitting a PR to attempt to merge itself back into rospogrigio. But the "experimental" label makes me a little nervous. Both of the mentioned forks merge to and from this one, and link back to the documentation for it.

So my questions are:

• Has anyone used these more than one of these forks for long enough to compare them in terms of stability, new features, bugfixes, etc?
• Is @xZetsubou intending to actively maintain this repo long-term?
• Are @CloCkWeRX and @Xferno2 's forks intended to essentially be dev branches of this repo, or do they intend for users to use their forks directly?
• Are there plans to submit at least one of these forks to become a default HACS integration?

I appreciate the huge amount of work that all of the contributors have put into this project! It's great to see it continuing and to see OSS devs attempting to collaborate.

I invested in a bunch of Tuya wifi devices when I first started with home automation (and even more recently since they are everywhere and, well, I'm already a member of the club) and have over 30 of them. They work well, but I don't like the dependency on Tuya's cloud nor Tuya's privacy policy. I've been holding off for years on switching over to localtuya due to stability issues, but it seems like many of those have been solved, so I (and I am sure others) would to get an idea of future direction.

If no one else wants to do it, heck, I'll fork a repo and try to maintain it as a HACS default. But I want to avoid duplicating effort; I think everyone is working towards the same goal of keeping the project alive and it would be good to know where the "official" center of activity is.

Thanks in advance for any insights!

[CloCkWeRX]

I would recommend this fork over mine, which tends to run a little more unstable.

Basically; I've gone and merged anything that looks worthwhile to my fork; as you can see here:

The delta between that and this fork is actually very low; only ~17 files after sorting through all of the conflicts.
https://github.com/xZetsubou/hass-localtuya/compare/master...CloCkWeRX:localtuya-experimental:master?expand=1

[Xferno2]

I would also recommend this fork due to the fact that mine was for solving a specific problem with some of my lights. I also made a pull request to this fork to merge changes but was busy these weeks to be able to provide more info on that. So to answer your question mine is more like a dev branch to be merged back here.

[justadri]

Awesome, thank you both for the clarification! I made the switch to this repo yesterday, and so far it's working great. Hope to see it become a HACS default.

[hsiauw]

This fork is better. It can find and control my BLE light bulb (sub of BLE gateway). Too bad for remote control it can't find the sub device. So for remote I use Tuya Smart IR AC which still cloud based. Hope in the future this can find remote sub device