How to Get a Tuya Local Key Without a Developer Account
Want a Tuya local key for LocalTuya or tuya-local without an IoT Platform account? Compare the routes that skip it and what each still sends to the cloud.
Want a Tuya local key for LocalTuya or tuya-local without an IoT Platform account? Compare the routes that skip it and what each still sends to the cloud.
Which Aqara lights do real color, which need the Aqara app once before Zigbee2MQTT sees them, and what stays local after? Four models compared.
A USB Zigbee coordinator can't follow a VM around a Proxmox HA cluster. Why migration and failover strand it, the workarounds, and the clean fix.
Green Power switch won't pair in Zigbee2MQTT? Your coordinator decides it: Z-Stack sticks pair GP directly, EmberZNet ones need a proxy router nearby.
For Home Assistant users whose LocalTuya broke in 2026: the three separate bugs behind it, how to tell them apart, and which local-only fix fits yours.
Switching an Aqara or Mi Home account region disconnects app-linked devices and can strand some hubs. Why Zigbee2MQTT/ZHA devices should be unaffected.
Zigbee2MQTT sends no scene_recall confirmation over MQTT, and its success log line can't be trusted. Why, and what to monitor in automations instead.

Aqara feature throwing UNSUPPORTED_ATTRIBUTE in Zigbee2MQTT? What the 0xFCC0 cluster is, and how the error line tells you which problem you have.

Zigbee2MQTT on a SONOFF iHost's on-board radio failing with an ezsp error? The radio is on 8.x firmware. The one-line ember fix, the port and the caveats.

Zigbee2MQTT pinging a long-gone device every 12 seconds? A setTimeout overflow in the availability backoff. How 2.14.0 fixes it, and a workaround.