Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living

I'm genuinely not sure which is worse, the app or the light bulbs. You're controlling light bulbs from your phone, surely that should be simple? Not with these. I have a light with 5 bulbs in, all were initially connected to the app and the wifi. Currently I have one that wont turn on, 3 that do as they please and one that is so bright, its hurting my eyes (and yes, I have tried on several occasions to change the colour, brightness and eventually just to turn it off). Will never buy these again

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.

I have to rate this low enough that someone might see this. The app is great when it works. It connects with Alexa to give me voice command of plugs and lights. But for some obnoxious reason devices disappear. I'm not talking disconnects, I mean REMOVED from the list. Then it becomes a nightmare of resetting and trying to reconnect the device. I have a special 2.4ghz WiFi just for my smart devices and it still can never find things in pairing mode. My bedroom fan has to reconnect once a month!