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Recently I have been frustrated with my Tuya devices not talking with the Tuya services; so I am not able to turn devices on and off, monitor energy etc. I decided to document my experience with how to convert devices to locally controlled using Home Assistant.
A few people asked me how I discovered how to make Tuya devices offline so I made a quick Tutorial on how I did it. Tutorial