How to connect Grid Connect devices to smartthings

[Hades (Ben)]

Hopefully Grid Connect reaches out to Samsung about intergrating its ( Tuya ) products.

Because I’ve also noticed the Australian version of the Smart things application is limted with the current devices you can intergrate compared to the US version.

I’ve also looked at trying a few work around solutions from this thread.

Smartthings controlling Grid-Connect device—Any Integration possible?

I’m pretty sure the Grid-Connect ecosystem uses the Tuya cloud framework and uses a Grid-Connect branded Tuya app called Smart Life. See https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/490746 There are a few options for Tuya devices that might work for you. I use a gateway app on a Raspberry Pi to bridge between some Tuya devices and SmartThings. It’s called Tuya Connector: https://github.com/fison67/TY-Connector. It’s not trivial to get it going, but works really well. Another option is that there been some work at getting a hub-to-cloud integration going, although I haven’t looked into this for a while. Some other systems like HomeAssistant or Hubitat has made some progress, I seem to recall. This work may have made its way into a ST handler. A third option is to re-flash your Tuya-based device wit…