Tuya not only manufactures products under their own brand, but they also manufacture products for the vast majority of brands in the home automation industry, with the exception of some of the premium brands (Phillips Hue etc).
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I've turned the bluetooth connection off for this app and although it's only been a few hours, everything still seems to be working fine, which makes me even more suspicious as to why it needed Bluetooth access to begin with.įor those who are saying that they don't have any Tuya devices, the Tuya App, or the Smart Life App, you probably do and are unaware. Given the country that Tuya is based in, and the controversy around other tech companies in that country (Huawei), it certainly makes you very suspicious, especially when they're purposely hiding the name and just using an abbreviation. I think it would be less of a mystery if you had to go through the normal pairing process. I think this is probably how the Tuya/Smart Life apps do it as well, which is why people aren't recognising the "TY" in their bluetooth settings. During the app setup it presents a Bluetooth permission request along with the multitude of other permission requests that we all just "Allow" without too much thought. I noticed that it also lists the Bluetooth connection in the same way (with no ability to disconnect), but the connection is actually labelled "eero" so you know what it's for.Īlso, you don't have to physically pair your phone to the eero device as you would with a car or bluetooth speaker etc. In recent days I have purchased an Amazon Eero 6 Mesh WiFi system and the Eero app uses Bluetooth to communicate with the devices during setup. Interestingly, I have noticed that the connection wasn't always active. As I have no bluetooth products that use Tuya, I turned it off. However, all of my products are Wi-Fi based so I didn't even think that the Tuya app could be the culprit.īut after I saw your post, I looked in the Smart Life app and couldn't find any settings relating to Bluetooth, so I went to my iPhone settings, searched for the Smart Life app and there it was.a Bluetooth option which was turned on. You are right, I have the Tuya Smart Life app which I use to manage my various brands of smart light bulbs that are all rebranded Tuya products.
Thank you so much for posting your reply.