Tuya Smart

I have used this app for years, and it has always worked great! For the most part... Every now and then some of my light bulbs won't be connected again and I'll have to relearn how to reconnect them. Like every six months or so. I can never be sure if it is because of this app, Google Home, or Alexa though, lol. The main thing is that I can usually relearn how to connect my bulbs in 30 minutes or less. And considering how convoluted everything is these days, I'm plenty happy with that.

If the power gets knocked out the camera goes offline and will not reconnect. I have to forget it and reset it up all again. It would be nice if the app had a refresh or reconnect inside that app so I don't have to keep doing this. When the camera is online it works really well. Once it's set back up it's not long before it stops working again.

The app refuses to run without precise location permissions, which is not needed for any feature I use. This is only required for spyware features that I absolutely don't want. The app won't even allow general location, which is all that would be needed to access local weather information, and just disabling a feature under this circumstance is what non-spyware apps do. This is absolutely unacceptable and I will have to return the product that uses this app.