https://thehelpfulidiot.com • This is a web feed, also known as an Atom feed. Subscribe by copying the URL from the address bar into your newsreader. Visit About Feeds to learn more and get started. It's free. Visit website Recent posts Updated on $DATE date tuya The Helpful Idiot - tuya Idiots don't have time for cable management. Zola2026-10-11T00:00:00+00:00https://thehelpfulidiot.com/tag/tuya/atom.xml XMCOSY+ String Lights, Revisited: No Node-RED and One Package to Copy 2026-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 thehelpfulidiot https://thehelpfulidiot.com/xmcosy-string-lights-revisited-home-assistant-package/ Four years after getting my XMCOSY+ string lights running locally with LocalTuya, the Node-RED flow is gone, the light speaks kelvin again, and the whole thing fits in one Home Assistant package you can drop into your own config.