I recently purchased a Tuya-based RGB ceiling light on Amazon (https://amzn.eu/d/80xtOv5) that can be controlled through the Tuya / Smart Life mobile application. Initially, my plan was to keep the original Tuya firmware and integrate the lamp locally into Home Assistant using LocalTuya, in order to control the light without relying on the Tuya cloud. However, as I discovered along the way, the Tuya firmware can be replaced with ESPHome. Read more

At the time of writing, three firmware versions were available for the hw v14 on the official support page: TL-WR841N(EU)_V14_200903 (200903) released on 2020-11-27 TL-WR841N(EU)_V14_180319 (180319) released on 2018-04-03 TL-WR841N(EU)_V14_171208 (171208) released on 2018-04-01 None of these versions prevents downgrades, so any transition between these are possible. When downgrading, it’s best to restore to factory defaults beforehand because of some incompatibilities (for example: the password get’s cut because of length limitations in one of the earlier versions). Read more