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Smart Life is just another name for Tuya. I started with a bunch of Tuya devices and actually used Smart Life as my app.
There are Home Assistant addons that support Tuya. I can't remember because I'm much further down the path now, but it should be as simple as signing in to the addons with your Smart Life credentials. It may be a little harder in that you may have to pair them to another app first, but same principle.
This is assuming of course that you're talking WiFi devices. If you're on ZigBee then it may be even easier, pairing your hub to Home Assistant.
Either way, Home Assistant will show you a new way.
[help me out please: add-ons are the Home Assistant thing that you can't use with Home Assistant in a container? Extensions are the Home Assistant add-on that you can .. ?]
Almost everything is WiFi, I can't remember the thing that isn't.
I'm really looking forward to Home Assistant; I have to learn to use containers first.
Thank-you most kindly for your imputus. Very well received. ๐
Not extensions, it's integrations.
Integrations are things that Home Assistant can integrate and control in your house. They have to be added to Home Assistant by the team that makes Home Assistant. They are built in. However they aren't necessarily made by Home Assistant, they may have started life as a custom component from HACS, which is a third party homebrew collection.
Add-Ons are added functionality for Home Assistant and may be made by the team or other third party contributers. So things like Mosquito MQTT server are added functionality. They are probably not available to the container version because they are basically things you would run alongside in another container, like Node Red.
Integrations should be available to the Container version of HA, but I have to strongly advise you to try to run a "Supervised" version or the Operating System HAOS on a machine like a pi or in a virtual machine.
Having run both (I found a way to run Supervised in Docker, which is basically HAOS) it is just plain easier to deal with the OS when things break because half of it is done for you so you're less likely to break it when you use the OS.
Anyway, I've just checked and there is a Tuya Integration, so you should be fine either way.