How to detect that a tuya device is offline?

[koying]

I have this template to detect if devices are offline, that relies on entities being unavailable:

          {% set integrations = ['mqtt', 'matter', 'xiaomi_ble', 'tuya_local' ] %}
          {% set result = namespace(offline_devices=[]) %}
          {% for integration in integrations %}
            {% for device in integration_entities(integration) | map('device_id') | unique %}
              {% for entity in device_entities(device) %}
                {% if is_state(entity, 'unavailable') %}
                  {% set result.offline_devices = result.offline_devices + [device_attr(device, 'name')] %}
                {% endif %}
              {% endfor %}
            {% endfor %}
          {% endfor %}

          ### {{ result.offline_devices | unique | list | count }} devices
          {% for device in result.offline_devices | unique | list %}{{ device }} -- {% endfor %}

Unfortunately, that doesn't work for tuya_local because it seems the integration removes (or doesn't report) the entities when the device is offline, so the entities just do not exist anymore.

Is there another way to detect if a tuya device is offline?

Thanks

[make-all]

The integration does not remove entities when the device goes offline, but if the device is offline when HA starts, the initialisation will be delayed until it is online.

But if your devices are going offline, it really isn't ideal for local use, and I would encourage you to move those devices into the cloud tuya integration for reliability.

[koying]

Aaah right. The key point is to have the devices ON at restart of HA, thank for the tip.
I know that having connected devices turned off by manual switch is not ideal, but hey...