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when i googled "node-red" tuya human detection sensor, the ai summary says "To use a Tuya human detection sensor .. in Node-RED, you would need to utilize the "node-red-contrib-tuya-smart-device" node, .."
I've been using node-red maybe a month,and home assistant maybe 2 months, and so i'm a bit confused. I checked in the Palette and searched tuya and saw that no tuya related items are installed. i searched the Install tab for tuya and see a kind of long list of entries that are all similar. with different names. One of those I see, "node-red-contrib-tuya-smart-device" and another for example "node-red-contrib-tuya-devices" which have super similar names, but I see under them is a tag with maybe version numbers and a date.
So here's a few questions:
-First, do i even need any of these? I do have some tuya wifi devices but currently i'm trying to work with some new devices that are Zigbee. They are found and listed in Z2M. When I search in node-red on a node in the Entity field for the Home Assistant Entity familiar name, I see the zigbee sensor device listed. So, why do people even need to add these? My guess is so that Node-Red could communicate directly to the device without Home Assistant? If so, is that desirable (speed? stability?)
-If I do need one of these installed, what's a general guideline to use for picking one. I see one "node-red-contrib-tuya-smart" that shows what's maybe Version 1.2.0 and a date of 6 years, 2 months and another "node-red-contrib-tuya-local" 0.0.5 and the date says 4 years, 6 months. Meanwhile, "node-red-contrib-tuya-devices" is version 1.3.6 and the date is "6 days ago" so, Is it safe to assume that's the date it was last updated and I should avoid any always that have multiple years listed?
-Does the name have anything to do with the Home Assistant Integrations? Is "node-red-contrib-tuya-local" related to the HACS "tuya local" integration? Or is this all completely unrelated? Maybe these are only related to if you are running Node-Red standalone outside of Home Assistant?
-Is there harm to just installing them all so they're there if needed? Aside from that just being "inefficient" or whatever to install things that aren't needed which I don't like.