Where Do Smart Life and Tuya Store Devices and Clips?
Where the Smart Life and Tuya Smart apps keep device data and camera clips on mobile phones today (details below).
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Smart Life and Tuya Smart are front ends to one platform. Homes, devices, scenes, and schedules live in your Tuya account in the selected data center. The phone holds login, cache, and manual camera clips. Picking the wrong server region on login shows an empty home, which looks like data loss but is just a different shard.
Manual camera saves land in the gallery. Device footage stays on card or cloud per camera model. Exact Android cache names vary by app flavor, so manage downloads inside the app. For moves, sign in on the new phone with the same account and region, then verify rooms before wiping the old one.
Where Smart Life (Tuya) stores this, by platform
/sdcard/DCIM/SmartLife
Homes and devices follow your Tuya account and region server. Manual camera clips land in the gallery. Cache names vary between Smart Life and Tuya builds.
Photos/Smart Life (manual saves, devices in cloud)
Devices follow your account in the app container. Manual saves go to Photos. Camera footage stays on card or cloud. Wrong region on login shows an empty home.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move Smart Life devices to a new phone?
Devices, scenes, and automations follow your Smart Life or Tuya account across the twin apps, so sign in with the same region server. Phones hold cache and manual camera saves only. Camera footage stays on card or cloud per device. Export keepsakes before switching accounts.
Are Smart Life and Tuya Smart the same account?
Yes. Smart Life and Tuya Smart share the same Tuya backend with different skins. Devices pair to the account, not the app icon. Log into either with the same credentials and data center to see the same home. Camera cards stay in the hardware either way.
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