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Make your Smart Life (Tuya) lights flash when your team scores

Touchdowns, goals, runs and baskets: when a team you follow scores, your Smart Life (Tuya) lights flash in that team's colors. illumiscore watches every game for you.

Set up your Smart Life (Tuya) lights free

Free for one light and one team. No card needed.

How it works with Smart Life (Tuya)

illumiscore talks to your lights through Tuya's cloud, the one behind the Smart Life and Tuya Smart apps, using a free cloud project you make on Tuya's developer site and link to your app. You pay Tuya nothing, and there's nothing to install.

Smart Life lights switch between your team's two colors about once a second for around 10 seconds (longer when your team wins), at full brightness, then go back to the color or white they were on, or off again if they were off.

Works

  • Wi-Fi color bulbs, strips and lamps you control in the Smart Life or Tuya Smart app, including many store-brand and unbranded bulbs
  • Lights you also use with Alexa or Google Home

Doesn't work

  • White-only bulbs (they can't show team colors)
  • Bluetooth-only lights, and lights in a brand's own app that can't be added to Smart Life

Connect Smart Life (Tuya) in about 15 minutes, once

  1. Set up your lights in Smart Life

    Add your lights in the Smart Life (or Tuya Smart) app on Wi-Fi and give each one a name; those names show up in illumiscore.

  2. Make a free Tuya cloud project

    Sign up free at platform.tuya.com. Open Cloud, then Project Management, and press Create Cloud Project: pick Smart Home and the data center for where you live (Western America in the US). Keep the free plan.

  3. Link your Smart Life app

    In the project, open Devices, then Link App Account, then Add App Account, and scan the code with the Smart Life app (Me, then the scan icon at the top).

  4. Let the project control your lights

    Still under Devices, open All Devices and press Change next to each light, so it says Controllable instead of Read.

  5. Copy the two keys

    On the project's Overview, copy the Access ID and the Access Secret (press the eye to show it). Treat the secret like a password: anyone with it can control your lights.

  6. Paste them into illumiscore

    Open Your lights, paste both into the Smart Life / Tuya panel in step 1, pick the same data center and press Connect Smart Life / Tuya. Your lights appear in step 2.

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Good to know

Which Smart Life (Tuya) lights work?
Wi-Fi color bulbs, strips and lamps you control in the Smart Life or Tuya Smart app, including many store-brand and unbranded bulbs. Lights you also use with Alexa or Google Home.
Which teams?
975 teams in 24 leagues, including NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, WNBA and MLS, college sports and soccer. Follow one team free.
Will they flash before I see it on TV?
They can: scores come from public scoreboards, and streams often run 30 seconds or more behind. Give each light a TV delay (up to 60 seconds) and it waits, so the flash lands with your broadcast.
Why do I need a Tuya cloud project?
It's how Tuya lets a service outside its own apps control your lights, free: the project is yours, only you see its keys, and you link it to your Smart Life app with one scan. It takes about 15 minutes, once.
Does Tuya charge for it?
No. Tuya's free plan covers plenty of flashes, but Tuya asks you to extend it now and then on its site (it stays free). If it runs out, your dashboard tells you where to extend it. A free project can control up to 10 lights.
Is my Tuya secret safe?
It's stored encrypted, used only to find, flash and restore your lights, and never shown on the site again. Disconnect it from your dashboard, or delete the cloud project on Tuya's site, any time.
My bulbs use another brand's app. Will they work?
Many brands' apps run on Tuya. If your lights can be added to the Smart Life app, they'll work with illumiscore.
What does it cost?
Free for one light and one team, no card needed. Paid plans add more lights and more teams, from $4 a month or $29 a year.
Is this made by Smart Life (Tuya)?
No. illumiscore is made by Thompson SWE LLC and isn't affiliated with Smart Life (Tuya), any league or team, or ESPN.

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illumiscore isn't affiliated with Smart Life (Tuya), any league or team, or ESPN. Flashing lights can trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy; see the terms.