tuya.deviceInfo hanging if device not available?

[gaiking-uk]

Hi @jasonacox,

Finally got my RPi and did some tweaks to my original python script you might remember helping me with a few months back.

Issue

The script should poll my 4 smart plugs for their current energy usage every 10 seconds, however it seems to do a one-off poll of 3 devices (writing the energy usage to a csv) but then hang... even after the 10-second sleep command and expected loop back to the beginning, the script doesn't output anything again.

• As a workaround, if I deleted the device entry in the json file the script does then start working normally however this is not ideal as means basically hard-coding 'temporary changes' into the config file (i.e. every time I un-plug a smart plug I need to edit the json otherwise tuyapower will stop working(?)

For context

• 2x smart plugs are online and "on", drawing power and so returning various numbers wattages, etc
• 1x smart plug is online* but "off" and (as expected) tuyapower returns 0 for that device
• 1x smart plug is offline (e.g. unplugged or the 240v socket is turned off, etc), these seems to cause tuyapower to hang

Query / Fix?

Assuming I have diagnosed this correctly, is there a way I can tell tuyapower to skip "offline" devices (and/or some other way to get have my script work with all 4 smart plugs in the json file (regardless whether or not they are online?

TBH, I feel like this functionality probably already exists (I've seen references to timeouts) however I'm a bit stuck trying to figure out if not this, what else could be stopping my script from working.