This Tuya cloud lockin is ridiculous, as is the 25000 upfront cost for better plans. I guess Tyya is mostly a reseller towards tiny chinese manufacturers???
When I switch over to electrical heating, I'd probably do it with a split AC that can also heat. They are basically heat pumps, so you use 1 kW of electric power and get 3.5 kW of heat energy. People in far more colder climates than Germany use them in the winter (e.g. in Finland), so good ones are even usable in winter. And they warm the air, so w.hen you turn them on, the effect in the room is immediate.
A german youtuber (Andreas Schmitz) made several videos on this, e.g. this one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wB8rq-D9PAQ - he also checked if the warm air flow would be uncomfortable to him, which it was not.
Best of all: these split climate devices are controlled via infrared, which you can also operate from #HomeAssistant ... either with an ESP32 with IR LED or with some prebuilt 16 € device from Aliexpress.
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