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  #3384667 16-Jun-2025 12:41
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I find the update speed of the tuya ones is too slow to automate based on in HA or even their own automations in the tuya app.

 

I was wanting to have a wired in power monitoring one on the outside light circuit so that it would alert me if any of the sensors triggered as the watts would go from 5-7 up to 30ish with one of the sensors on and up even more if multiples had triggered. - 20-30 second delays in the montoring made this non-workable. Gave up and got "smart" sensors instead that have no support in HAs tuya integration, but the tuya automations work immediately from them sensing motion to trigger other lights and that in turn gets picked up in HA quickly enough to use the IR blaster to change what camera the NVR is showing.





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  #3384672 16-Jun-2025 12:55
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The Athom updates are pretty fast. I actually spent a little bit of time trying to slow down their updates because it's just more storage in home assistant, but didn't find an easy way.


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  #3384673 16-Jun-2025 12:57
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I buy the Athom ones - they're great and they even measure power.

 

I just bought a couple of the ESP-C3 ones as well, I wanted to collapse down my Smart Plug and ESP32 board (for presence detection) into a single device.

 

And, while it works, it's very poor at doing BLE detection - it'll see the beacon, then it won't for a while so marks it away, then see it again etc.  The ESP32 board is flawless at it, but the C3 is pretty bad.

 

But yea, highly recommend the Athom ones - no cloud integration needed, just ESPHome.




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  #3384676 16-Jun-2025 13:04
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Another vote for the athoms.  I get the tasmota ones.   They could be a fraction smaller (damn our narrow double gang plugs)





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  #3384680 16-Jun-2025 13:15
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richms:

 

I find the update speed of the tuya ones is too slow to automate based on in HA or even their own automations in the tuya app.

 

 

As in slow to switch? I have mine setup for the electric blanket, usually "Hey Siri turn off the bed" 2 seconds later I hear the relay click and its done. 


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  #3384681 16-Jun-2025 13:23
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richms:

 

I find the update speed of the tuya ones is too slow to automate based on in HA or even their own automations in the tuya app.

 

 

As in slow to switch? I have mine setup for the electric blanket, usually "Hey Siri turn off the bed" 2 seconds later I hear the relay click and its done. 

 

 

Control is fine, but the power and current etc are very slow to update. Even in their own app when on the same wifi it seems to be non-realtime and only change every 20-30 seconds or so.

 

Whereas the zigbee ones I have used in the past were a constant feed of the data, when the network was working well enough to get it back to the HA sky connect dongle. They are where I had the lag and lack of control issues because zigbee is so unreliable.





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  #3384763 16-Jun-2025 15:10
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petearr:

 

The Tapo P110M's work great locally in Homeassistant (just like the Tapo P110's). I have several that I've added via the Tapo integration.
It's only running them over the Matter protocol that doesn't support the energy monitoring. It's supposedly passed certification but has been "coming soon" for a long time now.

 

 

I found these Meross ones linked in a thread of frustrations about the never-arriving TP-Link firmware. They apparently support Matter 1.3 (i.e. energy monitoring) and are reasonably priced at about $60 NZD for two (website has free shipping to NZ, use code WELCOME for $2 off).


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  #3385590 19-Jun-2025 17:46
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Some doubt over the Althom ones ?

 

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/athom-smart-plugs-reliability-lifetime-time-to-failure-please-contribute/497727

 

 

From memory of an old thread, that's an old model, the new models are ok.


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  #3385594 19-Jun-2025 19:31
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Some doubt over the Althom ones ?

 

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/athom-smart-plugs-reliability-lifetime-time-to-failure-please-contribute/497727

 

 

Hehe, those are the ones I ordered. 

 

I saw a long line of one star reviews for the bunnings ones and decided to give those a miss.





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  #3385596 19-Jun-2025 19:55
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Question about the athoms, do their wifi networks turn off once you connect them to your wifi?





 

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  #3385616 19-Jun-2025 22:11
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Question about the athoms, do their wifi networks turn off once you connect them to your wifi?

 

 

As far as I can tell, yes. I have an Athom plug on in my office right now and I can't find an access point with "Athom" in its name or anything that looks like it might be it.


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  #3385617 19-Jun-2025 22:25
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Where are you guys all getting your Athom plugs from?

 

I was under the impression that these didn’t come with SDocs so were not allowed to be used or resold in NZ.

 

Are smart plugs not declared medium/high risk appliances?


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  #3385767 20-Jun-2025 13:44
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petearr:

 

Where are you guys all getting your Athom plugs from?

 

I was under the impression that these didn’t come with SDocs so were not allowed to be used or resold in NZ.

 

Are smart plugs not declared medium/high risk appliances?

 

 

I just order them online.


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