Wifi smart plug recommendations?

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dolsen

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#2361965 28-Nov-2019 08:43

andrewNZ: Haven't read the whole thread.

If it helps anyone, I have a TP Link HS100. It's on an isolated wireless network (cloud connection is not required) and connected to Openhab2. No issues at all, and much better than the ?Belkin? rebranded Orvibo S20 that bunnings was selling for a while.

Hmm, from manufacturer website, and replicated on Noel Leemings website.

Input voltage - 100 - 240VAC
Output voltage?- 100-240VAC
Maximum Load - 10A
Maximum Power - 3.68KW

Anyway, I would suggest you check out the Kogan switches mentioned earlier in the thread. Cheaper, have power monitoring and can run local as well (after ota firmware flash).

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#2361967 28-Nov-2019 08:45

The advantage of the TP Link Kasa is they work great out of the box and have a great app. Sure you might be able to get things cheaper, but if you have to flash the firmware and work out an app / way to control them that's really only useful for people heavy into home automation. Kasa Just Works.

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#2362105 28-Nov-2019 09:47

I bought a couple of Sonoff WiFi plugs off the basis of this recommendation earlier in this thread - about $18 off eBay and they've worked perfectly with GA since day one. I've never once had to open the specific app since installing.

Nothing like always having a toasty warm bed, being able to turn on the electric blanket remotely!

Will certainly buy again if I need more plugs - the biggest frustration is the number of devices I want to control via this means but can't as they don't have a physical switch (eg, a receiver, which also isn't networkable).

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#2362107 28-Nov-2019 09:48

timmmay:

The advantage of the TP Link Kasa is they work great out of the box and have a great app. Sure you might be able to get things cheaper, but if you have to flash the firmware and work out an app / way to control them that's really only useful for people heavy into home automation. Kasa Just Works.

To be clear, the Kogan switches also work great out of the box, have a great app and can work with google / Alexa etc.

Sonoff devices also work well with an app, integrate with google etc.

There's no need to flash with Tasmota to stop 3rd party cloud connectivity if you don't want. I wanted to control locally with mqtt, but, all of these devices work well for basic applications.

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#2362111 28-Nov-2019 09:49

timmmay:

The advantage of the TP Link Kasa is they work great out of the box and have a great app. Sure you might be able to get things cheaper, but if you have to flash the firmware and work out an app / way to control them that's really only useful for people heavy into home automation. Kasa Just Works.

Apart from if you've got some tp link kasa, and some philip hue, and some yeelights, and some belkins wemos.....and you're now up to 4 apps.....Where for a raspberry pi, and a bit of config you can have one app that talks to all this disparate things (either openhab or home assistant....there's arguments for both....or is apple only homebridge will expose everything to homekit, which can also be done with home assistant/openhab).

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#2362114 28-Nov-2019 09:52

davidcole:

Apart from if you've got some tp link kasa, and some philip hue, and some yeelights, and some belkins wemos.....and you're now up to 4 apps.....Where for a raspberry pi, and a bit of config you can have one app that talks to all this disparate things (either openhab or home assistant....there's arguments for both....or is apple only homebridge will expose everything to homekit, which can also be done with home assistant/openhab).

Yeah multiple apps isn't ideal, but the average person and even the average geek probably doesn't want to mess with things for days to get their automation working, especially with young kids when you have no time to do that kind of thing. I'd rather have two or three good apps than having to set up and maintain a variety of integrations.

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#2362117 28-Nov-2019 09:58

@jonathan18 and @dolsen do sonoff or kogan smart sockets power off itself when device connected to them is not consuming power? like if I use it to charge things.

xiaomi zigbee has that feature and it works very well for me, but zigbee devices can't be controlled with google assistant without mqtt set-up, which I did and it works, but I want something is more out of the box solution.

Also I can see kogan has power meter, no for sonoff?

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#2362124 28-Nov-2019 10:05

timmmay:

davidcole:

Apart from if you've got some tp link kasa, and some philip hue, and some yeelights, and some belkins wemos.....and you're now up to 4 apps.....Where for a raspberry pi, and a bit of config you can have one app that talks to all this disparate things (either openhab or home assistant....there's arguments for both....or is apple only homebridge will expose everything to homekit, which can also be done with home assistant/openhab).

Yeah multiple apps isn't ideal, but the average person and even the average geek probably doesn't want to mess with things for days to get their automation working, especially with young kids when you have no time to do that kind of thing. I'd rather have two or three good apps than having to set up and maintain a variety of integrations.

It's also more your tolerance for annoyance at dealing with all the apps....and if you just buy random crap all the time, or stick to one eco system. I know there are a bunch of people using HA/OH as a behind the scenes take all my crap. But them expose it all to homekit and just use that as the interface...and use homekit automations.

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