Athom smart wifi plug : preflashed with Tasmota and power monitoring!

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#294083 4-Mar-2022 09:39

I have to say from what I can tell these are about the best deal I have found so far....

https://www.athom.tech/blank-1/au-plug

I bought one a few weeks back and Tasmota works perfectly.
My only complaint is they are a bit too wide to fit 2 side by side in a NZ plug socket.

I've just bought 5 more and with shipping works out to be NZ$27 per unit which is a pretty sweet deal!!!

Maybe there are some alternatives?

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#2878774 4-Mar-2022 10:23

Looks like if you spend over USD$100 you get free shipping.

6 in Cart = $87.30 + $17 shipping = $104.30

7 in Cart = $101.85 + Free shipping = $101.85 or roughly NZD$22.50 each.

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#2878914 4-Mar-2022 11:48

Are they flashable?

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#2879141 4-Mar-2022 16:21

I assume similar to buying direct off aliexpress? no sdoc?

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#2879336 5-Mar-2022 11:31

They provide ESPHome configs for that model as well so you can easily switch them back and forth between Tasmota and ESPHome.

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#2879432 5-Mar-2022 13:52

davidcole: I assume similar to buying direct off aliexpress? ...

Correct

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#2879655 6-Mar-2022 09:53

Yeah, I first purchased 2 with ESPHome and aimed to convert them to Tasmota. One died in the process but that was due to me trying to upload a gzip file instead of an extracted bin file... Rookie mistake!

What is SDOC?

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#2880768 7-Mar-2022 23:07

TommySharp: Yeah, I first purchased 2 with ESPHome and aimed to convert them to Tasmota. One died in the process but that was due to me trying to upload a gzip file instead of an extracted bin file... Rookie mistake!

What is SDOC?

Supplier Declaration of Conformity.

Basically a bit of paper saying the supplier has had it tested to the required standards. Which normally involves spending lots of money.

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#2880832 8-Mar-2022 08:42

I'm being lazy because I don't have time to investigate, but there seem to be two AU models on special. ESPHome and Tasmota.

I'd love something that could be connected to a smartphone app for real-time monitoring but also something that could be fed into a cloud console (paid or free) that would graph and provide historical information?

Which, if any, of these two models is good for that?

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#2881212 8-Mar-2022 15:08

I initially bought 2 ESPHome versions cause they were $1 dollar cheaper. I was able to convert them to Tasmota just by uploading a new firmware through the web browser. But I did stuff one up in the process so ended up not saving any money at all...

But both versions will need you to have some kind of smart home central server like Home Assistant or OpenHAB.

If you buy the Tasmota ones you will be able to connect to them with their IP address and turn them onn/off etc but not from outside of your home network.

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#2881218 8-Mar-2022 15:16

TommySharp:

I initially bought 2 ESPHome versions cause they were $1 dollar cheaper. I was able to convert them to Tasmota just by uploading a new firmware through the web browser. But I did stuff one up in the process so ended up not saving any money at all...

But both versions will need you to have some kind of smart home central server like Home Assistant or OpenHAB.

If you buy the Tasmota ones you will be able to connect to them with their IP address and turn them onn/off etc but not from outside of your home network.

That's a bit of a shame, I was hoping I could buy a few of these for monitoring power consumption in a central console without having to build a bunch of stuff from scratch!

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#2881224 8-Mar-2022 15:24

networkn:

TommySharp:

I initially bought 2 ESPHome versions cause they were $1 dollar cheaper. I was able to convert them to Tasmota just by uploading a new firmware through the web browser. But I did stuff one up in the process so ended up not saving any money at all...

But both versions will need you to have some kind of smart home central server like Home Assistant or OpenHAB.

If you buy the Tasmota ones you will be able to connect to them with their IP address and turn them onn/off etc but not from outside of your home network.

That's a bit of a shame, I was hoping I could buy a few of these for monitoring power consumption in a central console without having to build a bunch of stuff from scratch!

Probably not the device for you then.. The tuyas will give you a pretty app, but they use tuya cloud. Hopefully shelly gets some as well, as they have US plugs.

If you grabbed these you'd have to push the data into something to get the pretty app, or read them with Home assistant etc.

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#2881234 8-Mar-2022 15:35

I have a Synology NAS and I see a home assistant integration with that. Perhaps I could use that?

I am just looking to track power consumption on a half dozen things over time for interests sakes.

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#2881378 8-Mar-2022 20:41

networkn:

I have a Synology NAS and I see a home assistant integration with that. Perhaps I could use that?

I am just looking to track power consumption on a half dozen things over time for interests sakes.

You should have a look to see if you can install Home Assistant on your NAS.....
Getting Tasmota devices talking to HA is a piece of cake and then getting a chart like this on the main dashboard is just a couple of clicks.

This is the energy use of some of my devices for yesterday.

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#2881421 9-Mar-2022 00:42

davidcole:

networkn:

That's a bit of a shame, I was hoping I could buy a few of these for monitoring power consumption in a central console without having to build a bunch of stuff from scratch!

Probably not the device for you then.. The tuyas will give you a pretty app, but they use tuya cloud. Hopefully shelly gets some as well, as they have US plugs.

If you grabbed these you'd have to push the data into something to get the pretty app, or read them with Home assistant etc.

Only working on your home network is not a big problem, and it has the huge advantage that it makes them properly secure. You can always just securely log into your home network by setting up a VPN server at home. I use OpenVPN for this, but these days Wireshark is probably easier.

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#2881422 9-Mar-2022 05:43

Wireshark VPN?
Isn't Wireshark used for packet inspection?

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