Are you using any smart plugs at home, how has the experience been

+1 for Wipro. I Have been using a 16A plug. It is working flawlessly. It shows you current energy consumption as well as past consumption, which is pretty neat.
 
altair21 said:
I gave it a surface skim, and just had one question, how do you block it from cloud access?I know I can simply block the ip ranges for the cloud and call it a day, but is there a simpler method using the lib?

also can you link your zebronics plug? would love to order one that I know is working for sure before I dabble in it
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I honestly never bothered with blocking cloud access, so I can't comment. I should try blocking internet access for the device at the router level. The model I have is Zebronics ZEB-SP110 10A smart plug.
 
altair21 said:
I gave it a surface skim, and just had one question, how do you block it from cloud access?I know I can simply block the ip ranges for the cloud and call it a day, but is there a simpler method using the lib?
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If you do that then you won't be able to remotely control the switch.

In my case the switch (only, not plug) controlled the water pump.

I was able to run it periodically when away from the house for a week. Worked great.

I could have been anywhere in the world and it would still work.
 
blr_p said:
If you do that then you won't be able to remotely control the switch.

In my case the switch (only, not plug) controlled the water pump.

I was able to run it periodically when away from the house for a week. Worked great.

I could have been anywhere in the world and it would still work.
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A workaround would be if they added the plug to HA/nodered and accessed that remotely. Cloud access for the plug is not required then.
 
blr_p said:
If you do that then you won't be able to remotely control the switch
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you can use tailscale with home assistant but yes, you won't get access to it via the official app.

for me, privacy is the foremost concern, and I luckily know enough about how to self host on my own that it's a trivial issue for me
 
altair21 said:
you can use tailscale with home assistant but yes, you won't get access to it via the official app.

for me, privacy is the foremost concern, and I luckily know enough about how to self host on my own that it's a trivial issue for me
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Not to mention most times the official apps are terrible.
 
Using Tapo P110, for my home servers to get rid of boot stuck sometimes. It's been a life saver.

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Been using a Portronics 16A plug. Haven't faced any major issues so far.
Working perfectly with Hey Google.
It shows a bunch of metrics in the portronics app.

You can schedule turn on and turn off times in the app which is super useful.
I think pretty much all of these plugs have the same feature set. The only thing that sets them apart is the app and support quality.
 
ykumar00 said:
Just wanted to share this deal with you guys, Ambrane 10A smart wifi plug is available for 299/- on blinkit. It's sadly unavailable in Bangalore, but Delhi folks should be able to grab it.

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Sorry off topic but did you just leak your address in that screenshot? :eek:
I have been using Tapo TP-Link P110 Mini 16A from past 1 year to monitor our AC power consumption, pretty good so far. Tp-link app is also very good.
 
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exotech said:
Sorry off topic but did you just leak your address in that screenshot? :eek:
I have been using Tapo TP-Link P110 Mini 16A from past 1 year to monitor our AC power consumption, pretty good so far. Tp-link app is also very good.
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That wasn't my address, just a generic one blinkit used by default when I opened the deal page. It's not even the correct city
 
using the amazon smart plug and it is great....'simple' as its not too smart apart from the basic on/off and timers (alexa) but very proficient and efficient in doing that

I am in bangalore and though my society has power backup the power goes of for 30 secs or so before the generator kicks in...
the earlier smart plug and bulbs I had didnt work properly after multiple switches off-on however, the amazon plug works without any issues once set up

I have echo too and this simple smart plug works well with alexa too
 
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