Going through the rabbit hole to monitor all the consumed energy in my home, I’m in a search for smart plug or other device that has Ethernet/RJ45 port. I just don’t like to put everything in Wi-Fi or Zigbee.
Thanks.
Where are you?
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Europe… The forum won’t let me paste a comment with under 10 characters so here’s some useless words
Saw these, but I need something that I can install on every socket for my appliances. I have one of these to monitor my whole house with.
Inserting google links on a clearly defined question should be followed with a perna ban. Waste of time
Being rude to people trying to help you should have the same effect…
You really think that I am mentally able to install home assistant, google the forum, register in it, research my topic, know what Ethernet, W-Fi and Zigbee is but not smart enough to paste 3 key words into the search engine?
Their are not many great options for ethernet. The best i can think of off hand is DIN mounted Shelly Breakers. They do wifi and have an ethernet port. It would need to be at your breaker box though, or youd need to find a way to hide them where you need them. Shelly is always a sure bet as they make quality products.
Thanks for the suggestion, and I agree. I’m using Shelly EM to monitor my whole house – I’ve put it in the electricity box where the main cable comes in from my provider.
I was however looking for something that comes ready out of the box at somehow cheap price (I’ve paid around ~65 euro for the Shelly EM) and I’m looking for something that will be suitable to be put behind every appliance in my home. The Shelly ones will not be comfortable, at least for me.
You probably wont find ethernet capable ones of a size thats convenient as that port consumes a lot of space. Even then in my experience a lot of the wired ones are rs485. What is the worry with using wifi? Just curious. I know some people like a hardline and i do for everything else. But i currently use over 50 wifi relays, switches, hdmi cec raspberrys behind tvs, without issue unless they fail. Creating a 2.4ghz only network and keeping everything IOT on that helps.
Edit: you could use the ethernet for wireless access points to insure signal if needed
Also, just to say on the energy monitoring, I bought a decent ADC for 20 bucks with several channels and wired it to an esp32. Just using CT clamps, and calibrating it using a shelly 1pm and a coffee maker spliced with it, i am within 0.5 percent margin of what the power company comes back every month. And you could use a bunch of small ct clamps if needed.
Yeah I’m just one of those that like to hardline whatever they can. In this case, looks like I’m not gonna make it and think I’m gonna go with some zigbee ones smart plugs.
Got 5 of those ZigBee plugs in July and they just integrated nicely in HA.
Didn’t check the accuracy so far.
Sometimes the Power reporting is delayed by few seconds.
All in all I’m satisfied considering the price point of them.
I use Athom flashed with ESPHome. I have not seen any Ethernet devices. My observation of the threads on smart plugs is that quite a few smart plugs fail at some point.
Hey, do you also happen to have other Tuya devices from AliExpress? I plan to get some Zigbee ones, but in each device description I can see that the developer put a note that goes the following: “Guaranteed to work with Tuya Zigbee hub, but not others” or something like that.
I plan to get the HA skyconnect usb zigbee hub and I don’t want another Chinese Wi-Fi or Ethernet able device.
I also have Tuya based Smart Water Valve but no other plugs.
You can have a look into the compatibility list of the ZigBee integration you’re using before purchasing.
Here’s the ZHA compatibility list.
Same type of lists exist for Deconz and Zigbee2Mqtt.
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