Just chiming in on this thread. I’ve got 4 of these plugs, all running Tasmota. I bought them in July last year, and have all been fine so far:
Dishwasher
Washing machine
Dryer (heat pump)
Spare
I also didn’t know they weren’t Oz certified. I bought them to replace the Arlec ones I bought and then returned as I couldn’t get LocalTuya working properly and I’m really not a fan of the cloud-based setup. I wanted purely local control.
So I have had 6 of these Athom smartplugs (pre-flashed with Tasmota) running for about 9mths now. I havent had any failures, however, I am notciing that the 2 that are the furthest away from the router have started becoming ‘Unavaiable’ quite a lot in the past couple of weeks.
They have worked flawlessly up to this point and have never had any connectivity issues with any of them.
Originally, I put this ‘Unavaiable’ down to the fact it has been raining heavilly for many weeks and the humidity is close to 100% for the past few weeks so I thought this may be interfering with the wifi signal. The one furthest away is located under a deck next to the pool equipment and it controls the pool lights. It has always been close to the max useable range of the wifi, but has always operated flawlessly. This one seems to now be ‘Unavailable’ constantly now.
I am now suspicious that becasue it is located in an area that is outdoors, as well as near a chlorinated pool that the chlorine fumes will slowly corrode any metal nearby. Perhaps this may have affected some internal components enough to decrease the signal range just enough to not be able to connect now? When i move the Athom plug closer to the WiFi it reconnects.
My question is: Has anyone else experienced Athom units that were located far away from the router and used to work well and now start to lose wifi signal over time?
Anyway, hopefully my experience adds to this thread for others thinking of using the Athom plugs.
Looks like my washing machine plug has stopped working. It was only used for energy monitoring but as of this morning I cannot get it to re-connect to the network.
It still operates with the manual switch but unless it communicates, as far as I’m concerned it’s dead.
It lasted 266 days.
The pool pump plug lasted 161 days.
I’ve got a couple of Athom plugs (AU version) running ESPHome. They’ve been installed for a month or so now and they work “as advertised” but I do find that they go unavailable for a second constantly (as others have reported here) which is annoying as I can’t get automations working against the power monitoring since they don’t report power at a certain state for a consistent time (my existing automations are “if power > X for Y minutes” but as they go unavailable that resets their timeout.
I might try a virtual sensor instead that is an average of power over the last Y minutes and automate against that, which should be more stable.
I have two V1 since April '22 and four V2 since July '22 (Schuko version). Two are used for my and my girlfriends desktops (gaming-PC, monitors, speakers), one for a server, one for the fridge, one for the washing machine and one for an array of power supply units (battery charging) plugged into a power strip. No failings so far.
I’ve tried with a statistics sensor with a 5 minute sliding window but it didn’t seem to work. Currently the devices I have them plugged into aren’t ideal for this kind of experimenting
I’m not really an expert on looking at capacitors, but I think I have the same problem. I bought 2 Athom PG01 (EU) and both of them failed. They just suddenly stopped working. No unexpected reboots or anything else, they just stopped. If you plug them in, they get warm, but no other sign of life. One was powering a PC for about 8 months (I guess), the other just a small christmas light cord for +/- 11 months.
I think another one of my Athom plugs has died. Mancave fridge. Will know for sure tomorrow.
That’s the third one to crap out. It was installed October 2022.
Actually looking at my logs I think six of my seven remaining Athom plugs are on the way out. It was a fun experiment but I suggest people steer clear of these things. None have made it to a year in service.
I have bought 24 v1 plugs (PG04)
8 broke and Athom replaced them all
Then next 6 broke
today next 6 broke
Athom is no more replacing them
all broke the same way: no more LED, no more relay working, no more ESP working
only one broke as burnt completely (dishwasher was connected, still way below 16A as per specs)
and they are NOT REPAIRABLE! YOU CANNOT DISMANTLE it without breaking it.