Oh, some NIB ones too…at a price
They are ex Telstra branded and are certified for Aus.
Ok, you convinced me and was just going to order but found they has no energy monitoring? =(
I guess I just want too much.
Or I am wrong?
Ok, I was wrong =) Ordering.
There IS energy monitoring.
https://zigbee.blakadder.com/Sercomm_SZ-ESW01-AU.html
Been using them over a year. Can’t go wrong.
Ordered two packs to have some spare =)
Hey all. New to all of this but I added my Lenovo Smart Plug se-341a to my Home Assistant today.
I followed the instructions I found Lenovo smart plug SE-341A - #4 by matmunn14
I managed to follow all the Tuya and Tuya IoT instructions quite easily.
Hi @dexstar would it be possible for you to outline your config? Are you using MQTT to grab the data etc? Much appreciated, Mark
I’m using them with Zigbee2MQTT so you can publish/receive messages.
In ZHA they come up as lights. https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/62452
The energy monitoring was a bonus but I’m only using them to stop the charging of phones/tablets,
plus they act as routers in your Zigbee mesh.
The only downside ( like most smart plugs ) is their size.
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/australia-electrically-certified-hardware/32074/3001?u=dexstar
I’m thinking about updating some of my power sockets to this
https://www.bunnings.com.au/deta-10a-wide-spaced-double-power-point_p4430419
or going for a cleaner look
Looks like I have just had a Brilliant 20925 plug die. Not connected to WiFi, no power through it, no response to pressing the button. Any chance of being able to fix it or should I just throw it?
I had three 433MHz remote plugs which died. I gutted them and used a 240V AC to 5V DC converter with an ESPO1-S flashed with Tasmota. They all work well.
I just came across these. Zigbee so no need to worry about tuya cloud.
The site also have wifi (tuya) devices which could potentially be flashed / chip-swapped (mainly the re-wireable plug since it should be easy to access the board).
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How old was it? What was it connected to? What firmware?
I’ve so far been one of the luckier ones and have sourced a bunch of old stock I could flash with ESPHome.
But if these start falling over like the Kogan ones then it might be back to the drawing board.
Not sure exactly how old. Would have been a few years. I had a washing machine attached to it running Tasmota.
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Ended up returning my non-flashable Brilliant 20925 units to Officeworks and obtained a refund.
Based on this post by @dexstar https://community.home-assistant.io/t/australia-electrically-certified-hardware/32074/3793? I purchased a couple of the ex-Telstra units.
As the ex-Telstra units are Zigbee, I’m thinking they’ll not need to be reflashed, so my goal now is more working out the calculations for integrating into the energy dashboard. I will see if there’s any previous recipes for hooking up these units to HA energy.
Assuming all goes to plan I may end up purchasing more of them to try and cover any failures.
Correct, just pair them to your Zigbee coordinator.
Sorry, don’t have the Energy Dashboard setup ( on the to-do list ), but going off the documentation you should be able to add individual devices to the Energy Dashboard. You will need to wait an hour or two for the data to start appearing.
@sparkydave may be able to help with this?
Have you tried 7+ short cycles of power to the device to trigger Tasmota “device recovery” ?
https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Device-Recovery/
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Correct with not needing any flashing for zigbee devices.
You can integrate to the Energy dashboard by adding them as individual consumption entities. If you create an Integration sensor for each of them you can then assign all the required attributes (via customising).
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Where did you find the Telstra smart plugs for sale?
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