Hey I’ve had a IoTaWatt for 18 months, it’s awesome but a little dodgy as there is no room in a breaker box for all the current transformers, so you have to nip away the insulation around the two wires to separate them (they are still insulated) and put the CT on. I had a sparky do it for me when I had my box upgraded.
HA, which I’ve just installed however, is a bit confused by the readings, the energy dashboard numbers are all out by a factor of 1000! I’ll figure it out I’ve only started setting it up this week.
Sounds like they are measuring in Wh but you have the unit set to kWh
Gday All
Ive bought a couple of Ikea Tradfri zigbee power sockets. I originally was going to use them for to save standby costs for
- Ducted Gas Heater (Standard power plug in the roof)
- Ducted Evap (Standard power plug in the roof)
While each device is well within the current limit of the switch, upon thinking it over I dont feel safe putting them up in the roof to control inductive loads.
But is there really a danger? They are not switching the load from zero directly, they are bringing the device from Off → Standby. And it get switched on later by the wall mounted controls.
Yeah, I was surprised myself, but that appears to be the norm in Australia. My sparkies have had no issues with just leaving the Shelly devices in the wall. One used electrical tape to cover the connectors, the other one didn’t.
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my god. i just got 4 of those and it was my weekend project to look into this!
shame i cant get the fan to suit them anymore cause ive had to replace a fan with a grid connect dcf4002wha
If you have a ESPHome based solution, you might be able to determine if the oven is on using on_multi_click or similar.
I did something vaguely similar with a hot glue gun with simpler logic (someone initially suggested multi click to me).
…if I understand your use case correctly…
Summer heat will be the main concern for you having devices in the roof space
Has anyone found a good ceiling fan controller solution for use with Iconic switches?
I’ve got a couple of the manual rotary switches and while they are ok the movement isn’t great and I’d like to move to something that can be controlled by HA.
I’m thinking it would be great to have a momentary switch connected to something like a Shelley to toggle through the options?
You could use an Iconic momentary if you move the capacitors/ speed control to the fan end (instead of @ the switch) using a “Brilliant Smart Wifi Ceiling Fan Controller 99333”.
Then program a Shelly with esphome on the Iconic to act as an independent multi click toggle.
You would have to be pretty keen on Iconic switches though 
A LOT easier with a ‘Deta Grid Connect Smart Fan Speed Controller with Touch Light Switch’ instead.
Or buy a new fan (DC maybe) with tuya module included
Doesn’t seem like anyone else has these, but just in case you do, there are some errors in the manual and a bug in the firmware for scene activation.
The manual includes a reference to two additional configuration parameters - parameter options 4 and 5 don’t actually exist in the firmware, so you can only set 0-3.
The bug with scene activation has been worked around in zwavejs, and the device will now properly activate scenes.
This means that you can now intercept the notifcation in HomeAssistant and use it to trigger automations… You will need to set an association group (group 2) for the device back to the controller in zwavejs before scenes will be notified, but that’s pretty simple.
Price is factor but so is product category. I have a lot of experience in this field you should be 100% covered. Things failing in general is not ok and multiple/ if you find other people online with same problem only strengthens the argument. (for reference I taken apple to VCAT and won $650 for an 8 year old Mac that died. Wether the company chooses to do it out of “good will” or otherwise I’ would be persistent for a replacement or refund
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DETA switches are no longer using ESP chips. They use Beken chips. There is a Tasmota equivelant project for anyone interested here https://github.com/openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T_App. I managed to flash a 2 Gang wall switch with the new OpenBK7231T firmware https://www.elektroda.com/rtvforum/viewtopic.php?p=20087146#20087146
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Cheapest nastiest fire hazard that Bunnings stock.
Cheapest? I don’t think so but I am seriously interested why you think they are a fire hazard. I have many of them installed in my house for over 3 years now and I have not had any issues with them! Is there a rating or a benchmark that you are using?
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I wrote up a guide for this Detailed guide on how to flash the new Tuya Beken Chips with OpenBK7231T
Enjoy!
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I bought a couple of the Sercomm (Telstra) smart plugs mentioned further up this topic.
I have been using one for about six months and I have noticed it has become very chatty with mqtt. The zigbee2mqtt log shows it is reporting every two seconds, which makes for a massive log file. This has only started happening in the last few weeks.
I have tried changing the reporting settings for the plug in zigbee2mqtt, but that didn’t seem to help - mind you the settings are a bit of a mystery to me, so maybe I just made it worse.
Has anyone else had an issue with these plugs?
They send a lot due to the power monitoring…?
They do send data, but other devices only update every 10 or 60 seconds. I set this one to a 30 second update on everything (or so I thought) and it still sends something every 2 seconds.
If I am reading the reporting setting correctly, it should report on/off immediately but things like current should only report every 10 seconds and even then, only if the reading has changed by “x”.
Voltage - I thought - was set to only report every 360 seconds and then only if it varied by more than 3 volts.
I might just be reading the z2m configuration wrong.
Mine send a power message as soon as it changes so can be every couple of seconds
Tks. I guess I should ask about this in a z2m page rather than here.