Are they Certified for use in Australia?
They should be, The company in NSW I purchased them through are saying they are.
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Then it is one of the right places to post.
Cool cool, This thread seemed more hardware orientated so wasn’t sure, But figured it’d be the logical place to start.
Shouldn’t these have RCM to be compliant for Australia?
Going to give this Zigbee smart plug a go:
I’m mostly interested in the power monitoring aspect, not so much switching control.
Bit pricey, so it better be decently reliable.
I’m now up to 6x KP115 failures, all the exact same way. Rapid relay switching - probably lucky they haven’t yet murdered anything attached to them. They are not from the same purchases either, failures across several separate batches.
I now see this product as dangerously bad - also horrific quality to have them all dying at only approx 2 years old…
edit: checked if they are in warranty still…x8 purchased in May and June 2021…x8 purchased Aug 2021.
Don’t know which are from which orders, don’t want a replacement anyway as I no longer trust them…but seems they sure did calculate warranty period carefully 
Have you looked at the Hue smart plugs? They’re about that price, it’s a known brand and they run on Zigbee. I find my Hue stuff to be pretty reliable (I do use the bridge though).
I’ve given up on wifi smart plugs. They all last about a year. Which is basically a disposable item. Which I am not happy about.
I’ve started buying zigbee smart plugs at twice the cost of the wifi ones but they have not been in use long enough to tell if they last any longer.
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Maybe Google “inductive loads vs resistive loads”
Here is the KP115
You can see the resistive load is 10A but motor load is 1.6A. This is one thing to consider. The small relays can only handle so much and could be the reason they are not lasting.
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I am well versed in resistive vs inductive loads. It makes no difference. Even for small constant loads like my server rack (500W) where I am power monitoring only (no switching). They are all garbage.
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No, I haven’t. I see they sell them at Bunnings. Might try one next time I go in.
They look similar to a bunch of Tuya plugs I’ve had which haven’t been particularly reliable either. I’ve ruled out anything Tuya anyway.
Funny enough I noticed they’re on clearance at Bunnings at the moment - if you can find one with stock they were only about $25. But almost no one has stock. Officeworks carries Hue also but again stock can be patchy.
The Hue line uses ZigBee so it runs locally, although they do have their own cloud server also.
Tuya is garbage unless you can get off the cloud. I set up Localtuya but I can’t work out how to block stuff from the cloud on my router, which is an essential part of the process.
Yeah I only use tuya zigbee stuff, and only after checking it out on the z2m github.
FYI Ikea also sell a Zigbee smart socket, and it’s quite affordable (about $30). I bought one and it broke after a month, replaced it and the replacement also broke after a month. Others have had good experiences with them but I wouldn’t bother.
I have had them fail across a variety of use cases now. All were power monitor only, always on (never switching). All failing at approx 2 years old mark.
2x tv electronics outlined in prior post (tv, game consoles etc)
1x washing machine
1x hue hub + raspberry pi
1x toaster oven
1x weather station base + homepod mini (like ~5w constant load…)
Not the biggest sample size of course, but my experience is suggesting it makes no difference what the load is. They fail at about the same age regardless, just trash quality.
Yes I’m salty about it, I’m annoyed about the kp115 in particular because it seemed like the more ‘not cheap junk’ option at the time I purchased them…
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Hi guys. So I want to get into wled and have looked up a few things but find the whole idea of getting led strips and the matching a controller and power supply to be a little confusing - still got more reading to go along with it, that’s for sure!
Does anyone have any suggestions on some good led strips, controllers and power supplies that they like getting for wled? I’d prefer something that requires as little soldering as possible since I’m not very good at it, but as long as it’s not 100% diy I wouldn’t mind putting something together.
Thanks in advanced!
How many LEDs (length and LEDs/m)?
There’s a new and quite simple controller from Quinled that comes with WLED pre installed.
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I’ve been using one for the pool pump since late February. Not crapped out yet but give it time. It’s not a power monitoring plug though, just switching.
I have LocalTuya as well but it doesn’t matter what localised option you use, you still need to have a cloud account. It’s a PITA, especially when something goes wrong.