Recently bought this power strip, here’s a mini review for anyone else pondering the purchase.
It’s recognised in ZHA as TS011F, _TZ3210_c7nc9w3c, using the quirk zhaquirks.tuya.ts011f_plug.Plug_4AC_2USB_Metering. I’m pretty sure it’s the same thing as the 4 socket version, but with one socket left out to make it square. It exposes three switches in ZHA, one for each socket.
The good:
- It has power monitoring.
- It works well as a Zigbee router.
- Because of its square shape, it’s quite compact.
- So far no spontaneous turn offs, turn ons or combustions.
- The brand name is seriously silly. Pls!
The not so good:
- The power monitoring is only for the three sockets combined, you can’t monitor each socket individually and you can’t monitor the power usage of the three USB sockets either.
- There’s a noticeable delay between telling Home Assistant to turn a socket on or off and it actually turning on or off. I don’t understand why, because a single socket TS011F (_TZ3000_ww6drja5) reacts instantly.
The ugly:
- It has an obnoxious blue LED that you can’t turn off (it has an entity to change the background lighting mode, but it doesn’t work), and for each socket that’s turned on you also get a red LED that you can’t turn off either. The red LED for the USB sockets can never be turned off because they can’t be controlled at all. The LEDs shine through the casing and through the sockets, because they aren’t separately enclosed.
- You can’t control the USB sockets at all, they’re always on.
All in all, I feel like it’s quite expensive for what it is. A regular power strip with a bunch of single smart plugs seems like a better purchase, even if a bit more expensive.
I got it from here:
https://aliexpress.com/item/1005008121398473.html