i see tons of smart wifi plugs for $16 shipped from amazon. these are usually compat with Alexa. however, which are compat with HA? examples:
https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Wifi-Plug-Speaker-Appliances/dp/B01N1A02FU/
https://www.amazon.com/DEKINMAX-Android-Control-Household-Appliances/dp/B01MZINAQM/
the only ones i know for sure that are compatible with HA costs more in the $30 range with z-wave too
I doubt either one of these will work, in fact in the questions for the second one, someone actually asked about HA and a user replied that they couldn’t get it to work. In fact, based on the reviews and questions, I wouldn’t buy either of these!
Look for switches with open APIs and/or connections to IFTTT. This is your best bet for something that will integrate with HA. Wemo and TP Link smart plugs are perpetually on sale and either would be a budget friendly WiFi smart plug.
Can you control the TP Link directly from HA without having to use IFTTT? I searched the board a while back and didn’t see anything related to direct control.
Yeah you can control it without IFTTT.
look like rebranded sonoffs, might be able to flash them?
And same day prime shipping is cheaper/faster than shipping from China.
https://www.itead.cc/smart-home/smart-socket.html
And for TP Link -> https://home-assistant.io/components/switch.tplink/
how would you flash those rebranded sonoffs? i cant find any instructions for it.
the cheapest i see is Sonoffs. and today is a sale for $5 https://www.itead.cc/sonoff-wifi-wireless-switch.html
it does require some work as seen in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JxPWA-qxAk
You need one of these these. Pop the cover off and plug it in (same method as in Bens video). Then I used Atom with platform IO to flash Tasmota onto it. I’ve done 3 switches (sonoffs - ordered direct from itead) so far and all are working fine.
awesome! thank you.
btw, did you notice the post from Zeric E from the link you shared for the S20? he mentioned that the US version is unsafe because of the hot and neutral…are yours from usa market?
I use the cheap Etekcity switches and control them with an arduino (see 433toMQTTto433 Bidirectional Arduino Gateway). I am also able to tell Alexa to turn them off and on.
Hmm… Just verified that. Annoying. The basic switch is okay though, and even if it wasn’t you wire that up yourself so easily correctable. A bit more complicated to redo the plug version.
Looks like it’s using tuya app similar to ailights
If it has the same chipset like with sonoff basic/s20 then should be no problem to flash with tasmota/espurna firmware.
Sonoff has a new version for the US which I’m hoping means they swapped the relay to be on the hot line.
https://www.itead.cc/sonoff-s30.html
It is $20 + shipping from China though. So not the cheapest option.
SonOTA is great. I’ve used it on 4 TH16s and plan on a POW too.
As for the original topic, Xiaomi smart plugs are 12 bucks a pop for 10a versions. And supported in HA officially.
These “Geekbes Smart WiFi mini plugs” show up on Slickdeals often for hell of a price for 3. I own three of them but have not been able to get them to work with Home Assistant, but they will work with Alexa. Thoughts Anyone?
Are they work with Tuya smart app?
If so you can try this as custom component, until it’s not merged. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/11000
I hope that gets merged! 
Has anyone been able to confirm if it works with Tuya App?
From Amazon Questions:
I just ordered 3. Hope there’s some way to get them to work
HA needs to connect to “Smart Life” API to control outlets