Hi everyone, a few days ago I installed my first smart circuit breaker (Protocol 3.5), connected via WiFi (I could have used Zigbee but chose WiFi) to monitor power consumption and get real-time watt readings, and I noticed a problem:
After closing the Smart Life app for about 10 minutes, the circuit breaker would update in Home Assistant only every 5–20 minutes!
I’ll keep it short: after a lot of research and attempts, I solved it this way:
In Smart Life, I created a scene where, when tapped, it sets any configuration to a selected value (in my case I told it to set its status to “Online”, but I could also have said “Set temperature threshold to 80°”). Basically, you just need to create a scene that forces the device to refresh one of its parameters. By doing this, the circuit breaker “wakes up” and provides real-time data for the next 20 minutes.
After that, I created an automation in Home Assistant → “Every 5 minutes, activate the circuit breaker scene”.
DONE
You can also create the automation directly in Smart Life, but personally I used Home Assistant.
As you can see, just choose a setting that you know you’ll never change
