I am looking for a smart plug with power monitoring. The TAPO P110M from TP-Link is advertised in Australia as a “Matter” device. Does it work with Home-Assistant without needing an app? I think there is a similar device sold in the UK as Tapo P125M.
The spec page says that it supports Matter over WiFi so yes, there should be no additional app required.
However, energy monitoring probably won’t work. That wasn’t part of the original Matter spec, and only arrived with Matter 1.3. The specs don’t say what version of Matter that plug supports, so it’s likely to be something older.
Thanks Tinkerer, Gues I will have to buy one and try it.
Hi Tinkerer, I have bought a TP110M device and installed it my HA system.
I have an automation which is controlling my hot water system and it works OK.
I have not yet discovered any functionality other than switch on/off.
I would like to obtain the power usage from the device. Any ideas on how I might achieve this functionality?
How did you connect it? With matter? Then read my post again:
You’re right on the money @Tinkerer. The ones I received today are fw version 1.0, which do not support Matter 1.3.
TP-Link are apparently working on an update, though no ETA has been given:
Although if they do release an update, can that be pushed from a Matter controller (ie HA)? Or are we going to have to download the Tapo mobile app, create a TP-Link account, etc etc and do them all one by one?
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That I don’t know. I’d expect that it’ll end up being only possible through Tapo’s app, because manufacturer’s love their lock in.
I have two P110M switches. Because I’m paranoid, all of my iot gadgets are blocked from the internet and I won’t use the “official” apps to provision them.
Both of them work fine with Matter, but as @Tinkerer mentioned they don’t do energy monitoring. Once they’re provisioned using Matter they’re also visible to the TP-Link integration, which provides access to all the things once you add them there as well.
It’s all a bit of a silly hack but at least it works…
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