I want a local-only solution (once configured) that can be used to turn my 3d printers on/off by home assistant and also measure power usage. I have a UPS but all the individual smart plugs (other than the ubiquitous round Tuya based ones) are too large to connect all 3 printers. So this power strip seems like a good solution - and I think has good HA support? Although I found it very difficult to find documentation stating what works/works well.
I got one this past week and got it working with HASS with little trouble. I used Python-Kasa and the only problem I had was that I overlooked the part about connecting to the open wifi on the powerstrip from my laptop. I was then able to get the HS300 on the network and didn’t have to use the Kasa app (which requires signing up for a Kasa account).
I haven’t done any automations yet as I am very new to HASS. My first goal was to get power monitoring on my servers and success! I was able to control power to the individual sockets from the HASS dashboard so I expect the automations to work fine.