I am using a LSC smart plug in front of my rice cooker, as a way of extra fire protection. The rice cooker itself also has a (digital) manual on-off switch, so turning the smart plug on only allows the rice to be turned on, it doesn’t start a cooking program by itself.
At my home network, this works perfectly fine. I can cook rice and when I’m done, I switch off the rice cooker and then the LSC plug.
At my parents home however, I encountered the following situation:
Turn on the LSC plug
Turn on the rice cooker
Start the rice cooking program
After a few minutes, the LSC plug can’t find my home wifi network.
The LSC plug restarts, turns its switch off and starts an access point.
This led to my rice not getting cooked.
Simply disabling the access point is not an option. I need this for OTA maintenance of the smart plug whenever I have wifi issues at home. Also, a simple ‘turn on at boot’ switch will not do the trick. This would still lead to the rice cooking program getting cancelled (the rice cooker has a digital display) and just rebooting the rice cooker.
What would be a good idea to keep my rice cooker running, also when my home network is not in reach, without disabling access point mode?
Another vote for better plug, get a Shelly…
Anyway, correctly configured esphome device keeps the automation going on, even if connection is lost as far as it can keep the time.
I think the op wants to say this is could be fixed in the custom esphome firmware for the plug as linked to in the start post, rather than in Ha itself?
Is the plug designed to join your parents network or is the idea it just runs locally / offline when at that location? I think you want it to run offline at that location?
You could always configure it to join thier network, which is one way to address “no WiFi/API reboots” (if that is what is happening).1
I’m not sure if there is a way to manually trigger a boot /switch to ap mode (say triggered by a very long press of button), but that approach might enable you to disable the reboot timeouts mentioned earlier while still being able to reach an ap for updates.
How can the plug help not burning your rice? I would expect that rice cookers have this feature already on board?
The default (no) api reboots (when not connected) are actually independent from the default (no) WiFi reboots (when not connected) and would need to be addressed independently. (reboot_timeout: 0s)