Hello, i have recently started with Home Assistant, so I do not know much about advanced settings and trying to find the solution on my own is overwhelming, so if anyone could point me in the right direction, it would be great.
I have bought Zigbee power strip, which in itself seems to be quite rare, because most of smart power strips being sold seem to be wifi, and afaik I cannot add wifi power strip to HA directly (correct?).
So I have found only this one, manufacturer on box is “REACH RED” made in China.
Connection to HA was without issue, but then the problems started - the plugs were reported as “light” instead of “switch” and there is no power meter.
I also have some single smart power sockets and one dual power socket, which seems to be the same chipset, so my guess (which can be wrong) is it should have the same capabilities.
The single socket is
TS011F by _TZ3000_w0qqde0g
Dual socket is
TS011F by _TZ3000_jak16dll
Power strip is
TS011F by _TZ3000_cfnprab5
I have tried changing the device type from light to switch, which changed the type sucessfully, but otherwise it is the same, no power sensor.
When I try connecting the plug into Tuya app, there is also no power meter so I guess it does not have this capability, but I am not ready to give up yet
zha:
device_config:
a4:c1:38:4e:82:f1:da:e6-1:
type: “switch”
a4:c1:38:4e:82:f1:da:e6-2:
type: “switch”
a4:c1:38:4e:82:f1:da:e6-3:
type: “switch”
a4:c1:38:4e:82:f1:da:e6-4:
type: “switch”
a4:c1:38:4e:82:f1:da:e6-5:
type: “switch”
So please, my newbie questions are:
- As all power plugs and strip is “TS011F by _TZ3000” can I somehow force HA to look for sensors on the power strip? (reconfigure does not help).
- Is is possible the power strip does not have those sensors?
- is it possible to connect different power strip with WiFi to HA directly (ie not using for instance Tuya integration)
Workaround - I guess I could use dumb power strip and plug smart power plugs into each of its plug, but that sounded kinda silly in my head