Powerstrip with individual and local control via Home Assistant

[T1ppes]

I am looking for a smart power strip (European sockets) that I can:

• integrate with Home Assistant and
• control locally (i.e. no cloud) and
• control single outlets

My smart home is built on WiFi and ZigBee, so the power strip should run on one or the other.

This is a Smart WiFi based Power Strip I found on Amazon. I read in the comments section, that it can be flashed with Tasmota, but I have never done this. So not sure if it fulfills the above, or if there are other more reliant, or cheaper options available.

[checking12 (Sander)]

checked tplinks ones?

TP-Link Kasa Smart

[T1ppes]

Thanks for the hint. It seems that especially the power strip versions are US only. At least I was not able to find a EU socket version of them.

[checking12 (Sander)]

i vaguely remmeber EU ones too… let me dig a bit

memory mistake. i saw eu dlink ones D-Link DSP-W245 see here for non native integration.

Dlink Smart Plug Wi‑Fi DSP‑W115

I´m not a good developer but for me it works fine like this: I copied the content of the dspw245.py up to column 358 in one config. The last part (360 - 371) isn’t nesessary. [dlink w115] For each Dlink Plug I created a seperat config with the following code: [dlink1] You have to create the modules and classes in the apps.yaml [appsyaml] You can test your script right on your PC e.g. with MS visual studio let me now If you need further informations. Hope it helps you …

i finally went for an ancient 2nd hand greenwave zwave strip. very happy with that one.

[T1ppes]

The D-Link seems to be alright. Each plug is contrallable by itself and it is local, although you might need a separate app and account again to set it up. It seems to be rather expensive. I was able to find used ones starting at 60€, a new one is currently 125€ for four plugs only.
On the positive side, it seems to have consumption measurements. I appriciate your input.
So after all the link I have listed seems to fit best. It is only 33€ and can be controlled locally after flashing it with Tasmota.

I need to dig into Tasmota first a little bit to understand how it is working with home assistant.
As far as I understand it works with MQTT, so I’d need to install an MQTT Broker, which I do not have running at the moment.

Edit: It seems that once the strip runs Tasmota, it is easy to flash even EspHome. That’s great as I have already other devices running the native EspHome integration. Only issue seems to be, that Tuya Convert is no longer working and I might need to open up the power strip to connect an USB connector to flash it this way.

[goee]

If you don’t mind flashing it with ESPHome, you might want to check out LDNIO WiFi Power Strips. It that can be flashed wirelessly with Tuya Cloudcutter and fully customisable via ESPHome.
There’s a guide and YAML here: How to Flash LDNIO Smart Power Strip with Tuya Cloudcutter for Home Assistant Integration - Simply Maker

[Guff666 (Gareth Howell)]

Nice powerstrip. I’m going to give that a go.