I prefer a smart plug that won’t block other plugs, even on a surge protector, has offline support through HA, and is cheap. I don’t care if it’s a brand nobody has heard of if it works and seems reasonably supported. What do you recommend?
We don’t know country, what communication protocol you are using, so I took a wild guess.
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806411355605.html
BTW, to be a smart plug, it has to be online…
Thank you. I am in the US. As far as smart plugs, no. They do not have to be online. For example, all of my Wemo smart plugs required a setup online once to register them. From that day forward, HA communicates with them over the Wi-Fi which has no internet connection. Local network communication does not require internet. I looked into the TUYA outlets you mentioned, and found the US version, which is nice and cheap. Thanks!
No internet, well I get that. It still has to be online, (IE some kind of radio) to work.
Unfortunately most of the Tuya devices need to phone home on the internet. If you use 3rd party integrations you can get them to not talk to China, probably.
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WiFi based Tasmota or esphome based plugs don’t need an internet uplink, just local WLAN connectivity to the home-assistant host (server), the same goes for anything zigbee based if you use ZHA or z2m with a native zigbee coordinator.
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I use these:
And reflashed them with ESPHome using these instructions: