I am looking for a smart plug that doesn’t require a internet connection to function. I’m currently using an amazon echo for my home automation. While it has worked fine, if my internet connection goes down, so does my automation. That is why I am looking at home assistant. My current smart plug an old, cheap chinese one, model JH-G01U, uses Tuya. I was able to set it up to work with home assistant, but I want some thing that is locally controlled.
I have home assistant installed on a raspberry pi 2. It is controlling a smart plug and a Logitech Harmony Hub. I have a very basic setup for a bedroom.
I’m pretty sure Athom is a small operation that just buys cheaper smart devices and flashes Tasmota on to them. I bought some Shelly devices at the same time I bought these, and found that these were easiest to setup since they just use standard Tasmota rather than Shelly’s proprietary software. I hit a minor speedbump with the fourth Athom device I set up in a row, but both Shelly devices I had took multiple tries to get working.
Thanks for all the recommendations. It looks like I need to read up on Tasmota. I was looking at that sylvania one and the sonoff s31. I’d have to get the sonoff from amazon since cloudfree is out of the pre flashed ones.
Thanks for the recommendation. I ended up using the Nortek stick and a sonoff s311 lite zigbee model. This looked easier than flashing the wifi version with tasmota. I have no experience with soldering. I opted for the easy option since this is for just one room at the moment.
I’ve searched for LAN based smart plugs and there are few retailers for Australian plugs.
To avoid connecting into an adapter, increasing an already indirect connection, it seems an option left out here is flashing.
Flashing a smart plug (cloud controlled) that is affordable and locally available for purchase, opens up a broad range of many smart plugs.
My understanding is you will need an FTDI USB connector (FT232 (not CP2104) FTDI USB to TTL/UART Adapter).
If you’re confident enough to unscrew a smart cloud plug, solder, flash Tasmota firmware, unsolder, screw back and not set your house on fire.