Sonoff S20 and S26 appear to be discontinued - alternatives?

ESPHome
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Hi there.
I’ve purchased around 10 of these devices some years ago. They have always worked well and still do with ESPHome flashed on them.

However, it looks like both models have been discontinued and stock is drying up (especially in the UK).

Does anyone know of any other devices that can be used with ESPHome, or over WiFi without needing the cloud or any other hardware?

My home automation is almost all ESPHome devices, both Sonoff and home made.

I was paying around £10-£13 for these devices. Hoping to not have to pay much more for alternatives.

Thanks,
Ian.

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I’d check here as a first step as stuff keeps changing:

There’s also Shelly:

Shelly devices now work locally without Tasmota, although I do tend to flash 'em using the rather good tool from RevK (got mine via Amazon UK):

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You can find devices with esphome from athom.tech or mylocalbytes for example

Running esphome already for £12.50 from localbytes

Athom sells about for the same price but without uk warehouse which can be quite painful post brexit

Why? Can skip this and just buy with esphome pre-installed!

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I’ll admit that £12.50 for a pre-flashed UK plug switch with ESPhome / Tasmota is pretty cheap, especially with power monitoring.

Unfortunately, my Christmas gifts are already purchased otherwise I’d be trying some, rather than some more expensive Matter plugs bought as a test for a relative. Wish me luck with QR code fabric pairing… :slight_smile:

The process of rewarding suppliers with open hardware (either by accident or design) with your money is important, and Blakadder seems to have the best hardware and instructions list. Yes, it is for Tasmota, but ESPhome tends to work on the same hardware using very similar libraries (I use both for different projects).

I did have some issues pairing an ESPhome device with a different HASS install, but that was a year and many releases ago so with the advertising of compatible hardware, pairing has to be fixed.

Interesting stuff, and it’s good to know open hardware is out there!