U.K. Smart Sockets

Hey

Am at the early stages of planning to replace sockets in my home with smart sockets and wondered if anyone had any recommendations?

At the moment I’m leaning towards the Lightwave RF hardware - mostly because they look quite nice, they have the bonus of energy monitoring built in too and seem to integrate well with HA.

I believe they will require me to purchase the hub if I use HA or not is that correct?

Anyone have any experience with the Lightwave sockets? Anything to look out for or any other brands worth considering?

Cheers
Marc

I have the BG WIFI ones working fine. There are the ClickSmart+ Zigbee ones as well but not tried them. Both don’t do power monitoring though.

I did start out with LightwaveRF, but they are really expensive so got rid. Looking at the docs HA integrates with the Lightwave Hub

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No experience of the Lightwave sockets but this topic got me interested as I’m about to move into a new house so a lot of smart upgrades planned.
Looking at Lightwave its classification is “Assumed State”, this is a really poor integration type in that it relies on the last sent state from HA rather than reading the state of the socket, if someone uses the physical switch this won’t get reflected in HA and I’d doubt you’d get power monitoring exposed to HA either.
See Classifying the Internet of Things - Home Assistant

That would be really disappointing if that’s the case - they are a lot more expensive than the rest although I do like how they look, although would gage expected the state changes to be available in home assistant too!

This got me looking into Lightwave too. Real-time status updates from their devices back into HA would be an essential for my adoption. If someone knows if this happens already please post.

Also I read there is a ‘Plus’ members club. It costs £8 per month.

https://lightwaverf.com/lightwave-plus-benefits/

Only when you are in this club can you unlock extra hardware features like multi click (2 or 3 clicks of a switch to perform enhanced functions). Any manufacturer that tries to monthly subscribe me to get such fairly standard functionality will not be getting my business. C’mon Lightwave… no !