Trying to find some ESP8266 based UK smart plugs to replace my old and temperamental Orvibo ones which I can’t convert to ESPHome. Seems like Tuya are the ones who produce such plugs as an OEM and then various other rebadge and sell them on eBay and Amazon - I think these ones are the same - any th…

Not tried that brand but the Teckin ones do work with tuya convert and then can flash esphome to them using the sonoff firmware. At least they do at the moment, a patch is coming apparently. See tuya convert page.

Thanks for the nudge there. From more googling, they use the woox home app which is a rebadged version of tuya smart life app - which suggests these are perfect ad the same as the Teckin ones you mention but cheaper. Yes, was exploring tuya-convert and saw they might have a patch incoming. Don’t u…

I need to try tuya convert sometime as I have a few of these cheap smart plugs. There is a pretty nice guide here: http://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/tuya-convert-walk-through-february-2019/ It would be nice to compile a list of what plugs use what GPIO’s once flashed

There’s a good list of many of the compatible products here https://blakadder.github.io/templates/index.html . I know this is for Tasmota, but they should be mostly interchangeable. Would be good to get more devices listed here on the ESPHome cookbook too: https://esphome.io/cookbook/

In case anyone is wondering - these work fine with tuya-convert and then work brilliantly with a custom config in ESPHome based upon Frenck’s work - https://frenck.dev/calibrating-an-esphome-flashed-power-plug/ My ESPHome config in case it’s useful to anyone else: esphome: name: plug_1 platfor…

One thing to think about with the tekin ones (or any square ones). If your sockets are switched the corner of the plug catches on the switches. No major hassle you just can’t plug them in flush.

Good point - the round ones avoid that problem and are generally a bit smaller as well.

DO NOT BUY THE NEW ONES ON AMAZON… They are SP23 that now have no energy monitoring and you cannot flash as they have changed to Realtek MCU not an ESP chip, so you cannot flash…

Can confirm. The Teckin SP23 plugs now available on Amazon UK are of the Realtek variety and are impossible to re-flash with open source firmware. DO NOT BUY

Just bought the 2Nice ones mentioned here and flashed fine: [image] Flashable UK smart plugs Hardware Has anyone had recent success with finding UK smart plugs that will flash easily - either open and serial flash or successful Tuya convert ? I just received some round 1…

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Just bought the 2Nice ones mentioned here and flashed fine: