UK Smart Socket with USB

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Hi, trying to find a UK smart socket that has USB-C and works with home assistant. Any recommendations?

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Not found anything myself, although I do have a load of these which are excellent and highly recommended.

I dare say there will be some from Aliexpress, but I’d put these solidly in the “YMMV” camp, given their inevitable lack of UK / EU certification.

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Thanks. In that case I’ll probably opt for a decent non smart socket and rely on smart bulbs or switches for lamps

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Not quite a plug with usb C but these work with HA and allow you power on/off your usb powered equipment and you can just use with a dumb plug…

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SONOFF-Micro-Remotely-Controllable-Function/dp/B082V85K7F

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You can get Zigbee socket extensions - four plug sockets and several USB sockets on a 2m lead - but I’ve never seen a wall socket with USB. May be something to do with interference.

I’ve kept one dumb socket pair in each room so that I can have USB. Otherwise I have the ones recommended by @daern

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Frankly, it’s hard enough to get a useful USB-C UK 13A single or double socket - most from Toolstation / Screwfix are 2A 5v only, and several only work with one USB-C at a time.

I’ve not seem a decent USB-C with 5/9/15/20V, and the only remote switched sockets were Lightwave RF.

Matter 13A plug-in switches are arriving on the market, and coming down in price (and I’d expect to have a longer life than most).

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