Re: [tlug] Slightly offtopic: Japan power outlet with consuption meter

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Hi,
久しぶり です

Although I haven't been to Japan for a long time, I guess that
you can probably get one or two of the smart plugs that are
supported by zigbee2mqtt. There is a list of suported devices at
https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/

I have a wifi smart plug that I could flash with tasmota (the
new version of the model can no longer be flashed, which is the
problem with those Wifi plugs) and a Xiaomi Zigbee smartplug.
Both can measure power consumption and are integrated in my smarthome
solution via MQTT.

The advantage of Zigbee is that a standard conform device should be
easier to get supported by zigbee2mqtt than a Wifi device to be
supported by tasmota.



>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Horn <chorn@example.com> writes:

    Christian> On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 05:35:06PM +0900, Jim Tittsler
    Christian> wrote:
    >> I haven't tried it, but it looks like someone has
    >> reverse-engineered the cheap Wemo Insight smart plug that I
    >> have enough to be able to poll it each minute and applied it to
    >> monitoring his computer's power consumption among other things.
    >> https://chameth.com/monitoring-power-with-wemo/

    Christian> That did lead to something..  there is
    Christian> https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota as open firmware for
    Christian> a wide range of smart plugs.  Compatible ones for Japan
    Christian> are here: https://templates.blakadder.com/jp.html .  I
    Christian> think some of the devices Travis saw are compatible.

    Christian> So that would give a device usable in Japan, with sane,
    Christian> machine readable interface.  One would then need to
    Christian> select a device where power consuption measurement is
    Christian> advertised, and hope it's reasonable granular.

    Christian> Thanks, Chris

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