Hi, I am looking for a verry small SmartPlug that can read life energy usage
and can use that to check if the device behind it is switch off or on and a flow can set an action to follow.
Anyone experience with it and can it be done?
And if so, what plug can I use that is the smallest not to mess of the spaces you can use.
Of course can it be done. But which frequency? Z-Wave, Zigbee, WiFi, 433 MHz?
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Hi,
It can be Z-Wave, Zigbee I think, the others use very much power Wifi a specially I have heard.
433MHz are already so many things on
Home Pro should be easily use Z-Wavce and Zigbee, as long as I don’t need an other bridge or hub for it.
I have several Fibaro Smart Plugs (Z-Wave) in use, and I’m satisfied with them and the response to power changes is very good. But you can also adjust it. It’s also possible to include or exclude the self-consumption.
There are similar small smart plugs available from other manufacturers, such as NEO Coolcam (Z-Wave) or Shelly (WiFi), but I have no experience with them.
By the way, the power consumption of the Fibaro Smart Plug is according to the manual with max 1.6 W higher than that of the Shelly Plug S (< 1 W, according to the manual).
Edit
Another point to keep in mind is if the smart plug is designed to handle the power of the device.
Thanks for sharing examples.
On searching for it I see that the Fibaro Smart Plugs are limited in getting the firmware (only by buying a HUB extra). The design is very cool but no firmware updates without a special HUB is not realy preferable looking at the security aspect.
And the NEO Coolcam plug seems to work with 2,4Ghz WiFi according to the info. page instead of ZWave (maybe a new version with only WiFi).
Did you check the best buy guide?
Not yet, I will now. Thanks
Sorry for late reply.
Indeed, if you want to update the firmware of Fibaro Z-Wave devices, you need a Fibaro Gateway.
At the moment you cannot update the firmware of Z-Wave and Zigbee with the HP23 anyway. Technically it’s possible, but Athom refuses to add this function because they don’t see the point.
Theoretically, it’s possible to update Z-Wave devices with an Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 (pls. see link), but from what I’ve read in the forum so far, it doesn’t work. If this should work, then the firmware of Z-Wave devices can only be updated if the device manufacturer makes the firmware file available, which is the case with Aeotec and Shelly, for example. Fibaro doesn’t publish the firmware file.
