Recommendations on local (non-cloud) Australian Smart Plugs?

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Previously I had some Tuya compatible smart plugs, but these went missing in a house move. I was going to get some TPLink HS100/Kasa plugs, but they seem to have suddenly become local-only hostile and require cloud monitoring. Kogan had some Tuya compatible stuff, but it seems to have changed design and some forum posts are suggesting its not TuyaConnect compatible anymore.

In the last move I dropped a lot of my old Zigbee stuff that was running via a Xiaomi Gateway, because it was getting janky; and switched to BLE instead. So, would prefer non-Zigbee.

Suggestions?

Posted Nov 2, 2022, 5:45 AM UTC

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ekini_w•4 yr. ago

Athom plugs. They're compact too. Can be bought from AliExpress.

porterbleOP•4 yr. ago

Interesting, will have to look into those. Seems that you can get them pre-flashed with ESPHome too.

netspherecyborg•4 yr. ago

Maybe somebody got to a different conclusion as me, however when I set up everything I didn’t see any real option for local devices, only zigbee or z-wave. I don’t know about the xiaomi gateway but I don’t have any problems with my sonoff dongle. But this is only my personal conclusion not sure if this helps

Nyghtshayde•4 yr. ago

If you get no joy here you might ask on the Australian Certified Hardware thread https://community.home-assistant.io/t/australia-electrically-certified-hardware/32074/4204 - not a lot of options on the market I suspect.

StraightMethod•4 yr. ago

I'm also disappointed that we can no longer buy any old TuYa plug and reflash to Tasmota.

I've had good experiences with the Athom gear off AliExpress. Comes pre-flashed with Tasmota.

pytho38•4 yr. ago

Unfortunately between firmware and moving away from ESP chips, there seem to be no flashable options now. I kick myself regularly for not stocking up on more Kogan plugs a couple of years ago and have resigned myself to the fact we are stuck with “local compatible” now. My last few batches of plugs have been registered in the tuya app and then controlled locally using a tiny tuya to mqtt bridge script I wrote. Planning to buy / try these next as are compact, have energy monitoring and well priced (and can be returned to Bunnings if they don’t work well) ;) https://www.bunnings.com.au/arlec-grid-connect-smart-plug-in-socket-with-energy-meter-4-pack_p0273368.

porterbleOP•4 yr. ago

Yeah, i have been eyeing those off as apparently they are still Tuya local compatible. However, going to look into the Athom plugs above

DispraisedAussie•4 yr. ago

The Belkin Wemo Smart Plug with Thread. Australian plug, Australian certified, sold by Apple. Pricy but it uses Thread and will work with HomeKit Controller.

https://store.apple.com/au/xc/product/HQ0S2X/A

If you buy from Apple they have a 14 days no-questions asked refund policy, so just send them back if they don’t work for you.

Unfortunately that’s the only local friendly one that I can find in Australia barring the Eve HomeKit. We’re option limited here because of regulation and market size.