Anyone recommend a smart plug with energy usage monitor built in?

[NeilF]

After:-
1) Good Alexa integration
2) Good power usage stats/history
3) The ability to easily clear the energy usage history. Amazing how many don't seem to offer this.

Ta

 

[NeilF]

Bought some of these a couple of months ago:
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/smart-tech/smart-tech/smart-home/smart-security-and-cctv/tp-link-kasa-hs110-v2-1-smart-plug-with-energy-monitoring-10190933-pdt.html?istCompanyId=bec25c7e-cbcd-460d-81d5-a25372d2e3d7&istFeedId=4d7eb93e-055f-499d-8ee5-1cdcc50d67d1&istItemId=wmlpppwaq&istBid=tztx&srcid=198&cmpid=ppc~gg~1051 (Shopping Ads) Smart Home Control - Brand TP-Link v2~1051 (Shopping Ads) Smart Home Control - Brand TP-Link v2 ad group~Exact&mctag=gg_goog_7904&kwid=GOOGLE&device=c&ds_kids=92700058667443793&tgtid=1051 (Shopping Ads) Smart Home Control - Brand TP-Link v2&&gclid=CjwKCAiAwrf-BRA9EiwAUWwKXrlAASAeJXV613w1SP9bThbechmGFukDCE-rpopIIro6W-Wf4aSZTxoCOZMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I integrated to Home Assistant which shows daily totals/KWs as well as real time usage - works well!

Thanks! Those are the exact ones i was looking at, BUT I read you can't clear/reset the energy usage data? ie: If you plug a different device into it.

 

[NeilF]

What daily data do you get? A rough rundown of the usage that day (eg: hourly)? Or just a single average figure?

Thanks again...

 

[NeilF]

If I wanted hourly, I'd probably just pull it into Home Assistant and render an hourly graph in Grafana or something

You can do that? ie: An application can grab the data from the TP-Link somehow?

 

[NeilF]

At 4m13s here. Useful looking historical energy usage in app:-

 

[NeilF]

Racking my brain overnight - actually have these plugs, just can't remember why they didn't work out - hence I got the Kasa ones... There's something buggy or missing about them if I recall. Will let you know if I remember!

Mysterae - why thank you!

Well, can't get the Kasa ones from the african river (no stock), so I've gone for the ones in that video...

 

[NeilF]

Well, can't get the Kasa ones from the african river (no stock), so I've gone for the ones in that video...

Grrrr... Got these Teckin units today. Battled away and just couldn't get the energy usage feature to display in the app.

A little message tucked away in a discussion on the african river had a reply from the manufacturer that they've now removed the feature. Returning... Now trying Gosund ones...

 

[NeilF]

Well the Gosand ones seem to work well, give at least a reasonable indication of energy usage too, and on the african river are only £8.49 each at the moment.

 

[NeilF]

Indeed, if there was just a dedicated Windows program/service that could do the collecting rather than a dedicate operating system, that would be ideal for me...

 

[NeilF]

but they are not giving recordable telemetry into an excel spreadsheet/cvs file, for a post mortem.
one of the links I bookmarked https://www.mysensors.org/build/pulse_power

Indeed, but they do give a reasonable current energy usage and a historical usage out of the box, for just £8.49

Going to put one on the tumble dryer out of interest to gauge it's running cost.

 

[NeilF]

The TP-Link aren't bad - and far less likely to phone home to China or turn into a bot than no-name stuff.

Given TP-Link are out of stock, and Gosund are half the price, Gosund won.

 

[NeilF]

Bumping an old thread, because I just wanted to know what people use these days.

I'm looking for a simple plug to monitor electricity usage from the wall and display the usage as a graph. I'd ideally like the resolution every second or so, but up to a minute would be okay.

My ultimate aim is to be able to look at a graph on my phone later on and check the usage graph. If the data was stored on a memory card and could be easily imported into Excel, that would work too.

The Gosund offer a simple view. Energy use values are shown live, but the simple graph probably resolves to hourly/per day. Nothing clever like Home Assistant etc.