Here's a #HomeAssistant post about #SmartPlugs. What do you use?
I'm a no-clouder so keen to here what works best for local energy monitoring and control.
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/uk-smart-plugs-2026/1009520?u=magicbeing
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I'm new and wondering about the pros and cons of different Smart Plugs in UK. I guess there are two categories, control, and control plus energy monitoring, but correct me please, if I'm wrong. Control Plus Energy Monitoring I see SONOFF, Shelly and TP-Link as quality, and also found UPXNBOR. Also Ecoflow + Shelly joint branded, but I suspect only useful with Ecoflow products? I have WiFi and ZigBee networks. Examples: SONOFF S60 WiFi £10 SONOFF S60 Zigbee £13 Shelly Smart Plug Plus £23 TP-...
Black Friday Deal: Amazon Smart Plug Massive Price Drop — Now $12.99
Tom’s Hardware: Open-source tool designed to throttle PC and server performance based on electricity pricing — lightweight CLI will automatically limit clocks during peak hours. “A robotics and machine learning engineer has developed a command-line interface tool that monitors power use from a smart plug and then tunes system performance based on electricity pricing. The simple program, […]
Terminal dashboard that throttles my PC during peak electricity rates
https://www.naveen.ing/cli-for-smartplugs/
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