Mastodawn

Damnit, yesterday Google emails about deprecating my Nest thermostats, and today Wemo emails about deprecating my wifi plugs. I am never buying a smart device again.

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phooky Jul 10

@benbrown [chortles in Tasmota]

(for reals though the idea of having a smart plug without open firmware is bewildering to me)

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Courtney Rosenthal Jul 10

@phooky @benbrown I bought some Sonoff S31 smart plugs and they are shiat. Or, more accurately, the proprietary software is shiat. I thought I'd give it a try, but it's terrible. So, I plan to flash ESPHome on them.

As far as thermostat, I'm using a Venstar -- which has far inferior features and usability to my old Ecobee, but it has a local API, so yay!

I feel ya, Ben.

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phooky Jul 11

@courtney @benbrown I have an S31 with Tasmota installed on it, and it's excellent! There's a couple of guides; it took me about fifteen minutes.

https://tasmota.github.io/docs/devices/Sonoff-S31/

They integrate with all the usual systems, but I just use mine as a standalone web server to switch the PBX in the basement on and off from my phone.

Good luck! I think you'll be pretty happy with them once you flash the firmware.

Sonoff S31 - Tasmota

Documentation (Wiki) for Tasmota

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phooky

@courtney @benbrown haha and writing this just reminded me that I'd turned on the PBX for the kids earlier in the evening and I need to remember to turn it off now so they don't call each other in the middle of the night again (you haven't seen rage until you've seen a six year old who's been woken up by a prank call from his brother at four in the morning)