2 out of the 3 smart plugs I’ve bought in the last couple of years have shit themselves for whatever reason. One just doesnt turn off, the other bricked itself after moving house (???)

If anyone here has used any smart plugs that havent died within a couple of years I’d love to know. I’m only using them for lamps that are a prick to reach. Bonus points for any that dont require bullshit apps to set them up

PS: UK But I guess I can find similar models if you got em

  • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I use a lot of Ikea’s Tradfri stuff with my Home Assistant (plus ZigBee adaptor) setup. It’s been pretty reliable for me. And it’s all priced pretty reasonably.

    I have an older comment somewhere about the setup, I’ll update this comment when I get home and can find the link. It does take some additional hardware and some time to read up on it and set up Home Assistant. But it’s open source and works with a huge range of hardware and doesn’t require any apps (though a nice one is available on F-Droid). It runs entirely on a computer of your choice on a LAN. Not only do you not need an internet connection to use it, you don’t even need one to set it up from scratch.

    Any smart-home hardware that advertises itself as not needing a hub will need some corporate app and an internet connection. The “hub” still exists - it’s just running on the manufacturer’s servers.