Screenshot of my Home Assistant dashboard showing all 4 of my power monitor smart plugs. It shows the fridge using about 60 watts of power, my desktop PC using 180 watts, my room lamps using 20 watts, and my network equipment using 15 watts. Each card is a line graph, so you can see the power usage over time.
Screenshot of a Home Assistant dashboard graph showing computer power draw vs fridge power draw. What's neat is you can see the fridge power going up to 50 watts for 20 minutes and then dropping to near 0 watts, for another 20 minutes. Also shown is my computer power usage which fluctuates between 200 watts and 150 watts.
Photo of the box of ThirdReality smart plugs. This is the 3rd generation, and is a box of 4 plugs. The other box is the Sonoff Dongle Plus MG24, which is a USB plug with an antenna. It's compatible with Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT, and I guess it works with the Thread protocol too.
I've been wanting to monitor my energy usage. Some time back I asked Mastodon about favorite smart plugs, and the ones that use #Zigbee seem to be preferred.
After @geerlingguy did a review on the new ThirdReality smart plugs, I finally bought a few, along […]
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