Any good smart power strip not made in China? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by andyli@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I'm looking for a smart power strip, which allows me to remote control and schedule on/off.

Last year I bought Hey!'s smart power strip. Hey! is a UK brand, but turn out its products are just branded Chinese products. I used it anyway but it just bricked itself last month.

For quality, safety, and security reasons, I strongly prefer a non-made-in-China smart power strip.

Compatibility with Home Assistant is prefered, but not 100% required. I'm interested in switching to Home Assistant but I haven't yet.

Thanks for any suggestions!

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[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know the actual country of manufacture, but Energenie are good.

I have their individual RF controlled sockets, but I see they have a power strip too.

There's a "smart" (I hate that marketing term) 4-way power strip and with some intervention I'm sure it could be integrated into HA with an RF bridge.

They do make a Raspberry Pi module, and I own one, but I had it before I had setup HA and just have never tried putting the two together.

Anyway, the sockets seem ok and they appear to have all the relevant certifications.

(And I'm not affiliated with them)

this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023

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