New: Third Reality Power monitoring plug

+1 for these! Amazon sometimes has deals or coupons on these for around $45 as well. I normally stock up when the deals come by if I need any more

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Does Hubitat have a driver for these or does the generic driver work?
Thanks

Just uses the stock driver ..
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I have quite 8 Third Reality smart plugs Gen1 as well 4 Gen 2 w/metering. They all work well. I have not tried the Sengled plugs recommended by @WarlockWeary, so I do not know if they are worth the extra cost.

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On sale they are ¯\(ツ)/¯ $11.25
Not to bad :slight_smile: and on my system work way better :slight_smile:

When you say they work better, what are the specific differences in performance? If the Singled plugs are significantly better I might upgrade, but for now I am not having issues with Third Reality. I did lose one TR plug in a storm when we had a power surge, but only one. I have lost several eWeLink plugs due to such surges. That is what started me buying the Third Reality plugs to replace the eWeLink.

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They Work Faster / Better Response time .. Farther / Better Repeaters
( at least in my setup )

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Looks like 10013050 is available now.

I've been having issues (on 10013048) with 1-2 of my energy monitoring plugs not reporting updates and needing to be either turned off/on, or power cycled. Anyone else see this?

Do these Sengled Outlets have power and energy monitoring? Do you know if they also can function as Zigbee repeaters?
Which driver do you use with these?

No they do not have power but work well as repeaters.
Can use several different drivers. stock zigbee driver plug or switch works fine.

So what is the consensus on the third reality outlets and energy monitoring, are there still issues?

Other recommendations for Zigbee 3.0 outlets that are good repeaters and have energy monitoring?

Edit: Anyone know if these are Zigbee 3.0? Sengled Smart Plug: Smart Control and Automation

The same problems with the ThirdReality monitoring plugs discussed above are now observed also in the latest firmware of the TR European plug :

  • endpointId: 01
  • application: 4F
  • firmwareMT: 1233-D3A6-10013050
  • inClusters: 0000,FF03,0003,0004,0005,0006,0B04,0702
  • manufacturer: Third Reality, Inc
  • model: 3RSPE01044BZ
  • outClusters: 0019
  • softwareBuild: v1.00.79

Spammy reporting, not obeying the Zigbee standards (the ZCL specifications). @ThirdReality fails to properly communicate in the public forums to any suggestions or questions.

NOT RECOMMENDED.

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Okay, I will avoid the third reality then. What about the Sengled plugs, are these Zigbee 3.0?

Just installed 4 of these outlets and they are working fine on my ZigBee network. There is one thing I am using the community driver from Jonathan Bradshaw which allows for some of the features of the outlet to be configured. I am receiving a warning in the log on the reporting item:

[dev:238] 2024-08-21 10:47:29.042 AM[warn] Kitchen-Outlet-Buglight-New zigbee received unknown Electrical Measurement cluster attribute 0x0510 (value 33)

Not big issues since I am not using the power reporting for any devices plugged into these. But wondering if anyone else have seen this in their logs?

Update

Just an update. Looking at the driver and comments in this thread this should just be a minor update to the driver to ingest the attribute to remove the warning. I would try it myself just to read the value but leave the driver calculate the power factor.

I did some changes to the community driver for this plug and the submitted a pull request in Github. Today @jonathanb merged the changes to driver and this should remove the WARN message about attribute 0x0510.

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Ron and Jonathan,
@jonathanb
Thanks for adding that fix. @jonathanb Please consider an update to the driver version string. I got confused when I saw the version still at
@Field static final String VERSION = '1.03 (2023-04-22)'

Jonathan moved away from using Hubitat a long time ago, so I'm not sure he even monitors activity on his user account here.

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thanks for letting me know. I would be nice if someone forks some of his work and continues to support it. I'm using his driver on both Gen1 and Gen2 outlets. I just tried the new rev "50" firmware on Gen2 and they do seem to be a lot less chatty. While Gen1 has no power monitoring, I do find the ability to set the power on reset state very useful on those. I also discovered that if you turn on the "Disable Power Changes" setting, that I can no longer individually control Gen1 outlets with the driver. But including it in a Zigbee Group, still makes them turn on/off. Kind of strange.

Let me think about cloning the git repository and republishing the driver code with version numbers etc. Really busy with being an election polling place technician and my day job right now but after the elections I will see what I can do.

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Thank you for this -- we need good honest people in this area (especially this year)!