Tuya Zigbee sswitch sockets with Energy Monitoring

If you already are using a Hubitat Elevation hub, you will find that it supports most Zigbee and Z-wave devices far better than most WiFi devices. However, there are some WiFi devices that are supported. For example TP-Link Kasa outlets are supported using the Matter protocol.

Please do not be intimidated by the thought of having to install a community supported driver with devices like the Third Reality plugs. While the driver is not built-in to the hubitat firmware, it is easily installed using the Hubitat Package Manager.

If you do not already know how to use Hubitat Package manager, you are missing a superb tool. Initial installation of the manager does involve a few steps, but it is not really difficult. Here is the detailed procedure here:

Here is a useful video tutorial.

Once you have the package manager installed (often referenced as HPM), you can use it to install and update a variety of useful tools including community drivers.

The Third Reality community driver is found in HPM as "Third Reality Zigbee Drivers". I wonder if the poor reviews on Amazon for the Third Reality plugs were due to the lack of the right driver. With the right driver, they are excellent.

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