WIFI Power Strips into Hubitat

[spartysh32]

I have some WIFI power strips that i purchased in the past, that i normally managed through Alexa. I would like to enable motion sensing on turning these on/off from Hubitat if possible. Are these candidates to flash, or would it be better to use Virtual Devices? I am trying to avoid IFTTT if possible with their recent changes to a subscription model.

AHRISE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WGN3X5F/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Teckin - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FM3P87S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thanks all for your help/advice!

[bertabcd1234]

Not sure if anyone has any experience with the first one, but I tried the second (Teckin) and was not able to get it flashed with Tasmota:

UseeLink ZigBee power strip

Eek, Tasmota's not looking good for me: tuya-convert logs say "WARNING: it appears this device does not use an ESP82xx and therefore cannot install ESP based firmware," and I'm too afraid to open it up and see. People say the SS30 works, but I see my model says SS30N and appears to be slightly different externally (no grooves around the outlets or ports). I'm not very familiar with Tasmota, so open to other ideas if this might still be worth exploring, otherwise I'm even more tempted to try the…

That would be your best hope for getting them locally integrated into Hubitat directly via Wi-Fi while avoiding IFTTT or their vendor's cloud/app. Your best bet on Hubitat is generally going to be a Zigbee or Z-Wave device, but I understand that there aren't a lot of these for power strips right now (Zooz is the only current seller I'm aware of) and they tend to be far more expensive. Flashing to Tasmota seems to be the most promising option for the rest, but whether your particular device will work with that method is always the question.

[davidcwright59]

If Alexa is controlling the power strips now it seems that virtual switches created in HE controlled by the motion sensors should work. Just expose the switches to the Alexa app and use Alexa routines to control the power strips. It may take some work but I think it’s possible.