Shelly Plug M Gen3 (EU version) is a smart plug with power measurement
When it comes to Matter double check if a Gen3 device supports power monitoring via Matter.
The Shelly Plug Gen4 for USA explicitly states that it supports power monitoring in SmartThings, in the Gen3 it doesnât. In fact, the Plug Plus S MTR Gen3 did not support it and I donât know if it ever got the Matter 1.3 update.
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Itâs entertaining to watch the pro- and anti-IKEA takes on YouTube, and the specialist press will inevitably amplify the debate â everyone needs a story to sell. But defining trends and truly reshaping the mainstream smart-home market was never going to be easy.
Iâve just added several of the new KLIPPBOK water sensors to my SmartThings setup and they installed just fine. Work perfectly and the price is unbeatable.
Shall we also discuss the unbelievable steaming pile of interoperability bullshit we keep dealing with on Zigbee and WiFi devices?
The cheap Matter/Thread range from IKEA has been a wakeup call, now everybody needs to get their shit together so it doesnât pile up again. They arenât doing too bad for a fresh start, now letâs see how quickly those firmware updates roll in.
Besides - my house wouldnât have any Thread network issues at all if the ST hub and the three Thread capable Echos in the building would actually form one Thread network not four separate ones. I donât even want to know what my 2.4 GHz airspace looks like, with three WiFi APs, the ST hub and three Echos sending Thread, a total of seven Echos running a BT mesh, the ST hubâs Zigbee mesh with a dozen forwarder devices on it, etc. If thereâs anything to wonder about itâs why this mess even works at all.
So in my particular case, if there is one party that needs to improve things, itâs Alexa. Give me something that makes the Echos join the ST Thread network, and weâre good.
To round this up, my own $.02 on connectivity - on ST hub V4, buttons, bulbs, motion and water sensors pair flawlessly. Echo pairs the buttons with some struggle, motion sensor wonât, water sensor does but is âunsupportedâ and thus kicked straight back out again, bulbs do connect but Iâm not using that.