Hello,
I have acquired my SmartThings hub yesterday because I had enough of the lack of reliability of Home Assistant and the very high complexity of the customisation. I have started integrating the smart plugs I have to the ST Hub: 3 different brands, none of them provide energy metering in SmartThings. In Home Assistant I had to fiddle a lot like a geek to get energy monitoring, correcting values read, applying various math functions so I have decided to give a try to SmartThings to check if it is easier/better but…
None of the smart plugs that I have do provide energy monitoring in SmartThings (WiFi and Zigbee smart plugs). Here are my questions:
Do you think it is easier to get energy metering on SmartThings than on Home Assistant or in both cases, you need to be a geek and spend hours to simply get an history of energy consumption of your devices at home?
Does it exist a smart plug that provides energy metering out of the box on SmartThings as soon as you add the device? If yes, what brand and model plz?
If it does not exist out of the box integration, what is the easiest way to get them with a custom development ? Where to find tutorial for newbie on SmartThings?
Thanks in advance. Waiting for your answers, I’m going back to Youtube watching some tutorial.
Best regards.
Welcome! What country are you in? The device selection does vary.
Also, the new 2023 SmartThings architecture makes it very easy to use custom code created by someone else. These are called edge drivers.
Basically you just get a link from the author, follow that, subscribe to their “channel“, select the edge driver you want to try, and then it will be automatically downloaded to your own hub. After that, it is available in the SmartThings app for you to select for your device. So if you are willing to go through that process, that can considerably expand the number of models which you can use.
If you really want to limit it to “out of the box“ models, that is the ones that work with the edge drivers that Samsung provides to all customers, you will have fewer choices.
Meanwhile…tagging @Mariano_Colmenarejo , a community developer, who may know of some specific energy-reporting smart plugs.
Hello jkp, thank you for your question. Here are the answers:
Gosund EP2-EU → WiFi compatible with Tuya/Smart Life (needs tuning on HA)
Antela F1s202-EU → WiFi compatible with Tuya/Smart Life (needs tuning on HA)
NOUS A1Z → Zigbee (not tried with HA)
All of them supports energy monitoring in their respective mobile Apps and in Tuya/Smart Life for the 2 WiFi plugs above. None of them proposes energy metering in in the (Aeotec) ST Hub.
@JDRoberts, I live in Belgium. I need EU plug type E/F.
Thanks.
Hi @JDRoberts
Thanks to your valuable explanation, I have managed to register to Mariano Shared Beta Driver and I have installed Zigbee Switch Power MC, Zigbee Switch Mc and Zigbee Thing Mc.
I have also enrolled to SamrtThings Edge Driver Beta Channel as you recommend in your Youtube video (excellent btw). I have installed Zigbee button/switch/thing/power-meter.
I would like to try these alternative drivers on the NOUS Zigbee A1Z smart plugs that I have but for that, I should have a “Driver” option on the device page. I don’t have this driver option. Actually, the only device that has this “driver” option is the Aeotec ST Hub. How to get this “driver” option for each device in order to be able to change the driver?
However, thanks to your video, I know my smart plug is supported now: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/TS011F_plug_1.h
Thanks in advance.
If your device’s exact “fingerprint” is not included in the driver, then it will not be available to assign to that device. You will need to ask the edge driver author to add the fingerprint.
Sounds like it might be helpful to read the community FAQ on edge drivers. It will explain much more:
One small note: I don’t have any YouTube videos, that must be someone else. (I am quadriparetic and my speech can be slurred and hard to understand.)
And one more note: it looks like your link got cut off. I think you meant this one:
I need the device information, manufacturer, model snd clusters.
You can install zigbee thing Mc driver and pair this device to see the device all information.
Hi @JDRoberts,
Yes my link has been truncated but your link is the right one. We can see that Nous A1Z is a “white brand” of the Tuya TS011F_plug_1.
Sorry for the confusion with the Youtube video. “Bud’s Smart Home” has shown one of your posts in his Video “How to install an Edge driver…” so I thought, it was you ;-).
Despite all the drivers I have installed, the option “driver” is still missing for the Nous A1Z plug. I only have Edit & Information. So I have to figure out how to get the “fingerprint” of this plug…
Thanks for your help anyway, you have been very helpful and friendly. Nice community for SmartThings, I like it !
Hello @Mariano_Colmenarejo,
Thanks for your answer and the drivers you have programmed. I have registered to “Mariano Shared Beta Driver” and installed Zigbee Thing Mc amongst other drivers. I have deleted the smart plug from the hub and then pair it again. In the 3-dots menu, I don’t have yet any “Driver” option and in the Information screen, there is only “Controller version (2.3.17-11)”.
I have installed a bunch of other drivers and now the smart plug is found with the driver Zigbee Power/Meter Mc. So it measures Power and energy but I cannot control it as a smart plug any more but at least, I have got progress thanks to your drivers.
Now, I have the driver option so I have changed to Zigbee Thing Mc and I have found the missing info:
Manufacturer: _TZ3000_2putqrmw
Model: TS011F
Fingerprinted_Endpoint.id: 0x01
App version: 0x4D
ZCL version: 0x03
Network ID: 0x50D4
Zigbee EUI: A4C13849BA5438CE
Device ID: c5eb75ef-59c7-4661-8e85-623de1998b89
I HAVE SUCCEEDED !
Thanks for your help to both of you. Here is the procedure:
Pair the Nous A1Z with default driver → I only have a switch ON/OFF and no “driver” option
Install the driver Zigbee Power/Meter Mc and then pair again → This time a power/meter is detected but no switch ON/OFF but the “driver” option appears !
I can change the driver to Zigbee Switch from the SmartThings Drivers (Beta) → I have both the power/energy meter and the switch !
I do not know why I cannot pair it directly to the driver Zigbee Switch but at least I have a reproductible procedure for the other smart plugs. @Mariano_Colmenarejo I have found your paypal link on Github @JDRoberts give me your paypal link, the least I can do is to pay you a coffee !
@JDRoberts give me your paypal link, the least I can do is to pay you a coffee !
Not at all necessary, I am happy to help. I don’t do any real work such as the developers like Mariano do. Just “pay it forward” by helping someone else on the forum someday.
───────────────────────────────────────────────────
Name Zigbee Switch Power Mc
Version 2023-05-05T21:17:34.707129708
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- id: "_TZ3000_2putqrmw/TS011F"
deviceLabel: TS011F Lidl Plug
manufacturer: _TZ3000_2putqrmw
model: TS011F
deviceProfileName: switch-power-energy-plug
Surely it has been matched with stock beta driver by the generic clusters 0006, 0702 and 0B04.
Most TS011F model need a divider by 100 for total energy.
The stock driver uses a divisor by 1, if the device doesn’t tell it which divisor to use, which is the case with most of the Tuya devices.
If you see that this is your case then you can change to my driver
Hi @Mariano_Colmenarejo,
I have seen the new driver with more features than the Zigbee Switch from the beta pack, thanks.
However, indeed the energy meter is incorrect while the power meter is correct.
The energy should be divided by 100.
So my next objective is to change the deviceLabel to “Nous A1Z” and apply a divider to the energy meter.
I guess I can find this information on the community forum.
Thanks for all.
In the zigbee switch power Mc is divided by 100.
Uninstall the device with the App and reinstall it to configure device and reset the erroneous energy reading.
Hi @Mariano_Colmenarejo
I have removed the devices, removed the drivers and unenrolled the MC channel then enroll again, add the driver Zigbee Switch Power MC then I have paired the smart plug BUT the energy is still counting 100 times too fast. I’m sorry but I believe the divisor is not yet 100 in the driver zigbee switch power mc.
This driver version has a divisor by 10000, try it
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Name Zigbee Switch Power Mc
Version 2023-05-06T18:07:00.936202605
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Can you set the energy divisor of the plug _TZ3000_2putqrmw/TS011F back to 100 instead of 10.000, I have different reading depending on the plugs, I’d like to be sure.
How can I reste the energy consumption of each plug ? (maybe with a command of smartthings CLI)
on the plug that correctly read the energy consumption, if I go to settings and set “Signal Metrics Visible in History” to Visible, I expect to find the energy reading in the “Life/Energy” section, however in this section, I only see the message “You haven’t added any supported devices yet”. What should I do to gather all energy consumption metrics of each plug in this chart ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best regards.
That feature is intended for Samsung appliances, and does not work with your smart plug.
Supports 2021 models of Samsung air conditioner, washer, dryer, dishwasher, air dresser, air purifier, and vacuum cleaner. All Samsung Family Hub 6.0 refrigerators are supported.
