Hi community
I have a couple of Hombli smart plugs (Link to) which I would like to have connected to Smartthings. Are there any others who would like to same? Is there already a driver existing, maybe over an other company/partner? could not find any until today.
Most WiFi devices won’t use Edge Drivers unless they are Matter-compatible. Instead the integration will be cloud to cloud. And because WiFi home automation without matter doesn’t have a standard set of commands, you’ll need to ask the device manufacturer, not SmartThings, to create the integration. But these days most are intending just to add Matter support rather than something specific to SmartThings, so you can ask about that.
Meanwhile: do you use either Alexa or Google Assistant? Either might serve as an intermediary for at least partial integration.
the official Shelly/SmartThings integration uses a typical cloud to cloud integration.
There is a community-created Edge Driver that runs locally, but Shelly is unusual because they also offer the option to run their devices locally. That’s the option the Edge Drivers are using.
I may have missed it, but I didn’t see anything on the Hombli site about using their devices without their cloud. So I don’t think they have the same options that the Shelley does.