Tapo P110M (UK) Matter 1.3 but no Energy Monitoring

[Didier_SmartHome]

Yesterday I got the Matter 1.3 update on my SmartThings hub and I was hoping to see energy monitoring being supported with my Tapo P110M but unfortunately this is not the case.
Tapo P110M | Mini Smart Wi-Fi Plug, Energy Monitoring | Tapo

Tapo P110M and SmartThings as of today:

• Using the Tapo Linked services, energy Monitoring works but then the control is not local.
• Using Matter 1.3, energy monitoring is NOT working

I want the control to remain local but also have energy monitoring and be able to use Multi-Admin and therefore I want to use Matter.

I’ll also report this to Tapo as I suspect they need to push a firmware update.

How can I use energy monitoring of the TP-Link plug in SmartThings | Tapo:

Since the Energy feature of SmartThings currently does not support dimmer devices, the energy monitoring of the TP-Link Dimmers (like S515D) is not available within the SmartThings at this time.

Anyone who also want this to work? Please like this message.

Anyone with other Matter Smart Plugs that got their energy monitoring working?

[mocelet]

@Didier_SmartHome

I’ll also report this to Tapo as I suspect they need to push a firmware update

There’s already a feature request in the official forum, vote for it!

Tapo P110M update for Matter 1.3 - Smart Home Community

[Didier_SmartHome]

Done!

Thank you.

[Paul_Oliver (PCO)]

As s temporary solution you can use both the Matter integration and the c2c integration.

This will give you 2 devices in ST. One for local control (Matter device) and one for power monitoring (c2c device).

[Didier_SmartHome]

That’s what I’m doing now but not the most elegant solution

Thanks for the suggestion, it can help others

[mocelet]

It is confirmed the P110M is getting the Matter 1.3 update with energy and power reporting. Got the Matter certification yesterday, don’t mind the “power strip” text, it is the P110M.

The date for the actual firmware update is not announced though, it can be weeks…

When the firmware is eventually updated, I believe the SmartThings driver will not detect the new monitoring features since it only checks the features in the configure lifecycle which happens usually only once when setting it up. However, maybe the platform is smart enough to trigger that lifecycle event when the firmware version changes, we will see!

(OK, let’s ask @nayelyz out of curiosity : if a Matter device gets a firmware update to add new features / clusters, like energy reporting in this case, will the configure lifecycle be called again?)

[orangebucket (Graham)]

@mocelet

However, maybe the platform is smart enough to trigger that lifecycle event when the firmware version changes, we will see!

I feel that the SmartThings Edge Device Drivers Reference Documentation would be better served by something a little more forthcoming than the current slightly mangled offering of ‘there are other protocol specific cases that this may be triggered as well.’ Shouldn’t ‘Reference Documentation’ be detailing what these cases are?

[Andreas_Roedl]

It should be a Wiki anyway, but I think it’s too late to change that.

[nayelyz (SmartThings Developer Support)]

@mocelet

OK, let’s ask @nayelyz out of curiosity : if a Matter device gets a firmware update to add new features / clusters, like energy reporting in this case, will the configure lifecycle be called again?

Hi, @mocelet
I asked the engineering team and they mentioned a firmware update wouldn’t trigger the configuration lifecycle, in that case, you would need to re-install it.

[mocelet]

Thanks @nayelyz , reinstalling will be indeed the only option if they don’t plan to fix the drivers.

Feels like they could update the driver to change the profile automatically, after all it’s going to subscribe to the power monitoring and emit the capability events, except that it will just generate errors since the capability is not in the profile.