I have some smart wifi plugs and power strips from various manufacturers. Some provide energy data including current amperes. I want some SmartThings routines that I can be based on actual current draw or exceeding a specified current draw value. The SmartThings app does not allow me to select the current value, only On, Off, or kwh value. None will let me select amps.
Anyone know of any plugs that will support this?
Is this a SmartThings issue or an issue with the plug manufacturer?
Thanks.
WiFi doesn’t have a unified standard for home automation devices, so there’s no telling what information you can get from each.
With one exception: if the device is certified for Matter over Wi-Fi, then it will be using a uniform standard. But since energy was only added to that standard very recently, most Matter over WiFi plugs don’t have it yet.
As far as what works with the SmartThings energy dashboard, that is something unique to smartthings and it’s really unpredictable. You just have to look in the forum to see if somebody’s reported that a specific model is working. 
But there aren’t many.
I believe the Tapo P110M has usable energy monitoring in the SmartThings app, but I don’t know if that’s only the matter version or not. Hopefully someone else will.
If you have a SmartThings hub/Aeotec, you can use the Eve smart plug via thread, and there have been lots of reports in the forum that that integration has worked very well both on the energy dashboard and in routines.
Thank you.
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I have a Tapo P125M Matter outlet, but it doesn’t show up in ST Energy. I do have both an Eve Energy plug-in Matter outlet and the in-wall duplex outlets and they show up in ST Energy.
Mine do show up and I can see some power values but when creating a routine in ST the analog values aren’t available, just the on/off state.
Just a quick note since you quoted me: I originally said “matter dashboard,“ but of course I should have said “energy dashboard.“ I have corrected my post above. Sorry for any confusion.
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If you have a Smartthings hub, the Aqara smart plugs integrate perfectly, out if the box, with the Energy Home Monitor and can trigger routines.
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The other Irony, is that my new Samsung TV reports kWh and works with ST life energy app, but it does not report kW (at least at the level I track it), which I used to trigger other devices. So to do this, I had to move my eve smart plug I previously used with my TV to another device and replace it with a non-compliant energy smart plug so I could still control using the kW and so the energy would not be double reported in the ST life energy app.
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They do, but they are Zigbee, not WiFi.
Of course, the Eve energy plugs are thread, not Wi-Fi.
But I just wanted to mention it. 
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Tapo plugs only via the Tapo c2c integration.
That’s an interesting point. So are you saying that if you use the official cloud cloud integration with the Tapo 110 M it will show up on the SmartThings energy dashboard? But if you use the Matter edge driver it doesn’t?
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So are you saying that if you use the official cloud cloud integration with the Tapo 110 M it will show up on the SmartThings energy dashboard? But if you use the Matter edge driver it doesn’t?
Yes. Can’t find the thread where I explained it, but there are several threads about it:
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