Smart plug recommendation?

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Hi guys,

I’m planning to control my garden shed / garden lights from the shed (the lights are connected to a regular 230V plug within the shed). My initial plan was to use DECT (Fritzdect 200), but due to the range from the house (the shed is on the other side of the garden) it’s not working reliably. The same problem arises using 433 MHz from my Arduino connected to my Pi (I’m using these two options within the rest of the house successfully).

So currently I’m thinking about using a directed Wifi connection from the house to the shed (pimping a Fritzbox with https://frixtender.de/shop/frixtender-produkte/frixtender-p-hirose-spezial). Is there a “smart plug” that can easily be included in Pimatic (preferably available from Amazon Germany) and uses Wifi instead of RF or DECT?

Plan B would be another Pi within the shed to send 433 MHz RF to our classic beloved plugs…

Hi, maybe that the Sonoff switches are a solution. I do not have any experience on that so I can not really recommend. But perhaps somebody else can help…

https://www.itead.cc/smart-home.html

@sebster6 I can recommend the Edimax Wi-Fi Smart Plug SP-1101W which can be used with the pimatic-edimax plugin. It is for loads up to 16 Amps (3600W) and supports Wifi IEEE 802.11b/g/n. The model SP-2101W additionally provides a power measurement unit which is also supported by plugin. For the latter, don’t be confused by the photo on amazon which shows the US model. You’ll get the right version if you order from amazon.

Datenblatt: http://www.edimax.com/edimax/mw/cufiles/files/media/images/edimaxDE/Downloads/SP-1101W/SP-1101W_Datenblatt_DE.pdf

Great, that looks exactly like the plug I was looking for. Just ordered the SP-2101W from Amazon.
Now if only I didn’t somehow mess up Pimatic yesterday - after an update, it won’t start anymore. But that’s a story for another thread…

Got the plug delivered today and just tried it out - works with the official (albeit ugly) Edimax app, but I’m having problems getting it to run in Pimatic
https://github.com/mwittig/pimatic-edimax/issues/24

@sebster6 I am sorry about this. I have not been aware of the new firmware version which apparently had been published in March, this year. I’ll fix the authentication issue asap.

@mwittig said in Smart plug recommendation?:

I’ll fix the authentication issue asap.

Thank you very much!

@sebster6 I have published a new version of the plugin which supports which supports digest authentication required with firmware versions SP-2101W v2.08 and SP-1101W v2.04. The new version is expected to work seamlessly with older firmware versions demand basic authentication and the current firmware versions

For info, the Ediplug smartphone application will no longer work with the new firmware versions! You’ll will have to migrate to the Edilife application instead. If you use Edilife it’ll force a new setup of the switch and as part of this you need to assign a new password. If you don’t want to use the smart phone application and you have setup your plugin already with an earlier version the smart plug will work with pimatic after the firmware upgrade without any configuration changes required.

The rationale behind these changes is to improve the security

• Digest authentication sends an encrypted authentication token rather than sending the authentication data as plain text
• Avoid using factory default password by enforcing a password change with Edilife app