I want to be able to turn off my desktop speakers without needing to switching the button on them. Which kind of smart plug should I buy WiFi or other ones?
#Which smart plug should I buy for powered desktop speakers to be able to turn them off remotely?
cold garnet
static snow
most likely anything would work. unless you have the infrastructure and make use of other networks then wifi will be just fine. assuming you have signal at the socket location.
high sparrow
literally any wifi switch will work as long as your speakers have a physical power switch or are always-on. I put mine on a wifi power switch flashed to esphome so I can cut their power when I forget to turn them off, but I can't turn them back on with HA since they have a "soft on" feature that requires a button press or remote input
cold garnet
most likely anything would work. unless you have the infrastructure and make use...
I was thinking on eventually adding smart switches or bulbs in the future. If that is the case should I still go with WiFi?
static snow
personally i use wifi for everything and dont have any issues with it. some people hate on it but i havent had any problems. I do attribute some of that to have a good wifi AP though (currently a: U6-Pro)
i have had bad experiences with zigbee stuff when i have tried it but i will admit to using some really cheap stuff so maybe thats my fault. however if you get decent stuff then it seems to be a solid setup and can be cheaper over all.
for the most part it doesnt make a lot of differnce which way you go. so get something your happy with. just be sure anything you get has local control and isnt cloud service required.
abstract wharf
Zigbee is good, as long as you don't live in flats and don't buy really cheap stuff (particularly anything Tuya or Sonoff)
Zigbee sensors also have far better battery life than WiFi sensors, and tend to be smaller
frozen ore
Zigbee is good, as long as you don't live in flats and don't buy really cheap st...
What is the problem with cheap zigbee tuya stuff and living in flats? Smart plugs and bulbs are routers by nature, you can populate whole apartment building if you have enough of them and they just work. Wifi stuff mostly depends on cloud and cheap wifi tuya stuff often iffy about how your wifi configured and often loose connection until whatever.
abstract wharf
Two problems
- Tuya stuff is generally made to a price point, and then they cut all the corners they can
- WiFi uses the same 2.4 GHz band as Zigbee (and Bluetooth, and Thread, and other things). If you live in flats the odds of finding clear space for your mesh are less than zero
Most people who've found Zigbee to be hell:
- Bought Tuya
- Live in flats/high density housing
frozen ore
I see. Walls where i live are pretty thick so there only 2-3 strong neighboring signals, i have plenty channels both for 5ghz and 2.4 to not interfere as well for my zigbee net. Couple of my wifi tuya switches died after year of use. Caps they are using are that cheap, when cap is dying unstable power can fry microcontroller. Relay quality too is not greatest. I just buy cheapest things and replace parts that matter for better ones.