#Does anyone know of a dual plug socket for the Uk market that has a non tuya chip in it please?

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eternal lynx
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I am trying to find a dual socket uk plug that can read energy data but cant seem to find anything that dosen't use tuya anyone know of any please?

keen oyster
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Are you looking for WiFi? Or is zigbee etc OK?

eternal lynx
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wifi probably the best please @keen oyster

keen oyster
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Tbh the cheapest method is just to buy a tuya one and reflash it with tasmota

eternal lynx
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Cant seem to find any of thoes either

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with flashable chips

keen oyster
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Fair enough. I have some zigbee ones but for WiFi the go to solution seems to be using the BG sockets from screwfix and bypassing the app

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https://community.home-assistant.io/t/uk-wifi-smart-socket-screwfix-testing/119995/121

Home Assistant Community
UK WIFI Smart Socket - Screwfix - Testing

You have to do the following: get the mac address of the device and reserve an IP in your router delete the device from the BG Home App Put the wall socket in to AP config mode - short pulse mode connect to the socket SSID get the broadlink app open in Home Assistant and provision it with IP - do not hit enter provision your SSID and PSK in th...

eternal lynx
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Ooh ok thanks

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Thats alot of work just to be able to do something simple haha

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Do you have a link to te plug to by any chance?

keen oyster
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Yeah that's the one

eternal lynx
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been thinking about making my own one then seeing if people were interested then idd make it open source but dunno yet. Doing all the certification stuff m ight be a bit pricy

keen oyster
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Yeah, stuff that gets wired into mains especially is a pain to certify. I'd probably go the "resell tasmota flashed tuya devices" as a simpler solution