Smart plugs

[kevin1]

@dpt,
AFAIK, each integration with Sense is a one-off since Sense requires substantially shorter latency and faster data transfer than typical smart home systems, even in the rare case when those smart home systems sample collect power usage.

More info on the separate Wemo and Kasa integrations here.

Smart plug power data glitches

TPLink and Wemo work differently on the network. Wemo uses a separate HTTP transaction to fetch the current wattage. This is slow and generally an extremely inefficient way to get the ~16 bytes of information which we actually need. Having to do this every few seconds contributes to the overall latency of your network and can definitely saturate Sense’s wifi connection with enough plugs. TPLink has two ways to fetch the current wattage: TCP, UDP unicast and UDP broadcast. UDP broadcast is t…

Suffice it to say that smart plugs, even with the requisite power monitoring won’t likely just “drop into” the two existing smart plug integrations.

ps: I included your @username in this reply. Guessing that’s what triggers the email notification ?