I’m using the Power Monitoring Smart Plug with my Home Assistant setup, controlled by the Home Assistant Tasmota integration. I’ve several plugs in a Home Assistant Group and they all get triggered togeether to go on and off. Most of the times, things seem to work fine, but I’m experiencing issues where some of them are either not being triggered correctly or are turning on/off seemingly randomly. I think it’s related to connectivity issues with the Wifi and then the plugs getting confused about what state they’re in when they reconnect.
I watched this video, which indicated some potential problems/solutions. I’ve cleared out the MQTT broker so I’m pretty sure that there are no errant retain flags set on old messages.
One of the things the video suggested was to check the PowerOnState functionality. I’ve done this on two of the plugs, and for both of them PowerOnState was 1, which isn’t the Tasmota default. I’m not sure if this is the source of the issues I’m experiencing (I don’t think so as sometimes the plugs are off when they should be on), but I wondered why this setting was different to the Tasmota default, as I certainly haven’t changed it so it must have been configured this way by LocalBytes?
Any insights/suggestions on how to get to the bottom of this would be greatly appreciated.
