Problem with Plugs

Spanner

HI I have come back to a couple of plugs I have used previously and have problem with 2.

Is a Tasmota Plug, it has no light showing and does not respond to resetting by 6 presses of the button. My suspicion is it is dead - is there any way to conform/refute that, please?
An ESPHome Plug, which does have a light but appears neither as its own internal web server for config, nor on my router DHCP server. I cannot find any reset instructions for the ESPHome variant of the plug, is a reset a good first start, and if so how does one do it please?

I should say they are not new plugs, probably from 2023 maybe? And my other 5 work fine still :-)

RebeccaH

Thank you for reaching out, though sorry to read your smart plugs are misbehaving.

Regarding your Tasmota smart plug, the lack of a light leads me to believe the unit may be dead. However, to double check this, please try toggling power to the unit 7 times as described below:

https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Device-Recovery/#fast-power-cycle-device-recovery

ESPHome doesn’t have the same reset mechanism. However, the fact that it lights up leads me to believe it may not be dead. Could you please try powering it up outside your network range? Alternatively, powering the plug up after switching off your WIFI to see if it broadcasts a hotspot then?

Let me know how you get on.