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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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IKEA's new smart plug to track power consumption could launch soon (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 4 months ago by just_another_person to c/homeassistant

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[–] Rekhyt 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why not just not use the switch function? You can even "disable" the switch in Home Assistant so you can't accidentally turn it off, and most of these sorts of switches have a setting for default (on power restoration after power loss) of on or off.

[–] brockhold 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the person who you're responding to, but at least in my case I am just not comfortable with having the ability to switch, since I would like to connect devices which could be seriously damaged if the switch toggled for any reason. I have modified a couple of switchable power monitoring plugs already, but I would rather pay slightly less and not have a hassle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

With Tasmota on the S31, you can disable the ability to turn it off. I have a few set up that way to prevent them from being turned off.