While I am sure the power strip functions fine, Vivitar notoriously doesn’t support their products’ smartphone apps. Go to the Play Store or the App Store and search Vivitar and, across all of their smart offerings, you’ll be hardpressed to find an app anywhere close to a 4.0 rating, with most of their apps hovering in the mid 2.-something to low 3’s.
I bought a Vivitar camera off of here one time and the app hadn’t been updated in the app store over two years, so it didn’t support the newer OS on my phone. Couldn’t use the camera. Their customer support was of no help.
Also, stop making power strips where the head isn’t flat and offset by 45 degrees. No one prefers having to leave three inches between the wall and whatever they’re placing against it because of a giant-ass plug and the cable coming out the back of it.
Here’s the esphome config after you use the generic one.
NOTE: Flashing will likely void warranty. Use below code at your own risk and don’t blame me if it burns down your house or makes your family stop loving you.*
Specs
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$45.08 at Home Depot
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Dec 6 - Monday, Dec 13
While I am sure the power strip functions fine, Vivitar notoriously doesn’t support their products’ smartphone apps. Go to the Play Store or the App Store and search Vivitar and, across all of their smart offerings, you’ll be hardpressed to find an app anywhere close to a 4.0 rating, with most of their apps hovering in the mid 2.-something to low 3’s.
I bought a Vivitar camera off of here one time and the app hadn’t been updated in the app store over two years, so it didn’t support the newer OS on my phone. Couldn’t use the camera. Their customer support was of no help.
Also, stop making power strips where the head isn’t flat and offset by 45 degrees. No one prefers having to leave three inches between the wall and whatever they’re placing against it because of a giant-ass plug and the cable coming out the back of it.
<$22 on amazon but some of the photos show foreign plugs so a little suspect. One review mentions the Tuya app can run it so this guy may be hackable.
https://templates.blakadder.com/vivitar_HA-1007.html
I bet since these are on Meh they are old stock and can be flashed, but no guarantees.
@djslack Per my below comment, I can confirm these are flashable with tuya-convert. https://meh.com/forum/topics/vivitar-smart-wi-fi-home-power-strip#61a7c4e3c3a7a1001c97d247
hmm I have the one from amazon (its $21 with free Prime shipping) and that works amazingly
If you put a smart plug in a smart power strip, do you get twice the level of smarts??
Ordered based on suspicion it’ll be older stock and can easily be setup tuya-convert.
There’s a market for Meh to vacuum up the older generation smart products that use convertable chipsets.
@clutchdude came here for this. Fingers crossed these are old enough to tuya-convert to tasmota or ESP.
@cboehnke Yep - A bit more digging and I bet I found the ESPHome profile as well:
https://www.esphome-devices.com/devices/Generic-Chinese-Brand-WiFi-Smart-Power-Strip/
Should work but I’ll update once I have my hands on it.
@cboehnke Yep - works well with tuya convert and esphome for the 8266.
Flashed according to tuya-convert and then flashed esphome. Be sure to flash esphome shortly after flashing tasamota as it keeps switching relay 1.
The generic config above didn’t quite work so I used this one for pin references: https://templates.blakadder.com/vivitar_HA-1007.html
Here’s the esphome config after you use the generic one.
NOTE: Flashing will likely void warranty. Use below code at your own risk and don’t blame me if it burns down your house or makes your family stop loving you.*