Tapo P316M - Smart Wi-Fi Power Strip with Energy Monitoring and Matter
Tapo P316M - The All-In-One Smart Power Solution
Smart Wi-Fi Power Strip with Energy Monitoring and Matter
6 Individually Controlled Smart Outlets and 3 Always-On USB Ports
Independently control six smart outlets and charge 3 devices with built-in USB ports. Ideal for controlling electronics in your home, home office, or small business.
Energy Monitoring - Monitor the amount of energy and power of each devices connected to one of the strip’s power outlets. See the Energy, Power, and Energy Delivered from the Tapo App or Now, via Matter)
Smart Charge and Charge Guard to Protect Your Devices
Prevent Overcharging - When devices are fully charged, the outlet will automatically switch off, preventing overcharging and extending the device’s battery life
Power Protection - Your connected device will automatically shut off when the power usage exceeds the set threshold, protecting your household’s safety
Learn More about Tapo’s Smart Charge and Charge Guard Features in our Article
Getting Started with the Latest Energy Monitoring Features from Tapo
Matter Certified – Integrate Matter-certified Tapo devices with other Matter end products into your preferred ecosystem. (Energy Monitoring Data Available in the Tapo App and Through Matter!)
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[[Update]]
Exciting News! Over the 4th of July Weekend, I had the opportunity to set up and test out a few of our latest releases.
In particular, the Tapo P316M (Matter-Compatible Smart Wi-Fi Power Strip) had an added feature that I know many of you have been looking forward to.
Energy Monitoring via Matter!
I first discovered the feature while working with Home Assistant, but I would love to hear about your experience with other platforms, as well as which platforms can utilize these values.
From my experience using the device in Home Assistant, the device’s Matter Integration provides separate Energy, Power, and Energy Exported values.
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This is one of our most requested additions for Matter, and I am sure it raises additional questions for everyone. While I do not have any specifics to provide, I am already beginning to discuss the plan with the teams for our existing devices running Matter 1.0–1.3. I will update everyone as soon as possible with more information.
For now, we would love to hear about your experience using Energy Monitoring through Matter and what platforms you have been able to use the feature on.
I brought mine into Matter before my team knew what we were doing, so take it with a grain of salt:
Energy Exported - The Energy Exported by that Specific Plug at the Time
Power - The Current Power Consumption of the Specific Plug
Energy - The Total Power Consumed/Delivered by the Strip
Speaking with our QA team, the Energy Values are connected to the storage of the values in the devices itself and should be reset when resetting the energy monitoring values from the Tapo App. If I remember correctly, these values do not update as often as the others(SmartThings does not even take advantage of the value and I do not use the totals in HA myself)
I would recommend going through the Tapo App's energy monitoring and comparing values when naming the entities in Home Assistant, this makes it much easier to confirm 1) what each value is communicating, and 2) It is far easier to name the entities correctly if they do not come over automatically.
There are a few ways to use the values in Home Assistant, especially considering helpers and the PowerCalc integration - but you can just use the energy exported to get the values to feed into the energy dashboard:
As for USB support, I am not sure what the limitation is (might be matter related). The Tapo P306 actually supports the energy monitoring values for the ports in the Tapo app, but these are also not communicated over Matter right now. I will make sure to follow up with the teams though - I have the same request and ended up having to monitor a few old-school USB Adapters
@Riley_S Yeah, early support is always fun to track to see how things change during development.
So it seems from my testing that the Energy/Energy Exported values only pull in when Home Assistant Restarts.
The Energy section seems to be reading these as a point in time rather than an increasing over time measurement, so whenever HA restarts it takes the current value as the value for that time, which obviously isn't correct. :)
I did some reading on how it handles Energy entities and found there's an Integral integration that can be used to create a Helper entity that converts a Power entity to an Energy entity. I set one of these up for each of the ports and they seem to be giving correct data so far, so I'll be watching how those behave when I next have to restart HA.
I just ordered a second strip so I can get most of the rest of the rack stuff directly monitored as well to see how that goes.
