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Tuya vs TP Link Kasa TRVs?

waqasahmed
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You can get Tuya TRVs for around £10-15 ish on aliexpress
Kasa TRVs are currently on amazon for around £22 each. There's not a big gulf of a difference in price between the two
I did look at Drayton Wiser, Tado X, Hive etc.. and I figured that I'd actually want Tado X once I go "full ufh" but then the TRVs become basically useless and you've spent £800 for TRVs at £80 each that won't even have paid for themselves. Octopus energy also don't exactly give you a discount code for Tado X (but do for Tado V3)
With that in mind, I'm looking at Tuya, Sonoff, TP link or tbh any others in that sorta price range. Does anyone know which are better?
Thanks
Kasa TRVs are currently on amazon for around £22 each. There's not a big gulf of a difference in price between the two
I did look at Drayton Wiser, Tado X, Hive etc.. and I figured that I'd actually want Tado X once I go "full ufh" but then the TRVs become basically useless and you've spent £800 for TRVs at £80 each that won't even have paid for themselves. Octopus energy also don't exactly give you a discount code for Tado X (but do for Tado V3)
With that in mind, I'm looking at Tuya, Sonoff, TP link or tbh any others in that sorta price range. Does anyone know which are better?
Thanks
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I have the TP Link Kasa Valves for a few years now. Simple to use and never really had a problem with them.
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SaverRate said:I have the TP Link Kasa Valves for a few years now. Simple to use and never really had a problem with them.0
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Not TRV's (I have a Hive TRV to match my Thermostat) but Smart Switches,
I have Tuya (SmartLife App) and Sonoff (eWeLink App)
All work pretty well but the Tuya/SmartLife stuff 'feels' less reliable.
They reconnect to my router fairly often and their server has gone down a couple of times meaning I have to get up and prod a button to switch a light on - Like a savage!
The Sonoff stuff seems much more 'Rock solid'. It never reconnects and just seems to work all the time. So Far.
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alanwsg said:Not TRV's (I have a Hive TRV to match my Thermostat) but Smart Switches,
I have Tuya (SmartLife App) and Sonoff (eWeLink App)
All work pretty well but the Tuya/SmartLife stuff 'feels' less reliable.
They reconnect to my router fairly often and their server has gone down a couple of times meaning I have to get up and prod a button to switch a light on - Like a savage!
The Sonoff stuff seems much more 'Rock solid'. It never reconnects and just seems to work all the time. So Far.0 -
The Kasa TRVs as well as the Sonoff are going to be essentially identical hardware wise to the Tuya stuff from Aliexpress.All they're really doing is a custom app and (possibly) more importantly support if it goes wrong.1
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gollum007 said:The Kasa TRVs as well as the Sonoff are going to be essentially identical hardware wise to the Tuya stuff from Aliexpress.All they're really doing is a custom app and (possibly) more importantly support if it goes wrong.
In that case I'll go ahead and order a load of Kasa TRVs
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Tuya, avoid generally. I'd have thought the sonoff ones will just be zigbee and kasa ones will be proprietary. Been a while since I looked at kasa stuff though.
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Bendo said:Tuya, avoid generally. I'd have thought the sonoff ones will just be zigbee and kasa ones will be proprietary. Been a while since I looked at kasa stuff though.0
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I have 5 Hive ones and 4 Devolo branded ones I picked up on Amazon a few years back for about £15 in total (assume they were old stock as Devolo don't seem to make them anymore)The Devolo ones work fine, the only downside I had was they are Zwave so I had to pick up a zwave stick for my Home Assistant setup. Not a big issue the TRVs were cheap as chips anyway.I primarily use the Hive ones on rads I switch frequently using the Hive heat on demand feature to boost the heating. That said, I wouldn't have bought the Hive ones if I had HA in place beforehand as I could easily automate the heating boost through home assistant.If I was buying now, my main consideration would be that they use an open protocol so either Zigbee or Zwave so they could be controlled locally without and cloud based services involved.1
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Bendo said:I have 5 Hive ones and 4 Devolo branded ones I picked up on Amazon a few years back for about £15 in total (assume they were old stock as Devolo don't seem to make them anymore)The Devolo ones work fine, the only downside I had was they are Zwave so I had to pick up a zwave stick for my Home Assistant setup. Not a big issue the TRVs were cheap as chips anyway.I primarily use the Hive ones on rads I switch frequently using the Hive heat on demand feature to boost the heating. That said, I wouldn't have bought the Hive ones if I had HA in place beforehand as I could easily automate the heating boost through home assistant.If I was buying now, my main consideration would be that they use an open protocol so either Zigbee or Zwave so they could be controlled locally without and cloud based services involved.0
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