Sonoff Pow is a $10.50 ESP8266 WiFi Relay Box that also Measures Power Consumption

In a recent article about Sonoff TH10/TH16 WiFi relays with sensor probes support, we also saw that ITEAD Studio started to have a nice family of home automation products. The company has now added one more item to the Sonoff family with Sonoff Pow support up to 16A/3500W input, and the first to also include power consumption measurements.

sonoff_powSonoff Pow specifications:

  • SoC – Espressif ESP8266 Tensila L106 32-bit MCU up to 80/160 MHz with WiFi
  • Connectivity – 802.11 b/g/n WiFi with WPA/WPA2 support
  • Relay – HF152F-T relay with 90 to 250 VAC input, up to 16A (3500 Watts)
  • Terminals – 6 terminal for mains and load’s ground, live and neutral signals.
  • Programming – Unpopulated 4-pin header for flashing external firmware
  • Misc – LEDs for power and WiFi status, power consumption circuitry with 1% accuracy.
  • Dimensions – 114 x 52 x 32mm
  • Temperature range – -40 ℃ to 125 ℃

sonff-esp8266-power-consumptionThe wireless relay can be controlled using Ewelink app for Android or iOS. But beside manually turning on and off the device, or settings timer like with all other Sonoff devices, you can also check real-time, daily or monthly power usage.

sonoff-pow-android-app

There’s some limited info on the Wiki,  and I could not find any API incase you want to measure the power consumption from your own app or program. But at least they’ve release the schematics showing HLW8012 chip (Datasheet in Chinese)  is used to measure power consumption, and is connected to ESP8266 via SCL and PWM1 pins. The 4-pin header would also allow you to flash you own firmware relatively easily on the board.

The company also mentions “this is a customizable product. Based on the original prototype, we can make the customized prototype that meets your requirements”, so if you order in quantities you should be able to get a slightly modified hardware and customized firmware.

ITEAD Studio home automation products used not to have any kind of CE/FCC/UL/TUV/ETL certifications, but the company recently got CE certification for their Sonoff switch, which explains the CE logo on the unit.

Sonoff Pow is available now for $10.50 plus shipping.

Thanks to Harley for the tip.

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Tadej
7 years ago

well, this is one useful thing! and a cheap one!

Harley
Harley
7 years ago

There become more interesting if you flash on a new firmware like ESP Easy:

http://www.esp8266.nu/index.php/ESPEasy

Some good info the similar Sonoff TH by Xose Pérez (a.k.a. Tinkerman) here:

http://tinkerman.cat/sonoff-th10-th16-sensors-displays-actuators/

Harry
Harry
7 years ago

Can someone say if this relay box is going to measure the power consumption of the entire house hold or just for power consumption for the ESP8266 board alone? Because I am using some sensors along with esp8266 and that I want to measure how much of voltage is being consumed periodically. Please let me know.

Harley
Harley
7 years ago

cnxsoft : @Harley Sonoff Pow does not have an interface for sensors like Sonoff TH10/TH16, so ESPEasy might not be suitable for that product. Yes I noted these did not have a external sensor port. That is a little sad as the exposed sensor port would really have made it easy to test without soldering at all. But internally they still have the same GPIO exposed, just need to solder pins onto them to make testing easier. I have not bought any Sonoff devices before however this Sonoff Pow model makes me want to buy a few just to play… Read more »

GunterO
GunterO
7 years ago

Anybody an idea how much power the board consumes by itself?
Thanks.

Rebel
Rebel
7 years ago

I have bougt one, hope my house will not burn down and the EU-Duty let it go in because normaly “no CE no EU…”
But sometimes they don´t know what it is…

uibo
uibo
7 years ago

A mod says in the comments:
It’s “European Conformity”. We will provide the test report when it is ready.

BTW where does this 260mW figure come from?

In the wiki I could only find
• Standby power consumption is less than 1.0 mW (DTIM3)
Operating current Average: 80mA

Roel
Roel
7 years ago

Can You program these things like a timer, so it switches on @ a certain time and switches back of on a certain time?

Harley
Harley
7 years ago

@Roel
Similar to the Raspberry Pi and most other single-board computers it does not have a RTC (Real-Time Clock) and battery to keep time when it looses power, but you can use NTP (Network Time Protocol) to get the date and time from example pool.ntp.org via the internet.

roel
roel
7 years ago

@Harley
Thanks but I really prefer RTC and stand alone without internet connection (my router is switched of most of the time). Same problem with my LIFX bulb, it does need that wifi connection and you can’t put it in ap mode (didn’t really investigated though…) I even wonder if you program the bulb if it is really the bulb, or only the phone that instructs the bulb what to do.

The power measurement function is cool thoug.Should it be possibel to pull the dat from the device and put it in a spreadsheet?

Harley
Harley
7 years ago

You can of course just setup your own NTP server at home. That is what most companies does on their own internal networks.

Andreas Spiess
Andreas Spiess
7 years ago

According Itead’s engineer, the CE sign is real , not “China Export”

abc
abc
7 years ago

Too bad that there is no ready to go extension-cord like device variant. Just plug into wall, plug device in and ready.

API obviously is also very important. These phone apps simply suck for long term.

Xose Pérez
7 years ago

@Andreas Spiess
Sonoff TH10, TH16, POW and DUAL are CE certified since last Oct 11th (see CE documentation). So this is pretty new.

7 years ago

Can this be configured to be always on? I basically want to only use the power consumption monitoring, and would like it to turn on after a power outage.

Think running my network gear and the pi that controls/monitors it behind this device.

7 years ago

@Sajal
Never mind found this in the post about firmware ” there an option to select whether to turn on or off the relay at boot time, which is great since I need it on at all times”…

Gaetano
Gaetano
7 years ago

Today the app had an update, so the startup state was introduced. The firware was not changed, still 2.0.4 of about two weeks ago, only the app is changed …. and TADAAAA! Now we can force the relay ON on startup, just tried.

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