Eve
Eve Energy (Matter) UK Smart Plug
- Thread
- Matter
- Bluetooth
Verified September 2026
The premium pick: officially Works with Home Assistant certified (Eve joined the programme in April 2025), connecting via Matter-over-Thread with energy monitoring, 100% local control and no cloud account at all. At £39.95 it's roughly seven times IKEA's GRILLPLATS (£6, also Matter-over-Thread) and three times SONOFF's Zigbee S60ZBTPG or TP-Link's Tapo P110 — you're paying for the WWHA certification and Eve's own energy cluster, built with HA's developers, avoiding the stuck-at-zero cumulative-energy bug on cheaper Matter plugs. It's compact (72 x 72 x 71mm) though Eve doesn't publish a standby-power figure. You'll need a Thread border router (ZBT-1/SkyConnect, Apple TV or HomePod); each plug also strengthens the mesh.
In Home Assistant
| Control | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Power | Sensor (W) | Live active power draw; the entity to use for automations since it updates promptly and isn't affected by the diagnostic-category issue. |
| Energy | Sensor (kWh) | Total cumulative consumption; reports correctly but must be manually added to the Energy dashboard since HA classifies it as diagnostic, not a regular sensor. |
| Switch | Switch | On/off control of the plug's relay, fully local over Matter with no cloud round-trip. |
| Voltage / current | Sensor | Instantaneous mains voltage and current draw, exposed alongside power for load diagnostics. |
| Thread role | Diagnostic | Reports as a routing device in Thread network info, confirming it actively relays mesh traffic. |
Eve built its own Matter energy cluster in direct cooperation with Home Assistant's developers, and the payoff is real: no reports of the stuck-at-zero cumulative energy bug seen on other Matter energy plugs. The catch is entity placement, not accuracy — HA currently files Eve's power/energy sensors under the diagnostic category rather than a regular sensor, so they're excluded from the Energy dashboard's default device picker until added manually. Thread diagnostics confirm the plug genuinely operates as a routing device, meaningfully strengthening mesh coverage for nearby battery Thread sensors, though it won't show up in HA's Thread panel as a router the way a border router does. Because its live power reading is dependable, a solid automation is appliance-cycle detection: fire a notification when power stays above a threshold then drops for two minutes, flagging when a washing machine or dishwasher plugged into it finishes its cycle.
Specs
- max load
- 13A / 2900W
- plug type
- BS1363 Type G
- dimensions mm
- 72 x 72 x 71
- standby power
- Not published by Eve
- thread router
- true
- energy monitoring
- true
- requires thread border router
- true