clever. but I wouldn’t continuously run a high wattage appliance off of a smart plug .

Instead , id plug a transformer into the nous plug, that in turn powers the coil on a heavy duty 110/220V HVAC relay. Any spec’ed for a baseboard electric heater (20, 30, 40amp) would do.

And if I’m doing that. I’d make the microwave circuit “normally closed” and program the nous plug to turn ON and interrupt the AC circuit briefly (by opening the relay circuit) at midnight.

That way there’s never continuous load on the relay coil or the nous plug: just a brief moment at 12:00 when it’s now impossible to run the microwave anyway.

I do similar shenanigans like this and needed a new smart plug vendor since wemo rug pulled me, so I got a vendor name on a cheap smart plug I can send power events to out of this, thanks

> ppl always complain that the clock on my microwave never shows the right time bcs i cant be assed to set it manually

> so now i have an unfuck-microwave.sh cronjob which briefly kills its power every day at midnight

The microwave that came with my home has no battery backup. When power comes back, IIRC, it sits at zero and stays there.

How about a cheap clock that covers the display and flips up when you cook?

I did something of the sort for a car clock that quit.

Not criticizing. Just saying.