Leviton DZPA1-2BW Decora Smart Plug-in Outlet with Z-Wave Technology, White, Repeater/Range Extender

Use these for our ADT system for auto on/off scheduling. They well made and easy to use as long as you read the directions to add to your zwave network.

Works perfectly with SmartThings. This a Z-Wave Plus switch. I recommend going with Z-Wave Plus if you have a Z-Wave Plus controller as it has better range than original Z-Wave. Please note that this switch requires 4 wires - Black to Hot, Red to Load (may be a Black wire going to Load), White to Neutral and Green (or bare) to ground. If you do not see a Red wire in the box, be sure to determine which Black wire is Hot (by using a probe) - this connects to the Black terminal on the switch. The other Black wire goes to the Load and connects to the Red terminal on the switch. The wiring directions are included but are not easy to understand. If unsure, please contact an electrician. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WIRE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

I use a Smarthings hub for my home automation. I have found that a lot of items claim to work with the hub and, technically, they do. But, only by integrating some other bridge/hub/app with Smarthings. It is a big hassle. I tried to set this up by first having an Leviton app/account. I could not even get it to integrate into the Leviton app, much less Smarthings. The items worked manually and would control a lamp manually but, what good is that? So, it is going back to Amazon. I have found that GE switches/dimmers seem to work directly with the Smarthings hub so that is how I am going in the future. I just do not have the time or patience to deal with multiple apps just to be able to turn a lamp on/off.

EXTREMELY disappointed. Ring will register the device and you can manually control the on/off for it, but you cannot setup schedules (supposedly you can if you pair Alexa with Ring, which I don’t want to do…I just want Ring standalone to handle my needs without Alexa listening in all the time). Returning mine! Will be getting Kasa HS103P3’s to just control simply. So sad Ring can’t schedule power outlets like every other competitor so I can leverage one solution. (this leviton smart plug is solid build though, so the product itself is good, just not as flexible to leverage in Ring and may have other limits with other hubs/systems)

Integrates well with My Ring Alarm Z-wave controller, and Alexa routines. Does not work on 3-way lighting circuits. Make sure you program this for the correct type of light....LED in my case.

I already had a Leviton DW3HL-1BW dimmer plug which links directly to my mobile devices & computer (no controller required). It looks exactly like this Z-Wave version. When Amazon had its big sale, I bought them, not reading the details that say it needs a Z-Wave controller. When I got around to installing them, it was past the return date and so they are unusable. That said, the no controller required DW3HL-1BW version works great.

I bought these explicitly for use with my Wink 2 Hub and Amazon Alexa at my house. Wink and Leviton claim to have support between devices which was a major driver behind my purchase of these over the cheaper GoControl units that my other family members have purchased. Except my Wink will (from time to time) say it is unable to find my device or that the device in question is not working. Amusingly, voice controls or use of the app do effectively control the dimmer, I just get an error message and then the lights turn on or off. I purchased these units so I wouldnt run into small idiosyncrasies like this so 4 stars only. At the time of this review, I was using the most up-to-date firmware for my Wink 2 Hub.

Package was sealed, but one of the four items arrived in opened box - this should never happen.

I have one other Leviton device and it is at the far end of the house. It disconnects and has to be reconnected to my Wink hub periodically. Last week it disconnected again. Being house-bound due to the Corona Virus, I decided to spend some time and try to fix this problem once and for all. I went to Amazon and bought this and installed it at about a halfway point between my hub and the older installed Leviton switch, so that the Z-wave at the far end of the house could make a better link to my hub with this as a bridge device. In wiring it, the Red terminal has to go to the load - I incorrectly connected the load to the white terminal at first, and then found my error and reconnected it properly. You need a Neutral wire in the box connected to the White terminal to use the switch. (Hint: You can go against code and use the ground wire as a neutral if the box does not have a neutral, if the switch is not already on a ground fault, as the ground wire is exactly the same polarity as a neutral wire). The difficult thing for me was linking it the new Leviton switch to my WINK hub. You have to put the hub in the linking mode, which is not hard to do with the app on my Android phone. You then have to depress the Leviton switch (either turning it On or Off) until the solid green light at the base of the switch turns on. Once that occurs, you depress the Leviton switch using the top of the switch (the On portion) for seven seconds or until the solid green light starts to flash. I did this repeatedly with no success - and that was my fault. There is one more step - and that is what I missed at first. Once the green light is flashing, you have to depress the switch one more time in order to initiate the pairing sequence. After about an hour of false starts, I re-read the instructions and found that I had missed this last step. Once I discovered this (it was in the instructions provided by Leviton, but I missed it), the pairing happened in a few seconds. Whew. I followed the prompt and named the new switch for the light that it controlled. Then I went to the WINK app on the phone and selected Z-wave Network Rediscovery to remap the Z-wave signal. Everything worked great. Finally I went to my Amazon Alexa, and verbally asked it to discover new devices. It found the new switch in about 30 seconds, and from that point on I could control the switch from Alexa. Finally I went to the original problem Leviton switch at the far end of the house. After putting the WINK hub in the pairing mode, I first disconnected that switch from the WINK hub. I then went through the Leviton Reset process (which consisted of putting the switch in the flashing mode and pressing the top of the switch several times). I then went to the WINK app and disconnected that switch from my WINK hub. Once that was done, I reconnected that Leviton switch to the WINK hub using the same sequence. I used to connect the new switch. I named my original switch by a new name just to be certain that Alexa would not be confused. I am not sure if I needed to do that or not, but I did and it worked great. I then used the Zwave Network Rediscovery option on the WINK app to make sure that the original switch was using the optimum path for its signal (there is no way to confirm that it is using the optimum path - I just hoped it would do so). Finally I went back to the Alexa App and discovered the renamed switch. Now everything works great. In summary, the Leviton works fine, but it difficult to link due in part to the Z-Wave technology. I found the Moes brand switches (they do not use Z-Wave) to be less expensive and far superior if connecting to a 3-way circuit (you only need to replace one of the 3-way switches with the Moes brand - incredibly clever technology by the switch designer - and although Moes had some bad reviews on Amazon, Moes has worked reliably for me for over a year wherever I installed it, and installed three of them). But once you have started with a Z-wave, you have to use other Z-wave devices to set up a decent network. Hope this info is helpful to others who have selected Z-Wave.

I bought this in part to control a lamp, but more so to extend the z-wave network in a house where our Wink Hub 2 has coverage problems. In this same house I have several Inovelli smart plug-in outlets that work reliably, but dont seem to extend the z-wave network. To illustrate, I have a Kwikset smart lock that is located within 12 feet of two different Inovelli smart plugs, but was not detectable by the Wink Hub 2. One of these Inovelli smart plugs is even further from the Wink Hub 2 than the Kwikset smart lock. By comparison, as soon as I provisioned and placed the Leviton smart plug a similar distance from the Kwikset smart lock it solved the coverage problem. Ive also had the Leviton smart plug in another house. In that application, it is also used in conjunction with a Wink Hub 2 and is used to turn a laser printer on in the morning, and off at the end of the work day. The smart plug is buried deep inside a cabinet loaded with electrical and wireless networking equipment. Performance has been rock solid.