Minoston Z-Wave Plus Smart Plug, Outdoor On/Off Outlet Switch, ZWave Hub Required, Weather-Resistant, Built-in Repeater, Work with SmartThings, Wink, Alexa, Black(MP22Z)

This applies to a SmartThings (ST) ecosystem. TL;DR use ST IDE and select Zwave Metering Switch Secure. ST also has went to edge drivers and no more device handlers so avoid this til they get real support. I bought this to control and monitor energy usage of outdoor seasonal lights. It easily paired to ST but was only showing as a simple z wave ON OFF device. Reading the fine print of the box it says to email or visit the website for a Custom Device Handler (DH) to get the advertised functions. This wasn’t totally strange as Zooz products often require this. I was bummed since DH mean it will be cloud based and not local but oh well. Low and behold, nothing on their garbage website. Think you’d find it on the actual product page for the device? Nope. Only downloads are three links to named products that is nothing currently listed. Also emailed and no response. Shocker. I played around in ST IDE and finally got its metering functions to show with the preset Zwave Metering Switch Secure. It’s a cheaper smaller profile outdoor Zwave outlet that are hard to come by now it seems. Only reason not returning.

Product failed after about 30 switch cycles.

The product has a hard time reaching the Smartthings hub. I had to bring it into the house to pair it up and it works outside about 50% of the time. The unit is placed in the garden lighting transformer box, so leaving the door open to the box, works great. Closing the door on the box, can connect. Just barely on the cusps. All my all devices work fine around this unit. I will need to modify the placement of this and then it should be fine. Other than that, product materials look well made and product came to me pretty quick.

My Abode security system that has a built in ZWave gateway and so far this outdoor plug works well with it responding quickly and reporting its status but Ive had recurring issues with the connection being temporarily lost and regained during heavy rain and snow. I suspected a weak signal and placed an indoor Zwave plug to act as a repeater on an outlet midway between the outdoor plug and the gateway in a room sharing the exterior wall that the outdoor plug is on and it still occasionally has issues when it gets coated with water. The switch is not shorting out and the power stays on, it just loses the connection and reconnects after a short time.

Product connected to Vera Edge but get “Failed at: Setting Special Association”. Switch will still turn on and off but app thinks there are failed devices. Cannot find anything on Vera’s help about what a special association is. Resolve the special association error by changing Automatically configure to “No”

Has worked the way its supposed to. Integrated with Alarm.com app.

The product added into my VERA controller fine with using Generic Zwave Device. Shows as urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:BinaryLight:1 . Since my VERA is already synced with Alexa showed up there and can control with my 3 Alexa Show 8s. Cheaper the GE outdoor unit and has worked flawlessly out in the weather.

Zooz products alwase come jam packed with settings and features. I have very much enjoyed their products. This dimmer is not 100% waterproof. I would recommend keeping it off the ground in case of a flash flood. Thats what destroyed mine.

I use these with Hubitat. They are easily adopted and just work. I dont have to fiddle with them at all, which is nice. Theyve held up to the elements well and Ive just purchased a few more to control Christmas lights and an inflatable this year.

I bought this because it claimed to have a 15a output. After hooking this up to my window AC unit, it triggered some sort of internal surge protection any time the AC unit powered on. 2 stars because the rest of the functions (voltage monitoring, etc...) work as expected.