I have several indoor Minoston smart plugs. I needed one for the patio to control a water fountain. These work great with my Qolsys IQ alarm panel & alarm.com automation.

Bought this a couple years ago, it was easy to setup, and worked reliably until about a month ago. I contacted customer service, who walked me through some troubleshooting. They were very quick and helpful with their responses, even following up with me when they hadn't heard from me for a while. Once troubleshooting didn't lead to results, they sent me a new unit!!

I've been trying to get some serious electrical monitoring going, sometimes also automations based switching, and these units have turned out to be my go-to for my outdoor applications. For the most part, I have one of these on every outdoor outlet in my home so I can capture electrical usage. I use Home Assistant for my home automation platform and generally prefer the Z-Wave protocol. When I first started buying these, the units were not fully enumerated in HA's Z-Wave-JS platform, but those issues have since been resolved. They are fully compatible with the energy monitoring features of HA and also work well for switching applications. The units have been generally reliable, quick to respond and meet most of my expectations. I have run into issues with devices that have a high startup/inrush current, these things are not compatible with this particular switch. When using them in these cases (e.g. air compressor, shop-vac, etc.), these units will "pop" and automatically turn off. This is probably good in some cases, but I am certain these situations are nowhere near the danger zone of popping breakers. I've had to find other energy monitoring switches for these applications. Despite the limitation above, I have tested these units up to about 1200 watts with no troubles. They appear to handle serious electrical loads, even though they they don't deal with high inrush current well. One other con? As mentioned, I have several of these (about 8) and all of them do intermittently go offline for unknown reasons. I get "unavailable" events in HA several times a day. My Z-Wave network is very robust, so I know it's not that, nor do I see this on any of my other 40 some-odd Z-Wave devices. Despite these events, this problem has never affected the operations of these devices. They continue to supply power and it hasn't (yet) interfered with any of my automations. I'm guessing this might be a firmware fault, or some other issue, but it hasn't caused me any troubles. A few examples of how I use them? I switch on/off Christmas lights for the holidays, based on sunset and sunrise times, as well as time of day. I've also started using these to control my block heaters for my vehicles. I can now apply a ton of intelligence to this by taking into account outdoor temperatures, specific times, work schedules and so forth. (Or, just start my block heater manually without going outside!) I also monitor heat tape on my home, allowing alerts if no electricity is used when temperatures are below certain values and the heat tape "should" be running. I also really like that these units monitor & report on over-voltage, over-current and general over-load situations. These events are enumerated in HA. I actually used these capabilities to troubleshoot a faulty extension cord recently, a situation that had escaped other diagnostics. You can almost think of it like a "smart circuit breaker" of sorts, a step well beyond standard breakers and even GFCI circuits. Overall, these are solid 4-star outdoor rated switches with built-in energy monitoring. Despite a few problems I have observed, they perform well for me and provide me with robust automation and energy capture capabilities. If you're looking for robust outdoor monitoring & switching capabilities based around Z-Wave, these aren't a bad way to go!

Used insteon version for years. It was never very reliable. This Zwave unit has never missed a command, which is really all i wanted

I now own 2 of these (I've been using one for years on my outdoor lights), but for some weird reason (likely to do with the way it switches the AC circuit) it doesn't work with holiday rotating lights, the kind where it shines a light and the projected image rotates. It must be the dimmer portion messing with the 60hz frequency normally present in the line. Any rotating holiday light light I plug in doesn't rotate (even at full brightness). Works well otherwise and pairs easily.

Quickly hooked into our existing zwave setup. Dims fast and so far no issues with the weather.

Had the for a couple of months and it loses connectivity DAILY! This makes it useless a a Z-Wave device as the only was to rejoin the network is to physically activate the switch or unplug and replug in. Occationally it rejoins on its own but as a Z-Wave switch this is unreliable.

I use a number of these primarily for outdoor lights (string lights, holiday lighting, etc). After having my GE/Jasco Z-wave outlets begin failing, I've switched back to standard GFCI outlets and just use these Z-wave dongles. Out of the gate, Z-wave devices are typically more expensive than Wifi or Zigbee, but I like the mesh network capabilities and the fact that it runs on the 800-900MHz band so as to not to interfere with my WiFi network. These dongles are reliable, pair easily to HomeAssistant (Zwave2mqtt) and Samsung SmartThings, and I haven't had one die yet after 3+ years.

I needed a Z-Wave switch to control our outside landscape lights. I tried using 2 different light sensing switches, but they don't always work the way I would like. This Z-Wave switch connected easily to my old hub, Vera Lite, on the first try. I've had it for less than a week, but it works flawlessly so far. I programmed the controller to turn it on just before sunset and off a few hours later. Works I L ke a charm!

This works well except that mine is a little hard to keep on my network. I guess it's a range problem. But, when it works, it works great. Mine died after heavy rain (I think rain went down into the socket). The company very quickly answered my inquiry and send me a new one which is great. Thanks!