Minoston Zwave Smart Plug, Z-Wave Outdoor Plug with Energy Monitoring, Zwave Outlet Built-in Repeater Range Extender, Z-Wave Hub Required, Compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant (MP22ZP)

With a stable network, this device has been rock solid for over 2 years.
This outdoor dual-plug controller has been an excellent purchase. At first, it was used outdoors for various lights and holiday items. It survived rain, heat, everything but snow (we don’t really get snow here). When it’s not in use outdoors, its use was for two studio monitors to be controlled by HomeAssistant. HomeAssistant paired with ZWaveJS and a Zooz 700-series controller has been rock solid.There are very few times where the controller won’t recognize a back-to-back request to turn both outlets on/off. It does, however, recover and hasn’t caused many issues in the two years I’ve had it.There are very few companies I trust with my ZWave network. At first, I was a little skeptical about Minoston because it was slightly cheaper compared to other brands. I was proven otherwise. I also have an energy monitoring smart plug, a standard smart plug, and another outdoor plug.Consider purchasing this outdoor smart plug. Note: I cannot speak for the dimmable ones as I did not purchase a dimmer plug.

Amazing customer support
I had a couple of minoston door sensors early on that weren’t very good, but they took care of my issues. However I have since gotten a few of their plug in dimmers and most work fine. This outdoor dimmer was doing great for for almost a year then suddenly stopped. I reached out to see if they would help and they did, within DAYS I had a new device. But it only worked for a week? What the heck! So I took apart the original and the replacement to find out insects, notably earwigs, had gotten inside and shorted out between the line voltage side and the electronics. Presumably they entered through the ground plug hole as I was using a two prong device. Since I already had an email from them going for the replacement, I sent them pics in hopes they’d improve their device, but with no expectations since it clearly wasn’t their fault. The NEXT DAY they advised me that not only had they already advised engineering of the issue, and apologized for the inconvenience, but had already sent ANOTHER replacement. Absolutely amazing.For now I added a piece of gaff tape to keep the bugs out.

Have Quite A Few, Generally Decent Switching & Electrical Monitoring
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!

Easy to add to the ISY994Has been performing for a week,with no issues.

Doesn’t have 90 degree plug and won’t connect to my z wave hub tried 20 times.

Super simple to connect to Smartthing and even easier with my Alexa Echo.Using it outside for my Christmas lights. Fully automated, without any fail