Google decided to stop allowing my Nest thermostat to work, and I wasn’t about to give my hard earned money to a company that would screw customers and brick a perfectly functional device. I’ve had good luck with Meross products in the past, including a garage door smart adapter that I love and have taken with me from home to home without any issues. So when I started looking for a replacement thermostat, I decided to give this one a try. For reference, I have an air conditioner with a heat pump and a resistive electric furnace for backup. Since it’s cold where I am right now, I haven’t needed to run the A/C for any length of time yet, but I did test it briefly just to confirm compatibility. It switched between cooling, heat pump, and emergency heat modes without any issues at all. Installation was straightforward and the instructions were surprisingly helpful, as was the setup in the app. Just make sure you have a C-wire. The software is smooth and much easier to navigate than Google’s ever was. It just connected to the WiFi and started working. The Meross app is well designed. You can do everything my Nest could do and more, and I didn’t notice any lag at all. It just works exactly how you’d expect. It also integrates perfectly with my Amazon Alexa smart home setup and my Google Home devices, so I can change the temperature or mode using only my voice whether I’m home or away. I’m really happy with how this thermostat performs, especially for a fraction of the price of what I originally paid for my Nest, which now sits as a brick thanks to Google’s greed. So if you're fed up with anti consumer actions from the likes of Google, and want a reliable, straightforward, and well built smart thermostat that simply works, give this one a try. I highly recommend it. Read more
This is my second Meross smart thermostat. They’re extremely easy to install and connect to your Meross account. I like the design and the temperature indicator that you can see on the device once it’s up and running. The controls in the app seem intuitive, however, I have had some issues between the device running according to a schedule or according to a temporary hold. It’s probably just a small learning curve to make sure I understand the particular settings and using them correctly. For me, the design, functionality, app integration, and price make the Meross smart thermostat an obvious buy compared to other thermostats on the market. Read more
Okay, so I just got my meross smart thermostat set up a few days ago and I’m loving it so far. First off (and I know this is not the most important feature by any means!), this thermostat looks super sleek on the wall, almost like an app icon with the square look and rounded edges. You can adjust the brightness of the white LEDs too when it’s in standby mode, depending on how much light is in the room where it’s installed. For me, this is important because there’s a lot of natural light in the room and the default brightness setting in standby mode was not quite bright enough, because I like to see the temperature from afar. Like I said though, this is adjustable in the meross app and easy to configure so not an issue at all. The next thing I feel compelled to mention is how easy the installation and setup was. What makes it easy is that you can follow a step-by-step guide in the meross app and just click the “next” button each time you complete a step, which brings you to the next page of instructions. But there’s also a video on meross’ YouTube page that gives you a visual of the entire installation process so you can fall back to that if something doesn’t make sense in the written instructions, or to just give you an overview of the process before you start. The biggest help to me, though, was meross’ customer support. I wasn’t sure if my HVAC system was compatible with this device, so I reached out to them over email with a picture of my existing thermostat and wiring and not only did they confirm that it was compatible, but they even sent me a custom diagram of how my wires should connect to the meross thermostat (see photo attached). They even put a red circle around one particular wire that could potentially prove troublesome because it was labeled PEK on my system but should be plugged into the Y port on the meross thermostat. This truly made setup a breeze and saved me time and frustration. All in all, the whole thing took about 30 minutes to install, test out, and customize settings. A couple of other really nice features that I didn’t have on my previous thermostat: - A child lock feature so my kids can’t push the buttons on the physical device and turn our house into a meat locker. - An app that controls EVERYTHING having to do with the thermostat. On my previous thermostat, many of the advanced settings could only be configured on the actual device by navigating through a ton of menus on a little screen. With this thermostat, however, you can customize thresholds and temperature offset and a whole host of other settings right from within the app, which is much appreciated. Overall, a sleek looking device with a ton of smart features for smart home enthusiasts, and it’s compatible with whichever smart home system you rely on—in my case, Apple HomeKit. Read more
