I have a smart home system through a local heating & air company. The equipment they installed and the website used to control it is “alarm.com”. I wish I’d known their tricks before purchasing their system as, for one, they make it VERY difficult for you to find your own add-ons like outlets and sensors. I have tried to find they products they sell to the customers (like the intertek smart plug), but Intertek sells only to the “dealers” so the consumer is forced to purchase through the dealer middleman at a tremendous markup. We’re talking really big markup. Huge. I have searched and searched for the add-ons I want. While there are several brands of z-wave products available, many just won’t pair with the alarm.com system. Don’t know the science behind it but can assure you they just don’t pair. This Evalogik z-wave smart plug paired with my alarm.com system on the first try! No fuss. It was quick, easy, and it works! Super happy to have found this! Will buy more Evalogik products. Read more
Good Zwave dimmer plug connects VERY easy and quick to Zwave hub Read more
I have 4 of these dimmers but 1 of them stopped working properly after a few months. I reached out and Eva sent a replacement very quickly. Great customer service! Instructions for factory reset included in the manual are not clear and other instructions online are plain incorrect. To factory reset you need to quickly press the button on the dimmer twice and then on the third press, hold it down for 10 seconds or until the light starts blinking, signifying it was factory reset/excluded. To re-include, start inclusion on your controller, them press the button roughly 3 times in the dimmer, light should flush quickly. FYI, on Hubitat, the driver for this dimmer seems to have a flaw and the dimming may be very erratic or not light at all. I recommend using generic zwave dimmer driver to avoid frustration and wasted time. If you added this device using the Eva driver and have issues, you must not only exclude the device, you must perform a factory reset per above before re-inclusion. Read more
Paired right away with my smart things hub. It turns off and on just fine, but the dimming doesn't work. Would occasionally work in the beginning, and now doesn't work at all. Read more
I've tried pretty much all the dimmer outlets from GE/Jasco that are on Amazon and they all had some sort of issue (which I admit could be my personal Home Assistant setup — Zigbee and Zwave are both fickle) Setting this up wasn't straightforward because the device isn't recognized as anything by Home Assistant and OpenZwave 1.4, but this seems to be a rebadged Inovelli NZW39 dimmer, so after reading up online I was able to edit the manufacturer XML file to get this device recognized and now it works great. Smooth flicker free dimming that looks perfect 1-100%, though no fade in/out capability over Zwave as far as I could tell. Pressing the physical button does fade in and out, so it's weird that it doesn't get exposed there. Would be 5 stars if that feature worked and if so much manual configuration weren't required. Note that this will block an outlet below if you plug into a power strip. Read more
As I said, this unit is inexpensive compared to the competition. I had no problems whatsoever integrating this with Indigo Domotics (MacOS-based home automation server) as my Z-Wave hub. The server recognized the unit immediately and responds well to the on/off/dim commands. Follow the instructions and start adding the module to your hub before plugging it in. Once it is plugged in, it automatically starts sending signals to your hub's Z-Wave inclusion mode. Based on longer-term reliability which is yet to be determined, I may choose to buy more of these to replace the older, now-obsolete, and increasingly unobtainable Insteon dimmer modules that I have been using over the last fifteen years. Some of my older controllers are failing, so i will have to replace them with Z-Wave modules. These appear to be an excellent budget-minded alternative. Read more
I'm using this Z-Wave outlet switch in a Smartthings system. Everything works perfectly and it was easy to install. I've got this on a garage outlet I use to charge an ebike battery. Since the battery charger is cheap, I don't trust it not to overcharge to battery once the charging is complete so I use the Smartthings panel to tell the outlet to turn off x number of hours after I start the charge. I prefer Z-Wave devices like this as opposed to Wi-Fi. For me they are much more reliable and easier to install into my system. I also don't like having to have separate apps for each brand device. With Z-Wave, my Smartthings app controls everything and I can easily access my devices from Google Home as well. Read more
It's been a year and it's still working with my Home Assistant Z-Wave setup using Z-Wave JS UI. A few fields are missing in the data it returns but the device works as a switch. Would be nice if they supported the open repo of firmware "Z-Wave JS Firmware Updates" that Home Assistant and several other home automation solutions use to make it easy for keeping your z-wave devices up to date automatically. Read more
