I purchased this smart plug to automate the charging of my iPhone / iOS device. Lithium batteries are damaged over time when they charge above 80% or when their charge drops below 50%, so for optimal battery health (the ability to hold a charge), you want to keep your phone charged between 50-80%. A HomeKit smart plug and the Shortcuts app is perfect for that since the Shortcuts app can automate turning off the plug when the phone passes 80% or 50% battery level. Unfortunately, my phone could only communicate with the wifi smart plug about 70% of the time, even though the phone was sitting feet from the smart plug. This is due to the fact that our wifi network is a mix of 2.4GHz and 5GHz and wifi smart plugs seem to only use 2.4GHz. Ive since switched to a Bluetooth Homekit smart plug (Eve Energy brand) and so far it has been 100% reliable (3 weeks now, where the wifi smart plug had failures on the first day). My Eve Energy smart plug review has the steps for setting up Shortcut automations to control your iOS battery charging.

The Meross Smart Plug does work but not very well. When you set up the plug a 2.4Ghz wifi connection is needed. If you have a dual band router make sure all your Apple devices, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, HomePod are on the 2.4Ghz band. The Meross App is also needed however the plugs are set up from the HomeKit app. One of my plugs works fine but the other that is further away from the router does not. You need to be very close to the plug to turn it on and off and Siri does not work. The second plug is set up to come on at sunset and can only remain on for 4 hours. A simple timer may work better if you want your light to stay on longer.

They work great until there’s a firmware update—which is every couple months. Once a firmware update is available they stop responding until updated, which usually requires a factory reset and re-adding them to HomeKit.

I really like these. I ordered a 2 pack and everything was easy to connect and set up. I already had the Meross app with an account set up. The only problem I had was a routine I set up in the app would not work until I enabled location. The routine works now.

Its easy to recommend these Meross smart plugs, especially for HomeKit users. Ive been using them for years and they have been one of the most, if not thee most reliable HomeKit product I own. Aside from the occasional firmware update, theyre always on and available. Simple as that!

Have a pair of these, using with Home app (Apple IOS). One was easy to set up, the second did not work for the longest time. Then a few days later, on perhaps the 8th attempt to set up, it finally updated into the Home app. Since then I find that I have about a 50% success rate where I open the Home app and they are both available to use. The other 50% of the time only one of them will be available, the other offline, or neither will be available. Sometime after a minute or two this problem will self-correct, but thats frustrating because it didnt work at the time you wanted to turn the outlet on or off. So... I will be on the look out for a solution that connects to wifi and the Home app, and remains connected reliably. Intermittent availability is no good.

The app was useless for setup. Kept telling me that I was not connected to WiFi then led me to the WiFi on my iPhone. Under the settings in Meross app it looked like it was turned on for the network. Reset my iPhone network settings as instructed if problems continue with recognizing my wifi . Didn’t work. Reset the smart plug by holding in the power button. Still wouldn’t connect. I eventually connected both plugs directly through my HomeKit. Still cannot get the 2nd plug to show up in the Meross app. I was directed to do a firmware update on the first plug and was able to do that through the Meross app, but cannot find the plug in the app to do the update for the 2nd plug. I guess my next step will be to delete the Meross app and redos load it and try again. I am able to use both plugs and set up automations but ONLY through HomeKit.

These work OK for a week or two at a time, but then they stop responding and you have to unplug them and plug them back in to get them back on the network, this is a problem because mine are behind cabinets and not easily accessible, the outdoor version of these is much better and much more reliable, if you have a lot of time to unplug and plug things back in then these are a good shot for you, but if you don’t like to do that sort of thing avoid these

So the set up of these is horrible. First off Home Kit cant be used without using Meross app. You cant set schedule with Home Kit as Meross controls this unit. Took forever to set up one. Then it stopped working. Tried to reset and start over and no response from the unit. Cant return as it is too late. Save yourself and dont get these.

After not being able to install the plug on two separate occasions I gave it a 1 star rating; however after working with the vendor I was able to successfully install the plug. I now give it a 4 star rating.