Outdoor Smart Plug, Works with Apple HomeKit, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, Refoss WiFi Outlet with 2 Grounded Sockets IP44 Waterproof, FCC & ETL Certified

These work just as well as Amazon smart plugs but actually work with HomeKit if you use an iPhone. Good price too.

Not the first “HomeKit” device I’ve had. Clearly no real integration.

You HAVE to set this up on 2.4G wifi, if you phone is connected to 5 it will not work. I could not get it to work with Alexa, it does work well with Apple Homekit. You can even have the two outlets separate. It is only IP44, which is actually not that waterproof. I would not put these where it will get splashed.

Most people are running on a combination of 2.4 GHz wifi and 5.0 wifi. For me, mine router switches between the two channels depending on the device and traffic. This plug can only be set up on 2.4 GHz, so you may have to switch something over, or something off. After that is taken care of, just scan the QR code and the app does the rest. The two plugs can be controlled simultaneously, or separately.

This plug drives our patio and garden illumination. The homekit integration works well, I can switch the lights with both Alexa commands and my Apple device, including the watch. One small caveat was that the company decided to print the homekit QR-Code on a paper sticker which was decidedly not weatherproof - when I reset the system to hook it up to a new IoT wifi, I couldnt relink it because the homekit sticker was unreadable. However, the Meross support managed to look up the deleted device through my account with them and sent me an email with the missing QR code – in less than 4 hours! Kudos to their support, no star deduction for the flimsy sticker :).

It constantly loses connection. Moderately easy to set up, I love the idea, and the plus itself works if I go outside to turn it on or off — but that kind of defeats the purpose. It loses connection with my phone constantly and will not reconnect.

This was super easy to set up and use. It works great on the apple home app. All you do is plug in the smart plug then go to your home app and in the upper right hand corner click the plus sign. Once that’s done go over to the plug and put your phone on camera and then put your phone up to the code that is on the plug. Once that is done they will synce together and your all set. Only takes a couple minutes. You can then go in to the home app and control each plug individually. That is awesome. I love being able to have control of the plug like that. If you have never tried one of these smart plugs then I highly recommend it. It is pretty awesome.

The instructions say to use the eHomeLife app for iOS to work with Google Assistant. But the eHomeLife app only works with Alexa. You need to use the Meross app to work with Google Assistant. Here is how I got it working with Google Assistant and my Google Nest Hub... Note that the Meross app connects the plug to the Apple Home app but then asks you if you want to link it to Google Assistant. After linking Google Assistant with Meross, run the Google Home app and tell it to look for new devices. Do this... Tap on the Settings Icon Tap on Add device Tap on Works with Google Tap on Meross Tap on Check for new devices Then set a routine... Go to routines and tap the + icon Tap Household Edit the name Tap on Add Starter, When I say to Google Assistant (whatever you want) Tap on Add Action, Adjust Home Devices, Outtlets Look for your outlet in the list.

I originally bought this to control some Christmas lights. However the wife range is so awful on this they shouldn’t call it outdoor plug, because outdoors it can barely maintain a connection. I have a Unifi business class network setup in my home, with multiple access points, and get 75% signal strength to the edges of my 3/4 acre property, but this switch can’t maintain connection to an AP that’s less than 15’ away diagonally. So they released firmware to “fix” the disconnect problem. I was stoked when I saw that. Only it didn’t really fix it. The connection still drops constantly, only now it reconnects. When I try to connect to the switch from my Home app it’s pure chance if it’s actually working, and not in “device is unresponsive” mode. Then if you wait 30 seconds, it miraculously comes back online for a minute or so, and then is unresponsive again. So I gave up trying to use it outside, and brought it in the house to control a pair of lamps in my living room. Even inside the house the max wifi signal strength I can get is around 76%, and merely rotating the switch 1/4 turn will drop that to the low 60s, even though the switch is in the same exact position, just rotated. Completely awful antenna arrangement. If I added this switch using the MeRoss app and didn’t select the HomeKit integration, it worked fine. But I bought it specifically to use with HomeKit. In closing, I’ve attached ZWave switches to HomeKit. via a software bridge, in a Docker container running on my NAS, and even THAT was easier than trying to get this switch to work and stay working. If I can’t turn my lights on or off the moment I want to, then any switch is useless to me. I recommend finding one that has better HomeKit integration, and better reception if you want a plug to use outdoors. Luckily I’m already mostly bald or I would have now after two months of trying everything to get this to work reliably.

Ive a series of landscape lights whose controller Ive never bothered to figure out, by turning them to on and plugging the controller into this HomeKit plug, Im able to get them to work via simple automation from my phone or turn them on via Siri. Hey Siri turn on on the landscape lights. And when Christmas time rolls around I can plug the Christmas lights into the other power receptacle. Paired quickly via my phone and assigned it to an automation to turn on the 1st receptacle at sunset and turn off a couple hours later. Antenna is pretty good as it is located maybe 30 feet from the nearest HomeKit Hub, the AppleTV in the master bedroom, and seems to work reliably (time will tell).