Smart Dimmer Switch Single Pole, Meross Smart 2.4GHz WiFi Light Switch for Dimmable LED, Compatible with Alexa Google Assistant and SmartThings, Neutral Wire Required, Remote Control Schedule,1 Pack

The switch will only set up through the Home app and will not connect with the Meross app. Which makes it unusable with alexa

This product was something I waited for for a while. It was something most other companies has not had either. As usual Meross did not disappoint. You can dim from either location but is also compatible with all the major assistants out there. I use mine winth Google Home. The Meross ecosystem has a great line of products. Not only is setup in the Meross app super simple, once one product is added to Google Home the rest just automatically show up. Then you just add it to a room. You can not ask for better products. I have single pole and 3 way and single pole dimmer and now 3 way dimmer. I also have their garage door unit. I have had many of these for over a year so I can also say that so far they seem very reliable. I have had power outages and bad storms and they all have survived. You cant ask for a better product.

Including: • turns your lights on and off. Check • dims your lights. Check • undims your lights. Check • works with Alexa. Check, although whether Alexa works is a different story. The only way I could get it to work in my daughters room is if I changed her name to Brian. • works with Google. Check. Although running back and forth to Vital Statistics to change my daughters name to Brian and back again depending on which smart device I want to use is going to be a real pain. • easy to install. Well, yeah, pretty much. The instructions (which, by the way, are printed on the box—dont waste your time hunting around the house to see if you dropped them, like I heard some people did) simply say to use the Meross app. Which is a lot more useful than youd think. About eight screens worth of clear diagrams. The most important ones have been reposted in these reviews. If youve spliced wires together before using wire nuts (included), installation is pretty easy, once you understand what all the pictures are of. (I thought the switch was an iPhone for a long while.) There is only one diagram you really need, the one that shows how to connect the four switch wires to the four colors of wires in your junction box. The only trouble I had with installation was this step…the diagram tells you to hook one of the switch wires to a wire that will be either black or red, another to a wire that will be either black or brown. Well, the wires in my house are bare copper, white, black and…black. So two black wires, both coming from the same direction in the junction box, no red, no brown. So I just shrugged and picked a black wire at random, pretty sure (OK, hoping) that it wouldnt matter too much if I got it wrong (by the way, I dont think this is a common practice with actual electricians). Of course with 50-50 odds I lost. The switch did nothing. But, no sparks came shooting out of the wall toward my eyes, so I was heartened enough to take the switch back out, switch the black wires, and try again. And then everything was fine. The switch gave me a quick little light show to let me know it was working and to show off a bit, frankly, and that was that. If not for the two-black-wires snag, the installation wouldve taken about ten minutes or so. Thats not including adding the device in the app. Which was also pretty easy, but as I had bought a few Meross Wi-Fi outlet switches before, I already had the app, so it was just a matter of telling the app I was adding a new dimmer switch, and that was basically that. I didnt have to type in the Wi-Fi password again or anything. Basically my phone pointed double fingers at me and said, Gotcha covered. (This actually happened.) Then I had to go to Google and Alexa and add the devices there. That was also really quick and painless. Until, as I mentioned, I tried to get Alexa to understand my kids name, so if youre trying to decide between Google and Alexa, advantage: Google. Sorry, Amazon. :-S • You do need to have a neutral wire. Now me not being an electrician at all (maybe you could tell?), this was very confusing to me. In my wall Ive got sheaths that each contain a wire, and another wire, and a naked metal wire. I assume ones hot, ones cold, ones ground. I think but I wouldnt swear that blacks hot, whites not, and Im almost positive that bare copper is ground. But I dont know if any of them are neutral or not. And I dont know how to tell; they all seem nice enough. And the fact that Meross thinks I should be finding red or brown wires in my walls makes me wonder if I should trust their judgment. But this is the Age of Readily Available but Highly Questionable Information on the Internet. From what I found out, if you have a house built after 1980 or so, youve most likely got neutral wires in your wiring. Which wire? The white one. Whats the difference between it and a not-hot wire? I dont know. But basically, if you open up your junction box and it looks like the picture on the Meross app, youre good to go. And to be extra safe, I described my setup to Meross, and they wrote me back very quickly and assured me that I had what I needed to make the switch work. So I took a deep breath and went ahead and connected it (again, not how electricians do it), figuring if the switch didnt work out and my house burned down, well, thats a scathing one-star review for Meross. • it does remember the setting you last set it at, contrary to what another reviewer said. If you set it to half-bright on the wall, when you turn the light off and back on it comes up half-bright. Whats more, if you open Google or Alexa, they both show the light as half-bright. If you tell the Google app to turn the brightness to 20% and open the Alexa app, you will see the brightness is at 20% there too. And vice versa. So I had no troubles with the switch losing its memory. • the switch fit my junction box, no troubles there. The switch plate is pretty flush to the wall…maybe I wouldve liked it a smidge closer, but I dont think anyone but me would ever notice. But its not like its uneven or anything. The plate snaps onto the switch rather than screwing on, which is a bit clunky. • I had no delay in turning on the light. Unless you count the light quickly ramping up from dim to full brightness; it starts out dim and very quickly brightens to full in less than a second. I thought that was kinda cool, a feature, not a bug. • the light on the switch is bright enough to see and help you find the switch in the dark (if you cant remember that its where it always is, by the door), but its not bright enough to keep you awake, in my opinion. When its dark in the room, the bottom light glows a pale orangey-red. I have had devices with LEDs so bright I had to break out the electrical tape, but this is a subtle glow and wouldnt bother me. I do wish that the Meross app allowed you to do things like cut off the LEDs altogether, just because some people would prefer that, and why not allow you to? It couldnt be difficult to code that option in. Or change the maximum brightness level; you can change the maximum dimness, why not the maximum brightness too? Most people wouldnt care, but its an easy feature to add for those that would. • I fail to see why using wire nuts in wiring a switch is a problem. Thats how you do it, isnt it? (Again, not an electrician.) CONCLUSION: I would give it four and a half stars, but since I cant, and since the reasons for my half-star penalty wouldve been quibbly, five stars. Does what it says it does, works, not hard to install. Ill edit my review down if I have any trouble with it. Full disclosure: I received this switch for free in exchange for giving a review of it, but I didn’t go easy on them for that. They just asked for a review, period, not a favorable or five-star review. I just gave the switch that rating cz thats what I think it deserves.

I put these in my kitchen on six LED can lights and it works great. I also install one in each bedroom for the kids and myself. They are easy to install with instruction right on the app. The switches work really well with Google Home. I can tell Google what level to put the lights to and it instantly does it. You can even program times for the lights to turn on and off. For the kids rooms I programmed the lights to turn off at 10 pm to let them know its time for bed (if by chance they hadnt turned them off by then). I put these and the single-pole switches all throughout the house now I just need to install the three-way switches to finish up all the light.

This light switch replaced and old Intermatic model that you had to program at the switch. Was a little cumbersome to make schedule changes to the Intermatic. Just another FYI - the switch has status indicator lights, even a red one, when switched to off. Therefore, if you putting in a room where you prefer completed darkness you will have to make a compromise or McGyver a solution. Other posts have indicated that this was not always the case. Overall happy with this Black Friday purchase.

While there are levels of 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% ,they arent very different. Id really like it to dim my lights a lot dimmer. The switch only does these four levels plus off. The app says it will dim by 1% increments but that doesnt really work.

I installed this switch in my bathroom in about 20 minutes. Note, it does require a neutral wire. Set up is very easy, and the switch does exactly what its supposed to do. One of my recommendations is that the firmware be updated so that when the light switch is off, pushing any of the 3 buttons would turn it on. Right now, the switch only turns on if the bottom button is pressed. For guests that might be fumbling around in the dark for a light switch, they may have some trouble turning this on if they are used to the rocker style switch. My other recommendation is that one of the LED light be illuminated when the switch is of, to aid in finding it in a dark room. My z-wave switches have this option and it can be enabled or disabled. Overall, if youre looking for a single pole smart dimming wifi switch with Alexa and Google control, you cant really go wrong with this item for under $25.

Installation was easy. Mine didnt come with wire nuts so make sure you have 8 or so. The traveller wires are never connected to other wiring, so youll at least 4 for those and this doesnt come with screw connections or quick inserts. The switch is all plastic, I didnt see any metal from the outside, but this isnt an issue for me. The connections were labeled on the back of the switch and the stranded wire folds easily back into the switchbox. The switch design is intuitive, and the little LED indicators to show you the light levels are a nice touch. The paddles still turn the light on and off and the little buttons are just for dimming. I installed this with another smart switch in about an hour, with a one year olds help. Everything was looking good at this point. Adding the switch in the Meross app was troublesome. I couldnt get my iPhone to scan the homekit code, and when I typed in the code, it brought up a hub I didnt recognize. When I selected the hub, it said it couldnt add the device. I didnt check to see what network I was on, maybe that was it. I swapped out the switch, but maybe Ill try it somewhere else where I can mess with it a little more comfortably.

The dimmer is a little off in a sense that when you are dimming the lights at the switch, you may just pass that right dim spot- either its little brighter or to dim. To get the right dim, you can use the app to get a better response. Overall, there isnt much choices for smart dual pole dimmers within a reasonable price. This product works great and I have it set up in two locations with no issues or connectivity.

The Meross Smart Dimmer Light Switch does exactly what you think it it: a smart dimmer light switch and nothing more. It is easy to setup (requires neutral wire), configure in the app, and to use. There is trimming on it for your lights that you are using as well. We used this in our bathroom with an LED bulb and an ultra thin LED recessed can light. Previously the HS200 from TPLINK caused flickering, but we did not see any on this switch which did impress us. Smart connectivity has worked perfectly every time with google home and IFTTT. Now onto the question, would I put these throughout our entire house? Probably not because in general, I dont think it looks nice in comparison to TPLINK or Lutron Caseta dimmers. It looks relatively cheap in my opinion especially with the LEDs on the front panel bleeding into the other areas. It also bugs me that the power button is on the bottom instead of the top. As an electrical engineer, I also am hesitant to install something that is not UL certified. It does have ETL certification, but in America, it is UL certification. In conclusion, its a good product that works reliably. It is a good value and if you are on a budget, these will work for you. Note: We were given one free as a review model.