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Pros & Cons

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Pros

The meross plug body is much more compact than the belkin. My wife always complains that my outdoor gazebo lights are too bright.

All three outlets are individually addressable as well. I use eero, best router i've seen. Shows the device added to the 2. Ghz wifi signal.



Cons

This is the second time i purchased this product and disposed of the first one in the trash as it seemed to have failed. I'll try the lutron ones, they're at least a dependable company.

Most disappointingly, this plug has really poor wifi reception. There are *dozens* of posted workarounds around the internet, which is almost always a bad sign. Attempting to update firmware through the meross app resulted in failure multiple times.

Apple obscured the ability in ios 16! I am completely unable to get this thing to connect in both the meross app itself and in homekit. It says i can name ‘the outlet’ in their faq but doesn’t address the individual ones. It's possible the new ios 16 ...  Read More

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Highlights

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Quality


Extremely easy to setup and the app lets you schedule routines and makes it very easy to control each of the 3 plugs independently


They set it up easily added the device to the apple home and have used it daily for over two years


My biggest grip is that it quit after a couple years of use


Its never failed and great wifi range

Price


I am quite plesantly surprised for the price of this thing


This made this a great economical solution


Overall this is a great smart dimmer at a fantastic price for the features offered

Shipping


I thought i had an issue with one of them and contacted meross customer service and they were very quick to respond and resolve...  Read More

Competitiveness


I own both the meross and tessan smart plugs


This is my opinion comparing the twothe meross works with apple homekit alexa and smartthings


In any event the meross seems to get a stronger signal from my router than the tessan that comparison is with both plugs placed...  Read More

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    great, easy, set, first and connected.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 53.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 4,424 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 13 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Had some issues adding to homekit which required several attempts


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    While i finally got it connected i was a bit frustrated that it didn’t connect more easily


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    But eventually one device stopped responding


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    After replugging it the outlet cam back online ana’s was functional


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Too much advertising in my opinion though


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Lots of upselling and annoyed with the stupid “coin” collection scheme they incorporated


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Keep popping up saying i’ve earned coins for viewing theirs ads


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Also had to disallow marketing mailings

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