Zooz 700 Series Z-Wave Plus Outdoor Single Plug ZEN05 | Hub Required | Works with the Z-Box Hub, Home Assistant, and Hubitat

I live in the subarctic. My home water situation is "different" from most places on earth. I have a water tank buried in the ground and a pump that draws water to supply my home. As you might imagine, that pump is absolutely mission critical to my home's operation. Put simply, I wasn't going to trust it with a cheap $10 WiFi plug. The typical draw is approximately 800 watts, with even higher startup peaks.I use Home Assistant for my home automation platform. Using Z-Wave JS, this switch enumerates on/off status with switch control, amp draw, voltage level, watt draw, KwH usage and ping. Most important to me, this unit can be configured to remember "last state" or be "always on" - meaning, it will always return to on state for my application. Also important, this device can be monitored for "alive" and "dead" status, which I can then alert on. In my application, I actually use two methods for this assessment - a UPS battery status over WiFi and this switch - both of which tell me whether the pump has power.Interestingly enough, I wasn't really interested in turning my pump on and off with this device, almost ever. We've burned through a few expensive tanks of water due to leaks and faucets left open, though. I really wanted power draw because it allows some interesting analysis. I can now measure and alert on "abnormal" power usage, which can indicate higher or lesser than normal operations. (Such as "pump running when we aren't home.") Though I haven't actually done this yet in my automation, I can kill power to the home water pump in the event abnormal usage is detected. For now, I'm using alerting & manual switching based on alerting and that's probably good enough for me.For me, the return on investment will be the prevention of just one of those events. It took me a little bit to figure out how to do the analysis in Home Assistant, but I think I figured it out. Essentially, I'm taking power draw for the previous 15 minute increment, determining if that exceeds a "known normal value" and send an emergency level alert to my phone if that event occurs. Sure, it triggers sometimes when we take a long shower or water the garden, but we know about these things and I want it sensitive enough to detect even a slow leak. I also have a secondary alert that tells me if the pump is active at all while we're away, which really shouldn't ever happen.I gave some serious thought about getting into "water monitoring" side as an alternative to my application. When I looked at general cost, managing water is much more expensive than monitoring electricity. It was kind of a "stroke of genius" when I realized that monitoring my pump electrically could get me there just as easily. So, that's a win for this platform in my opinion.So far, this product got me where I wanted to be, has been reliable and seems to handle a serious electrical load without issue. If anything changes, I'll be sure to update this review. While it's on the "more expensive" side of energy monitoring and switching these days, I'm usually willing to pay a bit more for the highly reliable Z-Wave technology and a quality product. I'm thinking about getting a few more to monitor my furnace and a few other important applications, so that's about as good of a recommendation as I can give.Edit: I've used same device in a few more applications now, still love it. I use them on my furnace and fridge, both mission critical applications. (It took some serious trust building to put one on my furnace!) I also use them in my shop. This unit is the only one I've found that deals well with large startup (inrush) current. Things like shop-vac's and my compressor would "pop" other devices I tried, but not this one!

I live in an old house built around WWII. The power is horrendous, and the kitchen is in the converted garage. I have a refrigerator, a box freezer, a microwave, and a convection oven plugged into the same circuit. I got tired of the main circuit breaker popping when I'd cook something while the fridge and freezer were both in their cooling cycle.When I initially started using this, the main power breaker on the device (not the house's circuit breaker) kept popping, which requires manual intervention; it cannot be reset via the home automation system. While the default overload protection is set to 1800 watts, the fridge would pop this device's internal breaker even if it was the only device plugged in, even though it was peaking at around 900 watts. Eventually, I figured out that if I turned off the overload protection everything worked fine. Then I monitored the power usage on each port, and noticed that the microwave and convection oven each use about 1500 watts at peak, in addition to the fridge spiking to over 900 watts kicking into a cooling cycle. Once I created rules in my home automation system to turn off the fridge when either the microwave or convection oven are drawing power, it's been working exactly as I'd hoped.I also programmed a smart button physically attached to the main oven for manual control of the fridge, since the main circuit breaker will pop if we're baking and the fridge kicks on. When its turned off manually, the system will remind us to turn the fridge back on if we forget to hit the button again when we're done cooking.Pros:- Easy to configure in Hubitat; I haven't used it in other home automation systems- Has a separate virtual device for each port, including the USB ports, which can be individually monitored and controlled- Includes overall energy usage information in addition to current power consumption- The on/off indicators for each port can be disabled completely so pressing them does nothing, or set to indicate that a port is offCons:- The overload protection needs work; configured at the default 1800 watts, my fridge popped it while spiking to 900 watts- Manual intervention if the device's main breaker pops; it cannot be reset via the home automation system- It has a cheap plastic feel; more so than typical cheap dumb power stripsI would love to see a model where I could control the color of the power indicator light for each port, so they could be set to green, yellow and red at certain power thresholds or if a problem is detected. And the ability to reset the entire device after the breaker is popped would be very nice.Overall, I'm happy with this device and will continue using it as it serves the purpose I bought it for: automatically turning off the fridge when I cook so the house's breaker doesn't pop and I don't have to walk outside in my skivvies in the middle of winter to reset it.

I have this inline with my EcoFlow Pro, to have better control of when the EcoFlow is drawing power from the grid and when the batteries are running. Using HomeAssistant, I can specify different times of day so that the Ecoflow is only charging when electricity is cheapest, and running off battery when it is most expensive.Z-wave inclusion is easy with use of the QR code.

I've ordered these a a couple times and both times have received the newer Zen04 LR versions. So I believe the listing just has never been updated. What I received both times was the ZEN04 LR, 800 series. My smart home Eco-system has quickly become nearly all Zooz products. With the optional driver installed (Zooz has instructions on this) in SmartThings these give quite a bit of extra information. While it might be unnecessary for basic functionality, it's a nice extra touch. I would definitely recommend these smart plugs. They have proven very reliable for me.

I'm using this power-strip for controlling a handful of devices on a planted fish tank. The value for money is definitely there and with it being compatible with SmartThings I get a lot of extra flexibility with the unit. The extra features of power tracking are nice to have I guess but I have a Kilawat so it's not really utilized.The problem I have is it sometimes fails to execute the timed commands I have SmartThings telling it. There are a lot of variables that could be to blame; smartthings, wifi network, etc. but it doesn't happen to any of my other devices. For some this would probably just be a minor annoyance, but for my use case it could spell disaster. Keep this in mind for whatever you plan to use the strip for.

I immediately put this out in the chicken run and configured my smart hub to turn it on when the temperature got below freezing so it would keep the water Dishes from icing. You can control each outlet separately. It's been working perfectly ever since. Temperatures have gone down into the minus double-digits multiple times already, and some days the same in the positives. Makes no difference.I will definitely buy these again when I find other uses. Maybe if I expand my outdoor Christmas lights.

Being that it isn't rated for under 0C, wasn't sure how it would handle winter weather. Happy to report after 3 days of -20C to -30C the switch has been working perfectly. Device paired using QR code and works activates/reports very quickly. Happy with my purchase so far. Fingers crossed that it can take this abuse year after year.

I needed a z-wave outdoor smart plug tonact as a repeater. Upon ordering, it appeared only the 700 model was available but what I received was the 800LR (long range model). This was a very pleasant surprise as I would have preferred to order a 800LR model so very happy to have received it! I also didn't realize the smart plug had energy monitoring so that was a pleasant surprise!

Have my fridge plugged into this so I can write custom rules based on whether or not the fridge is drawing power as it should over a day.Has current, voltage, wattage at that very moment, and kwh sensors. Pairs fine with homeassistant.

Work perfectly with my Hubitat.com Home Automation server. Report, current (Amp), Volts, Power (Watts). And it can work with my water pump. Wemo Switch where not able to support my water pump when it start but this ZEN 15 is perfect.I have 3 ZEN 15 now and i will buy it again in the futur.