CMARS Smart Plug, ZigBee Switch Mini Smart Outlet Works with ST, Alexa, Echo (4th gen) Echo Plus (2nd) Google Home, Works as a Range Extender, Hub Required （2 Pack）

These smart plugs paired easily. So I was initially happy. But one plug died in less than a month. Won’t switch on even manually.

I set one of these guys up with the christmas tree and put it on a timer through alexa/smartthings. Works awesome. Setup was super easy and its been completely reliable.

I’m got these for use with a SmartThings hub and found that they were so easy to pair. Plug them into the outlet and they will immediately be discoverable in the SmartThjngs app where they can be setup with one click and you’re done. They work exactly as advertised and are much cheaper than competitors (often half the price). I’ve used several other brands and these paired easier than any including SmartThings own outlets and they are just as responsive when manually controlled from the app or as part of an automation. The only downside I see is the indicator light is fairly bright. I use one in a bedroom and it throws a bright glow in a darkened room. I used a bit of electrical tape to cover the light and problem solved. I highly recommend these and I’m looking for something else to automate so I have an excuse to buy more!

Still a bit too large for 2 in a single outlet. Cheap. fast. and work. always detect in my Hubitat and never a problem. I now run 8 of them. Update - Annoying development is that I used one in my bedroom. the LED is so bright as to make it painful to sleepy eyes. The driver/software does NOT allow the LED to be disabled - use of 3rd party led covers (Tinted film or Electrical Tape) is the only option. I have removed 1 full star due to this problem.

Works well with OpenHab. I would not put these anywhere a child might be able to reach them because the outer cover seems to only be held on by one tiny plastic tab which apparently breaks fairly easily when pulling the unit to remove it from an outlet. When the cover comes off the exposed copper is a very serious electrical shock hazard. Refer to attached pictures to see the one tiny broken tab and the exposed internals.

Ok for the money

I bought two boxes of these plugs to use with a Philips Hue hub, and they work perfectly. Theyre easy to set up through the hue app.

Picked these up to switch on our indoor holiday lights and they perform as expected. The relay could be quieter but I cant complain for this price.

My whole house is quickly becoming automated with these smart devices, all centered around the SmartThings hub. I started by outfitting all of my light switches with ZWave specific devices. I have a number of other devices as well such as door sensors, locks, etc. I still had a few lamps around though that werent on switches, so I got these smart plugs to control those. These outlets and nice and small with a flat front. Perfect for hiding behind bookshelves. Its worth noting that these outlets use the Zigbee protocol as opposed to ZWave, but both are fully supported by SmartThings. I had no issue getting these to join my network. Simply plug it into the wall outlet, then in the SmartThings app, let it find any new devices. It came up almost instantly. If you are not a SmartThings user, supposedly you can just plug these in and have Alexa discover and control them. Ive not had a chance to try that. Once you add these to your hub, the possibilities are endless. Currently I have these lamps come on automatically at sunset each day. You could also automate turning these on when someone arrives home at night, etc. Great little devices. Not to mention the 12 months replacement/refund warranty on defective items. Would definitely purchase again when needed.

I have an odd C-shaped apartment layout with lots of 2.4GHz interference (mainly WiFi from neighbors and lots of walls) that’s really not very conducive to a good ZigBee network. So, I purchased these to help bring my living room (on one end of the house) in range to my SmartThings hub (on the other end), which happens to be in a bit of a radio shadow for my SmartThings Hub. I found some spots that happened to link up my living room to the hub through a few hops and now my devices are up and running again. It’s a little slow right now so I’m going to get even more of these to make the mesh network even more robust.