Meross 4+

We have lights, smart plugs, and garage openers. The garage opener can be a pain sometimes. I believe it gets glitchy due to the app disconnecting or connecting to the wifi from cell network when you arrive or depart from home. It’s the biggest irritation when you need to leave quickly and the app fails to connect and does this thing where it has to finish fully “closing” the garage door that didn’t connect. Other times I’ve had to call family to open it from their app because I loose patience, it’s literally like a few minutes lost but I come and go so much, just being honest, haha. However, it always ends up working and overall it is more of a convenience than not. Theft everywhere has escalated and I feel safer not having openers just sitting in the cars.
The lights are incredible, never have had a problem working them through the app. It’s kind of odd through Alexa though. Some lights I can tell Alexa to turn off/on and it’s no problem, other lights, she won’t do. We added them all at the same time so I’m not sure what the problem is but I don’t have the time to go down the rabbit hole of trouble shooting, not that big of a deal overall. No regrets on any Meross products and they have been reasonably priced, which is most appreciated!

While no home automation company is perfect, there is a lot going well with Meross and it’s customers. A steady flow of new products, regular updates and bug fixes. And making HomeKit/SmartThings/Alexa/Google Home accessories for only a little more than what most others charge for mediocre Alexa-only or Google Homely gadgets.

I like Meross a lot and watch their releases closely. I do wish they would consider an option for us to be cloud-free entirely, much as Sonoff has done. There are many reasons to like the cloud services in urban areas. But in rural areas, you have to be accustomed to the possibility of days or weeks without DSL or cell tower internet services. Also without fresh groceries or electrical power. Or being snowed in or isolated by flooding. Or having an ice storm that pulls down power lines over an area of hundreds of square miles. Your power can go out for months. And you don’t have to be living in the backwoods for these to happen to you. At least 25% of Americans live in places that can turn decidedly uncivilized for days or weeks even months on rare occasions. We need resilient local automated systems.

It takes vision by company leaders but rural America is still a great market even now, just as it was for decades in the last century.

Homekit home/Apple fanboy and These work perfectly. Wish they were thead/matter enabled yet no complaints. I have the meross light switches single pole and 3way. Super simple to install (this only goes bad if your electrician didn’t install the nuetral wire, no knock on Meross at all). When i say simple I mean simple. The instructions where spot on, once you do one switch you are on auto pilot. I installed 14 Switches and will be buying more.

Secondly, I have the garage door opener, wanted automation but not another hub. Ultimate goal is to be hubless. So i first purchased the my Q device for $25 this was cool but not convenient, takes to long to search through app to get to it and didn’t want to buy their hub. I got the Meross and my life became simple. Look i can use apple car play and when i get close to home it appears on my screen and i can simply open the garage door. My family was thrilled. Then we started noticing that we cant tell if the garage door is open or not, the status is unreliable we see open and obstructed. Can’t figure it out but the My Q gives me the status all day long. So i rely on the MyQ for an accurate status and package delivery. So in all i’m great but frustrated with the garage door opener.

I hope this helps.