We used a standard smart plug in our garage, and while it worked most of the time, it was impacted by cold or heat, and it sometimes missed messages because it was outside the walls of the house and pretty far from the hub. Using this instead fixed all the problems immediately.

I'm using this to control my string lights around my front porch. Because it has two outlets, I'm going to also use it to control my Christmas lights when I put those up in a few weeks.I manage all of my Z-Wave devices with Hubitat and, although many Minoston outlets are supported automatically Hubitat, this 2-outlet device is not among them. Thankfully, Minoston offers the driver to make this work on their website free of charge. You just have to copy-paste the code from their website into a custom driver in Hubitat.This was my first time adding a custom driver in Hubitat and it was pretty straight forward. Minoston made it pretty easy. However, if the idea of this seems intimidating to you, you may want to try something else.Minoston provides the driver, so I can't fault them for it not being available natively on Hubitat. This seems more like a Hubitat problem, so I'm not going to knock this Minoston device down a star for that.

I had a couple of minoston door sensors early on that weren't very good, but they took care of my issues. However I have since gotten a few of their plug in dimmers and most work fine. This outdoor dimmer was doing great for for almost a year then suddenly stopped. I reached out to see if they would help and they did, within DAYS I had a new device. But it only worked for a week? What the heck! So I took apart the original and the replacement to find out insects, notably earwigs, had gotten inside and shorted out between the line voltage side and the electronics. Presumably they entered through the ground plug hole as I was using a two prong device. Since I already had an email from them going for the replacement, I sent them pics in hopes they'd improve their device, but with no expectations since it clearly wasn't their fault. The NEXT DAY they advised me that not only had they already advised engineering of the issue, and apologized for the inconvenience, but had already sent ANOTHE

Integrated into my Z wave system (homeseer) easily. Responds quickly and monitors my outdoor electricity usage, and, more importantly, it allows me to create rules on how long things run outdoors. No long will the water fountain run for 3 days straight!

Bought this a couple years ago, it was easy to setup, and worked reliably until about a month ago. I contacted customer service, who walked me through some troubleshooting. They were very quick and helpful with their responses, even following up with me when they hadn't heard from me for a while. Once troubleshooting didn't lead to results, they sent me a new unit!!