Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Power Strip ZEN20 800LR with Energy Monitoring and 2 USB Ports | Works with Z-Box, Hubitat, Home Assistant, Compatible with SmartThings

It works great… mostly.
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 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.

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!

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.