meross Smart Light Switch 4 Pack Supports Apple HomeKit, Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant & SmartThings, Single Pole Light Switch, Neutral Wire Required, Remote Control Schedule, 2.4GHz Wi-Fi

Great switch, easy to install
This smart switch is easy to install and works well with Apple HomeKit. The switch comes with a face plate, but it also fits into decorator-style double plates (or larger).You can control this using a WiFi device or manually at the switch by clicking it. The switch features an LED indicator light to indicate when it is on. The price is great and more reasonable than similar competitor products.

Works as advertised
I now have 22 Meross 2-way smart switches installed and connected to Alexa. I chose them because they were less expensive than some other brands with the same features. Installation was fairly simple. The app contains all of the instructions, though the wires coming out the back of each device are well-labeled. I never used the instructions for wiring the switch. The 2-way switch has the power wire, ground wire, neutral, and a carrier (4 total). I have a home built in 2006, so every box has the neutral wire, making this easier. There are two problems that make installation more difficult: 1) the wires coming out of the switch are only about 3 inches long. In a 4-gang electrical box with all of the neutral wires tied together at one end, this means that it’s impossible to make the short neutral wire from the switch reach the house neutral without adding another extension wire; 2) the Meross switches take up a lot of space. If the electrical box is shallow, or if there are multiple switches in the box, then getting the Meross switches and all the wire connectors into the box can be tough. It is possible that all available smart switches have about the same footprint, so this may be a universal problem for smart switch installation.The Meross App working on an iPhone had very easy-to-follow directions for linking the switch to the app and giving it a unique name. Alexa doesn’t list Meross as an available company, but I simply chose “other” for company. And Alexa found all the Meross switches without any problem. Meross allows the switches to be grouped in “scenes,” such as “leaving the house.” With each scene, each device can be set to on or off. It is also possible to set up schedule for each device to either turn on/off according to date/time, or to automatically turn off after so many minutes being on. It is nice to look at the app when on the road to see that lights are turned out, or to turn lights on when coming home.So far, I have 28 Meross smart switches, four smart plugs, and a smart garage door opener all connected, and they have been performing flawlessly, either with the Meross App or with Alexa. They use some data, but it is not slowing my internet down at all. I recommend their smart products.

I’m so grateful that I stumbled upon Meross devices. I’m fully into the smart home world, and very invested in Homekit. As such, the lack of Homekit enabled accessories on Amazon has been striking.Unfortunately, I live in an apartment and I’m therefore stuck in some cases with built-in fluorescent tube lighting, so no Phillips Hue lights in those cases. The Meross Homekit Smart Light Switches have been my saviour. I won’t say that installing them was SUPER easy, but that’s likely due to poor electrical work in my apartment building, using tiny electrical boxes and too much wire to make stuffing the switches back into the box easy work. That being said, the instructions from Meross were clear, and having never done any electrical work before, I was able to replace the standard switches with the Smart switches in 20-30 mins. JUST MAKE SURE YOU TURN OFF POWER FROM YOUR ELECTRICAL BOX FIRST. I did that by turning on the lights I wanted to switch out, then flipping the electrical box switches labelled as “lights” until the one I was switching turned off.Installing in Homekit was generally pretty easy. After turning the power back on and testing the light manually to make sure it worked, I connected to my 2.5 Ghz wifi, went to the Apple Home app and selected “add accessory”. I’ve not yet been able to make the Homekit sticker scan, but that’s not an issue as there is an option in Homekit to manually enter the sticker numbers. After about a minute of connecting, voila! You select which room the switch is in and name it and you’re done!So far after about a month of using it, I haven’t encountered any issues, glitches, or disconnections, despite having to restart the router multiple times (thanks Rogers…..Canadians will understand what I mean….)This switch is a button, which takes a little getting used to, but is minor. Essentially what it means is that there is no “up” or “down” on the switch; you just click the bottom every time and it turns the lights off or on. Or, of course, you can tell Siri to do it.

A lot of HomeKit compatible accessories are somewhat expensive compared to other smart home devices. This one is fairly reasonable. This on is priced fairly well. HomeKit intergration was flawless and so far they keep their connectivity and are working well. They are somewhat deep and installation will be somewhat difficult is installing into a shallow electrical box though. Thankfully mine were ok.