I’m looking for a recommendation for replacement Decora style outlets. Both Z-wave and Zigbee, energy monitoring a plus, and must work as repeaters. There are some spots I’d like to (may need to) have a repeater to reach a room. I don’t care for “pocket sockets” sticking out for some spots, looking…

[image] HalD: looking to replace outlets instead I’ve been looking for the same thing, but looks like there are no Zigbee outlets and the Z-Wave power monitoring in SmartThings is not nearly as good as Zigbee when it comes to real time reporting.

You can find a listing of all available zwave devices here: https://products.z-wavealliance.org/regions/2/categories/16/products I have some Enerwave energy reporting outlets but I am not too happy with them. For some reason it is not a common product. Zigbee has a similar listing: [imag…

@aruffell Can you say more about why you do not like them? I was thinking of getting them. There are not that many alternatives

I have had them lock up on me occasionally in apparent connection to power outages. I can’t say for sure, but it seems like very short power outages seem to cause the issue. At the same time I notice relevant mesh network issues and the only fix is power cycling them from the breaker. On top of that…

I know this is an unpopular opinion in this community, but my goal from a network engineering perspective is to have as little traffic as possible on a home automation mesh network. So I don’t use either zwave or zigbee for energy reporting more than once a day. I would use WiFi instead. I know tha…

[image] JDRoberts: goal from a network engineering perspective is to have as little traffic as possible on a home automation mesh network. Always respect your opinion on such things, JD. I’m not terribly concerned with energy monitoring, frankly. House is brand new with all LED lights and hea…

Thanks, @aruffell ! Should have thought to look there. The Zigbee site seems to have very few devices of any sort. There are several Jasco/GE replacement outlets. They don’t explicitly mention if they function as relays. Can I assume they do since they are on A/C power?

Remember that “something” will be plugged into the outlet…So if it’s about esthetics then run an extension cable from a dumb outlet and plug whatever pocket socket you like into it and just tuck it out of sight…

[image] JDRoberts: have as little traffic as possible on a home automation mesh network. Speaking of that :smile: Why does Zigbee mesh seem to handle high traffic a lot better than Z-Wave? Is ST handling Zigbee better than Z-Wave, or Zigbee is just more robust?

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