meross Smart Light Switch Supports Apple HomeKit, Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant & SmartThings, 2.4GHz Wi-Fi Light Switch, Neutral Wire Required, Single Pole, Remote Control Schedule, 1 Pack

In the interest of full disclosure, Meross provided a free switch for me to test and review for them. Their program does not require the review be in their favor, so I am free to post whatever I want. That said, I truly have no complaints with this device. It installed easily, as long as the installer isn’t afraid to work with electrical wiring, and setup was easy. Meross has been my smarthome brand of choice lately, due to their stuff just working really well, the simple and fast firmware updates, their great customer support, and how easy it is to work with their app. So, when Meross reached out, asking me to test their new switch, I jumped on the offer. Frankly, aside from adding support for Apple HomeKit, this switch looks and feels exactly the same as their non-Apple enabled switch. I was glad to see this. Another brand I previously had been using, changed the look of their switches with each new model. So I was happy to see that Meross maintained a consistent look. A new “screwless” switch plate was included in the box, but I was installing this into an existing two switch location. While I was at it, I replaced the second switch (powering a ceiling fan) so that it matched, and used a double gang switch to separate the fan and lighting circuits. Like most smarthome switches on the market, this one does require a neutral wire. While I didn’t have any neutral wires readily available in the junction box, I did have one passing through to an electrical outlet nearby. So I just had to pull that neutral back from the outlet, and then add a new 3’ long wire to replace what I’d pulled out. Added 5 minutes to the installation. As soon as I powered up the new Meross smart switch, it was ready for setup. I opened the Meross app, clicked the “+” sign in the upper right, and selected the type of device I was installing. It sent me to my WiFi config page so I could connect to the AdHoc wireless SSID from the switch. As soon as I connected to the switch, I was prompted with a pop up informing me this switch was Apple HomeKit enabled and asking if I would like to add it to HomeKit as part of the process. It then opened the Apple Home app for me and HomeKit setup was all of 60 seconds. I then switched back to the Meross app and completed the setup in there. As soon as I was finished, I got a notification from my Amazon Alexa app that it had already discovered the new switch and could now control it for me. This was so much easier and wrinkle free than the previous manufacturer I used to use. I’ve included a couple photos showing the original switches, the inside of the junction box, where you can see the neutral passing through in the back right corner, and how it all looked once I was finished. It’s a nice clean look. As for performance, it’s working flawlessly, and instantaneously, using Alexa, the Apple Home app, and the Meross app. I’m really happy with this switch.

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.

I have been replacing my light switches with these Meross smart Wi-fi wall switches. I got a few to try them out and see how well they work as a replacement for my smart bulbs. The smart bulbs (3 different brands, including the supposed expensive good brand) would keep loosing connection. They would be unresponsive more often than not. I was getting so tired of Siri "not hearing back from the device" so I decided to make the switch to smart switches, and boy am I ever glad I did. No more problems with loosing connection since I started using these! Also, some really cool features are as follows: If you are replacing a 3-way switch setup, you only need to replace one of the switches if you use these smart switches. You can set up an automation to make it so that the lights switch off automatically after a set amount of time, or you can make it so that whole groups of lights come on if you switch on one etc. You can use this functionality to effectively make unrelated lights work kind of like they are part of a 3-way light switch. Maybe best of all is there is no longer a problem if somebody switches off the light switch (unlike the dumb smart bulbs that get completely screwed up if somebody accidentally forgets and turns off the switch). I also like how I can decide on a per-switch basis, if I want the little indicator light to work as a night light, a power indicator, or to just stay off (this functionality is accomplished via the Meross app, and that's about all I have used their app for so far, it's easy to add your switches to the Meross app if you have finished setting them up in homekit first). So far I have found these switches to be very reliable. Setup can be done completely through homekit and it works pretty seamlessly. Out of 12 switches so far (both 3-way and single pole) I have only had one that had any hiccups while trying to set it up, and after resetting the device, setup went smoothly on the second try. Please note, these switches require the neutral wire, so they won't work if your house doesn't have neutral wires in the switch boxes. On a side note, I noticed that amazon "clip to save" coupons pop up every day or so with these, so don't buy them all at once. Buy them one set per day so you can keep getting that coupon each time!

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.

If you're looking for a decent smart light switch, these work quite well and take up less space in the gang box than others smart switches I have tried. Installation is the same as any other switch except of course that these require the addition of a neutral wire. My house was built recently enough that this was no issue but if your home doesn't have them, there is an option available from another brand that doesn't require the neutral wire. I installed 25+ of these including some of the standard 3-way style as well as some of the single pole dimmer style switches. All of them worked and have had no connectivity issues to my network at all. I think that the industry in general just hasn't figured out a decent solution to properly dimming LED fixtures. Having said that, the single pole dimmer switches work well enough but still leave a little to be desired. I do like how the dimmer gain level adjustment is done through the app on their single pole dimmer and not on the switch itself though. The 3 way dimmer switch uses a master and a companion switch and the dimmer gain level adjustment is on the back of the master requiring removal of the switch to adjust it. I was unable to get the 3 way dimmer or the replacement switch I was sent to ever dim my LED recessed lights and eventually replaced it with their standard 3 way smart switch and a manual dimmer on the other side. I am only using the app to control the switches and schedule things like the porch light to come on and off so I have no input about compatibility with Alexa or Google but their app works well and is simple enough to navigate. Overall, these work great and have never had any network connectivity issues which are the primary things a person would want in a smart switch so I gave them 5 stars. I will update my review if I have any early failure issues but so far so good on reliability.

I bought this due to Homekit compatibility. We has homekit set up but had not gotten around to installing any smart switches or plugs. It was mainly for the Apple TV's we had set up which totaled 8 of various generations. When initially set up it would work with the Meross app and Google Home but not Home kit. What I had discovered was the Apple Hubs were not responding. I am not sure why but since we did not have automation set up at this point, it was fairly easy to start over with a new Home. In doing so, we moved the 4th generation Apple TV to our living room which has ethernet and then re-added the switch. This fixed the fixed the problem. We don't plan on adding a lot in the way of automation but in this case it is very useful. The lights that we wanted to control are of a modern design and dawn to dusk sensing light bulb would not work so this option addresses that. We have other lights that are outdoor lights controlled by indoor switches which are convenient to access from the outside so being able to turn these lights without having to go back inside will be really nice. Now that I know this switch will work perfectly for those instances, I will be ordering more.

Short version: Buy Lutron Caseta instead, as it is definitely worth the $10-20 extra per switch. Long Version: I have purchased eight meross switches over the course of the last eighteen months. Initially, I found them fairly easy to install and reasonably reliable though clearly made with fairly cheap materials. A new firmware patch was released last spring (2021), after which the switches behaved erratically. For example, we would find random switches turned on automatically in the middle of the night or simply flash on and off for a few seconds. This was particularly troublesome while asleep, creating temporary panic when the lights would flash on and off to wake my young children. It also made my spouse concerned about the potential fire danger of failing electronics in the wall, whether the concern was warranted or not. As an aside, the Reddit channel on meross has great descriptions of this same problem from multiple users. I did contact support several times and was repeatedly advised that a new firmware version was undergoing “testing” and would be available soon. Several months later, the aforementioned firmware was still not available and the switches continued to flash on and off at random. Further, they consistently became completely unresponsive - in the app, in HomeKit or via touching the actual switch such that all eight of them would require a manual reset every few days by pushing the reset button or flipping the breaker. To mitigate this issue, I did block the switches’ connection to the outside network on my router and that did decrease (but did not eliminate) the frequency of these events. However, this also made me wonder what was being shared from the switches in my home with meross servers far far away (again, discussed by other users in Reddit who have tracked the packets that these switches send out while installed on your local network). After support failed to provide a solution (or refund) despite their claims of standing behind their product, I removed all of the switches and replaced them with Lutron Caseta. Over a month of service, they have been completely solid as both physical switches and in HomeKit - in fact, the only thing in HomeKit that I have found to be 100% reliable. Again, this seems to be universal reading reviews of the Lutron Caseta products which all provide significant praise. In summary, would strongly recommend starting with Lutron Caseta rather than these meross switches. The amount of time and worry that the meross switches caused was well worth the extra $10 / switch spent on Lutron.

The meross single pole switch, used in on/off applications such as switches for lights, is easy to install and looks great. I have included a few pictures with notes, so you get the idea of what is involved and how simple they are to install. Installation took about 5 minutes. I installed two meross single switches and a dimmer switch in a three-gang box which took about 10 minutes total. The instructions are printed and included, however, there is a much more illustrated installation guide if you follow the steps in the meross app which I didn’t need or use. This is not a dimmer switch and is not for lights controlled by more that one switch for the same light. Note: You must have a Neutral wire (the white wire in your house wiring) as the switch needs a constant power source. Residential wiring always had a neutral conductor, at least from the inception of the 120/240V split single-phase system, that is now ubiquitous in US residential service entrances. In the early 60’s, the Code requirement, was that all wiring devices be grounded which resulted in US 120V receptacles changing from a 2-wire (hot and neutral) configuration to a 3–wire (hot, neutral and ground) in all branch circuits, and that all wiring devices be solidly grounded via that grounding conductor. The Alexa app found the meross device without me having to do a thing, but in fairness, I already have some meross devices in my home so the meross app was already setup with Alexa. I do not use Google so I cannot give you any insight for connecting to Google other than it will work with Google as well. Let me quickly give you the Positives and Negatives: Positives: Great value at around $15 per switch All requires parts for a single gang box included (screws, wire nuts, faceplate) Easy to read instructions (in English) Incredibly easy to install (you can install with just a screwdriver) Easy to program Small LED switch light can be in nightlight mode or power mode Negative: This is more of a learning curve than a negative, but it is not a true rocker switch. You press in same place for on or off. Overall, a great switch. I intend to install 4-6 more.