Zooz Z-Wave Long Range MultiRelay ZEN16 800LR for Garage Doors, Sprinklers, Gas Fireplace; 3 Dry Contact Relays (15A, 15A, 20A); 12-24 V AC/DC or USB C Power; Signal Repeater; Hub Required

Elephant in the room alert: smart home devices are for hackers. You can spend a ton of money and get some lights to turn some colors and you can be satisfied with that... until a regular human being comes by and flips off a light switch. You can buy from the largest supplier of smart systems - even from the largest supplier of electronics in general - and set up a sensor that turns on a light and you will eventually be stumbling around in the dark. Smart devices are generally can't be used when failure is not an option. I already trusted Zooz when choosing this really, as they make the only line of switches that I know of that work reliably in hardware and software mode (with relay and without relay; for dumb lights and for smart lights). Software switches in my house are necessary in order for literally every single other person who turns lights on and off in my house to live in harmony with me. As an aside from this review... can some people please realize this problem? Do smart device manufacturers not live in smart homes? My hack is somewhat elaborate: first filtering high-solids koi pond water through a filter to a pressure sensing high PSI pump to a set of electronic irrigation valves and finally out of garden sprinklers to water and fertilize my gardens. Though running this type of system through a smart hub has it's advantages - the ability to use weather patterns, soil sensors, and pond water level to decide if watering is needed or possible - it could easily malfunction and drain all the water out of my pond. My fish wouldn't like that. Besides the reliability of this Z wave device - which I did have trouble with at first - there are some failsafes this multi relay provides. Mainly the turn off after x feature. My former hub would lose connection between starting and stopping these relays which would, without this feature, cause my sprinklers to run forever. Also there are enough relays to turn on each of my two sprinkler zones and turn off my pressure-sensing water pump when not sprinkling. If a pipe breaks or a sprinkler clogs, this will keep the pump from running constantly (as this kind of pump runs atomically on a pressure drop on the output). So it works well in my very specific scenario... so what? I have bought two more to play with. Again, smart devices are for hackers, and this box is a hackers dream!. You can pay nearly this much for a single relay, but the Zooz multi relay is full of features that make it more versatile than it needs to be: Each relay has an input for a hardwired switch or button. This is great if you're designing a system that may be used by people unfamiliar with smart systems. There are, again, three independently controllable relays. Zooz's device handler has a huge amount of customization options, also Zooz offers a couple custom applications, at least for Hubitat and Smartthings, that perform common functions. There is, for example, a Zooz application especially for running automatic sprinklers (the controls are a little basic and advanced features can't be used in combination with this application.) Z wave is very fast and reliable on some hubs. My favorite feature: This multirelay can be run on a very wide range of AC AND DC voltages. If you have an AC sprinkler system like I do, your sprinkler transformer can power this unit directly. If you have a low voltage landscape system... AC or DC... you can power this relay with the landscape wire. If you are using this near your doorbell wires and not near an outlet, you can likely power this unit off that. As much as I am gloating about this magical box, it wasn't all roses in the begining. My main issue, which I realized after months of toying with all the Z Wave devices in my house, is that my Smartthing hub's Z wave implementation was very slow and unreliable. After moving everything in my house to Hubitat, everything but this device worked perfectly. This turned out to be an issue with Hubitat's newest hub having a Z Wave software issue. Zooz did note this issue and suggested pairing without authentication as a quick fix, which worked. Hubitat has since fixed this problem, and I couldn't be happier with my setup now. The versatility of being able to meld the various triggers and sensors a smart hub system can connect to to three independent relays ought to trigger some use-case ideas for anyone. I'll be building some halloween props with my spares and some Z Wave PIRs. If only... and by the way why not... they made an waterproof version.

I bought one of these to test out on a couple of different applications and ended up immediately buying a second one. I have a gas fireplace (Heatilator) with a low voltage switch on the wall that turns it on and off. I wanted to be able to turn the switch on and off via SmartThings or Alexa. The switch basically just makes contact between two wires, which is what a relay does. All I had to do was cut the two wires going from the switch to the fireplace ignition controller, insert the wires from the switch end into the Sw1 ports, and the wires to the controller into the Relay1 ports, added the device handler, and added it to my SmartThings hub. A quick google search will lead you a couple of guides which were clear for me aside from how to wire it which is as simple as I described above. Now I can control my fireplace via SmartThings/Alexa AND still use the switch as I always have. My second application was to open/close two garage doors. Both are Liftmaster MyQ and I didn't want to use their proprietary hardware which requires a separate app and a monthly paid subscription for Alexa control. Instead, I took a spare remote door opener and soldered two wires each from one leg of the button inside the remote that I opened up. Again, the button just makes contact between the legs so I made it so the relay will do that upon activation. Again, added the multirelay to the hub, made it a momentary switch, and voila. I have a spare garage door opener sitting in the basement that's wired up to the Zooz multirelay with two simple wires for each button. There's also a SmartApp for SmartThings (again, Google is your friend) to have a "garage door" device where you configure the tilt sensor and the switch and it will show in your SmartThings home screen the status (open/closed/opening/closing) and you can press it to open or close. Both applications were way easier than I could have ever imagined, were budget friendly, and were nice and clean solutions - which is exactly what I was looking for. Big props to Zooz for a great, reliable, and universal ZWave device for us tinkerers! Future plans are to add the blower switch in the fireplace to one of the other two relay slots (since there are 3 per unit!)

I have quite a lot of Z-wave devices and wanted to add a garage door. I bought the z-wave/garage door device that popped up on Amazon, and that was an unmitigated disaster. So instead, I was redirected to this one which is not really a dedicated garage door opener but a relay that can work as one. It pairs very easily with SmartThings (after installing the required driver, which is easy), and the settings can be adjusted so that it works pretty much as a garage door opener. The wiring will depend on how your actual motor works, and in that respect Nikke and Sara at customer service have been fantastic guiding me. The app won't tell you whether the garage door is open or closed, so use a camera or a door sensor, but it works to activate the door. I've only had it a few days so I don't know how stable it is over the long run, but it definitely works well so far. And there are no words that would praise customer service enough.

I ditched my cloud based garage door opener for this very simple product paired with a third reality tilt sensor. It has been solid for the last year. Highly recommend if you’re a DIY type.