Oz Smart Things ZigBee rotary dimmer on sale for 24hrs at $48.
Mine turned up last week but I havenât have a chance to install it yet.
Dimmer is pre-wired rather than having terminals.
Now I have to find room in my architrave for some connectors as well as the dimmer.
Yeah, i had two of these that emit a high pitched sound, usually called coil whine. One had the sound even when it was switched off. Mercator are replacing them under warranty. The rotary dimmer from them did no emit any sound, so iâm getting more of them as replacements
Iâm same boat as you, waiting for sparky to install for me. Little inconvenient that it is pre-wired rather than terminals, but the external antenna is likely to be a help, even just to get it away from the rest of the electronics
I grabbed the push button version of this before it went on sale.
I donât rate it at all.
Didnât appear natively in Zigbee2Mqqt - Had to manually add it, not a big deal really.
More annoying is that it doesnât reliably report its on/off state. It regularly thinks itâs off when itâs turned on and vice/versa. There is no way to accurately know if the light is on or off.
Oh and the backlight lasted about 2 days before it died.
Going to swap it out for an ikuu unit instead.
what do you mean? you needed a converter in Z2M?
Iâll still give mine a go, maybe you got a bad one. my puch button mercator ikuu switches had similar issues to what youâre describing, but my ikuu rotary have been fine.
Edit: Got my rotary dimmer installed, and got the converter figured out this evening. Happy with the rotary dimmer, appears stable so far. @jivesinger this dimmer does support transitions, i just tried it out. 30 second transition from 100% to 10% brightness works fine. doesnt work on the ikuu rotary though.
Whatâs the current go-to for power monitoring plugs?
Iâll check my bunnings, but I suspect the Arlecâs will be series 3, and I donât really want to open them up, and only wanting local, no cloud devices.
I have a bunch of Shellyâs installed, but would like something more âportableâ.
Aeotec plugs if you donât mind spending the money for good quality. You will need to have or get a Z-Wave dongle though.
And if they want to stick to zigbee I recommend the OZSmartthings v2 plugs, the ones I have from them have been very stable so far.
Has anybody purchased the 800 series Zooz USB Z-Wave LoRa stick : model ZST39 800 Long Range for use in Australia?
Seems itâs hard to get and various Aussie vendors are still stocking just the 700 series.?..
Does the 800LR integrate seamlessly into HA?
It would be compliant right? Being 921.4 MHz
Still work with existing Z-wave plugs like the ones mentioned just above?
Thanks
So what iâve found is that any changes made via the physical controls are not reflected in HA or Z2M. Pretty disappointing. When looking at the âexposesâ tab in Z2M if you hit the refresh button you get the correct state and brightness, but they arent updated automatically. If there is no way to get it reporting properly I wont be buying any more
Iâve made a PR to get the device supported out of the box though, so no need to make your own converter once its merged - Update sunricher.ts ti include Sunricher HK-SL-DIM-AU-R-A by eatoff8 · Pull Request #8115 · Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman-converters · GitHub
EDIT: I got the state reporting working. I had to add these two lines to the reporting tab. All working for the last 2 minutes of testing, hah
I use the TP-link TAPO P110M plugs. Matter enabled, so can have local control. At the moment power monitoring isnât available through matter, so I set them up using matter for on/off and through TAPO for power monitoring.
Matter support for power monitoring is coming (HA supports 1.3 now, but I donât believe the TAPO firmware has been updated to 1.3 yet)
Iâve been using Meross, theyâve been good so far and are local. Can either use HTTP directly, or can cut them completely and use MQTT.
Read way too much bad stuff about Tapo longevity. Pity, my TP-Link HS110 are like 6 years old and still running a 10A washing machine and dryer great. Half a dozen of them, and not a single fail.
Iâll have to see if my useelink power boards get power monitoring updates in matter come time when there is an update.
Matter availability sucks at the moment in Aus, actually matter is a dogâs breakfast of availability and the set up in HA is a shambles - it takes like 10 steps to get a simple device added - so unlike Zigbee which is almost plug and play now . Also Beware to read the fine print on the box - a lot of devices sold as âMatterâ ready are actually just plain old wifi and not Matter over Thread - case in point the Tapo P110M mentioned above. If you want to test true Thread networks in Aus right now I have tested the Eve Energy Plug. Seems one of only a few actual thread devices available?> Its expensive but at least it is a true Thread device and itâs power monitoring seems accurate. Unlike the double socket âTS100Fâ - (basically a Tuya wired GPO outlet) but rebranded several different ways, which is just so plain inaccurate you need to run the integral sensor helper to let HA do the energy consumption calculations properly. Even so that is being sold right now as âElectrically certified Australian hardwareâ even though the energy monitoring is just plain wrong out of the box so go figure thatâŠ
In any case I wonât be adding one more single thread device until at least Thread 1.4 is out so the HA community can try and has some sort of chance (and hope) to incorporate all these proprietary thread devices into their projects on the one Open thread network. Remember that con? âMatter is supposed to be an open platformâ- everything just works with all other matter/thread devices, no matter what the manufacturer? (Yes pun intended!) WRONG! Most big name manufactures still seem to be stearing customers and herding them like cattle to remain in their ecosystems. Matter is the Biggest brand con job in recent home automation history right now IMO. How long before we get ZWave 800 921.4 MHz LoRa in Aus? - or is that going to be another 5+ year wait (as well)? 
The Meross plugs have been good for me too. Replaced all my Tapo plugs with Meross after 4 out of 5 Tapo plugs failed within 18 months. Steer well clear of Tapo.
Yes agree in my opinion as well, Tapo are rubbishâŠ
Thread is not Matter, and Matter is not Thread.
So, yes the Tapo devices use WiFi for connectivity, and thatâs fine, with matter theyâre local control. Iâve had zero failures with any of them, in contrast with the Brilliant/Tasmota flashed devices (I have a mix of matter and non-matter versions).
^ Who said that wasnât the case? I know that. I said read the box⊠Let me qualify - if Thread isnât mentioned on the box, it might be âMatterâ but itâs not working on the thread network protocol (unless that is stated on the box) ⊠(The device is still just working on 1990âs wifiâŠ) In that case IMO itâs just a marketing gimmick⊠I was trapped like that with the marketing (when I purchased a TapoP110"M"âŠ) I am just warning others to read the box⊠