[Prime] Meross Smart Plug Wi-Fi Outlet with Energy Monitor - 4-Pack $48.99 Delivered @ Shuzu-AU via Amazon AU

300

Affiliate

Go to Deal

Cashback

huuuuugo on 08/07/2025 - 12:15 amazon.com.au (988 clicks)
Last edited 08/07/2025 - 12:19 by 1 other user

This post contains affiliate links. OzBargain might earn commissions when you click through and make purchases. Please see this page for more information.

Similar to some previous deals, but close to ATL. This is the "mini" version, which fits better into double-sockets and multi-socket extension cords.

No Zigbee or Matter. This is the Wifi version.

Integrates really well with HA once you've set it up in the Meross app. I use these to get notified when my dishwasher is done, or when the dehumidifier needs emptying - by monitoring the power consumption through a HA automation.

Price History at CamelCamelCamel.

This is part of Amazon Prime Day sales for 2025

Related Stores

Amazon AU

Marketplace

meross

• 

  Stinger au on 08/07/2025 - 12:27

  +2

  Pity Matter ones arent on sale.

• 

  Avi0001 on 08/07/2025 - 12:30

  Sorry I am pretty bad with those things, but if I have one in one of the sockst so it will show me the energy consumption of whole house or just for that socket?
  If it will tell me the consumption of that particular socket then is there any other thing which can tell me the consumption of whole house with using only one kind of thing?

  Thank you in advance.

  • 

    sssx on 08/07/2025 - 12:32

    +2

    You plug this into a socket. You plug something else into this. This will measure the energy consumption of whatever is plugged in to it. There might be a limit to how much you can safely plug in.

    Not sure about whole house consumption solutions.

  • 

    prophet on 08/07/2025 - 12:33

    +2

    You’ll need a smart meter at your switch board. There aren’t any plug and play versions.

  • 

    huuuuugo on 08/07/2025 - 12:46

    +11

    Your house has multiple circuits. Each circuit is connected to mains electricity (i.e. the wires coming from outside the house) inside the switch board a.k.a. fuse box. When you open the box that houses your switch board, you will see multiple switches. There's usually one for the house/unit overall, and multiple for the individual circuits within. Each of these is connected to some fixtures like ceiling lights, or wall sockets. There are multiple circuits, so that one bad device won't trip the fuse for the whole house. It also makes it safer, each circuit only supporting a certain amount of electricity to be drawn - even if you touched a live wire, you have a high chance of surviving (but please don't test it). Now, on each of these circuits, there will usually be multiple sockets attached. For you to be able to use each socket individually, they are wired as sub circuits. This means, they share half the loop, but each one of these can close the loop using the device you plug in. (A circuit is only powering things and consuming electricity when it's closed.) Google for "parallel circuit" to better understand this.

    Now when you plug in this smart plug, it sits on one of these sub-circuits. It occupies both sides of the loop, minus and plus, which is why you have multiple holes in the socket and plug (the third one is ground, a safety feature). When you plug in a device into this smart plug, and it's on, the circuit is closed and the device is powered. The smart plug sits between your device and the rest of the circuit. The smart circuity inside this allows it to close its own sub-circuit, connect to a wifi and give you multiple cool things like control over the plug (you can turn it on and off remotely), or measuring how much electricity the device that's plugged in is consuming. You can either use the original Meross app for this, and it works well enough, or you can connect it to something like Google Assistant, which allows you to automate stuff and using voice commands. For advanced users, there's Home Assistant (short HA), which is a self-hosted software that integrates this and other smart devices and allows programming dashboards and automations.

    If you wanted to measure the energy consumption of the whole house/unit, you can not do that on any of the sub-circuits. The only place where you can access the main circuit is in the switchboard. There are some smart fuses which you can ask an electrician to install for you, and that will give you monitoring for the main circuit's consumption in real time, including consumption over time.

    Hope this helps

    • 

      Lord Ra on 08/07/2025 - 23:10

      +1

      Dayum. Loved that read. Ggs. Thanks

• 

  haemolysis on 08/07/2025 - 12:44

  +2

  I’ve gone through many Meross switches now. I have had almost all of them fail randomly - some part inside comes loose, I don’t know if it’s a spark plug or what, but I know something is broken - because whenever they stop working, if I shake the unit I hear something rattling around.

  I thought it was isolated incident and I kept buying new ones because they’re otherwise easy to setup, very responsive and support HomeKit. But the issue kept happening. I feel like it’s planned obsolescence like they just break after a year or so.

  I’d be curious to know if these new models are more reliable at all. But not willing to try them myself and get burned again.

  What an annoying choice to put out a new model without Matter compatibility though.

  • 

    sssx on 08/07/2025 - 12:49

    They also have a matter version, it's just not on sale.

    What were you plugging into your Meross smart plugs when they broke?

    • 

      haemolysis on 08/07/2025 - 12:54

      TV, air purifiers, fans, electric blankets. Just single items.

      Have used Cygnett and Eve devices and no breakage, no problems.

  • 

    toommy on 08/07/2025 - 13:00

    I think it is the relay being broken/loosen. A common issue with relay is overheating and mechanical contacts getting loosen overtime.

  • 

    deadpoet on 09/07/2025 - 22:08

    +1

    At this point I have not heard of any brand which doesn't have its smart plugs fail fairly consistently after a few years (usually with the rapid "click of death"). It's really frustrating. Some people claim the very latest batches from various brands including Meross do not have this problem, but I remain skeptical — nonetheless, I took the plunge and am currently using a few of the Meross Matter plugs. Only time will tell whether these will fail too.

• 

  Reverbs on 08/07/2025 - 13:20

  Which one is better this or the tp-link version?

  • 

    minno15 on 08/07/2025 - 13:42

    Also curious with this

  • 

    huuuuugo on 08/07/2025 - 18:02

    AFAIK the Tapo smart sockets can be only remotely turned off and on, but have no consumption data.

    • 

      sssx on 08/07/2025 - 21:42

      +2

      Tapo P110M has energy monitoring (in the Tapo app only at this stage).

      • 

        huuuuugo on 10/07/2025 - 10:36

        Ah good to know. I only have P300 (power strip) so I assumed they are all like that.

      • 

        ironclad on 10/07/2025 - 14:15

        Energy monitoring on the P110M also works in Home Assistant (at least when added via the “Tapo Controller” custom integration, available via HACS).

• 

  pathacks on 10/07/2025 - 09:37

  +1

  Do these work with the Tuya app/ecosystem?

• 

  edvoon on 11/07/2025 - 16:29

  I've been trying for years to find 15A/240V Smart Plugs, but they never have them. Probably because there is only a small market for them.

  • 

    rumblytangara on 13/07/2025 - 22:50

    Maybe also the manufacturers don't want the risk associated with their plugs failing on high amperage devices.