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Review on Smart socket Xiaomi ZNCZ05CM Mi by Mateusz Trzmiel ᠌

Revainrating 2 out of 5

The product is definitely not worth the nerves spent, its better not to take it.

In general, as always, I am surprised by such a high rating and positive reviews in YaMarket for such a mediocre product from xiaomi. It costs more than 1000, this "smart" socket can only be turned on / off manually and on schedule. At the same time, I bought another smart socket, which cost TWO TIMES cheaper and in the end turned out to be much more convenient and performed the tasks that I needed. When smart sockets appeared, for a long time I could not understand and come up with a scenario in which it would really come in handy, when I got a country house, I found many applications. So here's what I needed: 1. on / off the electric boiler for heating the bath according to the schedule when I am not there, otherwise the consumption is very high 2. Remotely turn on the boiler in the bath or when approaching 10 km, turn it off when moving away 3. Turn on the lighting on the pole when approaching 1 km. Not suitable for motion sensor 4. The ability to turn off the pump in the well if it breaks or leaks somewhere. In theory 5. Notify about all these events 6. Watch the power consumption at the moment. Yes, not exactly, yes, more for interest, but I tied some notification scenarios to this parameter. As a result, in an outlet that is half the price, it is possible to notify by switching a bunch of parameters, to make scripts depending on your geolocation, when weather conditions change. In xiaomi, this is not the case, what is working is buggy, I have some scripts on the temperature sensor with which I wanted to control the state of the outlet could not be configured. Perhaps it has something to do with the buggy Mi Home application and its regions, whoever knows will understand. As a result, if you just need to turn it on / off manually or according to a schedule, then you can take it, on the other hand, there are much cheaper sockets that can do the same. I can't write a good review for it just because it works.

Pros
  • It's hard to say, probably design.
Cons
  • In short: high price, no scripts, no notifications, no consumption. Glitchy Mi Home through which all this is controlled. More details in the comments.