Eve Energy 2 Pack - Smart Plug & Power Meter with Built-in Schedules, Switch a Connected lamp or Device on & Off, Voice Control, no Bridge, Bluetooth Low Energy, Apple HomeKit, Bluetooth, Thread

I recently measured the following standby power consumption for the HomeKit-only, Thread + Bluetooth Eve Energy Smart Plug & Power Meter using the P3 Kill A Watt model P4400. Off: 0.3 to 0.4 Watts On*: 0.6 Watts *with load, which I measured separately and subtracted to get this result

These plugs function very well, but emit a high pitched noise that has kept me from being able to use them in any spot in my house that I might spend more than a few seconds at a time. I think I can make use of the 2 I bought but I definitely won’t be buying more.

Love the Eve Energy plugs look, but they are slow to respond Everytime I switch them on & off. Would be great to see Eve fix the latency issues.

Ive bought TP-Link Kasa and Wemo Thread smart plugs but I recommend Eve Energy over TP-Link and Wemo especially if you have a HomeKit hub that supports the Thread standard. The Kasa smart plugs for HomeKit are excellent and very stable. Kasa/Tapo devices are fine if you dont mind having smart plugs on your WiFi network. Eve Energys use of the Thread standard gets these devices off the WiFi and creates its own mesh network that gets better as you add devices. Eve Energys Thread implementation is much better than Belkins Wemo smart plugs. Plus the Eve app for iOS can be used as an overlay for Apples Home.app. The Eve.app also provides information on the Thread network status (which Home.app does not) as well as updating device firmware.

Work as intended, connected with other Eve devices through Thread, and gives me a readout of their energy usage in the app, which I almost like better than the Apple Home app. Doesn’t drop randomly like other smart switches I’ve used.

Sadly they lost connection to HomeKit and their own Eve App. Fay better experience with Aqara.

I wanted to use my fairy lights with apple HomeKit (nothing more annoying than having to physically plug and unplug the lights to turn them on/off) and these smart plugs make that possible. SUPER easy to set up, literally all I had to do was scan the barcode in my home app, pick the room it’s in, and give it a name and it was working instantly. I do want to note that I have a Thread network in my home, and these are Thread devices so they respond instantaneously. I’m not sure how well they work/how fast they respond without thread (i.e. just on Bluetooth), and I also can’t speak to how they work with Alexa or Google home, but if you use apple HomeKit and have a thread compatible HomeKit hub (either a HomePod or Apple TV 4K) then you NEED to get these. It can be harder to find good accessories for HomeKit than Alexa/Google, so these are a must have because they’re tried and true.

I like it for hourly power consumption. When I was starting seedlings. App is harder to navigate and scheduling is painful

There is a lot of information suggesting that Eve Energy plugs with Thread support can be used with Matter (which would let them be used with Google Home or Alexa). However these plugs dont support Matter, and cant be updated to support Matter without a HomeKit hub. Dont make the same mistake I did: if you dont use HomeKit, do not buy these.

I have several of these on my HomeKit system. Easy set up and reliable