Zooz 800 Series Z-Wave Long Range Remote Control & Scene Controller ZEN34 (Battery Powered), White | Z-Wave Hub Required

Blends in
Looks seamless with a 2-gang Lutron plate. Note: there is only a single gang box here, the Zooz switch is just attached to the plate. It is a bit thicker but looks right at home.

Extremely easy to use with Smartthings and great battery life
I was replacing an Aeotec Wallmote Quad that had intermittent connectivity issues when it went to sleep, but also managed to only have 6 days of standby battery life. It got so bad that almost every time we tried to use it it would take two presses, and then it might need to be taken out to charge it again.This product was way better. It looks like a normal wall mount paddle switch. The battery had been going strong for months now, and it’s immediately responsive. I don’t believe it’s a ZWave repeater and that might be the cause of these better results, but I already had a separate repeater in a socket nearby.The actual paddle switch is held to a wall-plate-looking base by short distance magnets, and fits into a slightly raised socket that keeps it from sliding around or misaligning.Adding it to Smartthings was easy, there’s no special handler that needs to be installed, it’s all basically supported out of the box. Programming options are to associate actions of your choice with the up and down buttons, with options for single, double, triple, and quad presses. The only indicator on up vs down on the paddles themselves are the micro LED that blinks on press. You can see it when off if you look close, but if you don’t have the paddles on the wall (you can carry just the paddles around and use them just fine too) it’s going to be hard to tell at a glance which is up and down.Unlike prior options (I’ve tried the Sengled Switch too), programming was really easy for some simple things. I wanted all lights a room to go on and off with up and down, but I wanted to be able to toggle thru some partially on options with double taps. Using the Smartthings Virtual Switches (from the Labs setting in the app now), I could do so easily.

Highly customizable
I REALLY like how customizable the events are on this switch. I can turn the lights on or off with a tap up or down, change the dimming with the hold up/hold down commands (more on this below), and associate various scenes to different numbers of up taps or down taps. Like, 2 down taps turns the lights off in the room but sets the LED strips under the bed to be at 10% and blue. 3 down taps runs my “i’m going to sleep” scene which turns all the lights off in the house and locks the door. 4 ups and 5 ups are different styles of mood lighting and puts the oil diffuser on.I got this because I wanted a remote to operate some color dimming bulbs and LEDs in a bedroom without adding another dimming switch to the room. That would have required me to install a bigger electrical box in the wall to house a second dimming switch. The smarthings forum pointed me to this. They made it sound like the dimming can work straight out of the box, but if it does it isn’t obvious. I added a bunch of routines to the hold up and hold down commands to check how bright the lights are in the room and lower/raise them when I hold a paddle. I think I added 10 routines for this? 5 steps up and 5 steps down. It works, but it was a pita to setup.

This switch is easily included to your ZWave network via Homeseer (HS3 in my case) and its a simple matter to spawn events and/or control devices based on input from the switch. You can trigger things based on the number of taps (one to five on either side of the paddle switch); you can also trigger events based on holding either side of the button down. (You can also trigger an event when the button is released…but I am not using this feature as it implies to me that you’d always trigger 2 things…the initial hold down, AND the release). Regardless, its great to have this kind of simple control of Zwave devices without having to use some of the cumbersome remotes that are available.

It works well and follows Zwave specifications and can be programmed with advanced parameters from Home Assistant. My only complaint is that there is about a 0.5s delay after you press the button where it waits for a double/triple press, and only then does it transmit, so this means the switch always has a 500-700ms second lag from pressing it to the lights coming on. This bothers my guests who aren’t expecting it and they end up pressing the button several times. If only there was a way to disable the double/triple press scene behavior and just transmit immediately on the first button press it would be perfect.