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Ok, first try my scanner tool to check over all the settings, you may need to enable something. I am nearly positive this tool will be able to get all the settings for these new Minoston devices, I think it is required for current certification.

Then you can also try my Zooz Plugs (also universal) driver. This will not show you all the settings but it will pick and record all the different power info as long as the device sends it to the hub.

[DRIVER] Zooz Smart Plugs Advanced (ZEN04, ZEN05, ZEN14, ZEN15, ZEN20, ZEN25)
Make sure you use the standard driver (NOT MCP) Direct Code Link

Eventually I am going to have a true universal plugs driver which also scans for the settings like my scanner tool. I have already done a switch and dimmer, plugs is on the todo list.

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Ok, so I installed the Z-Wave Universal Device Scanner and had the outlet configured with that driver and it brought up a lot more control over the outlet; however, energy was still not being reported and I didn't see it anywhere in the logs.

This was the data:

[
	{"num":1,"format":1,"size":1,"defaultVal":0,"range":"0..3","title":"Reaction of led","description":"Change the reaction of the indicator."},
	{"num":2,"format":1,"size":4,"defaultVal":0,"range":"0..65535","title":"Auto Turn Off","description":"Minutes for turn off automatically."},
	{"num":3,"format":1,"size":4,"defaultVal":0,"range":"0..65535","title":"Auto Turn On","description":"Minutes for turn on automatically."},
	{"num":4,"format":1,"size":1,"defaultVal":0,"range":"0..2","title":"Status Restore","description":"Restore status after power failure."},
	{"num":5,"format":1,"size":1,"defaultVal":5,"range":"5..50","title":"Report threshold of power","description":"Threshold for power report(W)."},
	{"num":6,"format":1,"size":4,"defaultVal":5,"range":"1..65535","title":"Report frequency of power","description":"Interval minutes after last report of power."},
	{"num":7,"format":1,"size":1,"defaultVal":1,"range":"1..10","title":"Report threshold of currents","description":"Threshold for currents report(x0.1A)."},
	{"num":8,"format":1,"size":1,"defaultVal":1,"range":"1..100","title":"Report threshold of electricity","description":"Threshold for electricity report(x0.01KWH)."},
	{"num":9,"format":1,"size":1,"defaultVal":2,"range":"0..2","title":"Indicator brightness","description":"Setting indicator's brightness."},
	{"num":10,"format":1,"size":1,"defaultVal":0,"range":"0..1","title":"Disable power report","description":"Enable or disable power report."},
	{"num":11,"format":1,"size":1,"defaultVal":0,"range":"0..1","title":"Disable currents report","description":"Enable or disable currents report."},
	{"num":12,"format":1,"size":4,"defaultVal":60,"range":"1..65535","title":"Report frequency of currents","description":"Interval minutes after last report of currents."},
	{"num":13,"format":1,"size":4,"defaultVal":60,"range":"0..65535","title":"Report frequency of voltage","description":"Interval minutes after last report of voltage."}
]

I then tried the Zooz ZEN Plugs Advanced driver, and that reported Energy immediately after I configured the device with that driver. There's less control of the outlet; however, besides the annoying light on the outlet, there's not much else I would change, so I'm ok with using the your Zooz Driver as that get's me what I was hoping for: Energy monitoring.

... also, the Zooz driver has "amperage" populated now as well along with a more accurate reporting for Power. Previously, I was getting an int return value (5), whereas now I get a decimal (5.4). There is an attribute unpopulated that may be unique to Zooz called "energyDuration" which is at 0.

Thank you for your help!

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Yes everything you said is expected. The Scanner tool does not report any device metrics, it is only for scanning and configuring the device.

The energyDuration is reset when you reset the power stats. This tracks how many days the energy total (kWh) has accumulated for so that you can then do the math and calculate the total cost. I think I have it so the energyDuration will update every time the "energy" total is reported from the device.

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Just to add some info here in case someone else is looking, I have some of the minoston 'outdoor dimmer' plugs, and Alexa was reading them as temperature sensors, switched the driver from the minoston one to the EV LOGIK smart plug dimmer, and this resolved the issue (behaves as expected, Alexa recognizes it as a light and allows it to be added to groups/commands properly)

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