@lanpazi I replied in the other thread for this device.
Definitely not intuitive but thank you for your response. The outlets just jumped up a bit on acceptance since the light may be disabled.
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I discovered the Leviton ZSTLR-1HW and bought two of them. I asked like five suppliers for pricing and availability, but only GoKnight came through and shipped it. The ZSTLR-1HW works.
Advantages:
- Currently manufactured and supported by a major electrical supplier (Leviton)
- Zigbee 3.0
- Actually marketed as Zigbee 3.0, not marketed with some other proprietary brand name that may or may not interoperate with various Zigbee hubs
- Has a button on the face to control it
- Blue LED light is very small and not annoying
- Looks like a pretty generic but functional outlet; no weird or confusing markings
- Silent: no perceived humming or whining from the electronics
Disadvantages:
- No energy monitoring
- Only comes in white
- Expensive (USD$62) for what you get
- Not "widely" available, requires working with your Leviton supplier
I have not installed it in a junction box yet, but I also want to point out that it is pretty thick. I estimate that it is the same thickness as Leviton's USB-C receptacles.
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Curious if you asked Home Depot if they could special order it?
Are both outlets controlled by Zigbee relays or just one?
From the following link:
- Top outlet is always ON, bottom outlet is controlled
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I think one outlet is always on for these smart receptacles, regardless of brand, to comply with an nec requirement.
Can’t find the thread where (I think) I read that though…
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Sounds familiar...
Nice find! It looks like it has been around a while. I wonder why it hasn’t been more widely discussed. (I don’t think Leviton (and plenty of others, mind you) has ever done a good job of promoting their smart home devices, though it looks like they are positioning this more as a commercial device.)
Do you know if the LED behavior can be changed? I like ‘on when on’ for my receptacles.
Interesting wasn’t aware of NEC requirement about one outlet being always hot. Could have sworn I have seen a zigbee or Zwave receptacle where both were controlled at some point since I got into HA 10 years ago. Know Kasa has a WiFi outlet where both are switched.
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Eve has a dual outlet but it’s thread.
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To answer the first question: yes, I asked Home Depot if they could special order it. The pro rep I was working with at my local store said she would call Leviton. I believe that she did, in fact, call Leviton, and Leviton said they would get back to her. I reached out a week later to see if she got more information and she did not get more information. I have not heard anything back since. Of course, in the intervening time, I got two units from GoKnight.
Looks like others already chimed in on the second question, but I will confirm since I actually own the product: only one outlet (the bottom one/the one with the universal power icon and the word "CONTROLLED" in vertical text) is controlled. The top one is always hot.
To answer JB_TX's question "Do you know if the LED behavior can be changed?" Here is the manual:
Nowhere in the manual does it indicate that the LED behavior can be changed. If you want to dive deeper, you could call Leviton Technical Support during business hours and see if they can find out if there are secret Zigbee commands to accomplish this. I would say a little piece of white electrical tape or just a simple removable white paper sticker will do the job just fine.
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I wanted to bump this thread since it has been about six months.
In mid-May I installed two ZSTLR-1HW receptacles in my rental townhome: one on the first floor near the entrance, and one in the third floor hallway. They just work. They seem to route packets just fine.
This townhome uses Keen Home Smart Vents extensively, which has been a terrible saga trying to get them to stay working. With battery modifications, I have observed that the vents on the first (two vents) and third floors (four vents) have kept on chugging along with fresh EBL AA Li-Ion USB batteries between the end of May and October 21 - 26, 2024 (five months) before a subset of them died within 5 days of each other (specifically: two of the four vents on the third floor, and none of the two vents on the first floor). However, the second floor vents had about half of the lifetime: all three vents died within about 2 months.
I suspect it has to do with the location of the repeater nodes so I am going to get two more ZSTLR-1HW receptacles and see if adding one or adding two to the second floor has a measurable effect on battery lifetime.
Interesting... I have 5 installed in varying degrees of daily activity. (Thanks to your original post above!)
Unfortunately, I'm having issues with some of them dropping off the mesh. Would you mind sharing your hub model and zigbee channel? I haven’t yet started troubleshooting, but I’m not totally convinced it’s just signal-related. I’d ask about firmware version, but I can’t imagine they have more than one. But if you have it handy, I’ll take that, too. TIA!
Actually the ZSTLR-1HWs in particular are connected to a SmartThings hub, so can't tell you that info 
All I can say is generally that the Zigbee radio is inside the receptacle so the signal has to go through both the receptacle housing and through the junction box (which in your case is metal, or plastic?) and surrounding building material, so performance may be very directionally-dependent.
Bummer, but thanks for the followup!
Yeah, I was going to say my issues are puzzling, but I don't think I have enough data yet to be puzzled. As I type that, it may be notable that you are not having issues with a ST hub. I had Hub<->Device incompatibility on my list, but pretty far down. Perhaps I should give it some more weight. I do have additional repeaters enroute, as well as a Zigbee channel change contemplated. It's a process of possible elimination at this point.
