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Selected products from this vendor are presented on this page, with my assessments where I have personal experiences to share. The links are primarily directed to the vendor’s own pages, in English; for local pages/prices you will have to conduct your own search.

About the vendor and its products

Namron is a Norwegian company with a large footprint within various categories of the electrical components industry. For this page, it is relevant that they also have a category called smart home. The products of this category cover:

  • Smart lighting, spanning smart bulbs, smart light strip, and a smart ceiling lamp, all using Zigbee

  • Smart control devices, both switches/dimmers, relays, smart plugs, smart power strip, etc., many of these come in two editions, based on respectively Zigbee and Z-Wave

  • Sensors, like motion and contact, based on Z-Wave

  • Smart thermostats, in different colors/designs, also in versions with Zigbee and Z-Wave

  • Smart panel heaters, in different sizes/wattages, based on Zigbee

As far as I can tell, there is no dedicated Namron app to set and control the products, this must be done via a suitable base stations that supports the protocol in question, Zigbee or Z-Wave. There is for example a Namron app for Homey and the ZigBee products work with a Philips Hue bridge.

Our experiences

In addition to what is described in the table below, I have had some experience with other Namron products. Partly we had for a while a lamp with a built-in motion sensor, but which was otherwise not smart in any way, and partly a Zigbee panel heater. This was acquired in the hope that it would integrate better in Apple Home than the Mill heaters we have. In Homey, the heater worked very well, but there was no additional benefit in Apple Home so I returned it.

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Component Room Experiences

Smart power strip

Living room

This is truly a versatile product; it has four regular power outlets that can be controlled independently of each other. Furthermore, it has two USB A outlets, which allows charging various devices. This power strip works as it should and allows controlling four devices and still only occupying one wall outlet, which is useful if you have few outlets available. It uses Zigbee as protocol, but it not compatible with Apple Home. It is brought into Apple Home via Homey.

Smart double pole dimmer switch

Downstairs bathroom This dimmer solved a “problem” which for a long time could not be fixed, in that it is double pole. It could therefore replace an old-fashioned double pole light switch in the downstairs bathroom, so that all lights can be dimmed. It uses Zigbee and is connected to Homey (and from there into Apple Home).