Dome Home Automation Z-Wave Smart Electronic Rat, Rodent & Mouse Trap, Black (DMMZ1)

I have had a real problem with Roof Rats in our garage, they’ve been getting into the engine bay, nesting and eating every wire they find and costing me a fortune. I have tried traps with limited success and ‘just one bite’ poison, but the smell of dead rat in your car is one you'll never forget…I was lucky enough to be given one of these units by Dome at a trade show. On Wednesday night I installed the required 4 AA batteries and added it to my Vera Hub, it synced up first time. Then, I removed the sliding bait tray and put in some peanut butter and dried cat food. In the garage, I placed the trap under the engine and went to bed.At 4PM, I received a notification from Vera that the trap had caught something. In the morning, sure enough, I found a large rat dead in the trap (see picture), I removed the bait tray (the food was untouched) and tipped the rat into the trash can. Reset the trap and then caught a rat next night, in fact I caught one each night for the next 5 nights, always at around 4PM. It’s the best trap I have ever used, I don’t have to check the mousetrap every day and it’s still working perfectly on 1st set of Duracell batteries after catching 9 rats. In fact, I have just ordered and received a second trap, to put in my attic.UPDATE:I had not caught a rat for about 3 days, so I decided to change the bait and used a part of a block of "Just One Bite" rat poison. As I noted before, I am not a fan of using poison. Anyway, whatever those guys use to lure the rats worked... The next morning I had caught another large rat, then another four more. I think it will be my preferred bait fro now on, no mess and reusable.

★★★★★ from Tom on June 11, 2019Works great for field mice + Smartthings IntegrationAfter reading the reviews on this I was a little hesitant to purchase but I'm a home automation nerd and really loved the idea of the trap working with my Smartthings Z-Wave system. The first day I set up the mouser I eliminated 2 field mice within 24 hrs. I was very pumped with the results! When resetting the trap after the 2nd mouse I managed to trip the contacts when putting the trap back in the crawlspace. After that nothing tripped the trap for a week. I thought maybe the trap was no longer working until I woke up in the morning and my phone happily reported that another mouse had been eliminated.Couple of things to note... It takes about 5% of the battery down every time a mouse is zapped. Seems acceptable to me. A lot of people complained about the battery life, but it has been holding pretty steady until it is tripped. When integrating into Smartthings, make sure to follow the steps on the Dome website for setup with Smartthings** After I added the custom handler and added the device in smartthings, I did not realize it was seeing the device initially as a Z-Wave Mouse trap. It was not giving me notifications when it was tripped. I realized that I did not go into the Smartthings API and change the device from the Z-Wave mouse trap to the Dome Mouser. After making that change I was able to set up notifications based on "motion".

As of right now, I’m not happy with the Mouser mouse trap. Within the first week, it was tripped and properly alerted me. I discovered half the (poison) bait was gone but no dead mouse. So, my assumption is that the voltage was not strong enough to kill the mouse. I installed brand new lithium ion batteries.In hindsight, I wish I just bought a $20 motion sensor and sat it near an old school mouse trap. For those wishing the Mouser was a no-kill, just use this solution with a no-kill trap.Update: I’ve now caught two small mice and one cockroach. I’ve also had two “false” alarms.Final Update: It’s now down to one star for me. I’m full of regret. I would not recommend this product.I ended up purchasing a motion sensor and pointing it towards a standard “dumb” mouse trap. This worked like a charm!

I had two of the Victor wifi traps that were always losing connectivity. Very frustrating. I switched to two of these Dome Z-Wave traps and they work SO much better. I have specific lamps set up to lightup when the traps trigger (one of them is a skull lamp!) and they've worked flawlessly so far. People having trouble need to remember that mice will be frightened off by too much Human scent, so these work better after catching the first mouse since the trap will then have mouse scent on it. One of my traps caught nothing for two months - then caught three in one week! I like being able to monitor the remaining battery from my phone. So far no false triggers, missed triggers, or lost bait without triggers.

Have to update my review, reluctantly, because these have just not stood the test of time. After a while they start malfunctioning. I have returned 2 of them and the replacements all eventually have the same problem. They killed 10-15 rodents before they started malfunctioning, but here I am with one that doesn't work again, and I'm done with these.--original review below-- with they lasted.One star for each mouse it has fried in the one week we have used it. Well, OK, not quite because we have fried 6 mice and i can only give it 5 stars. I set it up with homeseer in about 3 minutes, and when a mouse gets zapped in our greenhouse we get an e-mail from homeseer. Ha ha. Fried mouses. This thing works so well I just bought another. Bingo.

There are two metal plates inside, when the mouse's feet contacts both, ZAP!. Unfortunately, one of the connections between the plate and the contact to the battery didn't work (I measured with an ohm meters). I took the unit apart, removed a spring, cleaned it up, and had good connectivity. I was able to confirm it was now working with a wet paper towel across the contacts. If your handy, this might be a good trap, but QA needs work. Someone else mentioned it failed after working for a while. I suspect that they had the same issue. Honestly, this is a stupid reason for this unit to fail. I have not caught any mice yet, but have no reason to think it won't work now.