Incorporating Meross-iot into a broader application

[Anonymouse83]

My apologies, as I am new to this, and I am hoping someone can offer some guidance.
I have taken the sample code, and been able to to get it to recognise my devices etc. (and I have quite a few!).
However, I am trying to incorporate the Meross devices into a broader application, and this is where I have become stuck.
What I need to be able to do, is to perform initialisation, then at arbitrary times, check the state of e.g. a power outlet, and then maybe change the state.
Maybe this is my lack of familiarity with the asynchronous library, but I cannot appreciate how with the asynchronous loop, I can perform other external tasks, and then arbitrarily check - or change the state of e.g. a power outlet.
I even looked at the mqtt approach, and thought that anyone using the library would want to do more than have a "one-shot" program!
Any help would be most appreciated.

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