Kasa Smart Plug Power Strip HS300, Surge Protector with 6 Individually Controlled Smart Outlets and 3 USB Ports, Works with Alexa & Google Home, No Hub Required , White

This is fin great! Having multiple things on different schedules turning on and off makes life so much easier! Highly recommend!

really like this power strip - this is the third one ive gotten for the apartment. I use it with google home to control lots of things by voice/app. bought the first one for the living room to use with the lights. appreciate the usb ports to have phone chargers threaded through to the couch. liked it enough that we bought a second one for the dining room. appreciate it both for the convenience and for power saving. especially helpful bc our house is older and doesnt have a ton of outlets.

This my second of these to own. I have had it about a year. One of the things I love is the ability to monitor energy usage of the devices plugged. One monitors my Television, Satellite TV and a few small electronics. I have the other one on several battery chargers for my regular batteries and the batteries for my power tools. I have each plug socket on a schedule to only come on during the night when power costs are lower and only to run for a small amount of time per day. My batteries are always charged and I use less power to keep them fresh. The app is also really well designed. You can turn devices on or off manually from the app or look at the power consumption for the day, week, or month. It has never failed to stay connected to my wifi or to respond immediately to the app. I dont use home voice controls so I dont know about that.

Works great, makes noise off/on, but otherwise very easy to install!

I started looking at way to understand and control my energy usage after regular $300+ dollar electric bills. I started with the Sense Energy monitor (which I highly recommend). The Sense featured an integration with this Kasa HS300 power strip and the ability to see what each individual outlet is consuming in real time. Once you setup and integrate the Sense and Kasa HS300 you can monitor and understand how much power a device is using and the associated cost (based on your cost of electricity that you configure in the Sense app) over time - This was a key capability for me. The Kasa HS300 itself is very well built and I would highly recommend it as a standalone (without Sense). The HS300 itself does give you access to usage information directly in the Kasa app as well as the ability to turn off individual outlets when the devices connected are not serving a purpose. Lastly, you get six outlets that are individually controlled and offer a view into each discrete outlet from a power usage perspective - this is a significantly more cost effective approach from my use case.

I got this mainly to monitor power drain. Sure, some plugged-into-the-wall devices work to that end, but either you have to scooch down to the outlet to see it, or put it on an extension cord and then its still far too unwieldy. With this, you can just open the Kasa app and see what the wattage is real time, plus see kWh of daily and long term use. Thats just nice. Also just having the switches there on the strip to turn items on and off individually is great. Especially good if you have a computer you like to put into hibernate. The lightest wind gust against the mouse and its right back on again. Not anymore! Heh heh. My only real complaint is that, like a lot of smart devices like (scales, lightbulbs, etc.), it only uses 2.4GHz, not 5GHz. Fine if youre in a house surrounded by nothing, but if youre in an apartment, hoo boy, better make sure youre not sharing WiFi channels with anyone. Theres tools for monitoring whos using what nearby, and as long as you use your own router, changing those settings are easy. Still, idk why they cant use 5GHz. Why do some devices do that? Why do so many still use Micro-B USB plugs/ports? Other than that, I have no complains. Highly recommend.

I’m not an Alexa user, but I find these pretty handy. Only problem I have is that some of the outlets stops working, the power light lights up but it won’t power anything. Haven’t researched any possible fixes yet, but it’s disappointing especially when one power strip is just a little over a year old

Very easy to set up. Genius

Overall this is an excellent product — six separately controlled outlets, with individual energy monitoring, for about $10 per outlet. One small downside is the wall-mounting process. The plastic back of the plug strip is moulded with keyhole cutouts for mounting screws, except that at the shoulder where the circular hole meets the straight slot of the keyhole, there is a small plastic post that prevents the screw head from sliding into the slot. You’ll have to use a Dremel tool or similar with a tiny circular blade to trim away the small plastic post. Another oddity is that the overload reset button is on the back. So if you have it wall-mounted and the overload does trip, you’ll have to remove it from the wall to reset it. Finally, my main use for these smart plug strips is for energy monitoring, not remote control. In the iPhone app, the screen showing power consumption for an outlet just shows a static instantaneous reading. It would be better if it updated live. It would be even better if the app let you view the live power consumption for all six outlets at the same time on a single screen. Fortunately for me I use these Kasa HS300 smart power strips in conjunction with a Sense whole-house energy monitor, and the Sense iPhone app does let you see the power consumption of all monitored outlets in a single view, with continuous live updating. Perhaps the TP-Link engineers thought that polling the smart power strip once per second to get live data might create too much Wi-Fi traffic, but if my Wi-Fi network can stream 4K HDR Netflix video without any problems, I think that it can probably handle one request/response per second to the smart power strip.

Hasn’t let me down once! Tried lots of other smart plugs that would constantly not work properly. These are great! Highly recommend!!