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I connected this to my furnace and attic fan. I did this so I could set automation to turn the furnace off if the smoke alarm went off or if a leak was detected in the overflow pan. It worked great but there was a flaw where it would stay off if there was a power interruption even if it was set to last state or on in the settings. More than once it was off for a few hours. I set routines to turn it on every couple of hours as a work around, but it still meant my ac would be off for awhile if there was even just a quick brownout. Fortunately they just released a firmware update that addressed this and now it will resume the last state after a power failure. If you have Yolink make sure you occasionally check for new firmware updates by going into the settings for the device.

I can’t say enough positive things about the quality and support for all of the yolink products that I’ve purchased. They do as advertised. They’re easy to install and easy to link to Alexa. I look forward (literally) to purchasing more products from this vendor. As to the outdoor remote outlet… works great!

Yo link stuff just works, who knew i needed this

It works great in the pool pump house, for controlling the pool pump and remote heater control, with some additional hardware. I added a junction Box, and a few relays; Pump needs a high amp rated relay and heater needs a dry contact / low voltage. The app doesnt offer the flexibility to control the temp of the pool the way I envisioned it might have, but its good enough for setting schedules to run the pump and heater. And the heater is just on or off contact for either spa or pool mode which I just use the spa mode at a 92 degree set temp. If were not using the pool for a few days, I can just disable the heater from running and keep the pump in normal cycle. When I want heat, Boom, its like magic.

Tried to use this outdoors in a rain proof box. Despite being only 100 ft away from the controller, the signal was not sufficient for a reliable signal. Also, found out the hard way that it only will handle the rated 15amps as a steady load. Peak startup amps blew something inside and it never worked again. Contacted support and they recommended adding a relay to resolve.

YoLink is one of the best engineered platforms on the market. Existing outdoor outlets are usually duel. Because their flat plug goes straight down, two of their units will not fit. This is easily solved with a flat plug that is offset 30 degrees so it does not hit the plug under it. Engineers should be forced to use their own product!

Functionally, the YoLink Smart Outdoor Plug timer is another welcome addition to the YoLink enterprise of IOT. Designed for outside use and outside plugs, it has a short length of cabling to plug it into a protected outside outlet, allowing it to dangle below the outlet and close the outdoor outlet cover. See picture I have several older mechanical plug-in timers I cannot use outside because they will not fit inside the outdoor plug outlet cover. Each YoLink Smart Outdoor Plug has two outlets, each of which can be individually programmed with Schedules to come on and go off at separate times. Or you can ignore the scheduling portion and just use it as a 2-plug outlet addition with the YoLink Plug outlets live at all times. Programming them was intuitive, just remembering when creating a schedule, to tap the white check mark in the app, turning the check mark green, before leaving the “creating-a-Schedule” screen. The green check mark prompts a save of the newly created schedule. If you are new to the YoLink environment, remember you have to set up and establish a working hub to manage your YoLink “network”. I have 2 hubs. As YoLink advertises, they will not work on a 5 GH channel, just 2.4 GH channel. Secondly, a continuing frustration is that they absolutely will not ride on my house WiFi, but must be connected to the router or router satellite station via ethernet. Perhaps some people have succeeded with hubs being incorporated via house WiFi, but despite phone conversations and lengthy e-mails, WiFi is just not part of the YoLink solution at my house. YoLink also warns of this WiFi-less possibility. Repositioning the hub away from router without WiFi is limited by the length of the ethernet cable. The cable I got from YoLink was 3 feet. I bought the new Plug specifically to handle Holiday Lights on the house. Specific negative comments on the physical design of the Smart Outdoor Plug: 1. There are rubber plug covers so if you’re not using one plug, it can stay covered. The covers are not attached via a flap to the Plug unit. So when they come off, you have to remember where they are. I’ve already resigned to the fact that they’ll never be used again because I’ll lose them. 2 Most holiday lights come equipped with a two-prong plug which means that the ground plug hole in the YoLink Plug will not be covered. See pictures. 3. The end of the Outdoor Plug that contains the 2 plug outlets has a raised perimeter which limits the size of the plug that can be inserted into the Outdoor Plug. One of my outdoor holiday lights had a plug that was 1 inch X 1.3 inches and I was just at the limit of using it in the YoLink Plug. You can tell from the picture that the holiday light plug it is actually riding up from the YoLink Plug, so it is not flush with the unit. But just long enough to make contact and be usable. If the plug were any larger in either dimension I would not be able to plug it into the YoLink Plug.

Works great. You can control the outlets from anywhere.

YoLink integrates well with my Alexa based smart home. The range of these products are great for outdoor use too.

I have lost two of these now to rain. And I live in Arizona where it hardly ever rains. If you are going to put these outside, you had better put them in an enclosure (I used plastic rocks), because they are NOT rainproof! When it rains, the switch on the front lets water in and trips my breaker. This is when installed on an outdoor fixture with the outlets hanging down. Sometimes you can dry them out and re-use, but more often they fry. My biggest complaint however is there is no way to use these to turn lights on at sunset as there is only a dumb time scheduler you can use in automation. So to call this a smart switch is a misnomer. Ill be going back to my $15 waterproof dusk/dawn timers from walmart.