WiOn 50050 Indoor WiFi Plug With 1 Grounded Outlet; White

Research for additional options. When this works it’s great but I’ve had to reconnect to the router three times since buying less than a month ago. It’s great to turn on from anywhere but not if it doesn’t stay connected. Both the inside house and outside plug drop. One is in the room with the router and the other is right outside the room window. Again, great - when it stays connected.

Price was cheap but got what I paid for. Directions leave a lot to be desired. Had to add yet another app. I can only get to work when on same router, not remotely. Never could get it to work with Alexa. I think it needs a separate app or something. Quit trying.

Just set this up yesterday, and it worked perfectly. It was easy to set up and program. I already have one hard-wired switch installed and am working on doing three more. I may buy two more of these plug-in modules for holiday decorations.

whenever there is a power failure or disconnection from main, the cloud connection will be lost and unable to control with Google Assistant, need to do set up again, that is reset the plug, connect with the plug wifi and set up. Could be 5 star if the plug can remain online with Google assistant after power failure and reconnect back, else it is quite frustrated to do set up each time if you need to move the plug to another outlet.

Item description states the item is new but apparently they are selling returns or repackaged items as mine came opened and it had previously been setup by a different user making it extremely annoying to use. Something I also missed on this is you have to install a proprietary app to easily control this thing which is a nuisance. The plus is also much bulkier than I was expecting being about 4 times the size of my other similar smart plugs. I ended up returning it due to receiving a used item, the size being ridiculously large, and it not being easily compatible with my current TP-Link, TopGreener, and Alexa system. I wouldnt recommend this unless you were planning on only buying this brand for your smart plug system.

Overall it seems to work well. The only issues have been when we are away and the icons for the items we have plugged up disappear from the app on our phone.

Works

Ok, so you can buy 12 different outlets but its stupid to do so unless you want to set all 12 to go and off at the exact same time. Yup, I bought 3 assuming that I could program each one to turn off/on at different times. I want the fish tank light to go off at a different time than my tv (if I fall asleep and leave it on, as I normally do). Tremendous waste of money!

Had several of these and they worked great. Got 2 more and couldnt get them to work, after an hour troubleshooting with different iPhones and different IOS, I found they wont work with the newest IOS. So now I have a second phone with an old IOS version just to operate the lights. Support has known about the issue but have no ETA on a fix date. From the app revisions this app is hardly updated. So now Im switching to another brand. I will keep the ones I have and maybe in a year the issue will get fixed and I can give them to someone.

App is very buggy. Could not get to account creation screen on iOS app, got only error messages on my Android 10 device. Was finally able to install the app and get an account created on my third try using an old Android 8 phone. The device works fine from the app once set up, but then I was unable to link my WiON account to Google Home. Simply kept asking for my username and password and I could never get past that screen. Simply too much trouble Returning.