Review on WeMo Switch Smart Works with Alexa: Enhance Your Home Automation! by Hco Cortes

First of all, connecting can be problematic. For example, there is a point during the installation process where the app says something like "Please wait, connecting to WeMo". about 30 seconds and then it crashes. Try it a second time and it will work immediately. Find out. And that's just one example. I had 3 different problems with my WeMos. Every WeMo has had all 3 of these issues at some point. The first problem is that the app can no longer reliably communicate with WeMo. Sometimes this means trying to turn off WeMo remotely and the app freezes indefinitely without turning off the lights. If you then force close the app and reopen it, it might work this time. Or maybe not. Half the time you have to go to WeMo and turn it on or off manually. However, the rules may still work when this happens, i.e. WeMo works fine in the automatic sense, but not under your manual control. The second problem is that WeMo spontaneously disconnects from the WLAN. This can happen a day after installation or 3 weeks after installation. But it always turns off. You might think it will just reconnect if the signal strength is right. Finally, each WeMo switch saves a copy of the Wi-Fi credentials. But no, as soon as he switches off, he just gives up. The only way to get the connection back is to do a factory reset and go through the entire setup again, including connecting to Wi-Fi and setting up rules. It should be noted that sometimes the rules still work, as in the example above. But half the time, it also inexplicably forgets the rules you programmed. The third problem is that he spontaneously forgets the rules. This usually happens within 24 hours of the factory reset you just performed because your WeMo has disconnected from WiFi and is too lazy to reconnect. Of course, if he forgets the rules, you will try to make the rules again. The app claims that the rules have been saved on the device, but the device doesn't enforce them, and when you open the app again you'll find that the rules aren't listed. This was the most annoying and disappointing. a product I remember buying, with the exception of my LG Nexus 5X. (That shows how bad LG is.)