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🔌 SONOFF Smart Switch for Enhanced Control and Automation Review

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🔌 Wiring & Connecting, 💡 Industrial Electrical

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Description of 🔌 SONOFF Smart Switch for Enhanced Control and Automation

COMPATIBLE WITH EXTERNAL SWITCHES: This sonoff DIY switch supports to connect an external rocker light switch unable to automatically spring back for easily managing connected devices in your home, both on your phone or directly from the wall. HANDS-FREE CONTROL: You can control connected devices through the eWeLink app in your home, or anywhere by anytime. Once appliances connect with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, you can use voice to turn on/off devices in a completely hands-free way. CUSTOMIZE SMART SCENES: With our compactable mini switch, you can let one SONOFF device trigger another one, or trigger a multitude of devices simultaneously via tapping “Tap to run” on your phone. While it is supportive of sharing the device with your family or friends, they can control it directly on their phones. COMPACT SIZE: This is a mini and compact DIY smart switch applied to different kinds of switch boxes. It only occupies very little space when you install into various types of switch boxes. DIY MODE: This mini two-way smart switch supports the DIY mode (designed for developers) which allows users to integrate MINI into a worldwide third-party open-source smart home control system to achieve LAN control without cloud service, such as Home Assistant, openHAB, ioBroker and so forth.

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

Reliable and works with Tasmota

Sonoff Mini is their answer to Shelly-1. The programming pins aren't accessible from the outside like Shelly's, but you can easily reach them. If you buy them as a set, you reduce the unit cost. The units are small and fit in single and double wall plastic junction boxes in the US. Things can get tight when running more than 4 cables into a single back box under 18 cu. in. Everything fits nicely in the 22cc. in. box. If you use Wago connectors instead of wire nuts, you can squeeze out a little…

Pros
  • Certified
Cons
  • Cable is shorter than other picks

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Smart device, easy installation but requires some technical knowledge and googling

Very minimal instructions included but looked it up on YouTube. It fits easily into the junction box. The only thing that was an issue for me is that it only connects to 2.4GHz. If you have a new router like Google Mesh, there will be a problem connecting as it transmits data at 5.0GHz. I had to search Google and Reddit to find out. For me, the trick was to put the phone on airplane mode, then disable Wi-Fi and reconnect to Wi-Fi. It helps to find the device and set it up once set up, works…

Pros
  • Lots of positive emotions
Cons
  • No performance

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Light doesn't always work with a switch ==> buy Shelly or something.

I am not changing my rating from 3 stars to 1 star. After updating my router 2 out of 4 Sonoffs are now unusable. I have to reset them to give them the router's new SSID, but they pair and update. They seem to go into pairing mode but can't find my phone (12 inches away). Mostly brick. The two that work are terribly hand-switched. You have to flip the light switch 5 to 10 times before it registers. As a side note, I also had to update Shelly to the new SSID. This caused me some trouble too (had

Pros
  • Handsfree
Cons
  • Very expensive