🏡 Sylvania Smart HomeKit Control: Enhancing Home Automation Effortlessly Review

Terrible Terrible Terrible. First, it's useless because it's Bluetooth and not Wi-Fi, meaning you can only access it remotely when you're not home if you set it up via HomeKit with an AppleTV as a hub, which works 10 times . There is no way to restart the device, the instructions say to turn it off and on 5 times and this will help, it isn't. On the internet they said hold the button and everything will work out, it's not. I connected it to my HomeKit once and it only worked when I used the…

UPDATE 15-Jan-21: I've bought four more (9 in total) after my initial check and now I'm having issues with most of them not responding or responding erratically. Most of them are in hard-to-reach spots, but worked fine until I had to reboot my house to work with the new Eero router (which is awesome). So I downgraded my starts to 3 out of 5 and probably list them on eBay. First 5 star rating. I bought 5 to use with Apple Homekit. Sometimes there are small delays, but not significant. Setup was…

Although listed as an Apple-approved Sylvania outlet, it uses Bluetooth instead of Wi-Fi and has a ridiculously short range of around three meters. To communicate with this outlet, your phone or tablet must be no more than ten feet away. If the socket is in the child's room and your hub is in the living room, you are too far away to control the socket. Wi-Fi is the best choice, especially mesh networks. Sylvania chose to use older technology, probably because it's cheaper. Also, this POS is…