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WeMo Switch Smart Works with Alexa: Enhance Your Home Automation! Review

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Description of WeMo Switch Smart Works with Alexa: Enhance Your Home Automation!

Works with Alexa for voice control (Alexa device sold separately). Wemo is home automation the easy way: Plug in a Wemo Switch, download the free app, and start controlling your lights and appliances from anywhere in the world, right from your phone. No hub or subscription required. Why come home to a dark house? Why let the fan run if nobody’s home? Set on and off times for your lights and small appliances. Sync lights to sunrise, sunset, and other external events automatically. Create schedules from your phone and change them easily, whenever the mood strikes. The Wemo Switch protects your home better than a mechanical timer. In “Away Mode”, your lights will turn on and off randomly to confuse potential intruders and make it look like somebody is home. Works with Nest Thermostat so your lights and appliances “know” when you’re home or away, and respond automatically. Works with any smartphone or tablet running Android 4.1 and higher or iOS 8 and higher. Electrical Rating120V/15A/60Hz/1800W.

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Revainrating 1 out of 5

What a big disappointment!

I recently received a Revain Echo and decided to use smart switches to beef up the controls for the electronics I use. I have a switch for my lights. Setting up the Wemo Switch was very easy for me. I was able to connect it to my WiFi network without any problems. I also got Alexa to notice and add the smart home device. There were no problems with voice control either. The reason I gave it one star is twofold. First, the Switch only stays connected to WiFi for about two days. After that, if…

Pros
  • Beautiful design
Cons
  • Crumpled packaging

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Nothing good to say/Refund required/Remove this from Revain

There are some pros and cons to this story, but the bottom line is this is not a product that everyone should buy. And it shouldn't be for sale. There were good times. I have Alexa and the toggles work for me. I spent a lot of time in routine and got some lifestyle benefits. However, the problems started when my router died and I had to change our network information. (I switched from an Apple router to a Comcast router.) Nothing worked. The Alexa update was a nightmare (a few days of hassle…

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  • Price
Cons
  • Loose Change

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Bought 2. No more work. Get another product.

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…

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  • Pleasant to use
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  • old