Belkin WeMo Light Switch, Wi-Fi Enabled, Compatible with Amazon Echo

WeMo Switch Installation I live in a dark rural area and prefer to keep my home well illuminated after dark. For the past 31 years my daily routine has been to turn the outside lights on at sunset and off again at sunrise. Sounds easy except there's one switch on the main floor, two in the basement and one in my garage. One of these switches is for two outdoor outlets that I use for floods lights and holiday lighting. On occasion I would get up later than usual, miss one or two switches because of a distraction or just wasn't at home. It was time to start thinking about the home automation concept. After extensive research I chose Belkin WeMo because of the favorable reviews on Amazon and my own favorable experiences with other Belkin products. The wired switches are designed for the DIY types like me. I had my first light switch wired and functioning in about 20 minutes. The second one in 15 minutes. I was so satisfied with the concept and functionality and the ease of installation until I wanted more so I bought two more light switches and two outlet switches for a grand-total of 6 WeMo devices. Now I can control all my outdoor lighting, with set on and off times, including a couple of indoor lamps and my garage electric heater with my iPhone and iPad from anywhere at anytime. The WeMo App takes a bit of learning and I've had a few mysterious on and off occurrences that have disappeared at the moment. I also should add that a few years ago I upgraded my router from the standard free one provided by my IP provider to a more reliable and secure one that I purchased myself. I mentioned that because there are so many factors that could result in problems unrelated to the switches or the app. Otherwise, a good router, a good mobile device with good reception and the elimination of as much interference as possible should result in none to fewer problems. Think quality! I'm glad I did because I currently have about 20 WiFi devices in by home hogging up my router. Personal Idea: Stuffing your light switch with wires in a single or double gang outlet box can be somewhat difficult, more so if your circuit is wired with 12/2 and double ganged. To cut down on my own stress and frustration I decided to used a non-metallic surface mount outlet box commonly used for surface wiring. Perhaps also by surface mounting interference will be minimal or could be virtually eliminated remembering that no metal face plates are allowed. The box comes with a plate with a knockout rectangular center. You attach the plate to the existing holes of your in-the-wall gang box. You'll see the holes after you remove your old light switch. Snap the 1 3/4 - 2" deep cover on the plate and you're ready start wiring and stuffing with less hassle. The holes in the cover lineup perfectly with the WeMo Light switch. The finished job gives your switch a bit of a commercial look but I don't care about that because I like the fact that it makes it standout giving it a questionable look like ask before touching. Less play from curiosity seekers. Also the plastic boxes are rather cheap from most home supply places and probably Amazon too.

I bought 4 of these light switches about a month after they were released. I had been adding motion detector lights, dusk-to-dawn lights, etc., to both improve energy efficiency and safety in my house. My purchase was designed to move further toward both of these issues, along with a new Kwikset lock and some security cameras. Installation was relatively simple, even for someone who is not an electrician. As long as you have the proper wires and follow instructions, as other reviewers have mentioned, installation should not be too difficult (check before ordering though). Connecting to the WiFi was also not difficult for me. I have a Linksys router in the basement with a Linksys range extender upstairs and WeMo did not have any problems connecting when I followed instructions. The initial firmware update took quite a long time and the initial iPhone app version that I downloaded was *very* slow to detect the switches each time I loaded the app, but they seem to have fixed the latter issue. Once it was all setup, I LOVED it. I used IFTTT to automatically make sure lights were turned off at night and on in the morning, among other things. I really like the look of them and changed out many of my fan switches and other switches to the decorator-style to make it look even nicer. Really, really like the look of them, although I could see it not fitting as well in certain instances (I am definitely not an interior decorator). I do wish that these would work with 3-way lights (where you have two light switches that control the same light) or as dimmers, but unfortunately they don't. Here's the problem: two days ago, the power to the router went out for about 30 seconds, then turned back on. The internet and WiFi loaded fine and all of my devices worked fine - except two of the 4 light switches could no longer connect to WiFi! They would both just blink orange non-stop. I tried all of their support instructions on their website, which was minimal, and included resetting and restarting the device. Of course, now one of the switches started blinking green and I could no longer even turn the lights on manually. So I caved and called their support number (difficult to find, but calling the corporate headquarters 800-number routed me to support). Here is where it got really frustrating because, among other things, the person on the line spoke very poor English. It took about 35 minutes to get through the initial questions around model number, what lights were blinking, when I purchased the product, etc. In between each question, she would tell me to "hold on a second" and mute her line, before often (at least 10 times, no exaggeration) returning and asking me a question I had already answered. Multiple times, she forgot to mute her line and I heard her joking with her friends. But, OK, I only hold Belkin partially accountable for that. After over an hour, and having me try everything I already tried, she finally said she would send me a new one. For now, I have two switches that cannot connect to WiFi and one that cannot even turn the lights on. It is simply not worth all of this hassle just to be able to remotely turn some lights on and off. To make it worse: they only provide (poor) customer service for free for 90 days! After that, you have to pay to talk to someone. Luckily (unluckily?), mine broke after 60 days so I could get someone on the phone. I really wanted to like the product, and I would have if there was some quality control or better customer support, but unfortunately for me it didn't work out.

Perfect working nice product.

Desde que compré el primero me gustó mucho más que otras marcas y otras apps para controlarlo, recientemente sacaron a la venta la integración con Apple, pero ya con esta compra llevo 6 apagadores y me gusta mucho la variedad de funciones programables que puedes hacer. Muy recomendable, fácil de instalar, lo único que se necesita el neutro para poder alimentarlo, Ojo con eso.

I have my own home theatre and this is a sleek solution that allows me to have my guests get seated safely with the lights on and remotely turn them off to get the movie started. Probably not necessary for most applications, but it has come in handy for my home theatre and adds to the magic of the cinema. It was pretty easy to install if you have any experience in installing light switches or exhast fan switches you should be able to do this yourself. The trickiest park is getting all the wires to fit in the box behind it, as it is fairly deep in the wall box. once its installed you just download the app from Belkin for android or IOS and follow the instructions in the app to setup on your home network. You must have a medium to good wifi signal in the room you intend to set it up in, or you will not be able to use it from your app. The software works pretty well, I find it is getting more stable (less crashes) and more prompt with ever update/patch. The software also lets you set the lights to turn off or on, on their own. A good feature if you want it to make it look like your home, while on vacation. I wouldn't recommend this switch to everyone, but if you want a more dramatic effect or need the ability to control the lights from far away then this product works well! I would recommend that Belkin come out with a version of this light switch that uses Bluetooth as well as wifi. Then you could control the switch in a room from a distance even if you had a poor wifi signal.

Its not reconnecting to wifi... Have to everytime reset and reconnect due to which i stopped using the switch only. Not happy at all.

This is a review of the WeMo Insight switch - not the wall plug (but it's great too). These wall switches work great. Alexa loves them too. If you have ever installed a light switch and signed a new device into your WiFi there won't be the slightest trouble. Instructions are decent and there's lots of walk-through's on the net. Caution - these do NOT work on 3-way switches! Provided you have a standard light switch, this is a drop-in replacement that works perfect with the WeMo app and more importantly with the Amazon Echo. Naturally there's all the usual hassle if your router is too far away. I've had to re-pair one switch a couple of times. But they work very well considering how new all this connected home stuff is.