Features:

  • 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
Seamless install (with a learning curve), and I am thrilled; works exactly as I hoped.

I bought three of these recently, and I'm very satisfied. Important advice: do not be in a hurry when you install your first smart switch, because there is a small learning curve, and you'll probably thrash around a bit. Thankfully, I had read the reviews here on Amazon, so I knew to expect the setup to be a little bit trying. But after I learned what to do, it was seamless. When you get your switch, just plug it in to a wall outlet within range of your wireless network, and also plug a lamp into it (for testing). Next, connect your smartphone's wifi to the switch's "temporary" network, which will be called Wemo.Switch.XXX (where XXX are the last 3 digits of the serial number) instead of to your local area network. Then open the Belkin Wemo App on your smartphone (Android 4.0 or later, or iPhone) while connected to the temporary network. The very first time you connect to one of these temporary networks, it will ask you to help the switch get onto your local area network (LAN), so at that time, you need to type in the name of your LAN (called SSID in the documentation) and its password. If you buy 50 switches, you'll only need to do this once, because Belkin will then store the information in the cloud for any future switches in your house to use. After that, the Belkin Wemo App should switch back to your regular LAN, and then should open a screen when you can name the switch--use the name that describes the device you'll be switching (I named mine Bird Lights, Green Up Light, and Red Up Light, for example). Once that's done, you can (if you wish) create rules for the switch, in case you want to use it as a timer, for example. Also, once this is done, if you have an Amazon Echo device, just say "Alexa, discover Belkin Wemo devices", and it should find them within a reasonably short time (perhaps minutes, but in my case, only seconds). Once it has found them, you can command the Echo to turn the switches on/off, by saying, for example, "Alexa, turn on Bird Lights" (or whatever your switch is called) or "Alexa, turn off Bird Lights". It's that simple. I didn't have a single issue with any of the three switches once I understood the procedure. Note also that soon after installation, each switch wanted to get a firmware update. This is new software for inside the switch that gets downloaded from the Belkin website. It will ask you (when you connect to the Belkin Wemo App) if the firmware update can proceed, and when you give the go-ahead, the switch may be unreachable for a few minutes while the firmware downloads and the switch reboots. Give it 20 minutes to be sure--everything should be back after that. I had none of the problems (reported just a few weeks ago) with Echo--it found them quickly and turns them either on or off as requested. I also put two devices in a group (using the Belkin Wemo App), and the Echo lets me turn them on/off all at once using the group name. Good product. Worth the staggering $40+ per switch cost for those few devices that have special needs. In my case, that was one set of lights that I wanted to come on at sunrise and off at sunset (the Bird Lights), and without needing an actual light sensor. Also, two lamps that sit in corners where it's difficult to reach their switch. I turn them off later at night to prepare my eyes for bedtime--so the smart switches allow me to turn them off without having to climb over furniture just to reach the physical switches of the lamp. Yay for home automation, Amazon Echo, and Belkin Wemo.

not just a switch, a computer with a wireless transceiver

Updated on June 14, 2015: I maintain the five-star rating of this product. The original firmware version was WeMo_US_2.00.2176.PVT, which causes a problem with Amazon Echo, but this is fixed with version WeMo_US_2.00.3949.PVT. The problem was that if you ask Alexa to turn on "the light", she will, but after about half hour if you ask her to turn the light off, it will not be turned off--unless you re-discover the device, "turn on" then "turn off"; an inconvenient workaround. To update the firmware, open the WeMo app on an Android device and reset the device by pressing and holding the Restart and the Reset buttons for five seconds and then releasing them. The light on the WeMo Switch will blink to green then amber, which means a successful reset. At this point a message will pop up on the WeMo App saying a new firmware update is available. Let it update. The problem then goes away. Original Review: There are 3 steps to get this to work with an Android device (or iOS): 1. Download and install the WeMo app. 2. Search for this switch in available WiFi networks. Just like you'd be searching for your router, and connect to it. 3. Run the WeMo app, which will ask you to pick your actual router and credentials to connect to it. Done. The WeMo App will revert back to your router connectivity and this switch will appear in your list of devices for WeMo. If you have Amazon Echo, simply say "Alexa, search for my devices" wait until she finds the switch, then you can say, "Alexa, turn on the Wemo Switch". Or, you can change the name of the switch in the WeMo app to something like "the light", and let Alexa find it for you.

We love these!

We have bought several of these to use with Amazon Alexa. They were great and are easy to set up. We put some in a family member's house as she has trouble with her vision and they make it much easier for her to turn lights on as she's entering the room. We used them for the Christmas tree lights and other lights around the house. It's great to be able to turn on and off lights remotely. We used to leave our front light on all day in the winter time so it would be on when we got home at night. Now we can put it on a timer or simply turn it on when we're on our way home. While in our home, I guess you could call it a bit of a luxury, for the disabled like my family member, this has been a lifesaver! There is another more "upgraded" model but the only difference I could see was that it measures electricity usage. That just wasn't something we were looking for. The only con to this is it's size. I noticed recently that they have come out with smaller ones, so we will have to look into that if we purchase any more.

By Far Easiest to Set-up Remote Switch Ever!

I don't understand the bad reviews, this is by far the smoothest and simplest (and I've tried every remote relay and switch you cant think of) remote switch you can think of. The app setup was a breeze (it instantly found my Wemos and it worked right away).. No complex set up with DHCP, Remote or Local IPs, gateways or none of that complicated stuff was needed to get it to work. The other awesome thing, is not only does it work right away from your WiFi network, it works remotely.. I was surprised that it had this feature automatically, without any set up on my part. This means you can control security, and turn things on and off (cameras, lights, security features, recording a show) from work, or even if your miles away on vacation. This may not seem like a big deal, but I've tried a lot of Chinese vendor and US vendor remote relays and IR devices, and spent hours if not days trying to get them to work, and they had glitch after glitch.. With the WeMo, it was so easy (just opened the app and it seemed to set all this up right off the bat).. My only gripe, is I wish they had more than one electrical connection. They take of a lot of horizontal space, so they fill up nearly 3 electrical receptacles on my electric strip. This also makes it difficult to place multiple WeMos on the same strip as well.. Perhaps they have one with 2 to 4 electrical outlets already, but didn't see one when I purchased this one..

Works great-with or without Alexa! Make sure you download the correct app...

I bought this to help control lights when I cannot easily reach them or cannot get up (medical), and because it can work with Alexa. I read the instructions, which were somewhat minimal. Basically, download the app and follow the instructions there. The important point here is to look at the icon in the instructions and pick that one when you go to the app store. I opened my apple app store, put in "wemo" for the search, but the one that came up looked different and cost $1.99! The one shown in the pic did not show up at all. Unfortunately, this is not the first time this has happened to me at the app store, but, then again, I knew what to do. I had to go online using my browser, put "wemo app" in the search, then select the apple app result, and it takes you right to the one shown in the set-up instructions, and it is free! Don't ask me why...?! Set up did not take too long, except there was a firmware update that did take a while to finish. Just put it down and come back to it. I had no problem with Alexa identifying and connecting to it using the Alexa app under "smart home". The only "problem" I had is that I want to tell Alexa to "turn on the living room light" but instead have to say " turn on the living room wemo". Might be a way to change that, but there is no directions for that. But I am also new to Alexa, and need to read up more in how to work it (I can play music, but not much more!). I found that you can also control the switch through the Wemo app. There is a big circular computer- like button that is the power button. Press on/press off! Very simple! I bought a second one that I plan to put in a different room, so I hope that will go well, too.

Love WeMo Switch for enabling remote control of my entire home.

Love my WeMo Switch. My entire home has every lamp plugged in with a WeMo switch -- many of the switches I have a power strip plugged in so that multiple lights are all plugged into one switch, and thus I have more than double the number of lights as switches. The reason wasn't so much for cost savings as sheer space - having 3-4 lights in close proximity and using one WeMo switch each becomes quite bulky and space is at a premium. I am eagerly awaiting the dimmer wall switch so that I can complete my full home automation and eliminate the last thing that I have to physically go and turn off/on (which is the ceiling light controlled by wall switch). I was not willing to sacrifice the dimming option on my ceiling light which is why I have not used the already available WeMo wall switch for it - in a few months the new WeMo dimmer will be out. I have all my WeMo connected lights connected to my Google Home, as well as IFTTT - so I've had a lot of fun experimenting with setting rules that pick up my location and when I arrive home, IFTTT has turned on all the lights in my home for me. At other times, I can say "Hey Google" and then "Turn off everything" and 17 lights instantly go off.

These are great!

These are great! The very first one was a bit challenging to set up. After a call to customer service, the rep was very helpful and got me up and running in no time. The other ones I bought were a breeze after that. I have them linked to my Echo Dot, and ask Alexa frequently to turn them on and off. Three of these are connected to Himalayan pink salt lamps I have in my home, and the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is to ask Alexa to "turn on all of the salt lamps" and poof, they are on! I also have one connected to my Christmas tree lights, which I'll find another purpose for when I take it down in a few days. It is also very simple to use the app to turn them on or off, and I was particularly happy that the app worked fine with my Kindle Fire, unlike many other apps that are supposedly available there but no longer supported and won't work at all (like Philips Hue, what a nightmare that one was!). Highly recommend! These were my first foray into the smart home world, and I'm thrilled!

Wemo Outlet - A Good Thing

Ordered the Wemo smart plug on 16 APR 16- (prime shipping, 32.99 + 2.23 tax), installed it in minutes when it arrived. It's been in use for over 5 months at the time of this review (19SEP16). ------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW: I use this (and several other Wemo devices) with my Echo (aka Alexa!)- which means I only use this device "locally". (I don't have any application where I count on this device to respond to me when I'm abroad.) This Wemo outlet works flawlessly when house-power is stable (See •• below). I have other Wemo devices that I have programmed on/off times of day... my personal application of this switch does not require any daily routines to be programmed. My only interaction with this device is voice commands (e.g. "Alexa, turn TV off"). >>The outlet controls the power to the TV. There are times when the TV has been left on and the remote is not within eyesight. Walking through the room I can simply command Alexa to turn off the TV - and walah! for a one-time expense of 40 bucks I have solved the family conflict of "where's the *+=#$*@ remote. (and the buttons on the new TVs are too stealthy for me). The PRO's: Part of the Wemo family- Wemo's simple *but stable* cloud programming allows me to set up times of day to turn my device on or off. Times of day can be absolute (e.g. "11:00 PM- TURN OFF") or can be relative (e.g. "Turn off 30 min after sunset"). Really... if you aren't familiar with Wemo power in your home- read up or just buy a single device to test it out. Simple home automation done affordably well.) The CON's: • Large protrusion from the outlet, bulky on the wall. (As you can see- I gave it 5 stars because I don't care about the bulky protrusion- but this "feature" still exists). •• Doesn't always recover from a power outage. A power outage can be hard on devices, since it's often not a clean drop in line voltage... but more of a "brown out" situation (low voltage still present/not cool for electronic components)- or worse-a surge in power before a brown out. This condition also impacts my wireless router (randomly)- so the inability for the switch to come back online following a power outage is also affected by my router's ability to come back online. In the 5 months I've had this switch I've had to walk over an manually press the reset button on the rear of the device. No biggee- unless I used this device in a remote-control scenario). Again- this feature hasn't diminished my 5 star rating. Net Evaluation= none of the cons take away from why I purchased this device. It's stable, provides lots of flexibility and IS a recommended buy. Would I buy another one? The $40 price tag drives a fair amount of "need" on my part before I'll part with the cash. I've tried other competitors with a slightly lower price, however the cloud support & set up doesn't hold a candle to Wemo. DISCLOSURE: Wemo (nor anyone else) gave me a single nickel to write this review. It's absolutely unbiased- I'm motivated only by the desire to share a good thing with others when I come across it. Happy Automating.....

Arlo + Wemo = Great after a work around

Before purchasing this item, I tried to determine if it would work with my Arlo motion detector camera and IFTTT (If This Then That website). I couldn’t find a confirmation but I did find a rule in place on the IFTTT website that led me to believe it would work. What I wanted to do was to plug a lamp into this WEMO switch and have it come on (if off) or turn off (if on) at the times that my Arlo device detected motion. The purpose is to deter a would-be burglar at night. I received the WEMO Switch and had no problem setting it up. It connected immediately to my wi-fi and I was able to connect to IFTTT as well. The problem arose when I attempted to setup the rule that I wanted. It continually failed. Apparently the Arlo wasn’t working as I had hoped. However, and I provide this information for others to use if needed, I found that I could have Arlo send me a Google Email and use the Google Email to trigger the WEMO switch. It works perfectly. Now my lamp is blinking on and off all day – I need to re-think having the Arlo on 24 hours a day! But the point is that the switch does work, exactly as it should. I can also easily turn the lamp on or off using the WEMO App on my phone or iPad. Now I plan to see what other security uses I can find for the WEMO products. I don’t really understand the negative reviews. This product works perfectly!

Save On Electricity

Great, inexpensive product to have on hand. Used to leave lights on all day so as not to come home to dark house in the winter, but with this simple product, was able to program a few light switches to turn on right before it gets dark. Have also programmed some to turn on and off on certain days when I know we'll be getting home late to give the appearance of someone being home. Very easy to set-up out of the box (FYI, it may appear like the app is crashing but it's really just going into the background--still a bit annoying). So, I save on electricity. Can also remotely turn on/off anything (light, radio, etc.) when on travel and not on a predictable pattern.

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