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I don’t know what to say more than do not purchase the WeMo Mini Switch. I’ve never written a review before, but this device made me so angry; and I’m very tech savvy, This product never worked from the get go. I bought a pack of 2 mini switches and could not get either to work and the app is a complete joke!! It doesn’t find your WiFi network (which is the strongest signal around me) until it has refreshed the page about 4 times. It continually gives me networks though that have one or no bars. Then if I’m successful in getting my network, as soon as I put in my password it tried connecting for about 20 seconds and then the app crashes. Every single time!!!!! Good luck getting the app to reload after that. It just keeps saying connecting. I bought these the same day as I bought a Nest thermometer for my house. I had the Nest wired into where my existing thermostat was, set up and connected to my WiFi, and working with Alexa for voice temperature control seamlessly in about 30 minutes. I worked with these “smart” switches for about an hour and a half before I gave up, raging that something that simple could be so poorly made and not work a single time I tried. There are many more reviews on here like mine and my hope is that someone reads these before purchasing them and wasting their time with this product and company. I promise it will save you hours if you go with a different brand!!

I’ve been using the wemo switch for over a year now and there is always an issue with connectivity with wifi and the app. Seriously the switch defeats the purpose of remote access. Wifi connection is constantly disconnect from the switch, therefore, App does not work, Alexa does not work, lamp connected to the switch does not work. I have excellent wifi available but I find myself connecting and reconnecting the demo switch to the wifi. On top of purchasing a garbage wemo product, the memo app is totally glitchy, laggy and constantly crashing. I wanted to write this review and had to keep trying just to get the freaking keyboard to pop up on the display without the screen turning totally white and freezing and then crashing, and when I did get the keyboard to pop up and started typing the app crashed in the middle of me writing the review and had to start the whole process again just to write this review. I was about to give up but wanted people to know to stay away form the demo switch and the wemo app. NOT worth the headache, better off with the many other options out there that actually work. *To get the review up using the Wemo app, I actually wrote this review on the notes app on the MacBook and copy and paste onto the wemo app.

The true cost of this “smart” plug is the amount of money you pay for it, plus the amount of money you make an hour, because that’s how long each of these took to finally get configured. I had to perform complete factory resets of each wemo plug at least four times, not to mention network resets, and hard phone reboots. Per Belkin’s instructions, I literally deleted and reinstalled the wemo app several times for each switch. The real tragedy is that whatever convenience and time saving I may realize with these switches will NEVER add up to the amount of time I wasted setting them up. They aren’t inexpensive; they’re cheap. I’m only wasting more of my own time on this review so that others don’t have to. Understand that at the end of the day, these are just on/off switches. They can’t even act as dimmers. If you’re thinking of buying this, then do yourself a favor first: stand in front of your light switch and turn it on and off, over and over, for an hour, and count the number of cycles. If you seriously think that you will cycle your light on and off more over the life of this wemo plug than you did during that one hour period, then you might break even. Otherwise, I suggest you move on to more serious home automation.