Kasa Smart Plug Mini 15A, Apple HomeKit Supported, Smart Outlet Works with Siri, Alexa & Google Home, UL Certified, App Control, Scheduling, Timer, 2.4G WiFi Only, 4 Count (Pack of 1) (EP25P4), White

I bought these to replace my no-longer-supported Wemo plugs to connect to my Apple HomeKit setup. Reviews were tops. Had trouble connecting to them via the Kasa app with seemingly appropriate labels like "HomeKit Smart Plug" and that sort of thing. Didn't work. Then I noticed the "Matter Smart Plug" selection. Matter is the protocol used by Apple HomeKit and other vendors as a tech standard for connectivity. Don't know why they even offer those other choices. Choose "Matter Smart Plug" in the Kasa app and you'll get it connected. Then go to the Home app and add that device -- easy peasy once Kasa has registered it.

I’ve purchased this Kasa smart plug many times, which says a lot about how dependable it’s been for me. Unlike some other brands I’ve tried, these don’t lose their configuration after a power outage, which has been a huge relief in a smart home setup. Setup in the Kasa app is quick and painless, and other smart home platforms recognize them easily without extra work. They’ve been very reliable day to day, and the Kasa service itself has been consistent for me. My only real frustration is that once you have a lot of them, it can be hard to quickly identify which physical plug matches which name in Alexa or other apps. Even with that minor issue, they’re still the smart plugs I trust and keep buying. . What you may care about: • Reliability after power outages (Meets) • Works with multiple smart home platforms (Meets) • Simple setup process (Meets) • Easy to identify individual plugs when you own many (Does Not Meet) • Long-term reliability and repeat-use confidence (Meets)

Great product! Use them for Christmas lights and the ability to turn almost anything on or off remotely. The units have worked well around our house and the phone app is simple and easy to adjust to your needs.

Kasa Smart Plug Mini 15A, Apple HomeKit Supported: $44.99 for a 4-pack at the time of review Normally, I pride myself in writing thorough and in-depth reviews, especially when it comes to technology. However, occasionally, I encounter a product that completely fails, in its stated goal. In that case, I tend to keep my review, limited to the frustrations and problems that I had in an effort to keep other people from having the same problems. Unfortunately, that is the case with these TP Link Kasa Home Kit enable smart plugs. Like all things, I read the review on these plugs before ordering them. I did see that some people had trouble getting HomeKit to work. But, I've worked in the technology field for over 25 years. 10 of those were spent as a network engineer. I have over 100 network enabled devices in my house. I love smart home technology. So I figured, "how difficult could these really be to get working?” As it turns out, impossible. I'll keep my experience limited so as to not run up the length of this review. But as the subject line implies, I was unable to successfully get these to link with HomeKit and while I was able to get them to function with Alexa, eventually, it took WAY longer than it should have. With regards to HomeKit, I was able to successfully get them to register in my HomeKit instance. However, within 10 seconds of registering the device, it would go off-line and be unreachable permanently. I could remove the device and go through the registration process again, only to be greeted with the same result. Out of all four plugs, I was never able to get any of them to work with HomeKit pass the initial registration. With regards to Alexa, that one was a little bit murkier. I had attempted to register each of these plugs with HomeKit first. In doing so, it disables the ability for me to enable the "Allow external connections" setting that is required to work with Alexa. In order to get these functional, I had to completely remove them from HomeKit and the Kasa app on my phone. Registering them in Alexa first, without attempting HomeKit registration first worked. In the end, I am extremely disappointed by TP links implementation of these devices. Unfortunately, for me, I didn't have a chance to set them up until I was well past the 30 day return date. Fortunately, though, I will be able to utilize these at my mom's house, where she doesn't use HomeKit (only Alexa). Frankly, I'm surprised that the engineers at TP Link let these out the door. My rating is an emphatic one star out of five. Not only would I not order these over again, they have completely soured me on TP Link products. Period. I have no intention of trying my luck with anything of theirs again. I'd rather spend a little extra money to get something I know will work.

As a guy wanting to schedule the lights in my house to go on/off with a scheduled timer, cheaply, I personally found these hard to set up. A few reasons: First, you must choose to set these up in the Kasa App or in the Apple Home App, and the instructions steer you towards the Apple Home App. BUT, once you go through the pain of setup via Apple Home, and then open the Apple Home App, you learn that there is no scheduling functionality unless you invest in an Apple hub or have an Apple TV- an additional $100 or so. Well, there goes the "cheaply." (And I am not sure Apple Home allows you to see watts consumed, as the Kasa App does.) So I reverted to the Kasa App. which does allow scheduling. But I got lots of error messages while establishing WiFi connection to some of the smart plugs. Some of the error messages were incorrect (thus confusing), telling me that Wifi signal was bad. In one case it was in fact connected, but the App kept prompting me for need to reset the smart plug. Then it prompted my to update the software in the smart plug- (this may have been the real issue). At one point it told me I needed to reset, but the App showed the plug appearing as normal. So, LOTS of wasted time with setup. I felt like a monkey at keyboard, flying blind without proper instructions, and with incorrect/misleading error messages. So finally, I have them all on the Kasa App, and it is very cool to be able to schedule lights on/off while we are home, and diff schedule while on vacation- One very nice thing about the scheduling is that the scheduler can be set to be relative to sunrise/sunset, so you don't have to diddle with your time settings as the days get longer/shorter- NICE. Also a "vacation" feature that will turn lights on/off randomly to simulate someone living there. I do trust TPLink/Kasa as we have their outdoor unit to turn on string lights and it has held up well, works well (over Alexa voice command). And as I'll be away as these units click on/off, I trust the brand to not burn the house down; I would NOT buy an unknown or newly launched brand for this reason. And for those who care, I saw a video review that shows these units do draw 1/2 watt just sitting in the wall- not much at all, given the convenience feature. So in the end, I am happy with the switches, but wow- Kasa could have made it easier with a better decision tree for how to set up, and a video showing exactly how to set up, and typical error messages and their resolution.

I use three of these and after about a year there’s never been a failure with any of them! It’s a super easy app to use to change preferred on and off times for different lamps in my house. Great purchase!

These are great. I just set the devices up, plug them in and plug a device in to control it. I can turn on and off lights, a hot tub (110 volt) and a fountain remotely and can set on/off times and set timers for devices in the Kasa app. The connection with Google Home works, although sometimes the names I give devices and room names don't seem to flow seamlessly back and forth between Google and Kasa and I have to make updates manually in both platforms. I love being able to use voice control to turn things on and off. I also love the energy monitoring in the Kasa app do I can see how much energy a device uses. The hourly info is available for the last week, the weekly break down is available for the last 3 months and the monthly totals go back a year I think. I suppose I should give it 4 stars because they aren't perfect but I like them so much I give them 5 stars.

They work perfectly with our home WiFi! Their ease of use, speed is responsiveness is amazing!

Excelente

Es mejor comprar las extensiones por calidad y precio que los pequeños individuales. Ya que los pequeños seguido se desconfiguran y no vuelven a prender por alguna razón que desconozco y hay que desconectarlos y volverlos a conectar.

Funcionan muy bien con apple home, los controlo sin problemas desde mi iphone 12 o mi home pod mini

Me gustó mucho la versatilidad del enchufe, ya que puedes usar con cualquier dispositivo inteligente, muy recomendables.

Te deja agregarlo a la app pero sal no responde cada vez que trato de utilizarla