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I've had a few of these installed for about 4 years now. Good hardware, pretty simple installs, relatively little trouble; integrates nicely into Home Assistant locally, I've never used them directly with HomeKit/other ecosystems.Very responsive over the network.
Very, very occasionally (maybe a couple times a year) they seem to have some issue with my wifi that causes them to disconnect and fail to reconnect, but they come right back up after hitting the small reset button under the paddle, and the connection is reflected on the LED... somehow (I don't recall how). Vitally, they never stop operating "dumb", so if my wifi goes out or they have other trouble, they can still be operated by getting up and walking over to them. Also, since two are having the same failure state next to each other, it could entirely be a failure on some other part of my infrastructure (brownout, RF noise, wifi AP dropping them) so I can't even say I blame them for that failure, but they still handle it fairly gracefully.
I also have a couple KS210's (I think?) in some 3-way configs (with normal dumb switches on the other end) and they're also very good in that setting.
I'm moving away from Wifi (esp 2.4GHz, my place is crowded) for IoT stuff, shifting more stuff to zigbee, but the in-wall Kasa's have been so trouble-free that they're pretty much the bottom of my replacement list.
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I've had a few of these installed for about 4 years now. Good hardware, pretty simple installs, relatively little trouble; integrates nicely into Home Assistant locally, I've never used them directly with HomeKit/other ecosystems.Very responsive over the network.
Very, very occasionally (maybe a couple times a year) they seem to have some issue with my wifi that causes them to disconnect and fail to reconnect, but they come right back up after hitting the small reset button under the paddle, and the connection is reflected on the LED... somehow (I don't recall how). Vitally, they never stop operating "dumb", so if my wifi goes out or they have other trouble, they can still be operated by getting up and walking over to them. Also, since two are having the same failure state next to each other, it could entirely be a failure on some other part of my infrastructure (brownout, RF noise, wifi AP dropping them) so I can't even say I blame them for that failure, but they still handle it fairly gracefully.
I also have a couple KS210's (I think?) in some 3-way configs (with normal dumb switches on the other end) and they're also very good in that setting.
I'm moving away from Wifi (esp 2.4GHz, my place is crowded) for IoT stuff, shifting more stuff to zigbee, but the in-wall Kasa's have been so trouble-free that they're pretty much the bottom of my replacement list.
I have a couple in the house that are wifi and I integrate them with Google and Home Assistant. I haven't tried them with anything Apple though, but I would assume they work just the same. I haven't had any issues with them and it's nice to be able to turn on lights remotely or per a schedule when away from the house. I like the TP-Link Kasa line and am about to buy quite a few more of them to replace non-wifi switches.
I have 2 of these, one in my daughters bedroom so she can turn her overhead dumb light on or off from her phone (she just uses their app rather than any kind of voice assistant). I have another installed in my wife's shop to replace an old expensive manual timer to turn the two lights next to the front door on and off. You can program schedules in their app and they have a dawn and dusk setting that works pretty well
Been using them for 4 plus years; I have some that dim and some that are normal. Only issues I have had is with the ones that dim occasionally will flicker and sometimes turn off and back on. Yes I have calibrated, and this is with trying different brands of bulbs, ge and phillips, not for sure if it is a switch thing or bulb, but just using app and phone everything works fine and nice to be able to turn off lights in bed once everyone is asleep on multiple floors, or scenarios like turn on lights when I hear something in middle of night, or when not at home and see someone random drive up to house, Walmart/amazon deliveries, etc.
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I have these all over my house, maybe about 10-12, including adding when I finished my basement. These include the single pole and as well as the 3way switches and I have yet to have any issues with any of these. I love the fact I can create groups, for instance I can turn on/off all my basement lights with one button.
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Very, very occasionally (maybe a couple times a year) they seem to have some issue with my wifi that causes them to disconnect and fail to reconnect, but they come right back up after hitting the small reset button under the paddle, and the connection is reflected on the LED... somehow (I don't recall how). Vitally, they never stop operating "dumb", so if my wifi goes out or they have other trouble, they can still be operated by getting up and walking over to them. Also, since two are having the same failure state next to each other, it could entirely be a failure on some other part of my infrastructure (brownout, RF noise, wifi AP dropping them) so I can't even say I blame them for that failure, but they still handle it fairly gracefully.
I also have a couple KS210's (I think?) in some 3-way configs (with normal dumb switches on the other end) and they're also very good in that setting.
I'm moving away from Wifi (esp 2.4GHz, my place is crowded) for IoT stuff, shifting more stuff to zigbee, but the in-wall Kasa's have been so trouble-free that they're pretty much the bottom of my replacement list.
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Very, very occasionally (maybe a couple times a year) they seem to have some issue with my wifi that causes them to disconnect and fail to reconnect, but they come right back up after hitting the small reset button under the paddle, and the connection is reflected on the LED... somehow (I don't recall how). Vitally, they never stop operating "dumb", so if my wifi goes out or they have other trouble, they can still be operated by getting up and walking over to them. Also, since two are having the same failure state next to each other, it could entirely be a failure on some other part of my infrastructure (brownout, RF noise, wifi AP dropping them) so I can't even say I blame them for that failure, but they still handle it fairly gracefully.
I also have a couple KS210's (I think?) in some 3-way configs (with normal dumb switches on the other end) and they're also very good in that setting.
I'm moving away from Wifi (esp 2.4GHz, my place is crowded) for IoT stuff, shifting more stuff to zigbee, but the in-wall Kasa's have been so trouble-free that they're pretty much the bottom of my replacement list.
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