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The Offer
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- Amazon has Two Kasa Smart Plugs For $11.89
- There’s also an option to get a 4-pack for $21.99
Our Verdict
These are actually pretty useful.
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These say 2.4ghz wifi only. Anybody have experience using them successfully on blended networks (for instance eero and other mesh devices blend 2.4 and 5ghz bands and don’t let you separate them)?
I have these on a dual-band network and they work great. They just won’t work if you have a 5GHz-only network for some reason.
They only have a 2.4 ghz radio built into them, that’s why they don’t work on 5 ghz only routers. 2.4 ghz has a longer range than 5 ghz, and since these aren’t data intensive devices, 2.4 is a much better band for them.
What are some good uses of these, other than holiday lights?
i just bought them so i can reset my network when i travel. i have an indoor camera that want offline and i had no way to reset it since, you know, it was offline. a few years ago my modem went down, but i couldn’t access it either until i got home. i’ll be setting it up to just power cycle every few days while i’m gone to make sure the network stays up. i also have one as a fail safe on a personal heater so it automatically shuts off since the wife left it on overnight one time, and i’d prefer the house not burn down as i sleep. for amore permanent solutions, you can install the outlets, but they seem less reliable (at least the gen that i bought a few years ago).
Question for you… how can a wifi device (like these plugs) effectively be used in the use case you are mentioning (power cycling internet modem/router)? When you power them down, the devices won’t receive the return signal to power them back up.
You might need some old battery-powered “dumb” timers to accomplish what you need.
You can program them just like any old analog timer and they will continue to run that program until it receives instructions to do something else. So if you just program to power off at 3am every Tuesday, the plug saves that program and will run it so long as the plug itself has power.
I hope you’re right. However, if you click on the “one star reviews” on Amazon, you’ll see the second comment says these will specifically not work for this use case: “I ordered these units because I wanted to automate the cycling of my home internet by shutting down my modem and router once a week. The problem is They Do Not Work Without Internet. “
lamps
Fish tanks. I run the lights, heater, and co2 on timers.
Lots of lamps. People like to say it sounds lazy but it’s great being able to light up the downstairs via Alexa before stepping out of the bedroom. These also have a nifty vacation mode where they’ll randomly turn on and off through a set time to simulate people moving between rooms… much better than manual timers that turn on and off at the same time each day.
I’ve heard of people using them to schedule fans, dehumidifiers, etc.
You can also group them and turn on a dozen of them at once, all around the house.
4 pack is 21.99 as well.
https://www.amazon.com/Kasa-Smart-Required-Certified-EP10P4/dp/B091FXLMS8/
I’ll add that link, thanks
Homekit compatible version is 19.99
Is homekit just Apple’s version of Alexa?
Kind of.