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Got this deal a week and some change back, along with a separate two-pack to dip my toes into home automation. The TP-Link smart plugs will work in full concer
by vanadium 9y ago
Got this deal a week and some change back, along with a separate two-pack to dip my toes into home automation.
The TP-Link smart plugs will work in full concert only about 75% of the time; it's Home => Kasa, then an Alexa => Kasa integration.
"Ok Alexa, turn off/on the Living Room" gives me hilarious permutations of which of the three light up, are delayed, need to be asked again, etc. I've done enough wireless network testing locally to know it isn't network strength getting in the way.
It was a nice toe-dip and I'll probably keep messing with the idea of home automation...but I am really not impressed with the lack of responsiveness and consistency. Probably going to shift gears more to localized automation next without involving the cloud.
- dpeck 9y agoUgh, these things still aren't stateful enough to hit eventual consistency? Thats not much different than the X10 stuff I was playing with more than a decade ago. I had a few outdoor lights that controlled from a computer and serial adapter and just had to blast whatever command I wanted several times and hoped it worked.
- vanadium 9y agoMy wife nearly jettisoned the smart plugs after 5x attempting to get them all to turn on at once. Worse, sometimes a command will hang, leaving two lights on and the other one just randomly lights up a few minutes later. The eTekcity 1Tx/5Rx remote outlets running on (I'm pretty certain) 433.92Mhz that these TP-Link smart plugs replaced work every single time. (Going back to those is sounding better, now that I think about it.)