Features:

  • Control from anywhere. Plug in a WeMo Mini Smart Plug, download the free app, and control your lights and appliances from your phone and your voice through Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple Home Kit. Only needs Wi-Fi. No hub or subscription required
  • Compact size. WeMo Mini features a sleek new form-factor that allows you to stack two Mini Smart Plugs in the same outlet
  • Schedule automatically. Never come home to a dark house. Schedule the fan to turn on before you arrive. Sync lamps and devices to sunrise, sunset, or pre-set times automatically
  • Randomize Lights. The Mini Smart Plug protects your home better than a mechanical timer. “Away Mode” will turn your lights on and off randomly to make it look like you’re home even when you’re not
  • Voice control with Alexa, the Google Assistant and Apple Home Kit. Pair with voice built-in devices like Apple Home pod or Google Home and control your lights and appliances with your voice
  • WeMo works with Apple Home Kit automatically. Download the latest version of the WeMo App and follow the steps to connect your WeMo Mini connected devices to the Apple Home app.WiFi: 2.4GHz 801.11n
Great plug. Simple setup. Zero problems.

There are a lot of cheap smart plugs out there, but I went with this WeMo for two reasons: WeMo/Belkin has been around pretty much since the beginning of the smart home and isn't likely to go away, and they have a whole ecosystem of components that work together using the same app and support. I could save a few bucks, but I want to know everything is going to work together, and work for more than three months. I really like the form factor of this plug; allowing two plugs in a standard outlet is hugely helpful. That said, it would be great if they could manage to make it somewhat narrower - it takes up a lot of space in a surge protector if it has to be placed length-wise. (I would happily trade a little thickness for less width.) The look is sleek and minimal, and the on/off button is very convenient. One final reason I chose this one is because of the option of using a bridge to make it HomeKit (Apple/Siri) compatible. I'm currently using an Amazon Echo Dot, but the rest of my system is Apple-based and wanted the option to switch over to that platform if I choose to in the future.

Great buy!

The wemo plug has brought our laziness to a whole new level. We have two wemo plugs that connect with our 2 amazon echos (one full size and one dot). Both wemos control lamps that can’t get turned on and off by a light switch (and have a toggle on the plug). With the app, you are able to name the wemos anything you like to completely customize the experience. Ours are affectionately names Beatrix and Clarence just for giggles. We have had both wemos for over a year and they are still looking and working as well as the day we got them. There are occasional connection problems between the wemo and the echo but they usually resolve within a few hours with no intervention. When that happens, there’s a button to press on the wemo to turn it on or off manually. I am looking to purchase more wemos in the near future for other rooms.

So far, so good. Out of the box setup was a little buggy.

So far, so good. Out of the box setup was a little buggy. You are supposed to plug it in to any plug (I suggest you plug it in somewhere easy to get to while you are doing setup) - and when the light flashes white and amber - go to your cellphone, connect to its private wifi network - then load and run the app on your phone - which connects and steps you through setup - which is very brief (name the switch and connect to wifi). I set up two of these. The first one hung twice trying to get it to connect - after some unplugging and re-plugging - and starting/restarting the app I finally got it to connect - entered my wifi info and we were away. It then did a firmware update for a couple of minutes and now seems to work like a champ. The second one seemed to realize that I already entered my wifi criteria and skipped that step - nice touch. I bought one of these to set a more complex timer for a collection of old cellphones I have on chargers. I only want them to charge 3 days a week, on off peak hours. It was easy to setup that schedule, and it seems to be working well so far. I will update this review if anything changes over time. NOTE: These seem to work fine when away from the house as well - you don't have to have your phone on the same wifi network to use them. UPDATE [26 March 2017] - Just added a third and switch to the house - and what a royal hassle - but still worth it for me in the end. Must have had to close/reopen the app and plug/unplug this thing more than 5 times before the setup stuck. I think it was working itself through multiple Firmware updates - perhaps why it was more bumpy this time around. I ended up annoyed - and walked away to do other things for perhaps 30-60 minutes. It seems to have sorted itself out in that time. Another oddity - with 3 switches on my home network now - sometimes one or two of them won't come up as available when my phone is on our local wifi - but then suddenly do become available if turn off wifi, run over cellular and refresh. YMMV Despite the somewhat poor / unstable implementation, I am essentially using these as advanced timer/switches - and they seem to work flawlessly for this. In a pinch you can USUALLY connect to them from afar to manually turn things on and off - but if this feature is critical to you, be warned - these are a little flaky. FINAL UPDATE [27 May 2017] - We just upgraded to a Mesh wifi router system - and now all of my switches show up on wifi and when away. Our older router + access point was apparently part of the problem.

Smart buy for a smart home

These dropped to $20 on Black Friday, so I figured I'd give them a try and bought two. I'm so glad I did and actually wish I had bought more! I have a Google Home Mini and a Chromecast, but my TV is so old that it's not only not "smart," but it doesn't even CEC, so I can't use my Chromecast to turn it on and off. I plugged the TV into one of these smart plugs, and now I can turn it on and off with my voice through Home and from anywhere with the app. I used the other plug to make a lamp turn on at sunset at off at 11:30 pm. I turn all my lights off when I leave for work in the morning, so my pets end up hanging out in the dark for a while this time of year and I walk into a dark home when I get back from work. Not anymore! The plugs were easy to set up and the app is really easy to use. I linked it to my Nest, so I can use Nest's home/away functionality to control the plugs if I want. I have relatively new LED bulbs throughout my house, so I'm reluctant to replace them with smart bulbs. These plugs allow me to accomplish a lot of what I'd get from smart bulbs for my lamps, which is good enough for me. ALSO, the fact that this doesn't block the other plug in the outlet is pretty awesome.

Great device and for the cost, best value I can find that works reliably in SmartThings/Google Home.

Just wanted a few more smart outlets so I could automate some more IoT things for my smarthome (smartthings Hub). These worked great for the cost. Added them easy in the WeMo app, they got picked up immediately by the smartthing connect and WeMo connection, and was able to code them. Only issue I had, was integration with Google Home. It wasn't a fault or issue but be mindful of what you name your devices as it carries through those systems for integration. Like I called a plus in WeMo "Bedroom Heater", but later moved it to another plug in the house. I only renamed it in the SmartThings app, but Google Home was seeing it with both its Smartthings Nickname/rename, but it still recognized its wemo name !! Took me 3-4 days to figure that it wasn't a caching issue and google wasn't keeping old values. Just a piece of advice - call this a generic acronym in WeMo, and then in ST or another hub, call it its nickname there so it doens't get compounded by a 3rd party system downhill like Google Home or Alexa.

These work well with HomeKit after the firmware upgrade.

I had asked the question as to whether or not this device will operate simultaneously with both Alexa and HomeKit. The answer I got was yes and it was true (I think) what I wasn’t told was that in order to work with Homekit it was necessary to update the firmware. Not really a big deal but if you’re installing eight of them it does take some time. With that said, I did get all the devices to show up in the Homekit app (although one stubborn unit took a total restart to do so) and I can operate through both the Homekit and Wemo apps. I have not yet had the chance to work our automation on HomeKit nor the chance to blend them into Alexa (I’m trying to make this really easy for someone else) but my first impressions are - It’s a fairly simple setup once you get the first one It does what it should. Check back for an update on the grouping, voice automation (a single device at a time has worked as hoped) and finally voice control on two separate OS’s, HomeKit and Alexa. Probably a weekend adventure. An add on update. I set up two scenes through HomeKit (very simple to do btw) and both worked with either the phone scene tab on the app and with Siri. With that said and as I have read elsewhere, three devices dropped from the network and had to be found again. For the mathematically inclined, that’s nearly a forty percent drop rate on the second day. I’ll attribute that for now to the new programming but am not encouraged that issues have showed up so quickly. Final edition- have had the plugs three weeks now. Working flawlessly and will buy a few more (running eight now) based on my experience. Please note that I have only run them with HomeKit but I would expect the same results from Alexa. Final final edition. I have added two more of these to my network to now total ten. My caveat remains that set up and integration into HomeKit can still be frustrating but.... I didn’t need a hub and the HomeKit scenes I have set up have performed without fail. Just remember you need to update the firmware to make it work. Once brought into the HomeKit network, it works with my tv remote, my phone, my Mac laptop.....you get the picture. My wife loves coming home this time of year and turning on lights all around the house with only asking for it. Nice feature to have. You cannot dim lamps (yet?) but on and off based on the scene you define is all we really wanted. I’ve upgraded my rating to a five in spite of the sometimes setup failure.

Love the Wemo Minis

We love our Echo. It is amazing all of the useful things that she now does for us. These plugs are an added benefit to help Alexa do more. I had absolutely no problem getting everything in sync within the Alexa app. Have your tablet pick up the plug on your wifi. Open your settings and find it in your wifi selections. Press connect and it is now connected to your wifi. Discover it in your Wemo app and then do the same in Alexa. Give each one a name that is easy to remember. I love the minis small size. It doesn't block the second outlet. I have 4 and am now adding a 5th. I have so far named them "Alexa" turn on my light, couch light, TV and bedroom light. It couldn't be easier. The only thing that was confusing at first was if the electricity goes out, you must physically turn the light on once for Alexa to take over again. Not sure if there would be any fix for this? Planning on adding pieces to our system a little at a time. I would like to add a couple of the wall switches next.

Excellent Product, "Quality"

I have purchased several of these smart plugs and they are all working nicely. From the time you plug them in to connecting to the internet takes about five minutes. The phone app. is very good and easy to navigate. I like being able to give each of the devices a name. I will be using these to control a dehumidifier and fans at our home in Florida while I am back in Michigan. I really like the quality of this switch. It is UL certified which is very important to me. The build quality is very good. The switch is very responsive to the phone app. I have used a Wink hub for control of Leviton switches in Michigan and have never been very happy with the performance. They have a long delay and may go off line for no reason. I will be replacing that setup with these soon. Packaging in good and instructions are well written and easy to follow.

i am lazy

Instead of getting an expensive coffee pot with a timer, or a Wemo enabled coffee pot, I bought one of these and a $15 Mr. Coffee pot, set it to my Alexa morning routine, and it works great. You need to use a coffee pot that has a toggle switch so it's always "on" and no matter how often I ask, Alexa will still not load the water or grind the beans. Or throw away the filters or clean the machine. Wow, making coffee is a lot of work, it's tiring me out just thinking about it. I think I need a cup of coffee.

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