So I was looking around for some plugs to work with Alexa, and came across these, this starter pack on Amazon is £69.99. On BT shop there is £3.49 delivery.
10 comments
OVERTHEHILL
1 Sep 17#10
Bought these from BT Shop. Excellent quick free delivery. No problems setting up. Early days for reliability.
dragon2611
29 Aug 17#9
I have a lightwaveRF system and same problem no feedback to tell the hub if the command works, also recently one of my sockets has been rather temperamental at responding to the off command, that's now 3 out of 6 that have gone bad so I wouldn't recommend those either. - amazon.co.uk/Lig…ket are the ones I had.
Seems quite hard to find some decent quality ones that don't cost a fortune.
e4kenndr
28 Aug 17#8
Also bought a set of these when this price last year - wouldn't recommend either - the hub is actually just an rf transmitter - it's not great and doesn't always reach like wifi would.
The app also cant tell if something is on/off - it just sends the "on signal" and assumes it worked.
Slow, clanky, - would wait for wemo to or something without a hub to come on offer and get those instead
nmdzhs
27 Aug 17#7
I use tplink they r very good
Azzin
27 Aug 17#6
FWIW, I got this deal from the BT site quite recently. So far so good and they work well with Alexa.
sbellseb
27 Aug 17#5
I have these. Really unreliable. I wouldn't recommend them. Spent a fair bit on building up the collection, wish I chose a different brand.
markdavey1972
27 Aug 17#2
I wouldn't buy these again. Go for the TPLink plugs instead, way more reliable. Good price though.
col11 to markdavey1972
27 Aug 17#3
New to this stuff does the tp link need a gateway thing or is Alexa direct to the socket?
akajay07 to col11
27 Aug 17#4
No hub needed. Alexa controls the socket directly after some setting up on the app.
Bindim_83
27 Aug 17#1
Good find op. Postage is free if you choose standard and you get a three day window when it will arrive.
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Seems quite hard to find some decent quality ones that don't cost a fortune.
The app also cant tell if something is on/off - it just sends the "on signal" and assumes it worked.
Slow, clanky, - would wait for wemo to or something without a hub to come on offer and get those instead
So far so good and they work well with Alexa.