BroadLink Wi-Fi Smart Remote Hub with Sensor Cable, IR RF All in One Automation Learning Universal Remote Control, With a Mini Smart Plug, Compatible with Alexa, Google Home, IFTTT （RM4proS+SP4M)

Really useful for controlling non-smart devices. I use it for my soundbar, TV, HDMI switch, etc. The RF control is also a huge plus; I have a plug controlled by an RF remote, and within a couple minutes, I could control it with my phone, effectively making it a smart plug. I was also surprised how well it worked at different angles; it still managed to control my TV despite being on the opposite side of the IR sensor and being partially blocked by the soundbar. Had to take off a star for the app forcing you to use an account, even just getting the device to connect to WiFi for local control. I use Home Assistant to control this, and according to the guide for the HA Broadlink integration, you have to quit the app when it asks you to assign it to a room, as doing so will disable local control. This is very counter-intuitive for people who just want to use the device locally. Although I didnt have an issue connecting this to a dual-band router as others have, it is a bit odd that Broadlink chose not to support 5GHz, since the standard has been around for over a decade. However, for those that are having trouble, here are a couple tips: - You can probably disable 5GHz on your router temporarily. On many brands, you can do this by changing WiFi mode from 802.11b/g/n/ac to 802.11b/g (or b/g/n) or something similar. - As long as your network also supports 2.4GHz, you can always go old-tech and just move out of range of the 5GHz signal.

This device is great to automate devices in your home using Homekit (with the Homebridge plugin). The BroadLink app is still needed to initially connect the device. For me BroadLinks support was great, I recently had to contact support when I couldnt find the app in the Apple App store, they quickly responded and fixed the issue.

We decorate the house for Christmas. Over the years, we have collected a number of remotes to turn Christmas Lights on or off. It is inconvenient to go through several different remotes and that is if we can find them. This device learned all the remotes - especially the RF ones. Then added the skill to Alexa who immediately discovered all the programmed devices. We created a skill so now when we say “Alexa Merry Christmas”, it plays jingle bells and turns on all the Christmas lights. Then if we forget, they are automatically turned off at midnight.

This device does a good job controlling each of our three motorized roller shades. You can also set up a group so it controls all your shades at the same time. Our motorized shade has a customizable mid position feature which is triggered when holding down the stop button on the remote; unfortunately I could not figure out how this Wi-Fi device is activated as a hold button.

I have both a harmony hub with a remote and this broadlink rm4 pro i just got today. Set up was easy on my iPhone however it was a nightmare on my Galaxy S7 (and im an android person) i kept getting errors as well being told it wouldnt work on my network. Had i not tried it on the Iphone i probably would have filed a return. Now for the actual product, its very small, easy to hide. The harmony hub is leaps ahead in terms of ease of use and UI. The only benefit this one has , is it includes a universal RF controller which ive gotten to work great with my lights and other RF devices that the harmony would not do. In my opinion one is not a replacement for the other, however harmony was a lot easier for me to setup. Over all though the device works, and i couldnt find anything else that offers this. Hopefully the android issue was just something i experienced.

The only reason Im not giving this product a 5* review is that they are misleading with how it works with Alexa, and that it has really a weird learning curve. Other than that I LOVE this thing! Ill try to teach you what Ive learned so that, hopefully, you can love this device as much as I do. Firstly, if the item is in the database, and you add it in via the database, then it will become a scene immediately. It has to be a scene to connect to Alexa. Also, dont forget you need to add broadlink as a skill in your alexa app as well. If its not an item in the database then you can add it as a user define. I prefer to add items as a user define, Ive found that it works better for me in the ifttt and alexa apps. If it is a user define you must make a scene for each individual button you add IF you want that button to have voice control. Lets say my fan remote has 3 buttons: power, oscillate, and speed. I wanted to be able to tell my fan to turn on and oscillate, but I dont care about controlling the speed of the fan with my voice. I would only make two scenes: one to turn on the fan, and one to make it oscillate. I could still control the speed via the broadlink app or the remote itself, but I wouldnt be able to voice control it. Lets learn about voice control, since its a little weird too. You can only turn scenes on in Alexa. Meaning I cant say turn off fan you have to say turn on fan off. As a side note, all this device can do is emulate the buttons on your remote so technically you should just say, Turn on fan to get it to turn off, since most power buttons turn the device on and off. Controlling devices vocally through scenes themselves is hard and extremely confusing. So make it a TON easier on yourself by using alexa routines. Routines are life. I have 3 different devices with three different remotes that I have to use every time I want to watch TV or play video games. Instead of having to fumble remotes I can say three words to Alexa and she will turn my TV on, my soundbar on, and the TV switched to the correct aux device almost immediately (pics of what some of my routines look like). It operates from top to bottom, so first it turns on my TV, then my sound bars, then switches to the auxiliary cord my nintendo switch or fire stick is plugged into (depending on which routine I trigger). Most of my routines are voice activated but they can be activated by time, action, location etc. My smart home, and remote count, is drastically improved by this affordable device.

It works perfectly for an IR Blaster that is connected to Home Assistant. My recommendation is to not have it connected to the internet.

Android setup failed as shown in the attached picture. Iphone setup worked fine. 5 stars if the android setup worked. The cloud based sharing of configurations worked well, the android phone picked up what the iphone setup. I used it to replace an RF fireplace remote. I discovered that the fireplace remote actually sends 2 commands with each button press, for example: set flame to 2 and set fan to 4. This required programming a button for each combination to be controlled. Not a problem as thats just how the remote worked.

I bought this mainly to control my LG AC wall unit and Fan, the installation was quite difficult but was able to complete. I have several smart devices through out my home, from smart bulbs, smart locks to security cameras so this was not my first time setting up a device and wanted it to work with Google Home. I am able to link it to Google and it even appears on the app but that is all, it just wont work. I even tried linking to IFTTT and the same. It can turn off and on the AC unit through the app with no problem ,but I bought it to work with voice command.

I returned mine because I was missing my return window with Amazon... its not there yet. I had issues with my smart shades after the Shade Store decided to remove the app from the Play Store for their first gen hubs. I was able to control the shades and it automatically discovered up or raising of the shades but not lowering them. Another issue I had was with my X-finity receiver. It discovered the receiver correctly (you have multiple templates to choose from) and I chose the one that had everything including the channel numbers but were greyed out. The channel numbers which were grayed out indicating that they may or may not work and recommendation is to manually add them. The funny thing is, manual adding failed for the greyed out channel numbers worked perfectly! I could not use the greyed out numbers through Alexa etc.