Kasa Smart Plug Mini, Smart Home Wi-Fi Outlet Works with Alexa & Google Home, Wi-Fi Simple Setup, No Hub Required – A Certified for Humans Device (HS105)

I got one last Christmas and never used it, but this year I thought about buying smart bulbs for the electric candles in the windows and they were too expensive. Then I saw the one I got last year and plugged it in and set up the timer on my iPhone and it worked perfectly. So I bought one for each window on both floors of the house. Now we dont have to go up and down to turn them off each night. I also just bought 4 more for our oldest son and they love them as well.

Great value for this product! Easy to set up, works with Alexa and the app very well! Will be buying more

This is an excellent product that enabled us to install rope lighting throughout the pool patio. I was able to integrate with my network and Homebridge and can now use with Siri. The app that comes with the product is also very good, enabling schedules for each day to turn on and turn off as needed. Very small and fits in the receptacle, even with an outdoor cover around it.

I keep getting more and more of these. I use them all over my house. I use the app on my phone and Amazon Alexa to turn them on and off or schedule routines. Good quality and great price. Can’t beat them.

This item works very well. We have Lutron Caseta devices throughout the house, but their dimmers and devices are wonky with LED lights sometimes. The on-off binary nature of this TP Link device makes these devices better for things light string lights and some table lamps that use low power. Setup is easy. The only recommendation is to skip reading the paper instructions with the package and setup the device through the Alexa app right out of the box.

Ive used these switches all over my home for the lights I have the plug directly into the wall. Being able to tell Alexa to turn those lights on is lovely, especially when you are lazy after a hard day haha. I have used these switches around my home for over a year now, and have not had a problem with any of them. They are easy to setup, and simply forget about. Which I absolutely love. The Kasa app allows you to control what ever is connected to this switch from anywhere you have an internet connection. The app is intuitive and simple. Personally I think these are the best Alexa outlets on the market.

These smart plugs have some useful features thru its app, such as Scenes & Timers. It is compatible with Alexa. I can set an aromatherapy Scene to turn on all oil diffusers. Using the Timer feature, I can then set the diffusers to auto-shutoff in 2 hours any time its been used. I can use Scenes or Timers to have lamps turn on at a specific time on certain days, or everyday at sunset, then shut off at sunrise or what not. They do jut out from the wall quite a bit (almost 2 inches), but you are able to use 2 of these onto a regular 2-plug outlet with no space issues. If you use them on a surge protector/strip or on an outlet with regular cords plugged in next to it, this can get in the way, depending on the surrounding cords bulk. Most regular 2-prong cords (lamps etc) will fit next to an outlet with this plugged in, some will be a tight squeeze next to each other. (Air fresheners & 3-prong cords will definitely not fit next to this.) These dont work with devices that have an auto-shutoff or timed-shutoff safety feature, but that is more of an issue with those devices and not this smart plug. For instance, my bed warmer & light-therapy lamp wont work with any smart plug. Think of it this way: if your device is powered on & you have a power outage, does your device kick back on automatically when power is restored (like lights do)? If not, then it wont work with ANY smart plug. These smart plugs do NOT offer any other special features such as energy-use monitoring, parental controls, etc. It merely turns an existing outlet into a wifi-enabled smart outlet without having to do any electrical wiring. Alexa will, however, be able to give you energy use estimates thru its own app, but that is an Alexa feature, not the smart plugs. The only issue I had with these is that Alexa mistakenly sees them as a light source even though I have it set up to NOT be listed as a light source. For instance, I use these on an oil diffuser and a desk fan. When I tell Alexa to turn on the lights, it turns on the diffuser and fan as well. I then have to tell Alexa to turn off the diffuser and fan individually from there. But this is more of an issue on Alexas end, not the smart plug. Overall, Ive bought several of these and it works great for what I need, plus theyre very affordable!

The plug does what it does. The reason for the low rating it the app you are required to download and install. In order to get anything to work, even with alexa, you HAVE to create an online account with the Kava app and the EULA says they can basically sell all your data. There is no reason at all for the online account once you have it connected to alexa. After you set it up and connect it to Alexa you can delete the app or sandbox it on the phone so it cant do any more damage to your privacy. For some reason it requires location access to get to the WiFi. BE WARE: If you have a firewall app installed, be sure to turn it off while you configure the plug. it needs to switch wifi networks to get to the plug.

The product works but is probably a little bigger than it really needs to be and makes a rather audible click when changing from on to off. Greatest complaint is probably the software which for most will probably be a set and forget if your connecting it to a hub. The software looks nice but experiences tons of extremely frustrating bugs. I have 3 and 1 set up perfectly with no issues took like 30 seconds the next two though... they each took 5 to 10 minutes of just closing the app and running through the entire process again until it just magically worked.

I bought this back in December so I could use our Google Home to turn on our Christmas tree by voice command. It was really easy to connect to our Google home and it works great! I now have our living room lamp plugged into it, and the app makes it super easy to change the name of what I want to call it.