Wyze Plug, 2.4GHz WiFi Smart Plug, Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT, No Hub Required, Four-Pack, White

I bought some Leviton smart outlet plugs and bought these as well. I used these during the Christmas season. Wreathes, Trees, Christmas Villages, Garland, etc. Integrate well with Alexa. Alexa: Turn on Christmas lights. The Wyze app works well to turn them all on/off at once or individually (by name.) Of course Alexa will do that too. But-what I noticed was a wifi reliability issue. One or more plug would drop or lose wifi connectivity. What a pain. Lights would stay on when they were scheduled to turn off. Or they wouldnt turn on. I would have to reprogram them. Just a headache. Not sure if there will be a firmware update to address these issues. That would be great. As far as recommending these plugs - Ill say this, dont expect a perfect, trouble-free relationship. Just know that going in.

I love these smart plugs to control my lamps and other electric items in my house, inside and outside.

The hardware functions fine. The app is garbage. Even with a good signal the software is unreliable. I have this controlling a light bar. Most of the time it operates correctly, but sometimes I will tap it to turn off in the app and it shows that it did, but the light is still on. The only fix is to unplug everything and force stop the app in app settings and plug it all in again. It does this often enough to be a problem. Their camera is even worse. Dont use wyze, there are better companies out there.

Wyze came with a bang initially with camera but its expansion with products mushrooming has left it with poor quality. Well one of the smart plugs we purchased has stopped working after few months. Spoke with their support staff and they are clueless. We bought camera in 2019 and now they upgraded their firmware or whatever now the camera doesn’t recognize the wifi- After speaking with support staff , they provided a link where one gives authorization for a third party to access your account and try to gain information in why / whats going wrong however, if you agree this third party can have access to other information on your account or phone and that is why we decided not to proceed. I think Wyze needs to not mislead customers and think we have had enough of the Wyze’s products unless they change their mission/ vision. That being said- shop around - their are many more and better products on Amazon unfortunately some are very friendly initially but as their products/ business get popular their quality goes down.

Initially the plug was connected to my dual band 2.4 and 5 ghz mesh wifi. The mesh I thought was to manage any devices that connected at 2.4 ghz. Randomly, any of my Wyze devices would lose connection. Once I configured a guest network 2.4 ghz only and connected the cams and plugs to connect to the 2.4ghz network all is stable.

These Wyze plugs are unreliable rubbish. Dont waste your time. When you actually use them to turn on and off a light, within a week or less of use turning on a small table lamp with an LED bulb, I have had all 4 plugs fail that I purchased. That is an amazing 100% failure rate within 1 week! One of the 4 plugs could never update the firmware and never operated. The other 3 initialized and worked great for a few days. Here is the failure pattern, after they appear to work great on day 1: First there is latency in the plug turning on/off when controlled with the app. Then it sometimes would not respond at all to the on/off control of the app. Then the plug lost its ability to connect to the network. (Mind you, the network never moved and it was fine when the plug was set up and operated for a few days.) After it lost the ability to connect, it tried for hours to connect to the network, blinking a blue light. The device then got warm. This failure process could happen within 24 hours, or within a few days. No power on/off or factory resets or anything revived it. Wyze tech support had no useful information. Lets face it - who needs a plug with this bad of reliability? You need these things to work reliable when you are not home babysitting/plugsitting them! Wyze has clearly put in very low-cost communications circuitry that fails. In contrast, we have 7 Wyze cameras that are working *so far*. They are outside and are connected to the identical network that the plugs could not connect to, even they are much farther away. Wyze must put very cheap circuitry in their plugs and better circuitry in their cams. I was going to buy their switch, but I fear that they have the same terrible technology as the plug. We also own some WEMO plugs. They perform far better, and we will go back to that manufacturer. The WEMO software is awful, but at least the hardware works. The Wyze hardware has a stunning failure rate.

It wont work with the core 300 it powers on but core 300 wont resume .

These Wyse plugs work well with Alexa. 2.4GHz… they will NOT work on 5GHz WiFi. And now that I think about it, I will probably get more and plug my Wyse cameras v3 into them. (The cameras have acted inconsistent lately and the only sure way to power them off is to unplug them.) Update: Plugging the Wyse cameras v3 into the Wyse plugs, then putting the camera plugs into an Alexa device group completely simplified the camera! You turn the cameras on, and the plug. Then just shut off the plug(s). When you turn the plug(s) back on the camera resumes the state it was last at (on). So now when I leave the house… It’s “Alexa… turn on Cameras.” And click… click… the Alexa plug group turns on, and all the cameras resume. When I get back I shut the Alexa plug group off from my phone before I enter the house. Much better than using the Wyse App and the damn cameras misbehaving with their last update while you’re home.

Update to my original review - upgraded from 1 to 3 stars. Some of the recent firmware updates have improved the reliability of these smart plugs. I now have a total of 6 Wyze plugs. Been unable to purchase the Eufy ones that work well. Only had to reset / re-pair 2 of them in the last 3 months. Maybe by the end of the year, they wont be such a hassle to use. Still wont use them in hard to reach scenarios. ------------------------------------ We are a Wyze household and have been for many years. A lot of Wyze Cam V2, all of the V2 sensor addons, V3 cameras, Pan Camera, Robot Vaccuums. I basically needed to have a different WiFi network for all these devices. I purchased 4 Wyze Smart Plugs. They all setup easily and worked fine out of the box. Paired with the app and Alexa integration works. They operated as advertised. I was careful to make sure that I am not using them to connect any high wattage devices. Why the 1 star? These smart plugs lose their configuration regularly and randomly. All 4 smart plus have lost their configuration randomly over the last couple of months. Each time this happens and the most inopportune time (and you only know when something has failed to trigger or you may notice this on the Wyze app that the device is disconnected), you need to basically remove the device and do the setup thing all over again. 4 devices / 10 re-setups in less than 3 months. Pretty much makes these unusable. Coincidentally, I also have 6 Eufy and 4 TP-Link smart plugs on the same network connected during this time. The Eufy smart plugs were setup I think 3 years ago, the TP-Link ones over 2.5 years ago. Never had to do anything for those after initial setup. The Wyze smart plugs were kept updated (firmware wise) and had less electrical load than the other brands. I couldnt recommend these Wyze smart plugs given their finicky / random loss of configuration. Technically they work when the hold their configuration, but what if I installed these to control devices that were inconvenient to get to? What if I actually needed them to actually work over a long period of time?

Love these things. Added a bunch to my smart home network and they work perfectly. Sometimes they can be hard to pair up but thats usually app related. Once paired up, they work excellently with both Google Home and Alexa. On/off functionality is awesome to have around the house for lights and devices. Get you some!