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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2019
I sincerely regret the heavy investment I made in these (Tp-Link/Kasa) devices.
I've bought a LOT of the wall switches, smart plugs (both with and without energy monitoring) and lightbulbs (both white and color).
I am so bloody sick and f****** tired of the steaming pile of dog poo AKA "Alexa".
Alexa NEVER works, is always going offline, showing the red ring of death while yapping that something is wrong.
And it's NOT my Wifi, I have THREE AeroHive AP250 mesh WAP's (very high power enterprise class device) covering a two story home of 1,200sqt per floor which is massive, massive overkill. So it's NOT my Wifi, at all. Anyway, Alexa is complete and utter GARBAGE and is 100% unreliable. The only thing you can be sure of with Alexa is that it never works.
I hate and despise Alexa with a raging passion like nothing ever before in all my 60 years on this rotten rock.
I'm just about two more “Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding right now. Please try a little later” blathering from taking a hammer to every freaking one of them in my house.
I am permanently disabled and wheelchair dependent, I got these things to assist me, supposedly to make my life a little better. They've done nothing of the kind.
A consequence of Alexa never working is that all these nifty Kasa devices don't work either, when I need them to!
Alexa is garbage. I'm so done with it. I'm now at the point where I need to abandon Alexa and my dependency upon it and replace it with Homekit/Siri. I keep my iPhone attached to me at all times, specifically for fall detection. Siri responds when I request it but it can not control the Kasa app or the Tp-Link devices in my home.
The other annoyance is that there is no "local control" ability at all. I tried hard to find some sort of like, wireless remote that will control things purely by local control, for like when Alexa isn't working, which is 1000 times a day!
I'm so bloody mad that I spent so much money on all this junk and it ends up being almost worthless to me.
I think maybe I'll sell it all and replace everything with bluetooth controlled switches so that it's never dependent upon a remote server or connecting to the outside world at all.
Let me be clear, my complaint is that these things are locked in to Alexa, Siri isn't allowed access and Alexa is extreme garbage. With Alexa always broken these devices don't work. OPEN THEM UP TO HOMEKIT/SIRI !!!!!!!1
I wish I could send it all back for a refund but it's waaaay past that time and I'm to deeply invested in it to just trash it without an immediate, drop in replacement system.
Bottom line, IF I had a way to do it all over again, I wouldn't even go down this path at all.
There must be better ways than this.
I've bought a LOT of the wall switches, smart plugs (both with and without energy monitoring) and lightbulbs (both white and color).
I am so bloody sick and f****** tired of the steaming pile of dog poo AKA "Alexa".
Alexa NEVER works, is always going offline, showing the red ring of death while yapping that something is wrong.
And it's NOT my Wifi, I have THREE AeroHive AP250 mesh WAP's (very high power enterprise class device) covering a two story home of 1,200sqt per floor which is massive, massive overkill. So it's NOT my Wifi, at all. Anyway, Alexa is complete and utter GARBAGE and is 100% unreliable. The only thing you can be sure of with Alexa is that it never works.
I hate and despise Alexa with a raging passion like nothing ever before in all my 60 years on this rotten rock.
I'm just about two more “Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding right now. Please try a little later” blathering from taking a hammer to every freaking one of them in my house.
I am permanently disabled and wheelchair dependent, I got these things to assist me, supposedly to make my life a little better. They've done nothing of the kind.
A consequence of Alexa never working is that all these nifty Kasa devices don't work either, when I need them to!
Alexa is garbage. I'm so done with it. I'm now at the point where I need to abandon Alexa and my dependency upon it and replace it with Homekit/Siri. I keep my iPhone attached to me at all times, specifically for fall detection. Siri responds when I request it but it can not control the Kasa app or the Tp-Link devices in my home.
The other annoyance is that there is no "local control" ability at all. I tried hard to find some sort of like, wireless remote that will control things purely by local control, for like when Alexa isn't working, which is 1000 times a day!
I'm so bloody mad that I spent so much money on all this junk and it ends up being almost worthless to me.
I think maybe I'll sell it all and replace everything with bluetooth controlled switches so that it's never dependent upon a remote server or connecting to the outside world at all.
Let me be clear, my complaint is that these things are locked in to Alexa, Siri isn't allowed access and Alexa is extreme garbage. With Alexa always broken these devices don't work. OPEN THEM UP TO HOMEKIT/SIRI !!!!!!!1
I wish I could send it all back for a refund but it's waaaay past that time and I'm to deeply invested in it to just trash it without an immediate, drop in replacement system.
Bottom line, IF I had a way to do it all over again, I wouldn't even go down this path at all.
There must be better ways than this.
