TECKIN

This is by far the worst app I use. Very slow to load, and then there’s a large ad covering my devices. I have to carefully click on ‘Go to app’ in tiny letters, which is tricky with my aging eyes. So annoying that I am considering getting a different brand of smart plugs just to avoid having to use this app.

This app has basically become a giant ad platform with a tiny sliver that you have to press to use your IOT devices.

Need to get rid of the ads.

Ever since the app updated, I can no longer rewind the feed on my cameras with SD cards. That is the whole purpose of having my cameras and installing the SD cards. Now they are useless. I would like that option brought back

To turn on your light you need an account, share location services, know your WiFi info by heart, cross 2 bridges with a troll under each, and then climb a mountain to reach a remote mailbox where you can mail a letter to request that the light turn on. This is the worst experience ever.

The light bulb works well, and I do like having the ability to turn it on and off from a distance, however, this app does have a lot of very apparent shortcomings. Firstly, it takes incredibly long to load for no apparent reason. If I’m trying to turn on my light to walk across my room and place a few things down, it’d be easier to just use my flashlight than wait for thirty seconds to connect to the singular light I have Secondly, and maybe most importantly, there are advertisements built into the app, forcing me to look at products that I don’t even want every time I decide to turn on my light. This is scummy, annoying, and far from ideal, especially when using a product that you paid for. Thirdly, the button displaying whether or not the light is turned on is often bugged, showing it in the opposite state. This is more of a minor nitpick than anything, but still. Finally, it seems that, for some reason, the speed of the automatic color changing options are tied to the brightness and saturation sliders as well as the speed slider, making darker tones cycle much faster. I rarely use this option so, again, this is a very small issue, but I thought it was worth mentioning. I’m not sure if there are better alternatives, since I was given this as a gift and don’t actually know this market well, but I’d encourage those on the fence to check.

And all the bugs that came along with them. I never would have bought these smart plugs if I knew they were going to start forcing me to watch ads to turn them on and off. Inferior product and deceptive practices, nice one-two punch.

0 Stars. No decent company demands your geographic location just so you can use a smart plug. Trash spyware.

This app now has pop-up ads that I have to close anytime I need to open it to manually turn on my lights. Who would have thought that a functional app would have the gall to force ads on you to turn on a light?? There’s also a 30 second delay after turning anything on/off where the app is frozen with a loading wheel. Avoid this company at all costs!

This app is in desperate need of an update. I use this app to turn on lights when I am not home. When I go into the app and tap the on/off tab, it displays a wheel that constantly spins. This prevents me from using the on/off tabs of other lights. I have to exit the app and then reload the app. Just a waste of time and frustrating.