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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.

Having to wait for ads makes it take forever to load the app. Advertised as works with Alexa but you have to download a different app that can never find the plugs…

Not only does it not capture all footage even on high but with an sd card it still wants you to subscribe to view footage then once you give up and subscribe all the videos are suddenly “unavailable” you can view the thumbnail photo of the video but can’t play them. It absolutely useless

I have the S25 smart plug. It turns on and the app recognizes it but it says “the app does not support this plug, please forget this device”. Say what??? You for real? Went to my Amazon purchases and the product link is now gone? Scam!

I don’t like how it constantly closes itself and forces me to restart it. It makes you look at an ad and takes like 20 seconds to actually get to the controls, and if you click the first light button instead of the big second one inside the menu the app just freezes, forcing you to close, reopen, and again wait/look at another ad.