KMC Smart Tap 2-Pack, 4-Outlet Smart Plug WiFi Outlet Wall Tap, Energy Monitoring, Works with Alexa and Google Home, Remote Control Your Devices from Anywhere, No Hub Required, ETL Certified, White

These work but could be better

Both units flashed with ESPHome first try using OTA tuya_Convert, now they are integrated into Home Assistant.

I just received a 2-pack of this KMC Smart Plug yesterday. The setup was a breeze. One of the units I received was Dead On Arrival. It had a malfunctioning socket, but I will be getting a replacement after a quick 5 minute chat with Amazon. Here are the pros and cons of the units after my one day use. I will update this review when theres anything Id like to add. Pros: 1. Easy and polished Android app called Smart Life by Tuya Inc. making it super easy to setup.(I havent tested the iOS app) I found it easier to setup than setting up the Amazon Echo via the Alexa app. 2. Cheap. It will pay for itself after just a few months. For example, I have a smart vacuum that drains 13 watts/hour 24/7. It would save me $20 in 6 months if I program it to only charge the vacuum one day a week. Ill be playing with this functionality with my other vampire power devices in the house such as my WIFI-enabled laser printer(idles at 9 watts/hour), analog oven(idles at 15 watt/hour!!), XBox, smart TVs, etc. 3. Gives you easy control to areas that are hard to access. Now I can just pull out my phone to control via the app or say Alexa, turn on/off my TV backdrop light instead of crawling to the back of my TV. 4. Alexa, Google, IFTTT integration is so dang cool! Cons: 1. The instructions manual DESPERATELY needs an update. It tells you to should download a banned app called KMC Smart. It was banned because it had services that ran in the background of your phone that shouldnt have been running. The one you should download is called Smart Life. The seller really needs to update the manuals as this is a very critical step. 2. Sockets are too close to each other. 2mm more padding space would be more ideal for most plugs. 3. Sockets stay off after power outage. The statement on the product description is not true: After a power outage, outlets will retain their most recent setting to save energy. I hope the smart plug will get a firmware update to address this issue.

These are awesome. I do not use Alexa but they work great with Google. I love them for all my indoors Christmas lights. I added them as a group in my Google Home app and can turn all on and off with one voice command.

Our homes bedrooms have no overhead lighting, just switch controlled outlets for lamps. I use this module in a bedroom that I use for an office. It controls a side-table lamp, a floor lamp, and a pedestal fan. With Alexa compatibility, I can control each individually, as Adams Floor Lamp, Adams Fan, or Adams Lamp, or I can shut off everything, as a group called Adams Room. Its very handy to have that all on one outlet.

Looks like a good quality product and working good

if you have linux around and want to flash this with better firmware, search on tasmota and tuya-convert. worst case, you open this unit and connect an ftdi serial cable and flash tasmota yourself, but doing the OTA trick sure is cool and almost fun ;) once you get open firmware on it, its WAY better. I have many of these at home and they all run the same firmware and can be remotely controlled with simple curl commands, fully scriptable, no need for gui or phone-home-china stuff. dump the factory firmware and never look back. these have the extra feature of power-mgmt (you can read voltage and current and power, for the whole unit, not on a per-port basis, sadly). see the config screen image for what the pin mapping is, for this module. each tuya module by each vendor is wired differently; so you have to search the model to know what each pin on the ESP chip does. I did that work for you, so just use this and be happy ;) again, its going to be a bit of effort to learn and read all you need to, to flash tasmota. to get this unit into program mode, you power it up then quickly hit the single power button and hold it for a long time until it flashes differently. I think it took over 10 or 20 seconds. keep pressing until it starts to blink. THEN run the tuya convert util on your linux laptop or rasp pi, DO FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS and DO use your phone to connect to the ssid that the linux util says to. just connect to it like its a wifi portal and keep your phone on that. THEN proceed to flash tasmota from linux to the kmc4 unit. its complicated but worth it and once you do one, youll do the next one a lot faster and easier.

These replaced some smart power strips that were essential to my home automation routines. Unfortunately, those crapped out after a couple years or so. Hopefully these will last longer. I much prefer that these live on the wall, plugged directly into outlet, whereas the others sat on the floor — but there are definitely advantages to the power strip type. I also like that one outlet is always on for devices that I don’t ever need/want to automate. Best of all, while my old ones made an obnoxious buzzing/whining sound, these are much quieter. (I think the old ones were quiet initially, so time will tell how these hold up in that regard.) For the price, these are tough to beat.

Needed a timer for the Christmas lights that was easy to use & accessible through an app. So far it has worked great! It was easy to install. Would recommend !

The switch works great. It is easy to set up with the app. Dont really need it but the app also records usage. I like that one outlet is constant on.