Yo link stuff just works, who knew i needed this

I have a complete YoLink system. This switch works great and really like all the YoLink products.

These work and are reliable. YoLink is a reliable hub with easy to use devices like this one.

The unit worked as advertised - it allowed remote activation of a ventilation fan. But it only worked once. It then just went dead. Yo Link has not responded to my inquiries.

I originally loved this power strip. I set it up in my barn, which is about 1000 feet from my home. It made a great connection with the hub and worked great. Unfortunately yesterday it stopped working. Im not sure if something shorted out inside, or what the problem is. It will not light up and will not power anything plugged into it. I double checked the power source and confirmed it is receiving power. I am updating my review after having a great experience with the customer service department for Yo link products. I was provided with a new outdoor plug (free of charge) which has been working without any problems for about a week now. The plug is exactly what I needed and truly works at a great distance. The five star rating is for fantastic customer service, standing by their product and a pretty amazing long distance WiFi plug. I will hope for this switch to last for several years. I will update this review again at a later date.

It wont return to previous power state after a loss of power despite being programmed to do do. Manually it works fine. Returning .....

Works great. You can control the outlets from anywhere.

YoLink is one of the best engineered platforms on the market. Existing outdoor outlets are usually duel. Because their flat plug goes straight down, two of their units will not fit. This is easily solved with a flat plug that is offset 30 degrees so it does not hit the plug under it. Engineers should be forced to use their own product!

Functionally, the YoLink Smart Outdoor Plug timer is another welcome addition to the YoLink enterprise of IOT. Designed for outside use and outside plugs, it has a short length of cabling to plug it into a protected outside outlet, allowing it to dangle below the outlet and close the outdoor outlet cover. See picture I have several older mechanical plug-in timers I cannot use outside because they will not fit inside the outdoor plug outlet cover. Each YoLink Smart Outdoor Plug has two outlets, each of which can be individually programmed with Schedules to come on and go off at separate times. Or you can ignore the scheduling portion and just use it as a 2-plug outlet addition with the YoLink Plug outlets live at all times. Programming them was intuitive, just remembering when creating a schedule, to tap the white check mark in the app, turning the check mark green, before leaving the “creating-a-Schedule” screen. The green check mark prompts a save of the newly created schedule. If you are new to the YoLink environment, remember you have to set up and establish a working hub to manage your YoLink “network”. I have 2 hubs. As YoLink advertises, they will not work on a 5 GH channel, just 2.4 GH channel. Secondly, a continuing frustration is that they absolutely will not ride on my house WiFi, but must be connected to the router or router satellite station via ethernet. Perhaps some people have succeeded with hubs being incorporated via house WiFi, but despite phone conversations and lengthy e-mails, WiFi is just not part of the YoLink solution at my house. YoLink also warns of this WiFi-less possibility. Repositioning the hub away from router without WiFi is limited by the length of the ethernet cable. The cable I got from YoLink was 3 feet. I bought the new Plug specifically to handle Holiday Lights on the house. Specific negative comments on the physical design of the Smart Outdoor Plug: 1. There are rubber plug covers so if you’re not using one plug, it can stay covered. The covers are not attached via a flap to the Plug unit. So when they come off, you have to remember where they are. I’ve already resigned to the fact that they’ll never be used again because I’ll lose them. 2 Most holiday lights come equipped with a two-prong plug which means that the ground plug hole in the YoLink Plug will not be covered. See pictures. 3. The end of the Outdoor Plug that contains the 2 plug outlets has a raised perimeter which limits the size of the plug that can be inserted into the Outdoor Plug. One of my outdoor holiday lights had a plug that was 1 inch X 1.3 inches and I was just at the limit of using it in the YoLink Plug. You can tell from the picture that the holiday light plug it is actually riding up from the YoLink Plug, so it is not flush with the unit. But just long enough to make contact and be usable. If the plug were any larger in either dimension I would not be able to plug it into the YoLink Plug.

I have lost two of these now to rain. And I live in Arizona where it hardly ever rains. If you are going to put these outside, you had better put them in an enclosure (I used plastic rocks), because they are NOT rainproof! When it rains, the switch on the front lets water in and trips my breaker. This is when installed on an outdoor fixture with the outlets hanging down. Sometimes you can dry them out and re-use, but more often they fry. My biggest complaint however is there is no way to use these to turn lights on at sunset as there is only a dumb time scheduler you can use in automation. So to call this a smart switch is a misnomer. Ill be going back to my $15 waterproof dusk/dawn timers from walmart.