But not every device will work with smart outlets. If you have a number of appliances connected via a power board to the Smart Power Plug, remove the appliances one at a time to see which one is turning the Smart Power Plug off. I got a Google Home and some TP-Link Smart Plugs (HS100) for my birthday a couple months ago. Tonight SmartThings sent the command to turn on the outside lights as part of the sundown routine. They worked flawlessly in the sense that they turned on when I wanted and off when I wanted. Imagine that your friend is blinking a lamp, and you need to keep track of how long it was on with the help of a stopwatch. Its on-off timing schedule won't work, a critical home safety function of nearly all smart bulbs. Smart bulbs acting up? I have the outlet switch hooked up to a lamp and I can issue verbal commands to alexa to turn the lamp on/off. For example, the preamble can be taken as: I have disconnected and connected the account. With a smart outlet, you can turn your appliances on and off from your phone, or (in some cases) with your voice through devices like the Amazon Echo. The switch was unresponsive to manual switching or to SmartThings. QUESTION. Plus, if your smart bulb doubles as a Wi-Fi or Bluetooth speaker, it will remain mysteriously silent. If you're not tech savvy, don't worry. They were both working until a few days ago. Try a manual reset. I used the plugs on some lamps around the house. Then turn off Wi-fi on the mesh (or just switch the mesh off) and connect your smart home device to the 2.4ghz band on your old router. After having a connectivity issue with 1 light switch and deleting/readding in Smartthings, Alexa will not turn it off/on. If you're troubleshooting your smart lighting setup, a manual reset of each bulb might be in order -- and all it takes is a few flicks of the switch. I have been using Alexa for a long time without issue. iHome smart plugs randomly turning on and off. But the problem is that the wall switch keeps getting disconnected from wifi. I have set up two smart plugs using smart life to control two lamps. Set up was a breeze, as was integrating with Amazon Alexa. Paired with a Google Home or an Amazon Echo smart speaker, our devices can easily be set-up for voice control, letting you dim your lights, turn on appliances, and so much more as soon as you say the word. Some heaters draw an electric current above the safety limit. Hi, I started with a basic Smart Things set, the hub and one plug-in outlet switch. Smart outlets are a cheap way to turn your ordinary appliances and fixtures into smart devices. In the past week it has started to act funny. We turn on the LED light and after a while it turns off and then goes back on and then a little while later off and on again. Each time you do this exercise, the numbers will be slightly different. We have had a LED light in the family room for several months now. I have reset the smart plugs. 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