Connector Type | Plug In |
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Brand | iDevices |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 2.3 x 3.63 x 3.75 inches |
Actuator Type | Push Button |
International Protection Rating | IP00 |
Controller Type | homekit, vera, Amazon Alexa, iOS |
Control Method | Voice |
Connectivity Protocol | Bluetooth, Wi-Fi |
Color | White |
Unit Count | 1.0 Count |
Number of Items | 1 |
Manufacturer | iDevices LLC (iGrill) - L&G |
Part Number | IDEV0001AND5 |
Item Weight | 9.6 ounces |
Product Dimensions | 2.3 x 3.63 x 3.75 inches |
Item model number | IDEV0001P5 |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Size | Small |
Voltage | 120 Volts |
Item Package Quantity | 1 |
Number Of Pieces | 1 |
Batteries Included? | No |
Batteries Required? | No |
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Switch IDEV0001P5 - WiFi Smart Plug w/ Energy Monitoring, No Hub Required, Works with Apple Home Kit
Connector Type | Plug In |
Brand | iDevices |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 2.3 x 3.63 x 3.75 inches |
Actuator Type | Push Button |
International Protection Rating | IP00 |
Controller Type | homekit, vera, Amazon Alexa, iOS |
Control Method | Voice |
Connectivity Protocol | Bluetooth, Wi-Fi |
Color | White |
Unit Count | 1.0 Count |
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About this item
- Integrates with Apple HomeKit products and is compatible with iOS devices (iPhone 4S+, iPad mini+, iPad 3+ and iPod touch 5+) running iOS 8.0+
- Discreet and compact design includes a side facing outlet for easy positioning
- Group appliances into 'scenes' (i.e. Bedtime) for simple management using voice control with Siri
- The iDevices Switch features a customizable LED nightlight. Choose from hundreds of color options
- iDevices Connected app features customizable schedules based on your daily routine
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Alexa integration | 2.6 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 4.2 |
Easy to install | 3.4 | — | 4.1 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 4.3 |
Brightness | 3.9 | — | 4.4 | 4.3 | — | 4.3 |
WiFi signal | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.3 | — | 4.0 | — |
Value for money | 3.2 | — | — | 4.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 |
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material | — | — | viton | PC,EF-1006,ROHS,UL94-V0 | Fireproof PC Material | PC,EF-1006,ROHS,UL94-V0 |
switch type | Touch Switch | — | Push Button | — | — | Dimmer Switch |
connector type | Plug In | — | Wireless | Clamp | Plug In | Clamp |
number of positions | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | 1 |
control method | voice | voice | voice | voice | remote, application, voice | voice |
actuator type | Push Button | Touch | Push Button | — | — | — |
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From the manufacturer
Make the everyday things in your home extraordinary with iDevices
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Use your voiceThe iDevices Switch works with Siri, Alexa and the Google Assistant, allowing you to control your home with the power of your voice. |
Control from anywhereWith the iDevices Connected app, you can control your electronics on the way home through secure, built-in cloud technology. No Apple TV required. |
Personalized to your routineSchedule your home to your daily and weekly routine and set scenes that fit your lifestyle. |
Designed to fit anywhereSwitch's compact size, side outlet and sleek design fit the aesthetics of any room, without taking up two outlets. |
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Wi-Fi & Bluetooth-Enabled | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Works with Alexa | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Works with Apple HomeKit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Works with the Google Assistant | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Works with Android | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
No hub required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Remote access, scenes, & scheduling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Energy monitoring | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | - |
Dimming feature | - | - | ✓ | - | - | ✓ |
Customizable LED night light | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
iDevices Switch Requirements
- Home Wi-Fi network
- Free iDevices Connected app
- HomeKit requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 8.1 or later
- If you have an Apple TV, iPad, or HomePod, you can use Siri voice commands when you're away from home
- Supports Android devices with 4.3 or later
- For use in U.S. and Canada only
iDevices Connected App
Everything you love about your home, in one app
Connecting your home shouldn't be intimidating. The iDevices Connected app takes out the stress and makes it as simple as possible to control your home from anywhere.
- Control any HomeKit compatible product
- Create custom schedules & scenes
- Customizable to your routine
- Access & control from anywhere
- Available on the App Store or Google Play
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ASIN | B00U31IO3Q |
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Customer Reviews |
4.0 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #508,351 in Tools & Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Tools & Home Improvement) #811 in Electrical Outlet Switches |
Date First Available | February 27, 2015 |
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Product Description
The iDevices Switch is the only thing you need to connect to your home, from your mobile device; no hubs required. As one of the first ever iOS 8 HomeKit enabled devices on the market, the iDevices Switch allows you to control the power to appliances throughout your home through the use of Siri voice commands. In the free iDevices Connected app, you can create schedules for each appliance in your home based on your daily routine. By grouping appliances into separate rooms or "scenes", you're able to turn on or off an entire room of your home with one command to Siri. For example, "Goodnight Siri", might turn off the lights and TV in your bedroom. It's your home, simply connected.
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Customers like how easy it is to set up the electronic switch. They say it's extremely user friendly and easy to attach to the network. Customers also appreciate the appearance, and compatibility. However, some customers have reported issues connecting to the Wi-Fi network. They also differ on performance, quality, responsiveness, and brightness.
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Customers like the ease of setup of the electronic switch. For example, they say it performs well, is extremely user friendly, and is easy to get attached to network and app. Some mention that the switch came with paper directions, but once you download the app, the syncing process is simple.
"How kool is this. Work Great. i got 2 (so far). They were easy to get attached to network and app, sometimes it just takes a little patience with..." Read more
"...The product was super easy to set up, as has been the case with all HomeKit stuff so far...." Read more
"...Installing Alexa is less intuitive because you have to enable the iDevices skill on Alexa and then go to setting in iDevices app to allow Amazon...." Read more
"...Setup - Setup was easy for most of the switches through the iDevices App. Make sure to hold onto the Homekit ID tag. You'll need it after you set up...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the appearance of the electronic switch. They mention that it looks good, has nice materials, and a nice design. The app looks very nice, and the product is affordable. Customers also appreciate the customizable color and the fact that it works well.
"...iDevice Pros: The LED lights is very bright, love the side plug design.Cons: The thickness removes flexibility from the adjacent plug...." Read more
"...Performs exactly as it's designed to and the iDevices app is very well designed - for comparison check out the Elgato Eve app, which overlaps quite..." Read more
"...Pros:• High quality design• Customizable night light. You can specify brightness, color, and on/off status.•..." Read more
"...On the plus side the led's look nice, only takes up one outlet, and the side exit is useful in tight spaces...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the compatibility of the electronic switch. They mention that it integrates with HomeKit great, is interchangeable, and is made for the HomeKIT systems. Some say that the switch is a simple, no obtrusive home integration device and that it works well with Siri. Overall, most are happy with their purchase and recommend it to others.
"...They look slick.They are mostly well made.No need for any kind of hub, which eliminates a major point of both failure and..." Read more
"...the box once you have the app up and running, and it's fully compatible with Apple HomeKit, which is a major plus for me...." Read more
"...The switch is compatible with Apple Home Kit and the Siri integration works fine...." Read more
"...HomeKit compatable...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the performance of the electronic switch. Some mention that it works well, while others say that it has never worked reliably. Some say that the manual turn on/off doesn't work every time, and the device doesn''t support 5GHz.
"...this is way kool and very helpful, as if i need to shave expenses i can see to try to make cutbacks...." Read more
"...It's so easy to install and it works very well...." Read more
"...The setup is problematic and takes a while but once you get through it, works very well. I chalk it up to early version software...." Read more
"...A very slick app.The bad:An unfortunate design puts the reset button easily bumped into when trying to turn things off...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the quality of the electronic switch. Some mention that it works well with HomeKit, while others say that it's unreliable and crashes. Some customers also report that the switches constantly drop out and the iPhone app loses connection with them. Overall, the opinions are mixed, and it'd be best to read the reviews carefully before making a purchase.
"...For several years they've been terribly unreliable, and iDevices technical support has been hopeless at helping...." Read more
"...These switches constantly drop out and the iPhone app loses connection with them. As I am also using Alexa, it also loses connection...." Read more
"...I guess I'm asking too much! I gave it a 4 because it is well made, the app is clean and well written, and it does the job...." Read more
"...prevent Siri from turning on the night light because its more difficult to turn it off (though App and sometimes through Siri) then it is to turn it..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the responsiveness of the electronic switch. Some mention that the app is nice, the iPhone app seems decently done, and the iOS software is very good. However, others say that they are frustrated with the limited instructions and the subsequent issues they ran. They also mention that it's not simple, not straightforward to control from multiple devices, and that the documentation for setup is lacking.
"...First of all, the documentation for setup is lacking...." Read more
"...The iDevice iOS software is very good...." Read more
"...No complaints!However the implementation is still faulty. The manual turn on/off doesn't work every time...." Read more
"...I still find the device/instructions non-intuitive. While I thought I had a handle on them some months ago, not so now!..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the brightness of the electronic switch. Some mention that the nightlight feature is cool, helpful for pathway lighting, and adjustable. They say the light is bright and can be controlled as an independent HomeKit light. However, others say that the light was extremely dim and had absolutely no value. The colors do seem limited, and the switch started failing with orange lights.
"...Really like the added night light, although I'm not entirely sure it's bright enough to be considered a night light, but it's there and it's a bonus!..." Read more
"...Each device also doubles as a night light of a color of your choice - or you can disable the nightlight function if you don't want it...." Read more
"...batch of these in 2017, and about 5 years later they started failing with orange lights...." Read more
"...You can control the intensity of the light and change the color to just about anything. You can also turn it off if not needed...." Read more
Customers have connectivity issues with the switch. They mention that it never connects to the network, loses the connection, and can be hard to set up again. Some customers also mention that the switch only connects wirelessly to 2.4GHz WiFi and not 5GHz, so you have to use it as a hub.
"...There's no way to change a device's network connection other than to delete it (and every scene, trigger, and automation attached to it) and then..." Read more
"...These switches constantly drop out and the iPhone app loses connection with them. As I am also using Alexa, it also loses connection...." Read more
"...The scheduled events either did not activate, or only one switch activated...." Read more
"...I do like that this switch is wifi enabled so I don't need another hub for it to connect to my router like some home automation switches do...." Read more
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I connected a space heater to each switch, in different parts of the room.
Now with the app on my ipad(s) i have remote control without getting up from my desk where my ipad is to switch them on or off. yes of course it works wherever my ipad is, but i mean previously if i was at my desk, i'd have to get up, walk around the room or house switching things on or off, now with these switches i can control whatever is plugged into a switch even if the switch was in another room of another area of the house, like down stairs or in the garage, all from my bedroom or office, as long as they are on your network. .
With my smartphone i have control wherever i am, it even works when i'm away, say at work, i can check the status of the switches in the smartphone app and turn them off or on as needed.
I added alexa and a group within the alexa app called "heaters" and assigned the "bedroom heater side" and "bedroom heater rear" to this group, then without having to even get out of bed i can just say "Alexa, turn heaters on" and both come on. i still have individual control over each by saying "turn bedroom heater rear on" and alexa does that. You of course can name the switches anything you want, i just choose to use the room device location to make it easier for me to locate, but with alexa also you can create better voice shortcuts as it did with just "heaters".
The switches also have power monitoring, which not only tells you if the switch is on or off, but in the app you can view current draw, now, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or all time and average daily hours the device is on. Put in your electric rate or use default average and it tells you how much it is costing you based on the average daily use of what is connected to that switch to run that device for say the month. my little space heat cost me $8.60 a month to run. this is way kool and very helpful, as if i need to shave expenses i can see to try to make cutbacks.
You can also set up scheduled events, like to turn off at 9am monday thru friday (while you're away at work), or turn on say at 4:30pm a little before you come home so everything is warm when you get there.
You can use these with small appliances like lights, fans, heaters etc, as long as what you plug in stays on when the power turns off, meaning some electronic devices, when have an on/off soft or electronic switch, and when power cuts out (what the idevice switch is doing) and then back on, they remain in the off setting. those won't work. But for things with old fashioned physical toggle switches these are great. Jsut make sure you get use to switching the device off using the app instead of the power switch on the device, that has to remain in the on position for the idevices to have control over it.
These would be most useful also for elderly, bedridden or hand-capped people to have control of a device where they can't easily get to.
My iDevices switch came with an older version of the firmware and the app prompts me to install a new firmware. But I had the switch working before I installed the new firmware and it works and so the old firmware works also.
I like the energy monitoring feature. I have a small portable heater that I connected through the switch to see how much electricity it uses and I am happy to see that it does not use much.
In summary, this iDevices switch is made primarily for Homekit and so if you don't have it then you will run into trouble. The fact that it works on Alexa too makes it nice because you can have a cheaper and always on input device in addition to Homekit.
For several years they've been terribly unreliable, and iDevices technical support has been hopeless at helping. They have various troubleshooting and diagnostic functions in their software that let you send them data about your network, but most are hard to get to actually upload, and all of them don't seem to help. My devices, once I got to having more than a dozen, would drop out as "unreachable" intermittently, and inconsistently -- a device might work in the iDevices app, not work in Apple HomeKit, and work in Alexa, or any other combination. Over the course of a week or so, more and more devices would become unreachable, until I restarted the WAP they were connected to (at iDevices's suggestion I had a dedicated one just for them) and then went around the house restarting them all one by one. After that, they'd all be reachable for a few hours, or there might be one that stubbornly refused.
At the time I had Netgear networking equipment. I've recently discovered that the Netgear line often has troubles with multicast, particularly with larger networks with more devices. Failures of multicast discovery had been affecting other things too, notably my HEOS speakers and my printer, though I didn't realize the pattern. Today I installed a Google Nest WiFi mesh network and instantly all the devices became, and remained, reachable. I am told Eero would do just as well, and probably AmpliFi would also work. One wonders why I'm more than two years into trying to get iDevices to help me make their products reliable only to stumble upon the solution myself.
With that in mind, the good:
They work from and with almost everything. Alexa, Siri, the app, IFTTT (though scene support is notoriously lacking), Apple HomeKit and its automations. (A web interface would be nice, though.)
They look slick.
They are mostly well made.
No need for any kind of hub, which eliminates a major point of both failure and complexity.
A very slick app.
The bad:
An unfortunate design puts the reset button easily bumped into when trying to turn things off.
Three and four way installs, and the sticky add-a-switches, use Bluetooth which often cannot reach as far as needed.
There's no way to change a device's network connection other than to delete it (and every scene, trigger, and automation attached to it) and then rebuild it.
Dimmer switches seem to be prone to a catastrophic failure where they turn on and refuse to turn off.
On balance: make sure you have a nice modern network that supports multicast robustly and can handle many devices. Then, these are a great choice to go with. Though if you don't mind having to have a hub, you might well do better, and for less money.
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OJO: Hasta para hoy octubre 2/2018, Si no tienen cuenta de App Store para USA y vives en Mexico, es probable no le saquen mucho provecho.
The main reason why I opted for the iDevices Switch over the competitors is the side plug. This allows using these behind furniture so that they don’t stick out much further than if the Switch was not used. These also take up just enough space vertically so that the second receptacle is free to be used by either a regular plug or another Switch - another advantage of the Switch over some of the other competitors. The multiple colour selectable night light is nice with full control of the brightness and saturation, and the option to turn it on and off independently of the main plug. These also feel like quality products, with a nice weight and solid feel to them.
These were my first dive into home automation and HomeKit, but I intend to incorporate more HomeKit accessories now.