I had to pick a couple of these up given the price and reviews. They are a hubless wifi plug with quick setup, support with their VeSync app, IFTTT and Alexa/Google. I am also looking for a way to control a couple devices behind a private NAT unavailable ip on a fixed wireless internet location (weekend cabin) and thought these may do the trick.
So far only set up on standard wired internet with good wifi signal:
- nice form factor, small
- very easy to set up
- good as a "shared device" for non indigo users
- very reliable on/off via VeSync app (1% failure rate that I can see)
- IFTTT webhooks commands work pretty well (10% failure rate or so, almost always when passing multiple commands rapidfire). Sometimes takes 5s or so for a command to get bounced around and executed
- No on/off state feedback via ifttt to indigo (although maybe with the httpd server plugin this is possible)
- Respond to ping, about 80ms (vs 20 or so for other devices here)
- scheduling device via app. Not sure if the schedule is pushed to device in advance or whether sched is "streamed" to device in realtime.
- no native "power cycle" command, so don't use it to power cycle a gateway (or your wifi AP)
- i made a power cycle script with ifttt commands in indigo and passed 3 OFF commands -30s wait - 3 on commands and that works well.
Next steps:
- test schedules when knocked offline
- test behind LTE network
Note I also just saw the TP-Link Device plugin http://www.indigodomo.com/pluginstore/188/ and some ability to local control TP link devices. I may buy one and try it. Also to see which can stay more alive on a private NAT ip address.
And for posting to IFTTT there is a plugin here http://www.indigodomo.com/pluginstore/49/ however I just used my own little python script (usually the case is I spend hours learning to script something then stumble across a plugin someone just made )
Aaron