![]() ![]() I've never had any drops in connection, it works every time I press the buttons and through the app, and robots get triggered as well. I have mine with some regular LED light bulbs and connected so it controls a few of my smart light bulbs, and it works great. It controls other smart bulbs and smart switches that are connected to your Wink hub. Keep in mind this doesn't mean you can control different light fixtures from just one switch. After that, you can choose if you want the buttons to control just the lights they're hooked up with, or if you have other smart bulbs it can control them as well. ![]() If it is connected to smart bulbs, it will always keep a low current running towards the bulb (you have to keep this in mind for changing bulbs) so that you can keep your smart bulb connected with all of its settings and automation, and it also works as a dimmer BUT ONLY FOR SMART LIGHT BULBS (because it does so through the Wink app). If it is to normal light bulbs, it acts as a regular smart switch. It turns out you need to choose which type of light bulb it is hooked up with. It paired seamlessly with my Wink hub (running software version 1.1) and named it. Connections with the wire traps is very easy, although I would've preferred back holes instead for the size/wires proportion. If you don't have a neutral wire, this is not for you. Installation is a breeze, IF you have a big enough gang box and a neutral wire in it. It has been a very good product for me so far. I just got this switch, so I can't speak for the bugs found in the past. The saga of my home automation continues, but I still have this feeling this was the right setup to go with. This time cutting the power didn't fix it either, so the electrician is coming back to see if they can do anything. After I paired all of my items back to the hub (I'll detail that whole thing when I can update my Wink review) I could not get the one that had to have a hard reset to work again. Unfortunately though a few days later my Wink hub crashed as part of the major outage and I basically had to start over again. I was asked to shut power off to the switches from the breaker and that did the trick to getting them back online. So after about 20 min on the phone with Wink support we discovered that my light switch was part of a group of switches that needed a hard reset. I'm going to try to reconfigure everything tonight and give these one more shot. This kept us from using the switch on our light post on our driveway (disappointingly the one I wanted to use it with the most) and as you can see from the picture left us with three Tapt switches and one regular. One thing that he found during the install is that these don't work with lights on the GFI so it just kept flipping the reset and wouldn't stay on. Self install was pretty difficult, and we ended up getting an electrician to install these for us. Our house doesn't have the requested "red wire" unless we were already working with a 3-way light, which you aren't supposed to use with these switches. My biggest complaint though so far though has been with installation. I don't think that being able to control a smart switch with a smart bulb from either the wall, or switch should be considered a big ask, but maybe home automation just isn't there yet. One will not connect to the app and is only working at the base, and one will not turn on from the wall if its off on the app. Out of the four switches we have installed, two of them don't work properly. ![]() This product has been kind of disappointing so far. ![]()
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