Name: Belkin WeMo Light Switch
Brand: Belkin
SKU: BELF7C030FC
Price: 49.99 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.1 (426 reviews)

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Had one for the last four years in the kitchen has worked 100% and now getting more for the rest of the house

Amazing !!!

When they work they are good but they are always having issues with wifi.
They dont work with 5 ghz. once they disconcet you have to resetup everything and cant delete old ?
I would never buy these again.

panful setup

We bought this about two years ago, and it's always struggling to connect to our WiFi, or it drops the connection every time we reconnect it. I prefer a normal light switch over this

Issues with WiFi

Used to love this switch. However my light switch that has worked fine is now useless since I changed my home modem/router. It will not reconnect.
I have gone through all of the procedures for troubleshooting: Restarted the modem, factory reset my light switch, reinstalled the app etc. The app successfully connects through to the switch, then to my wifi, then at the last step it (discovering you WEMO device) it fails and keeps saying "cannot add WEMO to your account." I have tried multiple times. Same thing with my WEMO smart plug, same issue.

Non functional since change of cable modem

Our wemo switch has a very hard time staying connected to the WiFi router that is all of 20 feet away line of sight connected. When it loses the connection it is a huge hassle to reconnect. But if you don't it has an amber flashing warning light. Terrible design.

Loses the WiFi, then blinks non stop

Works great, looks great and easy to install and activate. The Wemo app is easy to use, and the integrate seamlessly with Google Home.

I made the right choice

I have had this item for a couple of years. At first it ran flawlessly.
Newer firmware has made it more and more complicated.
I need something to turn on/off the light. Don't care about Alexa, Google, personal accounts etc.

Tries to do too much!

I have had these light switches for over a year and they work great. Every now and then they lose connection but with a little work I can get them back operating.

Works Great

I have several and love the product itself. It is really bad customer service to ship a defective product and then require your customers to pay to return it. Long hold times and a poorly designed RMA process also make the experience poor. Belkin cost me a few hours and also wanted more money because they shipped a bad product. It seems the accountants are driving the experience vs the people that care about the customers. Tough position to take when you are competing against companies like Google and we have other choices for what we buy.

Poor customer service policy erodes the experience

I couldn't get it to work and I am returning it. Disappointed.

Disappointed with this Company

Wanted to purchase a "cousin" to the WEMO Smart Switch and was pleasantly surprised. Transitioning from the digital DST Timer Switches, and this was as good a time as it gets. The initial operation was flawed, then an "Update" was provided via email; it made the difference!

TECHNICAL UPGRADE

Great product, easy to use and was a snap to install.

Very easy to use!

I actually bought 4 of these switches but they have mostly been a failure. The problem is that in spite of the fact that I have really strong wifi signals around the house and have reset and reset and tried all of the recommendations from the manufacturer several times, the switches just do not want to stay hooked up to my wifi. I have even purchased wifi extenders to try to remedy the problem, but it persists. At any one time maybe one out of the four shows that it is detected by my iphone, and it isn't necessarily the same one all of the time. I've pretty much given up and just use them as manual paddle switches.

Don't work as advertised

While I have only had my Wemo installed for about a week now, I absolutely love it!! Ease of install was a breeze if you have just a basic knowledge of residential electrical. The app is simple to use and adding it to my echo account was simple as well. I love not having to get out of bed in the middle of the night when I get hot to turn on my ceiling fan.

Great addition to smart home

Had to change out rhree times before it would work. Poor quality. Works great when you use rhe switch but iften does not work when not home and try to use app. Second day not working and out of town. Would not buy again.

Often doesnt work

Everytime the router resets...or a power out, we have to reconnect every switch to the router....6 of them. This is a time consuming process and they won't connect on 1st, 2and, 3rd try. It takes 5 or more tries to get them back online. Each one seems to be looking for an SSID of Nicole's WIFI...this doesn't even exist here. Look elsewhere for a better product. But if you one, I have 6 for sale....

Won't reconnect

Not much to say really. It is a Wi-Fi switch that works like it is supposed to. I had a bit of trouble getting it to find my router, but it all worked out in the end. Link to Alexa was easy. Only time will tell it's reliability.

Does what it says it will do.

Second wemo we have bought. Product installed easily, great instructions. When it came to adding this device through the app, no problem. Poor instructions on adding a different set of rules. Got hung up on not being able to set up a second set of rules. Called help line, higher than usual call volumes. Requested a call back. Three hours later received a call back.

I had finally figured out, through trial and error, on my own how to set it up. Working perfectly.

Product Super Instructions Poor

Can't connect to Siri or Apple home. Works well though

Not Apple friendly

Bought 5 when they were on sale to set up all my outside lights, programming was a bit finicky because of my modem but once set up they are amazing! Will be buying more in the near future

Love the convenience!

I wish we hadn't purchased the 4 wemo products we own. They work 50% of the time when they work at all. They apparently need constant firmware updates that doesn't seem to do anything. We have trying for 2 days to get the switches back onto the home wifi. They just don't work! We are going to throw these out and find a quality companies switches. What a waste of money and time.

Unreliable

I have 3 of the Wifi toggle switches and love the idea of schedules and remote control. Big concern is whenever I have a power flicker the switch(s) loose connection to my AP ( I have solid Ubiquiti wireless AP ) and I have to reset them. The light blinks orange or amber until I reset them. I am doing this weekly. 
Also - the switches do a DHCP request every second, I mean they are the noisey on my home network. I statically assign them a IP address from my home Firewall but I see DHCP requests every second from these switches. Again, I love the idea and the schedule lights work ok but I am not sure they are worth the headache. I would think a firmware update could fix the DHCP IP request as that shouldn't happen but once a week or a day ? or hour but not every second ? 
Losing its SSID connection every time there is a power flicker ?

Love the idea but lose wifi connection and DHCP ?

Easy to install, works great.Had it installed in less than 15 min.

Love this

I like this one. Pay a little more for the WiFi switch . Ones 39$ don't buy one do the 45-50$ one . Pairs well with your phone And works well.. not perfect but worth the money

Works pretty good

I have about 30 of these switches but they are constantly being disconnected and flash orange. Every other device I have is as solid as a rock. Takes about 2 days to get them back online after a power outage. I would stay clear of these.

Network disaster

I have had these for years and they are chronically offline blinking orange or even when the switch doesn't show an issue the app cant find them. I have to restart or reset them almost monthly. These devices are completely unreliable I will never purchase another Wemo device again.

Constantly losing network connection on a mesh net

Good luck trying to reconnect after an outage and good luck trying to get help. A waste of money

Good luck trying to get it to reconnect after an o

We have several wemo plugs but this is our first switch. Installation was straightforward but does require some experience with electrical tools. The switch booted up quickly and I was able to add it to my existing home group and routines in a few minutes.

Wemo switch

The switch will just randomly decide to turn on in the middle of the night. There are no programs associated to the switch. Just randomly wants to turn on...

Randomly Turns On

I bought this a week ago and installed it on a pool light. It resides in a breaker box next to the pool pump on the side of my house. It set up easily and works from the app every time. It responds much faster than anticipated, light goes on within a second of pushing the button on the app. It also works from my Amazon Alexa, which was very easy to setup also! "Alexa turn on the pool light" and it's on before I finish talking!! AWESOME