Smart Power Strip, YoLink 1/4 Mile World’s Longest Range Power Strip Compatible with Alexa Google IFTTT, Surge Protector Plugs 4 USB Charging Ports + 4 AC Plugs for Multi Outlets – YoLink Hub Required

Such great products
I’m a big fan of my YoLink system, and this powerstrip is no exception. I can turn on any of the 4 outlets separate from one another, and I can set the whole thing to turn on every day if my WiFi is out.

I love my YoLink networks, and yes I have several
So I’m a cybersecurity engineer, automating my personal systems. I have houses 700 miles apart, and I have a ridiculous level of automation because that’s just how I roll.So much of the gear I use works great when I’m in the room, and fails the hour I leave for the other house. Wifi is a wonderful thing, when it works. The problem is it is easy to jam up wifi, AND so many of the IOT devices are based on 2.4ghz wifi that can be shut down by any baby monitors that use wifi frequencies but do not use wifi. A baby monitor /can/ shut down any 2.4ghz wifi within a half mile. So as a result I see tons of wifi failures in that 2.4ghz band. It’s not just baby monitors, but those are a common example, there are many others.Yolink uses loran technology for communication, easily overcoming wifi failure modes. This is important to ME. Your mileage may vary.I have only two issues with yolink products. One is the speakerhub, it is wifi only, so it falls outside of my “sphere of reliability”, I /really/ wish it had an ethernet port. Speakerhub makes a noise when wifi goes up and down… I hear that noise a LOT. And it isn’t my wifi router’s fault, any properly operating wifi AP will fail to operate when blocked by a interfering signal, that is a required part of the wifi protocol, wifi that doesn’t do this is actually illegal because it might be near a military radar installation. The second thing about YoLink is that sometimes I need polling cycles of short duration, so for example a temperature probe on an air conditioner will need to have fast polling cycles to capture the curves needed to check performance of the unit. The hour polling cycles are great for most things, but sometimes I need more frequent polling cycles, even if only temporary. I wish there was a way for me to buy extra polling cycles on a month to month basis, but I think that functionality is probably reserved to larger customers with larger operations.So the power of the yolink platform is that because it is not on your wifi, it can be used to repair and remediate issues with your wifi.In my redundancy setup, I have a hub on each of the ISP’s feeding a site, so that if one ISP is down, I can reboot the router from the other ISP connection, from anywhere on the planet. And in the short time I have been doing this, I have used it to resolve issues with both ISP’s, thereby avoiding 20 hours of driving. I have many brands of remote power modules, as well as temperature sensors, 4 brands of surveillance cameras, a cisco dual-wan router, hvac controls, and automations to manage some of my personal “infrastructure”. YoLink has been the solution for many problems, and a joy to build ifttt automations for. It is clean and simple.

AQUARIUM MUST HAVE
I’d give them 10 stars if I could. It started when I purchased a power strip to control the heater/water bubbler and lights on one of my aquariums. Prior to getting the power strip I received an email from the company saying that the plug worked with a hub and if i wanted to purchase it for 20$they would refund my money. I’m super poor and told them I couldn’t spend the 20$ so they said they’d just send me one for free if I gave them the address.To no fault but my own , when I tried to install my unit it wouldn’t synchronize with the app and rendered my main objective of controlling my aquarium wireless a fail. IT CLEARLY STATES THAT YOU NEED THE HUB FOR IT TO WORK. I missed this and contacted the company about returning the power strip but they respectfully offered to upgrade my hub to one of their started kits which I accepted humbly since I didn’t read the description correctly.I got the starter kit and I am AMAZED at how easy it is to sync their products together. You scan the barcode and that’s about it. This product is excellent for an aquarium because of the water leak monitor, also, because voice activation isn’t necessary, it is excellent to just set a timer for each plug and forget about it. This is particularly important when keeping strict plant/coral cycles.All in all , I’m incredibly impressed by their patience, customer service, and overal ease of syncing and using this product. I’v attached a few videos.