On 15/05/2019 14:31, Martin Brown wrote:

The snag with all of the ethernet smart devices is that every now and
then they get screwed up and/or fib about their status. Usually nothing
that cannot be fixed by power cycling and they are mostly fine, but
every now and then they either fail to come on when commanded or stay on
when told to switch off despite the mimic diagram showing them off.

I haven't seen that with the TP link ones.
The mimic works when you press the manual button too.
And Alex can show the states.

You can always use Sonoff stuff which you can load custom firmware on if
you want to.



Depending on how paranoid you are most of the stuff on IOT can be pretty
easily hacked by anyone motivated to do so. They are not 100% reliable
but they are probably around the 98% mark if you choose wisely.


IME well over 98%.