With a smart outlet, you can turn your appliances on and off from your phone, or (in some cases) with your voice through devices like the Amazon Echo. Then turn off Wi-fi on the mesh (or just switch the mesh off) and connect your smart home device to the 2.4ghz band on your old router. The switch was unresponsive to manual switching or to SmartThings. But instead of the lights turning on and staying, the switch’s relay starting clicking on and off. Try a manual reset. Smart outlets are a cheap way to turn your ordinary appliances and fixtures into smart devices. I have been using Alexa for a long time without issue. They worked flawlessly in the sense that they turned on when I wanted and off when I wanted. In the past week it has started to act funny. Hi, I started with a basic Smart Things set, the hub and one plug-in outlet switch. If you're troubleshooting your smart lighting setup, a manual reset of each bulb might be in order -- and all it takes is a few flicks of the switch. QUESTION. Lamp one is called "Man Cave Light" and lamp 2 "Lounge Light". I have reset the smart plugs. I have the outlet switch hooked up to a lamp and I can issue verbal commands to alexa to turn the lamp on/off. We have had a LED light in the family room for several months now. I have set up two smart plugs using smart life to control two lamps. I got a Google Home and some TP-Link Smart Plugs (HS100) for my birthday a couple months ago. How to set up a smart plug . I’ve had the GE Z-wave Toggle Switch running my front outside lights for 2+ years (purchased March 2016). We turn on the LED light and after a while it turns off and then goes back on and then a little while later off and on again. I have renamed them to plug and switch. Tonight SmartThings sent the command to turn on the outside lights as part of the sundown routine. Turning down the temperature on the heater may stop the Smart Power Plug switching off. If you're not tech savvy, don't worry. Imagine that your friend is blinking a lamp, and you need to keep track of how long it was on with the help of a stopwatch. After having a connectivity issue with 1 light switch and deleting/readding in Smartthings, Alexa will not turn it off/on. I have disconnected and connected the account. If you have a number of appliances connected via a power board to the Smart Power Plug, remove the appliances one at a time to see which one is turning the Smart Power Plug off. There's no smart device that's easier to set up than a smart plug. For example, the preamble can be taken as: Paired with a Google Home or an Amazon Echo smart speaker, our devices can easily be set-up for voice control, letting you dim your lights, turn on appliances, and so much more as soon as you say the word. iHome smart plugs randomly turning on and off. But the problem is that the wall switch keeps getting disconnected from wifi. 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