WeMo (F7C059) Dimmer Wifi Light Switch, Works with Alexa, the Google Assistant and Apple Homekit

Read it first before buying. In my opinion, this product has been disappointing me ever since I had it for a few months. I was very eager to buy it, but now I am very disappointed in it. I won't talk about the installation of the device because the size is the same for all devices. I believe you must have a neutral wire for this device, and as for the design, I don't think the sliding of the finger on the panel is a good solution. It is very difficult to picture a brightness and this is made worse by the fact that the dots are in a concave groove that your finger slips out of a lot of the time. If this was a convex groove instead I believe it would have been simpler to see. I have a problem with this device in that the dimming isn't gradual, so you can see a change in light intensity even every time you flip the switch from full brightness to the lowest level. When you drag the slider, you'll see that the light just jumps to the brightness of your choice, this occurs both on your device and in the application. There's only one problem I have with this device, and it's the connectivity issues. It's like every week the device is flashing red, and I have to come and turn my breaker on and off to fix it. or turn it off and back on, then the device does not connect it does the same if the power goes out. This is a hassle when you have to turn off the lights when you bought it for one sole reason the convenience. The power fluctuations are a major issue if you live in a place where there are regular fluctuations. I hope an update will fix this, but to date I have not received an update for this product. The pros are Dimming the light does occur when it is working*2. The app can be used when you're not at home. Cons 1. The dimming notch is hard to use because it is in a concave grove on the device.
2. With led lights, dimming is not gradual, as one can see every different brightness level as it dims. 2.
Connectivity is constantly lost, and it doesn't re-establish itself If you cut the power to the device, the device will not connect. I will update it any time a future update resolves these issues. (except for the one hardware problem that can't be repaired. ) I must now turn the breaker off and on every morning when I get home from work and when I wake up because the red flashing light is flashing and I have to turn it off and on. In my home there are no power failures or anything like that because my PlayStation 4 is in standby mode all the time. If there were any power issues it would be off, too. The app is outdated. I bought it a while ago and there are still no updates.

Vincenzo Bennet

| Jan 04, 2021

With Alexa and Google Home I can switch other brands of WiFi switches on and off easily. There is a switch here that works every time. A single person. There is no need to go into too much detail at this time. I was able to install this very easily because it comes with the colored wires already attached, so all I had to do was match them these wires comes from this device, I just had to remove the cap, and ta-da! The device was ready for use. In comparison with In the case of other switches where the wires need to be rerouted You can twist them or shave them, then put them into the slot on I have never been able to live without my software. No way could you mess up the This thing has a lot of options and settings for automation after the fact. One of my favorites is the auto-configure setting. The off mode is currently active. The home I live in is semi-automated. The bedrooms of my house are almost all filled with Amazon Echos and Google Homes. WiFi bulbs are all over the place in my house. In every closet and bathroom there is an occupancy/vacancy sensor which turns on when someone walks in or leaves and stays on as long as they are there. After they leave, it turns off again shortly afterwards. In theory, you can't really use an occupancy sensor in a bedroom, but you can if you really want to. It's nice to know that I can enable this sort of behavior with this device when I want it. I wanted a dimmer for my master bedroom and it's nice to know I was able to turn it on when I felt like it and have it stay on when I left. Compared to most other products available there, this is a bit more expensive, but in many ways it's well worth the money. If I buy one for every bedroom in my house when the price drops, I'll have one for every area of the house.

Alberto James

| Jul 05, 2021

It was easy to install. There could be some difficulty swapping the live input (black) and output (red) wires, as a "normal" dimmer may work well with either one of those switched, as the dimmer just changes the pulse width. Electrically, this is one of the more complicated dimmers, so the order of the components is vital. As far as troubleshooting is concerned, the instructions were good Quite simply, the dimmer will not work if they are reversed. ADDED

Additionally, I got the 3-star rating Turn the switch this way This is one of the more complicated installations we have ever done, as it has five Neutral, which is usually white, is part of a standard switch, but it is not used very often. This feature will be present on a newly built home, but it will not be present on an older one. You might find wires in your wall in more than one color, for instance I have 2 black, 1 white, 1 red, 1 White, blue, red, black, and green make up the color scheme on the switch. Therefore, it was not a match, but the instructions were very useful in figuring out what it was. I was able to put it in easily and it worked right away.

Since the Wemo app can be used to integrate Alexa effectively, it was an automated process. It seems to be working well for me. Three things you need to know I think the 3-way switch is more reliable than the dimmer, as the latter has a tendency to miss Alexa it works right afterward.

There is only one switch for a 3-way fixture. Circuit made up of two ways. My LED dimmer connected perfectly with this app, and I selected whether I wanted incandescent, CFL, or LED bulbs, and the dimmer automatically calibrated to my LEDs once I chose my bulbs. The current limit is only 50 amps, so you won't be able to run 10 incandescent bulbs on It should be fine in almost all cases to choose 5. In addition, I have already paired it with Alexa and Google Home without any issues. I didn't have any problems with it. *Although sometimes an "hot" wire is required to operate the dimmer, you must also remember that this is usually the white wire behind your wall (while the black one serves to operate the dimmer). There is no need for these capacitors for most light switches, since they have three wires the live input, the output, and the It is actually a new dimmer, but the old one didn't involve a neutral line, and this line was buried really deep in the wall and would not do its job anyway. For me, it was a matter of taping into it. It isn't a big deal at all, but you should be aware of it. So far, so good. It is clearly stated on the package. Putting this prominently in the listing is probably a good idea, since installing a dimmer to replace a switch or dimmer without a neutral line puts this in the "medium" difficulty category rather than the "easy" category. If these are turned on or off, it will brighten/dim depending on what you set them to. I think it's a little less than It takes 25 seconds to turn on full brightness, and 0 seconds to turn it off. After the full brightness is turned off, it takes five seconds for the lights to go out. Honestly, I wasn't expecting this, but it works just fine, and is NOT like the first-generation LED bulbs that would take a long time to turn.

Ellie Norton

| May 30, 2021