WiOn 50053 Outdoor Wi-Fi Plug-In Yard Stake With Smartphone Or Tablet Automation for up to 12 devices; 3 Grounded Outlets And 6 Foot Cord

works good a little hard to figure out the setup for wifi at first but it is one time setup unless your wifi box gets messed up i have this for my chickens in the winter time for a heating lamp and love the fact that i can set times for it to go on or if i think it is just to cold click a button on the app and it is on

UPDATE: 10/16/22: Had this product for years including multiple outdoor versions and although the app setup isn’t the most user friendly I managed. Now that my current IPhone has upgraded to IOS 16 recently the app no longer works which stinks as I mentioned these WION/Woods units control a bunch of stuff inside and outside my home! When I emailed customer support last month (Sept) they said Apple hasn’t released info to app developers so I am SOL. I have a few hundred dollars invested in their products and now I am not able to control the units or change the timing? I had the FEIT WiFi Bulbs in my two outdoor lamps and the FEIT app works fine! I ended up ordering a few of the FEIT outdoor outlets and they were a piece of cake to set up. I am now waiting for the FEIT indoor outlets to arrive so I can exchange the WION/Woods wifi outlets with the FEIT costing me another couple of hundred bucks! Thanks for nothing WION/Woods! I will definitely NOT be purchasing anything else by these companies!I have been using Eco WiFi Outlets for the last year and love them! App is excellent IMO and easy to set timers! I love the outdoor 2 outlet timers from Eco Plugs. They are hard to get ahold of and I found out recently they are now the Woods WiOn Company so I ordered this in the hope it would setup with my current EcoPlugs App and it does! I use it for my Christmas lights. Every so often I have an Eco Plug Outlet lose connection and I have to unplug and re-insert it into power and it usually reconnects easily. It doesn’t happen enough to be a pain in the a$$ yet and I truly enjoy the convenience of these WiFi outlets. I will be purchasing more of the Indoor ones from this manufacturer in the future.

I decided to upgrade our Christmas light timers this year and went with a few orders of these WiOn timers and loved them. They were outside in Kansas City winter weather - in rain - snow - cold - etc. They worked perfectly and used our home WIFI signal from outside. One setup was in my detached garage and still worked. The app was easy but the interface has a little strange feature that your named device has to be at the bottom of the digital selection wheel to set up. This took me a while to understand and I felt was not intuitive. You can turn things on and off from any place on the wheel - but only change if at the bottom of the wheel. But besides that - they were awesome and worked perfectly under every condition. Highly recommend them.

Edit** spoke with support again. They apologized, stating the previous texh was confused about my issue. Then they tried to hook me saying they charge for assistance. Nice.Worked fine the first couple seasons, now won't connect and customer service is poor. Customer support number not picked up. They used a chat session to cue "tech support" to call. Though my app and device were not connected, they ensured me my network was not secure. They further insisted, until I asked where they are getting this information. Would not answer question, then line went dead.Really liked them at first. Now, not so much.

Device worked fine first 2 seasons. New phone this year, so searched the Google Play store. Nothing! Chatted with Woods and told them I couldn't find it. They connected me with an overseas tech that told me the app was no longer in the store for security reasons. He said he could get me the app, but I would have to pay to use it. I told him thanks, I would dispose of the plug and buy from a competitor.Before purchasing, make sure you can download their app. Maybe still available for I Phone?

I have just installed the WiOn outdoor Wi-Fi power stake and LOVE its functionality: my Android Smart Phone controls the outdoor lights reliably, and the app allows setting up an automated on-off schedule easily. The initial adding of the device to my home network however was a BEAR (and I have worked with computers for over 30 years and LOVE to play with technology). What I learned: 1) the included directions suggest using their scannable link to download the WiON app to my adroid phone which did not work (I went to Google Play and downloaded the WiON app manually); 2) you are instructed to choose the WiON stake from available devices on your SmartPhone WiFi settings BUT it is not made clear that what you are looking for is a device which begins with "ECO-" followed by a string of random numbers; 3) You are then told to select in the WiON app the router you wish to connect the power stake to which suggests a hardware name (each router does in fact have a hardware name) when what is meant is the network name (sometime called the SSID); 4)You are then told to enter information in the app (zip code, device name (the name you wish to associate with the power stake you are installing, for example Stake1), followed by the WiFi router password (which really means the network password of the SSID in step 3); 4) When done you select SAVE SETTINGS in the app but this option did not appear on the SmartPhone screen until I blanked out the keyboard used to enter zip code, etc. Having written instructions I know it is hard, but these instructions make the task seem impossible. It is not, but you have to be careful to say what you mean. Thanks for a great product (I hope); please improve documentation; and I have set a calendar reminder to update this on January 10 to see if I remain cautiously supportive.