GE Lighting CYNC Outdoor Smart Plug, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Outlet Socket, Weather Resistant Plug, Voice Control Outlet, Works with Alexa and Google Home

I was looking for something like this : both outlets can be controlled and scheduled independently. It works according to my time zone ; perfect fro all season

Can only be set up or used with a special app.

Easy to setup and works as advertised. Rain has not stopped it. Outdoor lights come on at sunset and go off as planned.

I was excited to receive a GE branded smart plug. I was disappointed to discover the GE lights brand was sold to a Savant Technologies, privately owned and controlled by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts who manage private investment equities and their only interest in this venture is Money Money Money. I am returning all the Cync GE products I purchased. I dont trust Savant Technologies to support this platform beyond a few years.

I bought this plug to control an outdoor fountain through Alexa. At first, it connected to Alexa just fine, but after a couple of months, it stopped responding to commands through Alexa. It would still respond to commands through the GE Sync app, but not Alexa. I removed it from both the GE Sync app and Alexa, and reinstalled it after a factory reset. It connected fine to the GE Sync app, but then would not connect to Alexa. It took a couple more weeks before it finally just showed up randomly in Alexa. After about a week, though, even though it still shows up in Alexa, Alexa cant control it at all just like before. I also use several GE Sync light bulbs, and Ive had no problem connecting them to Alexa because you can connect them without using the GE Sync skill. Thats the problem with this plug is that you have to connect it using the skill, not natively like the light bulbs, and the skill gets 1 star in Alexa. This is really disappointing for a name brand like GE, and Im just going to relegate this to Christmas light duty and get some no name brand for the fountain.

Im controlling my deck lights from my phone. I can also override at the box. Works great!

I have two plugs on the outside of my house that I use for my Christmas lights. In the past, I had used timers to get them to come on and off. Seemed like I could never get them in sync so the lights would turn on and off at the same time. Also trying to adjust for sunset was tricky. I purchased two of these and connected them to my Wi-Fi meshed network. (I mention my mesh network as needed good wi-fi signals outdoors and a long ways apart.) If you have not set up smart switches previously this is a little tricky to set up and run on and off at the right time. But if you are already used to smart switches and Alexa integration this is a typical installation.

I used these for my outdoor lights and I’m happy with them. They are super easy to install and the material seemed very durable. The beat part about this is that you could control each plug individually which not many wifi plugs offers.