HBN Outdoor Smart Plug, Wi-Fi Heavy Duty Outlet with 3 Independent Outlets, Compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant, IP44 Waterproof, Voice & Remote Control Outlet, No Hub Required, ETL Listed

I bought this to control a small water fountain heater and a 500W halogen light for my chickens, whose coup is about 75 feet away from my house, where the electricity comes from! My extension cord has only one outlet at the end (as most do) and I needed a way to control both appliances - independently - with a single plug. This product DOES accomplish what I needed, but only after hours of painful setup. First, your wi-fi modem/router must support 2.4 GHz. Most routers support multiple bands/frequencies, but most people create only 1 wi-fi network in their homes. I had to literally go into my routers settings, and create 2 networks; wi-fi network 2.4 GHz and wi-fi network 5.0 GHz. Once I did this (over an hour!), I was able to connect to the plug via the HBN Smart app on my phone. I then spent another 2 hours resetting all of my wi-fi connected devices (5 Alexas, 2 Chromecasts, 2 thermostats, etc...) to the newly created networks! What fun! The HBN Smart app asks you what kind of device youre trying to connect! Are you kidding me? The app cant detect its own products? Anyway, finally got it working and the app allows you to control each of the 3 outlets/switches independently. Awesome! Unfortunately, this doesnt seem to be the case using Alexa to control the device via the HBN Smart Skill. As far as I can tell, Alexa can only turn the entire plug On or Off as a whole - not the individual outlets. I have the question below pending a response from the manufacturer - so Ill keep you posted. Question to HBN: I purchased HBN Outdoor Smart Plug, Wi-Fi Heavy Duty Outlet with 3 Independent Outlets, model U130T. The HBN Smart app allows you to control each of the 3 outlets separately, which is great! Unfortunately, when controlling with Amazon Alexa via the HBN Smart Skill, the ability to control the 3 outlets separately is no where to be found. It seems you can only control the power for the entire unit as a whole. Perhaps Im just not seeing how to accomplish this but, if its possible, can you please provide detailed instructions on how to do this? Thanks Kindly! Kyle Answer 12/2 1:41PM EST from Darren with BN-LINK Support Team: We will forward it to our engineer and see if he can remotely fix the issue. Thanks. Best Regards 1/24/2023 Update: As of approximately 1/1/2023, Alexa began recognizing the individual outlets (outlets named in the HBN app). Not sure how - not sure why - just suddenly started working so I upgraded my rating from 2 to 3 as I still endured the pain of reconfiguring my network.

This is a nice smart plug for the price. Too bad this one doesnt have the energy monitor feature.

So far so good. The real test will be the Christmas lights in the freezing cold under snow.

Nothing.

Very easy to connect and it stays connected. The separate timers are awesome.

So far so good working just fine for the short time I’ve had it. I’ll update on it in a couple of months on the long term but so far for almost 1 month it working like it should

Came with no instructions. When I finally figured out the app to get an iphone 14 would not recognize the QR code. Dont waste your time or money.

Bought this to run outdoor lights. It came in a plastic bag with no instructions. Went on you tube and found a very helpful video to connect to my Alexa, but it would have been nice to have the app that I needed to download in the package. Working as expected.

This product would not work with Alexa and the special app is extremely cumbersome to use I would not recommend this product

I plugged in two sets of outdoorChristmas lights (originally it was going to be three, never got the third set up) and programmed the on/off times. It went off and on at the correct time very day. The plug hangs under the overhang of my room so it doesn’t get snow or rain, the coldest temperature so far has been 12 degrees F. It work exactly as I needed it too. It’s a little bulky, as you can see in the photo bd there wasn’t. Way to hide it in the needed location - that may not be true for your application. I gave four stars because the set up directions are confusing and could have been written better, they also could have been written in something other than a micro-sized font.