Kasa Smart Plug Mini, Smart Home Wi-Fi Outlet Works with Alexa & Google Home, Wi-Fi Simple Setup, No Hub Required – A Certified for Humans Device (HS105)

I bought this for a specific purpose - to be able to power cycle our smart TV when it became unresponsive, without needing to get to the outlet behind the TV. Once set-up problems had been resolved, it does this very well through the app. I havent yet set up Alexa integration, so cant comment on that. Setup appears simple - plug in, and use the app to guide through the stages, following flashing lights on the unit. Despite following to the letter, it kept stalling at the stage when the app was trying to communicate via the wifi network to the smart plug and (I think) trying to establish direct communication with my phone via its own SSID. It kept getting stuck at that stage, taking me down one of two routes, the app asking if I could see blue and amber alternate flashing and if so, trying to select its SSID on my phone or otherwise doing a reset. Neither were successful. I sent the first back, suspecting a bad radio after talking to support. Same with the second, and having decided that it was unlikely I received two bad units, I spoke to TP Link support directly. They were very good, considering the low price of this item and got things going after a router and phone reset and a long (30 sec) reset of the smart plug. However there is nothing odd about my network - a single Linksys WRT series 802.11ac device or phone (Pixel 4). So why was this so difficult? A puzzle given the large number of excellent ratings.

I have quite few Kasa devices around the house as well as some other brands. I like Kasa because they seem to be reliable. I dont seem to have the connection issues Ive had with other brands. I like that I can just give it a name and then tell Alexa to control it by name. It makes it easy to set things up for my wife in a way that she will remember and actually use and lets her replace all the old style rotary timers she was always asking me to tweak. Plus we have enough of them around the house these days that its easy to make the house look occupied when we are away. I like this particular model as its smaller than some of the earlier Kasa outlets I have but other than that thery all work pretty much that same and thats been pretty good for me so Ill probably be back if and when I need more.

I have a bunch of different plugs and lights that are smart, and this one was one of the easier to connect. I still have to get the app for it but once I connected it to the plug it automatically connected to alexa. I think you have to store your wifi password for that to work, but I find the integration very simple. I am not a whiz at this stuff, I am 60 years old so not great with all this new stuff, but this to me was pretty easy. I also liked that they let you put a picture of whatever you are controlling into the app so you can look at the photo plus the text name. This was nice to identify....in case you have a bunch of outlets that might have similar names it just makes it a little easier. Thanks for reading my review Becky Brooks

We hooked this to our Christmas tree. The kids loved getting up and telling Alexa to turn off the Christmas tree. Then when it got dark they would just say “Alexa, merry Christmas “ and it would turn on. This is very very cool. And great to use if you have to plug your tree in behind a couch like we did this year. I believe this plug will be for the tree next year too.

This outlet was easy to setup and great with alexa. Had no problems yet it connects every time to turn lights on and off. Cost a little more the the cheaper one i bought but work a lot better.

Sets up easily and works great when working directly with it. The Alexa integration is USUALLY great. But if it’s in an Alexa Group that has a dimmer, it’ll sometimes turn on when you tell it to or sometimes require you to tell it to set the group to 100. It might be this device or it might be Alexa. I haven’t figured that out yet. Still a great product

Love that I can turn on a light from downstairs. Currently using for a bedroom lamp - so easy being able to turn on before going upstairs with a toddler or baby. Also can turn off the lamp from in bed so I dont disturb my husband since the lamp is on his side. Will be getting more to use when out of town to have lights turn on and off at random to make the house look lived in. Setup took about 5 minutes including the time necessary downloading the app. Havent tried with Alexa or Google Home yet but seems like it should be easy there as well.

I looked for reviews that said whether or not this integrates with Smartthings before purchasing, but didn’t find any, so I’m writing one. The Smartthings website seemed to say that it would integrate without issue. I just got it yesterday and went to connect to Smartthings. It does work, BUT you must install the Kasa Smart app first and you need to connect the device through that app in order to get Smartthings to recognize it. The Kasa app was relatively straightforward and I was able to get it hooked up pretty quickly. It’s not the end of the world. It works. I got it set up with a timer, etc, but I wish you could add it straight through Smartthings.

This is one of those products that just does what its supposed to do, easily and with no fuss. It was quick and easy to set up, even as the first product I own from the company (so I had to download their iOS app before I could proceed). Everything was smooth, including getting it connected to their app and then linking their app to Alexa. Controlling the device thats plugged in via Alexa is super fast (very low latency).

I got several of these to use with non-smart lights around the house, including two strings of Christmas lights and an overhead lamp. The plugs are easy to set up in the Kasa software and to import into the Google Home app for use with Google Assistant. the plugs also have a manual on-off switch on the side of the plug for when you dont want to use voice control. Ive had a couple of these for two years and use them on a daily basis. The only thing that could be better is that they are wide and if your plugging into a power strip they may cover up other outlets (depending on the orientation of the outlets on the power strip), but thats easy enough to work around. T-P Link is a decent brand and the price is right on these -- since every brand of device will likely require its own app to set up and manage them, picking one brand and sticking with it is a good idea. Once you have it set up in Google Assitant or Alexa, you probably will only need to use the Kasa app if you want to re-set the device, just fyi.