Kasa Smart Plug Power Strip HS300, Surge Protector with 6 Individually Controlled Smart Outlets and 3 USB Ports, Works with Alexa & Google Home, No Hub Required , White

The only real challenge I have with these smart strips is that you never really know how much energy your old strip was using so you dont have anything to really compare it to

I ordered this again for another part of my home because the first one is awesome. Upon receiving this one today, I noticed it sounds a little cheaper than the first one and it looks different as well. They both say theyre HS300s but theyre clearly different models, but are similar in the way of the same amount of plugs, the wifi/alexa integration, etc. This new one actually looks like the picture, so the first one may be a different model. The new one has a flip switch thats a little sunken into the frame and has 3 LEDs Sys, Grounded and Protected. The first one has a circle for a power button and 2 LEDs. They both have 3 USB ports and 6 power ports. This second one, I appear to not be able to rename the ports in Kasa as I was for my first one. Hopefully this one works as well as the first one I bought.

I have 4 of those spread around the house. I use mostly for my plant room, cabinets and etc. It’s very easy to use, reliable and straightforward. You can set up individual commands for each plug as you wish. The only silly detail, which can be worked around, is that it’ll follow the timing of your phone. A different time zone will interfere with the schedules set

4 Stars because this helps with scheduling of lights and airstones on my 4 aquariums so they are automatically consistant everyday. I would give this product 5 stars but some days the schedule is not accurate e.g. today my light had to be turned on in the app manually but the other 6 days this week it was completely automated. Not sure why it blips but I wouldnt trust it to automate my filters or anything critical like that.

I use it to control multiple life-support equipment on my saltwater reef aquarium... one of the best investments I made. If you can’t afford an expensive aquarium computer/controller system then this is the next best thing. Every outlet has its own schedule that you can set to turn on and off multiple times per day. For example, I have the filtration system automatically turn off for 5 minutes twice a day, while an automatic feeder provides food for my fish while I’m at work. I also like that it provides energy consumption information for each outlet. If I’m on vacation, I can check in real time throughout the day that the equipment is consuming energy, which lets me know that there hasn’t been a power outage in my house and that the equipment is running properly, so for me this feature is critical. As a side note, a good upgrade they could make would be phone alerts letting you know that the power strip has lost electricity. But this product still provides more than enough value to earn 5 stars. Everything can be controlled remotely, I can turn the outlets on and off manually from literally anywhere and I don’t have to have my phone connected to WiFi. Highly recommend this product.

This is a great, well-made product. Its very easy to setup using the Kasa phone app. The ability to name each plug and attach a photo is a nice touch. But one of the nicest features is the individual power-usage monitoring on each of the 6 outlets. You can easily look at the real-time power usage for each 0lug as well as its daily and monthly usage. 4 stars only because it would be great if it had a power-cycle feature for a plug (useful for when you need to reset power on the wireless router plugged into the device that the device uses to attach to the internet - if you power off the router, there will be no way to power it back on since connectivity is lost). One sort of clumsy work-around is to set a schedule to turn it off for a minute and then back on the next minute.

Hasn’t let me down once! Tried lots of other smart plugs that would constantly not work properly. These are great! Highly recommend!!

In order to Unlike most of the power strips of this type, all 6 of the plugs are smart and addressable individually. I was not able to group them using the CASA app, but grouping using ALEXA works flawlessly, and that is how i interact with it, so no worries there for me. Note the usb ports are not smart but could still be handy (I am not currently using them). I have stacked stereo components (turntable, pre-amp, amp, headphone amp, streamer) and it was a pain to turn them off and on manually depending on to what and how I am listening. This was especially true of my preamp since the power switch is in the back and not all that easy to reach in my setup. So I used Alexas routine function to do these things. For example, I might say Alexa, Stream Music to Headphones or Alexa, Play Records through Speakers, and the appropriate items are switched on or off. Or when I am done, Ill say: Alexa, turn off the stereo This works great for me. Very flexible. Update: 4/19/2022: This is still a great product, but my home recently suffered a power surge due to a failure of a utility company transformer. The surge protector (like the other surge protectors in my home), shorted. I dont know how the warranty service will pan out, but I do know the process is cumbersome: Long waits for phone-in and for chat you must first register the product, and to register the product, you must first create / log in to an account. And, unlike APC, they do not guarantee the devices plugged into the surge protector. One of my surge protectors was an APC. Though that unit protected all the devices attached to it, the APC unit also shorted. I got on a chat with an APC rep right away and after answering a bunch of questions, they shipped me a new unit and told me to cut the cord on the old one. So I am removing one star TP-Links PIA warranty policy.

I love these strips and have around 10 of them now. They are really really nice, and the Kasa app software is incredible. The only downside of these strips is that they frequently disconnect, and require you to flip the power off and on, for instance with your toe. Until you do this, the device will have a red light saying it lost its connection, and Alexa complains. It happens about once a week per device, and all six plugs stop responding to Alexa until you power cycle. Make sure you dont have a computer plugged into it. This is mostly an issue with further-away wifi connections. I just wish the device reconnect logic were a bit more robust. Other than that, amazing product. I just wish they would let you name the entire strip in the software, since managing 10 of these is a chore.

Works great, makes noise off/on, but otherwise very easy to install!