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

We have an outdoor fountain that I wanted to control from my phone, so I started looking for a smart outlet on Amazon. I tried two or three standard models with no success--the main problem is that the outlets kept losing wifi connectivity after a few days and needed to be rebooted, which is a huge pain when the outlet is outside the house and around the corner. In contrast, this Wi-on outlet never loses connectivity and has always worked flawlessly, for about 9 months now. The software is very simple and easy to use, and my wife and I can both control it at any time from her Android phone and my iPhone with no problems. Thats exactly what I was looking for. I like this outlet so much I just ordered a second one to hook our outdoor lights into--although we have a transformer for our lights that has an auto-timer feature built in, the Wi-on outlets timer is so much more reliable and functional that Im just going to disable the automatic timer on our transformer and plug the transformer into the Wi-on instead. Then Ill have one Wi-on running the fountain and another running the lights, all working through a single app on my phone (and my wifes phone), and turning the lights on automatically at sunset and off around the time we go to bed.

So I have had this item for ten minutes and it’s a piece of garbage. The unit connects and then loses connection and will not work over cellular. The outdoor unit is having issue when connected to cellular services. When I use the app connected to my WiFi the switch works no problem. When I move to cellular and off my WiFi I can not control the switch and it says “WiFi network not responding”. That’s not true because I switch back to WiFi and it’s on. Plus the outdoor access point is two feet from the unit. This is not good. I tried to contact support via the website but it doesn’t work. The send comment section just thinks and thinks and thinks and never sends. A company that cannot even get a website to work sure as hell cannot get a product to work. Made in China but send it back.

Works well!!

These guys make a great product....app is a bit antiquated but still serves the its purpose.

We have all of our Christmas lights connected to one switch to make turning on and off easy, but this has to be turned on and off in addition to the switch, even though it is also connected. Also, the length of the cord is very short.

The device itself works great. The app is a little clunky, but it works.

Wanted to love it...and did for the first week of operation using it to power the air blower for my inflatable pool dome. But it inexplicably went offline/completely dead -- nothing-even-manual-- tonight for no reason...no rain, temps above freezing, outlet is fine and second stake is fine. Id purchased this hoping for a reliable and remotely controllable power source for the dome. But if I cant trust it after a weeks operation...I sure wont be able to trust it come winter! The blower, btw, is rated 115 Volt 7.5 Amp and this is supposed to be able to handle 125 V - 10 Amp draw, so in theory, the problem should not be the rating.

Easy to set up and connect to my Wifi network. Survived a couple rain showers with no issue. Easy to use app. Only sad thing this model does not support power usage information.