YoLink Smart Energy Plug 15A – 1/4 Mile LoRa Range, High-Power Devices with Cycle Schedule, Real-Time Energy Monitoring, Overload Protection, Alerts, Alexa, Google, IFTTT, HA, Hub Required YS6614

This YoLink Mini Plug is absolutely amazing for long-range smart home control! The 1/4 mile range claim isn't just marketing hype - this thing actually works from incredible distances that leave other smart plugs in the dust. I've tested it from various locations around my property and I'm blown away by the connectivity. Even from the far end of my yard, through multiple walls and obstacles, it maintains a solid connection. No more dead zones or frustrating dropouts like I experienced with WiFi-based plugs. Setup was surprisingly simple and the app interface is clean and responsive. I love being able to control outdoor equipment, garage tools, and remote appliances without worrying about signal strength. The build quality feels solid too - good weight and sturdy construction that inspires confidence for long-term use. The compact size doesn't block adjacent outlets, which is a nice design touch. For anyone with a large property, outbuildings, or just wanting reliable smart plug control without range anxiety, this YoLink Mini Plug is a game-changer. The world's longest range claim seems legit based on my real-world testing! Finally found a smart plug that actually works everywhere I need it to. Highly recommend!

So I'm a cybersecurity engineer, automating my personal systems. I have houses 700 miles apart, and I have a ridiculous level of automation because that's just how I roll. So much of the gear I use works great when I'm in the room, and fails the hour I leave for the other house. Wifi is a wonderful thing, when it works. The problem is it is easy to jam up wifi, AND so many of the IOT devices are based on 2.4ghz wifi that can be shut down by any baby monitors that use wifi frequencies but do not use wifi. A baby monitor /can/ shut down any 2.4ghz wifi within a half mile. So as a result I see tons of wifi failures in that 2.4ghz band. It's not just baby monitors, but those are a common example, there are many others. Yolink uses loran technology for communication, easily overcoming wifi failure modes. This is important to ME. Your mileage may vary. I have only two issues with yolink products. One is the speakerhub, it is wifi only, so it falls outside of my "sphere of reliability", I /really/ with it had an ethernet port. Speakerhub makes a noise when wifi goes up and down... I hear that noise a LOT. And it isn't my wifi router's fault, any properly operating wifi AP will fail to operate when blocked by a interfering signal, that is a required part of the wifi protocol, wifi that doesn't do this is actually illegal because it might be near a military radar installation. The second thing about YoLink is that sometimes I need polling cycles of short duration, so for example a temperature probe on an air conditioner will need to have fast polling cycles to capture the curves needed to check performance of the unit. The hour polling cycles are great for most things, but sometimes I need more frequent polling cycles, even if only temporary. I wish there was a way for me to buy extra polling cycles on a month to month basis, but I think that functionality is probably reserved to larger customers with larger operations. So the power of the yolink platform is that because it is not on your wifi, it can be used to repair and remediate issues with your wifi. In my redundancy setup, I have a hub on each of the ISP's feeding a site, so that if one ISP is down, I can reboot the router from the other ISP connection, from anywhere on the planet. And in the short time I have been doing this, I have used it to resolve issues with both ISP's, thereby avoiding 20 hours of driving. I have many brands of remote power modules, as well as temperature sensors, 4 brands of surveillance cameras, a cisco dual-wan router, hvac controls, and automations to manage some of my personal "infrastructure". YoLink has been the solution for many problems, and a joy to build ifttt automations for. It is clean and simple.

After many hours of research, decided to go with the YoLink product line. Purchased the hub, water sensors, water valve controller, couple of the outlet controls, motion sensor, and a door sensor (which by the way works fantastic for the garage door eliminating the question 5 minutes after leaving home, did we close the garage door?) The outlet controller is great, scan the QR code which will connect it to your hub, plug it in and done. You can control the plug from your phone. The Yolink app is easy to use, controls everything on the system with a lot of different options. Sends alerts to your email or via text message. The best part, the app is FREE, no subscription costs. Adding equipment is a breeze, just scan the QR code on the device and it connects wireless to the hub.

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1. Implementation could not be simpler. Scan the barcode on the device with your phone, give the device a name and assign it to a room, hit the "bind device to network" button in the app, then press the set button once and, voila, the device is active on your network. 2. Usefulness - I have my washing machine plugged into this device and, in the event of a leak, the nearby Yolink leak detector directs Yolk's shutoff valve to turnoff the water main, and this plug cuts electricity to the washing machine (my concern is that a flood come come from either, say, a hose breaking OR from a clogged drain within the washing machine; thus, the need for this plug). The app then notifies me via text, email, iOS notification that a leak was detected and the power to the washer has been cut (and the Yolink Siren Alarm also goes off. Gee, I probably know what's going on by now, huh! :). 3. Energy Monitoring - Easy to read graph shows power usage. I highly recommend this device. Exceptional quality and value.

These plugs are easy to set up, very flexible in terms of scheduling and routines, and work well. The Yolink hub is an issue (and I'm not the only one who has had problems with it). The hubs tend to stop staying connected to the network (Ethernet) for no good reason. My replacement hub will be arriving next week. I'm pointing this out because none of the Yolink devices will work without a Yolink hub.

Easy to set up and work reliably. I’ve had a few of these for a few years and used others. I like these a lot for their price and ease of use, some of the others are a pain to set up or manage, not these.

I'm using this for my electric blanket. It has an auto shut off of 10 hours but that is way too long for me. I' like to turn it up and fall asleep all toasty warm but then I wake up several hours later way overheated. This smart plug has been the perfect solution. I have the blanket plugged into it and I set it to turn off in 2 hours, so my blanket shuts off after I'm asleep. It's very reliable. If I wake up and want to heat my blanket again, I can just grab my phone and turn the plug on for another couple hours. The app is very easy to use though I wish the colors were brighter and icons and print were larger so that I could do it without having to put my glasses on. I can also set the plug to power on and off at a certain time each day, on a schedule. You can use a schedule mode or a timer mode and set it for however long you want to. You can also review the history of when it was powered on and off. I do wish the app worked on my tablet, hopefully they will develop that in time, but all in all it is a great product and has made my life so much better. Highly recommend.

No issues. Simple setup. Note that you must plug this in to get it online. Plug it on, turn it on (blue light) and then bind it to the app. It will not show as online in the binding screen unless you plug it in before binding. I would consider this a *light duty* switch regardless of the 10A rating. It's just too small to have a powerful relay imo. I will use these to turn off power to my 3D printers remotely as they only draw around 3A. You could also use this in conjunction with any other sensor to control equipment using the app....like a temperature sensor to kill power to your furnace if the house temp starts going crazy (I know 2 people this happened to....scary af). If required, you could use this to control a higher current relay with a 120Vac coil if needed.

Works perfect. App is very friendly. Have many of their products.

Love Yolink products for my smart house. Devices respond quickly, are reliable and have a great range of response. I use this device in combination with other Yolink devices for my Sump Pump setup in my basement. These devices easily link with Home Assistant for a whole home automation solution.

Works perfectly.. used with the phone and it’s programmed to turn on and off at certain times. ( also bought a remote for it incase my phone isn’t around and my wife wants to control it manually)

The performance was good but not as good as other yolink products. I am not sure why but the signal strength goes from low to very strong at random times. Even though the unit is always in the same place. Approximately fifty feet from the base station. I've never had any problems with yolk products except this one is baffling me.