What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
These are easy to disassemble and the flashing is not too difficult. Even without flashing your own code the setup is fast and it connects with alexa without problems using the ewelink app.
The device measures the amps and the volts and calculates the watts. It has 1 small pump that moves the heated fluid from the rooftop solar panel to a heat exchanger tank.
Cons
The android app is clunky and requires a cloud login. There is also a ton of privacy issues associated. The app never seems to display accurate usage.
Highlights
Quality
Build quality is good enough but i wish there was a bit more consistency.
I use these with tasmota firmware and i'm very pleased with the power monitoring and their responsiveness to commands
Ultimately we had to add a guest account named letters only and set the password with the same restrictions (which makes for a ... Read More
Easy setup and alexa integration with the ewlink app.
Price
If a failure would cost me a fair bit of money, i spend more than $10 to capture energy usage and (sometimes) provide switching... Read More
Packaging/appearance
I'd rather sonoff just offered tasmota os from the get-go, or made these over-the-air flashable.
I have used the sonoff software/app before and it is not great.
Competitiveness
Working great, pricey compared to other brands
4ghz but the app kept acting as though we were trying to connect to a 5ghz router.
You can work around it using ha and a sonoff integration, but they randomly disconnect and control is hit or miss.
+4 stars for being a hackable and very useful device overall.
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- This product had a total of 876 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 14 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Even without flashing your own code the setup is fast and it connects with alexa without problems using the ewelink app
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
To get them installed with tasmota i first tried to solder leads to them
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Then i tried to solder pin headers and that was a little bit easier
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I finally graduated to micrograbber electrical test clips and have ripped through over two dozen conversions now without incident
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Id rather sonoff just offered tasmota os from the getgo or made these overtheair flashable
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I will settle for nothing less than local control and im definitely not itching for a new and different cloud solution or app
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Out of a couple dozen ive had one actual device failure
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Oddly enough even with different firmware different units operate differently on my wifi
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