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Belkin's HomeKit-Compatible Wemo WiFi Smart Plug Now Available for Purchase

gpspad said:
Actually only if you have a newer house (~2009 or newer) that has neutral wiring. Many older homes do not have the neutral wiring required for smart light switches, not sure what wiring is needed for smart outlets.
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Any grounded outlet will work. Technically an ungrounded outlet would work, but it'd be a safety risk and would not meet code. At some point, I imagine smart GFCI outlets will come out, but I don't think any homekit ones exist.

Switches are a little more difficult. There are some that don't require a neutral like the Lutron Caseta Dimmer. However, houses much further back than 2009 have a neutral wire. Mostly because it didn't make sense to run a wire that didn't have one when the rest of the home's receptacles all had 3 wire romex. It was only officially code in 2011.
 
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gpspad said:
Actually only if you have a newer house (~2009 or newer) that has neutral wiring. Many older homes do not have the neutral wiring required for smart light switches, not sure what wiring is needed for smart outlets.
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Outlets always have a neutral wire. Otherwise, nothing you plugged in would work.
 
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Weird... Our house was built in 1943 and I have smart outlets installed throughout the house and they work fine 🤷🏻‍♂️😂 Goes to show ya that they do work... No problems on my end... (and we have the original wiring 😂)
 
My daughter got me 3 of the bigger wemo HomeKit enabled smart plug. What a joke those were and although not an Apple product really soured me on HomeKit. I tried the crap app wemo has one plug was almost found then all I’d get after that is oh your router is not compatible. It’s a new router. Then tried connecting on HomeKit and even though connected to wemo WiFi in settings HomeKit would never connect to them. My wife a while back bought a couple of cheap, like $3.00 on sale Alexa smart plugs. No problem connecting. Always works. I spent a good amount of time with wemo and searching the web to get those plugs to connect. All 3 went back to amazon. I really wanted to jump on the HomeKit bandwagon, so to speak, but after that deal, I don’t know whether to try wemo again or just say screw your it.
 
The current app for iOS is terrible. I have dimmers that can’t get added to HomeKit due to a fault getting the HomeKit number through the WeMo app.
 
Just what I am looking for except ... Belkin withdrew from the smart device market in Australia a couple of years ago. I suspect it was lawyers giving dire warnings about product liability here that scared them off.
I have several older Wemo devices that work well with Homekit but no prospect of replacing/expanding them. Hopefully the new generation of devices (and new owners?) will bring Belkin back to Australia.
 
Does MacRumors just copy and paste company press releases or can anyone there actually find out useful information for a story like this... such as what WiFi protocol and frequency it runs on? When it supports 802.11ac at 5ghz, then a new model would actually make sense.
 
This would be a great way to reset the modem at my house when the kids bug me that its too slow! As long as there is a connection to hit the reset that is!
 
jonnysods said:
This would be a great way to reset the modem at my house when the kids bug me that its too slow! As long as there is a connection to hit the reset that is!
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And how are you going to turn it back on if the modem is off? Without an Internet connection, these devices usually don’t work.
 
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