I live in Thailand where the voltage is 220 and the number of available HomeKit devices is quite limited. My LAN router is an AirPort Extreme. My house is small and I have excellent WiFi connectivity throughout my home and yard.
I started my adventure with a KanKun smart plug that needed Homebridge to connect to HomeKit.
Soon after that KooGeek devices started to become available. I replaced the KanKun plug with a KooGeek P2. That was mostly a disaster because it kept losing connection with HomeKit (Updating -> No Response). I replaced that with a P1 which has worked fine. Oddly, I moved the P2 to a different location where it is now working fine.
I have several other P1 outlets which sometimes work and sometimes not. It's a crapshoot.
Then I bought a KooGeek lightbulb. That worked fine for a while except that after a power outage it always defaulted to ON. OK if you're home, but if you're away the light bulb will be on until you get home and turn it off. (I actually set up an automation that turned the bulb off every hour just to make sure it didn't stay on after a power outage.) Eventually the KooGeek bulb would become completely unresponsive after a power outage and would have to be deleted from HomeKit and re-added. Not bad if you have few power outages, but we have plenty.
I replaced the KooGeek bulb with one from Yeelight (Xiaomei). At first the bulb would connect to HomeKit, but not to the Yeelight app. I reset it over and over again to no avail. Finally I changed the region in the Yeelight app from Asia (where I live) to Mainland China. After that the bulb connected immediately to the Yeelight app.
The Yeelight app worked fine for a day. Then it started missing automations, but was still accessible from both HomeKit and the Yeelight app. Then it became accessible only from the Home app on my iPhone but not from the Home app on my iPad. Then it became accessible from nowhere.
I tried cycling the power to the bulb and it started working again. But, what use is a home automation system where you have to manually intervene to get things working properly? I'm away from home a lot. I want things to keep on working when I'm gone. At this point I have zero confidence that will happen.
I started my adventure with a KanKun smart plug that needed Homebridge to connect to HomeKit.
Soon after that KooGeek devices started to become available. I replaced the KanKun plug with a KooGeek P2. That was mostly a disaster because it kept losing connection with HomeKit (Updating -> No Response). I replaced that with a P1 which has worked fine. Oddly, I moved the P2 to a different location where it is now working fine.
I have several other P1 outlets which sometimes work and sometimes not. It's a crapshoot.
Then I bought a KooGeek lightbulb. That worked fine for a while except that after a power outage it always defaulted to ON. OK if you're home, but if you're away the light bulb will be on until you get home and turn it off. (I actually set up an automation that turned the bulb off every hour just to make sure it didn't stay on after a power outage.) Eventually the KooGeek bulb would become completely unresponsive after a power outage and would have to be deleted from HomeKit and re-added. Not bad if you have few power outages, but we have plenty.
I replaced the KooGeek bulb with one from Yeelight (Xiaomei). At first the bulb would connect to HomeKit, but not to the Yeelight app. I reset it over and over again to no avail. Finally I changed the region in the Yeelight app from Asia (where I live) to Mainland China. After that the bulb connected immediately to the Yeelight app.
The Yeelight app worked fine for a day. Then it started missing automations, but was still accessible from both HomeKit and the Yeelight app. Then it became accessible only from the Home app on my iPhone but not from the Home app on my iPad. Then it became accessible from nowhere.
I tried cycling the power to the bulb and it started working again. But, what use is a home automation system where you have to manually intervene to get things working properly? I'm away from home a lot. I want things to keep on working when I'm gone. At this point I have zero confidence that will happen.