Lightwave LP42MK2 Smart Socket, 3000 W, 230 V, Stainless
Lightwave LP42MK2 Smart Socket, 3000 W, 230 V, Stainless Steel
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Does the job really well. I really like Lightwave products they are well engineered and work well.
easy install and addition to my lightwave network
now achieved pro installer status
I’ve been using these for about a month now. They’re working well, never an issue, and easy to use. My only gripe is the price, but at least you’re getting what you paid for; a solid product with rich features.
Easy to setup en works seamlessly. Great integration with Smartthings.
Well designed product. Easy to install and use. Works well with apple HomeKit.
I am slowly changing all lights and sockets in my house as this system works really well. App is easy to set up and use, and all works with Alexa.
These are great along with the switches I have done my who house with them and have full Google home integration. No complaints and have used them for over a year.
Where they are let down big time is the support of other items. The gen 1 had loads of wireless switch options where as the only real option for these are your phone and the app, which really sucks when you go all in on lightwave as you have to navigate to rooms in the app then just get a load of square tiles which takes time to find the right one…
The million dollar question is, will these suffer the same sticky relay problem which plagued get 1? 20 of my 30 gen1 switches blew up with the classic sticky relay issue within 3 years so hopefully they have learned their lesson.
All good from packaging to installation, help available from customer support second to none.
These are great looking sockets that do the job well. They feel like a good quality product, very easy to wire and replace existing plug. Have mine controlling a lamp which comes on and off at set times of the day.
Nice contempory sockets.
We use them with our phones and Alexa.
Work great!
I was cautious at first with a few negative reviews here but now I own them I am seriously happy. No more crawling under the table to switch lamps off and at night I know that we don’t have the world of technology on standby. The app is pretty dire if I am honest. I use apple home kit and before that I used Google home to control. once you are set it is a breeze. Sometimes Siri fails me but I can cope with that compared to switching of more than 10 switches. Great product if you set up well and don’t use the native app.
When you reenergise the sockets you should have an orange led glowing on them showing they are off. Putting a plug in the led flashes and you press the button to turn it on. The sockets pair to the Lightwave hub (when can we get a single hub for everything) by pressing and holding a button. The hub isnt included with the socket – unless the amazon product says so – without the hub they are a stylish power socket with an led power indicator light but you can’t use them with your phone or Siri home system.
When they are configured with the hub you can label sockets in the lightwave app or homekit; group them into rooms for bulk control. After that the real win comes when you commanding Siri to turn off the TV or microwave as I leave the room and save the stand by energy. In the Lightwave app you can also change the LED colors so mine go green when they are on rather than the standard blue.
I really like the Lightwave system; and plan to replace out the less used sockets around the house in the coming months. Just being able to turn everything off; or view the energy usage by socket makes for some interesting discoveries – by day my Apple HomePod uses less power than my amazon Alexa for example.
Packaging is relatively simple, and to be fair, installation is as straightforward as a normal socket plate. It does need a reasonably deep back box, this is usually the case with socket plates that have extra function like USB chargers (this doesn’t have that obviously!). A black plastic spacer is provided to allow for mounting on shallower back boxes, and I found this was needed anyway as the plate by itself is quite flush to the wall, and the extra depth matched a standard socket depth on the wall so it didn’t look out of place.
The metal plate levers off to allow you to hide the screws that attach the plate to the back box, and I had no issues connecting the existing wiring to the new socket.
Once powered up, the sockets default to off (red light) and even if they’re not paired to the Link Plus, you can still use the sockets manually by simply pressing the buttons, on is represented by a blue light.
The socket paired easily with my link plus, but the app on the smartphone needs a bit of work still, and implies you need to pair twice for a dual socket when you don’t… so I called the socket ‘Kitchen Socket 1’ thinking I’d have to do it again and create ‘Kitchen Socket 2’ only to find it automatically added both, but they were now called ‘Kitchen Socket 1 1’ and ‘Kitchen Socket 1 2’ !! Oh well… The app is also not great for renaming, it took a lot of attempts before I ended up with the names I wanted. When added to Apple Homekit, that picked up the original names, so it obviously keeps those somewhere. The name change in Homekit however was much easier 🙂
So, it works fine with Homekit, I can remotely turn them on and off, and also via Siri.
There is also an Alexa skill available, and this integrates with no issues allowing Alexa control.
So, a good start, but more refinement is needed on the software, and probably more options on finish would be useful to others longer term. The Link Plus app is currently very basic, but then there’s not much you can do with a switch I guess… what would be useful is easier renaming if you get it wrong, and the ability to over-ride the device type that say Alexa sees… If you have a lamp plugged in, Alexa sees the device as a switch and won’t turn it on when you say “Alexa turn lights on”.
The built in energy monitoring is not yet working, but Im told by Lightwave support that will be coming in a couple of weeks with an app update. So it’s now mid November 2017, I’ll update if/when it arrives.
If the software was a bit slicker, and the energy monitoring was there out of the box then it would be a five star product. As it stands, it works well with Apple Homekit and Alexa, and the LED’s aren’t too bright, although maybe another potential software refinement would be an option for no LED at all when the switch is off.