Kasa Smart Dimmer Switch HS220P3, Single Pole, Needs Neutral Wire, 2.4GHz Wi-Fi Light Switch Works with Alexa and Google Home, UL Certified,, No Hub Required, 3-Pack

I love this Kasa smart dimmer switch! The installation was surprisingly easy thanks to the step-by-step guide in the Kasa app. The app itself is very user-friendly, allowing me to control the lights and set schedules from anywhere. The dimming is smooth with no flicker, and it integrates perfectly with Alexa for voice commands. This is a high-quality switch that makes any room feel more modern. Highly recommend!

Making your house smart shouldn’t be hard, and it shouldn’t involve creating accounts for the different devices you want to use. And it definitely shouldn’t involve giving up your privacy just so you can talk to your dining room lights.Until recently that’s what you had to do regardless of which smart system (Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit, or Samsung Smartthings) you used. No system included everything you might want to use, your doorbell camera might be from Ring and your smart lock might be from Schlage. You’d have to create accounts in each then integrate them into your smart system.The new Smart home standard, called MATTER, attempts to change all of that by establishing compatibility standards for smart systems and devices without the need to create accounts or give up any privacy. If the device is MATTER compatible and your smart system works with MATTER, you just scan a QR code and the device is integrated. Simple, easy, done.If you’re a HomeKit user, this was a godsend. More smart device makers are adhering to the MATTER standards and these Kasa single pole smart dimmers shows just it should be done!Installation is marginally more complicated than installing a regular single pole switch. Once installed and powered, the dimmer works like any normal manual dimmer. The magic happens when you add the device to HomeKit.In HomeKit->add device, you scan the QR code. After about a minute HomeKit asks you a few more questions about how you want to integrate the switch. Answer those and you’re done! No new accounts or passwords you have to remember. The dimmers just work!Of course, Kasa would love for you to open an account so they can bombard you with info about other products they offer, but you don’t have to do it. The only reason you may decide to get an account is for firmware updates, but those are relatively rare.They look great too. I highly recommend these dimmers.

I've installed more than 50 of these smart switches across several properties.Price-wise, these are on par with Lutron "dumb" switches that you'd buy at a big box store, and you get much more functionality.Installation is straightforward for anyone familiar with basic electrical work. It's a bit like a GFCI outlet, though- they are fairly bulky, so there's not going to be a lot of spare room in the box. It can be tricky to get two of these into a duplex box. (Waygo's, or very, very neat wiring are your friend)We use these with Google Home, and they work very well. The only complaint I have about the integration is setting them up twice- once in the Kasa app, and then again in Google Home. It would be great if the setup process were all in one place and just flowed through. For example, when i have "Living Room" in both apps, Google Home should realize that I've set up a switch in Kasa and automatically assign it to "Living Room" in Google. I realize that is on Google- it's just something that should be addressed.Once it is integrated, though, you can mimic a much more expensive home automation system. I've seen homes with $30k-$50K just on home automation. These switches do a darn good job of mirroring that, and they don't require a server to run them. We've set up "scenes" like "Hey Google, it's time for movies"- and then Google can address the various switches and dim the lights, close the blinds, etc. It's quite a luxurious feeling.What I particularly like about these switches is that they stay connected to our wifi pretty well. I've experimented with several other brands, and some of them will drop off the wifi on an annoyingly frequent basis. I want to install, then not think about it again. In my primary residence, we have >30 switched that have been running for about a year. Only one has ever needed to be reconnected to wifi, and that has only happened once so far. (btw, reconnecting is relatively easy, as there are reset buttons carefully hidden on the front of the device- you don't have to take it out of the wall).So all in, electronics are well designed, installation is about what you'd expect, and integration with Google Home is pretty good. Kasa has done a very nice job with these switches.