WeMo - Wireless Dimmer Switch - White

Wall installation was easy and straightforward if you have basic electrical knowledge. It is important to know this dimmer can only be used on a single pole light switch (one switch controls one set of lights). Installation is as follows: 1. Turn off breaker to light switch. 2. Take off face plate and unscrew old switch. 3. Test for any other live wires within box using voltage detector to prevent electrocution. 4. Remove wires from old switch. 5. Attach green wire to bare copper wire (ground). 6. Attach white wire to white wire (neutral). 7. Attach the black wire with the lighting bolt icon to black wire for power source. 8. Attach the other black wire with light bulb to black wire to light source (load). 9. Carefully push all wires back in place, replace screws and turn breaker back on. Note: Wires in your home may be different colors or even wired incorrectly. If in doubt, hire a professional. After testing to make sure the light turns on manually, download the WEMO app. I had a glitch occur during initial setup and was very frustrated with the setup process. In order to prevent others from being equally frustrated, I would perform the following before connecting your phone to the dimmer, via a temporary Wi-Fi signal, and opening the app on your phone. 1. Forget all your WiFi networks on your phone. (Note: Dimmer uses 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi) 2. Turn off smart connect (feature which phone auto connects to cellular data when no internet is detected). 3. Unplug/turn off any router extenders. (setup app does not show “_ext” and I think I selected the router extender which may have caused the glitch) 4. Disable cellular connection. 5. Disable Bluetooth. The glitch during setup caused no devices to show up within the app. I followed the directions within the WEMO app to “Reset Your Dimmer’s Wi-Fi” and “Factory Restore Your Dimmer,” and neither reset fixed the problem. After speaking with a service representative, it occurred to me that you must also clear the WEMO app’s “Cache” and “Data” in the apps setting. Even though I should have known this, I think the company should include that in the reset directions. After a successful app install, I found the app easy to use and very responsive to commands on Wi-Fi. I did notice a couple second delay when I used the cellular connection, but that was to be expected. The app has many features to customize the lights, such as an adjustable timer to fade out to sleep, a night mode, a programmable “Rule” control, and a manual dimmer and off button. You can even do more customizations by connecting to IFTTT and Nest. I would not recommend this product since the WEMO uses Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth for setup and so many steps need to be completed to be successful. Another option WEMO could have used was the WPS on the router to establish the connection. I did select to save the Wi-Fi settings, so maybe I would not have to go through this again for additional devices.

This is the first smart switch that I have installed in my home. First, what I liked: Switch itself is pretty modern and slick looking. Manual controls are intuitive, you can slide your finger to dim/brighten the lights or just hold your finger at your desired brightness level for a second to go there instantly. Dimmer Feature is great! It allows you to set up a time range when you can use a reduced brightness - typically evening and morning work for me. App is pretty easy to set up and connect to your switch and has a pretty intuitive interface. Turning the light on and off from the app is instant - I was expecting a bit of lag, but there really is almost none at all, same with using the dimming feature on the app. My main gripe is that I was hoping that voice control would be easier to set up. It seems that you need Alexa or Google home to set up voice control on this. I was hoping that just an android phone would be enough since it already has a mic and responds to voice commands (starting with "ok google"). In any case, maybe this will improve as time goes on. Although this is not an issue with the switch, it took a bit of time for me to find a brand of LED bulbs that were not buzzing when connected to a dimmer. This is a common problem with LED bulbs and dimmers though, so like I said, it is more of a bulb issue and not an issue with the switch.

yes I recommend thi product !! technology its so good

I was looking for a dimmer to work with Google , after searching several solutions on the internet I ended up choosing the WEMO , it's a quality BELKIN product, easy to set up and works flawlessly every time. I highly recommend this product if your in the market to go wireless. Wemo keep producing great products. Thank you

Alright folks we are officially living in the future. Although I never thought that a light switch would be the thing that made me feel that way. But this isn't just any light switch. It's the Belkin WeMo Dimmer Wi-Fi Light Switch, and it has surpassed all of my expectations. There is not much to the package. Just a small box with a very fancy looking light switch, some caps to twist your wiring together, and the instructions you need to get started. To be clear I had no experience with changing out a light switch before this. In the end the included instructions, and a helpful Youtube video were enough to get me going. The process was really quite easy. My only piece of advice here would be to make sure you turn off the correct fuse in your home's breaker box to avoid injury. If you are not comfortable with this just ask a friend who is familiar with it or call an electrician. Once the device was physically installed the rest of the setup was even easier. After downloading the WeMo app on my phone it walked me through the rest of the steps. Through the app you can obviously turn the lights on and off, and adjust the level of dimming. You can also create profiles to automatically turn the lights on or off at a certain time, to set a specific level of brightness for movie time, or any other scenario you can come up with. And you can control all of this wherever you have internet access. If you forgot to turn off the lights before you left the house? No problem. If you want to make it look like someone is home while you are actually on vacation? It's got you covered. Combine the Belkin WeMo Dimmer Wi-Fi Light Switch with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, and you can live out your dreams of being on the Starship Enterprise. And just like that we are in the future. It looks great, and works better than expected. I had only planned on getting this one switch, but after trying it out I am ready to outfit the entire house. Give it a try, and I am confident you will too. Highly Recommended. Thanks Belkin!

The installation was fairly simple if you have any knowledge of wiring a light switch with four wires, load, line, ground and neutral. I am using it with dimmable LED lights in a chandelier. Once the switch was wired I had some issues with the pairing of the switch using the Wemo application as it wasn't recognizing it at first. After about 20 minutes troubleshooting, resetting everything and reconnecting the switch via wifi, I was up and running. I was able to pair the application and the switch through my Alexa and can now control the light with my voice; it even allows you to dim the light with your voice. The switch is aesthetically pleasing however it does stick out a little bit but not any more than any standard light switch. It acts like a touch panel and you dim the light with the swipe of your finger. There are a few reset and reboot buttons under the switch which came in handy when troubleshooting. I would recommend this to anyone in the market for a wifi and voice controlled dimmer switch for lights.

If you've ever installed a light switch, this isn't any different. My installation was in a three switch box, so after switching off the breaker the hardest part was pulling out the other two switches to gain access to the neutral wire bundle I needed to connect to. Once that was complete, the other wires were connected and all switches put back in place, then off to switch on the breaker. One thing I noticed when reinstalling the switch plate/cover is this switch does stick out further from the cover compared to our other switches. Just an aesthetics thing. With power applied it took a couple of minutes for the switch to appear in the WeMo app and then I was able to access the Connect to Nest option in Settings to link the WeMo app to my Nest thermostat which I'm now able to control through the WeMo app as well, although apparently you can't access WeMo devices through the Nest app. The Nest app only shows when WeMo was last used (mine doesn't show anything so not sure it works) and allows you to remove the Nest/WeMo connection. Over the course of the next few days we used the app to control the light at various times of the day. One of the things I noticed was there can be a several second delay between the time you turn the light on/off or change the brightness and it actually happening. I've also had several times where the app/switch appeared to be locked up/frozen, but after a short delay allowed me to control the light. There were also a couple times the first day where the device (dimmer) wasn't available and the app asked me if I wanted to hide it, but that appears to have cleared up. Overall it was an easy install and setup if you've ever installed a light switch. The lag between command and action may annoy some and the switch itself sticks out further from the face of the switch plate compared to our other switches.

It was easy to install and easy to use with the app that you download. It’s so easy even a caveman can do it. Lol but no seriously. If your looking to upgrade your light switches. Then this is your upgrade. Best investment I’ve made. Just kee an eye on them. They go on sale at a great price. I bought 5 on Black Friday for only 39.99 and let me tell you I am happy that I did. Now I can control my lights from anywhere with the app. I uploaded of a pic of part of the install.