BroadlinkSmart Wall Light Switch, 3-Gang Single Live Wire Switch, No Neutral or Capacitor Required, Push Button, White,Compatible with Alexa, Google Home and IFTTT, S3 Hub Required (With Hub)

I do like this product, but installation took longer than I expected, essentially because of missing/unclear info. Which I will try to supply here.1. You need to prise off the front of the switch - the bit that moves - to access the screws that attach it to the wall. This requires a large amount of strain put on the top left hand corner, so that one becomes confident that the whole thing is about to explode in a shower of plastic fragments. Courage, dear heart.2. Because of issue 1, above, when I initially wired up the switch, I didn't replace the cover when testing it. As DPM notes in his review (which I only noticed afterwards), this is a sad error. Like him, I convinced myself I had a faulty unit. The cover MUST be in place for the switch to work.3. The Bluetooth pairing was a bit problematic. I had several goes, moving the hub further away, before it mated.4. As others have noted: you do need an S3 hub. If you ordered a version of this without a hub, you are out of luck. Also, if you do get a hub, know that it needs a USB power supply, which is not included.The instructions are printed in a font size teeny--, in a light grey ink, and are less fulsome than one might wish. They are instructions for somebody who has done it before.Despite all the above, I am very pleased with it. But I am new to this voice control lark, so perhaps naïve.

Received and set these up over the weekend, and so far I'm impressed.I ran into a couple of issues during set up that are worth bearing in mind:1. Make sure you include the purchase of the S3 hub when setting up your first switch.2. The broadlink app doesn't appear to work with Android 12 when setting up the hub for the first time. I had to switch to a phone with Android 11 still running on it to get it working. Though I was able to switch back to my A12 phone once up and running. Hopefully this will be fixed in a future update.3. Make sure you don't be daft like me and try to set these up without the switch cover being attached. This may be obvious to some, but the white paddles only act as a spring mechanism and the actual switch button is located just below. Took me ages to figure this out and I thought I had a defective product when pressing the paddle down and it didn't operate the light nor did it place the switch in pairing mode when holding it down for 5 seconds as instructed. All was fine when placing the switch cover back on. Doh!I have these set up in the kitchen along side an echo flex with a motion sensor attached. Using an Alexa routine, I'm able to trigger the lights when motion is detected in the kitchen and they turn off again if no motion is detected for 2 minutes. Bear in mind you have to add the switch to an Alexa group in order to include them in your routine though.Anyway, after the initial set-up issues, they have worked really well and I'm very happy with my purchase.

Too deep to fit in standard UK light switch pattress, hence you’ll see it’s often purchased with an extender, even with this extender it’s a tight fit and have fun finding the thread holes in the pattress through the switch, extender and metal plate you need to fit, absolute pain in the backside.The switch is sometime so sold without the required hub device but requires it to work. Even when bought the tiny little usb hub device wifi wont reach 3 metres from one side of my flat to the other, which means I can only operate the light switch in the same room as the hub device. I cant seem to use my phone and it’s perfectly good connect to wifi as a hub device which is a bit of a joke considering that’s what you control the lights with. Smart bulbs do it, why cant these?Overall each factor of this device, from fitting it to making it work as intended, has been a complete disaster and sadly now that I have taken this long yo realise how bad they are, it wasn’t me not understanding the function, it’s just an awkward design etc. It’s now too late to return them.Total waste of my time and money. Just buy Philips Hue… they’re pricey but at least they’re recognised by smartphone home apps etc.

UPDATE: WARNING one hub will only control 8 devices! I now have 9 of these switches and 2 hubs. A bit of a hiatus whilst I found out the essential knowledge about 1 hub = 8 devices MAX. I now have used all 3 types (1/2/3 gang) and all have worked flawlessly and continue to do so. Adding devices to hubs is easy. The integration with Alexa works well.I now have 4 of these switches - 3 single gang and one two gang and a tiny BroadLink hub. Main control is by Alexa which uses the BroadLink skill to communicate with the hub. The switches are good quality and safely sealed. The instructions are OK but printed in grey 6 point type - not easy to read! They fit a UK wall box BUT only if you have an extender - £2 from another supplier and delivered together. Wiring was straightforward EXCEPT when replacing a 2-way set up which required some careful reading of a web page and some wire labelling before I took it to pieces. Putting the wall screws back in is fun with an extender otherwise installation was easy. The BroadLink app and hub worked well after the first time - it takes a while to get through the setup at first. The last one took 3 minutes all down to experience. I have replaced a 2-way circuit in my kitchen (two switches one light). This means ONE powered switch controlling the light and one unconnected one. You cannot have an unpowered switch so I used a 2 gang switch one wired to my garage lights and the second switch unconnected as the second of the 2way. Setting up the automation in the app was simple - you need 4 routines if one is put on switch the other on, another for off and two more for the other switch. Simples.