![]() Once you’re up and running, you can use the Insight Switch, and any other WeMo device, whether you’re on the same Wi-Fi network, on different Wi-Fi or on 3G/4G. It’s annoying the first time, but the app remembers your details and makes adding secondary or tertiary devices much more painless. The setup process seems pretty basic, but can be a bit fiddly - you’ll need to manually connect to the Insight’s personal ad hoc Wi-Fi network, run the app, select your infrastructure Wi-Fi, jump out of the app, re-connect to your normal Wi-Fi, force close the app and then run it again - especially if you’re on iOS. The idea - simple on/off switching combined with the value-based result of instantaneous power usage and power usage over time - is straightforward, but at the same time opens up a huge range of possibilities.Įverything that the Belkin WeMo Insight Switch does is initially set up through a companion app for a smartphone or tablet any iOS 7 or Android 4.0 device or newer is supported. ![]() You can turn on a garden irrigation system on a Sunday once the temperature has dropped below 25 degrees (with a little bit of extra customisation, at least). You can turn off a TV once you’ve been using it enough to cost you 50 cents in a day. In that sense, you can have the Insight Switch turn off an electric heater once it has been running for an hour. It’s a gate that you can program with rules, too, so you can customise those rules to suit the requirements of whatever you’re plugging in. As a little plug that connects to your wall outlet or powerboard, then has a single regular Australian three-pin 240-volt socket for connecting a single electrical device (or an entire powerboard if you’re so inclined), the Insight Switch acts as a computerised, Wi-Fi-enabled gate. If you’ve ever wanted the combo of energy usage monitoring, remote on/off switching, and time- and scenario-based rules - as well as IFTTT integration - then the $99.95 Belkin WeMo Insight Switch is the gadget you need in your life.
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