Amazon Basics Smart Switch, 3-Way, Works with Alexa Only, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, No Hub Required, White

Work great, but be careful about Amazon Warehouse items.
These switches work great with Alexa and in my smart home. I have installed 14 Amazon switches (combination of 3-way dimmer and 3-way switches) over the past 30 days. Hardest part for 3-way wiring is always figuring out which wires in the electric box go to what. If installing a single pole (non 3-way), it is pretty straightforward assuming you have ground and neutral wires in the box (check before ordering, as no way to install without them!). If installing as a 3-way (all of my 14 but one!!!), you need to be handy with a tester and tracing wires. For all of my circuits, I used one Amazonbasics smart switch and one standard 3-way switch (I used the AmazonCommercial 3-Way Paddle switches.) No need to use 2 smart switches on each circuit.Since I was installing so many, I thought I would save a few bucks and buy some of the 3-way smart dimmers from Amazon Warehouse. DON’T DO THIS!!! IT ISN’T WORTH IT!. Apparently Amazon Warehouse takes back the switches that customers can’t figure out and ships them right back out without testing. This wasted SO MUCH of my time. Most of these were missing faceplates, screws, wirenuts, or all of the above. One dimmer switch would control my lights, but not connect to WiFi. A second dimmer switch would talk to WiFi/Alexa, but not send power to the load (light). A third box contained a single pole switch, even though I had paid for a 3-way and the box showed it was a 3-way. It was also missing everything except the switch and instruction manuals. I tried to exchange the two defective switches, but the only option I was given was to read lots of articles on how to troubleshoot! When I replace the switch with an identical one that works, and then try the defective switch in another circuit that was working, I don’t need to read articles. It’s a bad switch! :(For comparison, I have some Gosund smart switches that work very well also, but they require a third party app to set-up and communicate with Alexa. These Amazonbasics switches work directly with Alexa and make set-up and operation seamless. I’ll use and recommend Amazonbasics to anyone using the alexa environment.Again, I am thrilled with the new Amazonbasics smart switches that I installed. They work great and I will purchase more and recommend these to everyone I talk to. I will NOT purchase these switches through AmazonWarehouse again.

Finally I found what I was looking for.
I HAD WEMO switches. As far as app and Alexa integration, unreliable. These are different. So nice to have the switches so responsive and I haven’t had a hiccup yet. The only thing I haven’t figured out yet is setting them up to pow on and off randomly for vacation. Cheaper, easier to set up and more reliable.

Compre el switch por la garantía de ser de Amazon, sin embargo, batalle un poco en el uso correcto del mismo en la app de Alexa, ya que por mas que lo intente hacer funcionar, no podía. Investigando, encontré la solución, hay que cambiar la dirección de tu cuenta a una dirección de Estados Unidos, haciendo eso, se habilitan otras funciones en la APP de alexa y permite configurar el dispositivo, ya que, con una dirección mexicana no es posible configurarlo.

Ok – this is a very good product, but it has one catch that is completely necessary to document much more clearly. IT DOES NOT WIRE LIKE A NORMAL THREE WAY SWITCH! In a standard 3 way application, you need two Three way switches wired in a specific way with the load. You CANNOT wire this switch into that configuration.Instead, the smart switch acts as a Load “controller” and the other switch in the circuit is like a “Toggle Trigger” – and NOT like a regular 3 way switch. In fact, you do not need a three way switch here, you just need a regular single pole switch, since the Smart Switch uses this the voltage on the Traveller wire to trigger a ‘toggle’ of the state of the light.I am NOT an electrician and your local code may vary and I am not liable for anything you do after you l read this review, but this is how I wired my switches and they work perfectly now.FIRST TURN OFF POWER TO YOUR CIRCUIT. MAKE SURE YOU TURN IT OFF. DON’T TAKE ANY CHANCES. IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO TURN IT OFF AT THE BREAKER, STOP RIGHT NOW AND GET SOME HELP FROM SOMEONE WHO DOES KNOW HOW TO DO THAT.1. Locate the switch that is ‘closest’ to the load – by this I mean, out of the two boxes that contain switches in the 3 way application, locate the one that DOES NOT have the direct line coming in, but instead has the LOAD (light or appliance) coming into it. This is where your Smart switch will go. The existing switch will have two ‘traveller’ wires – they are usually black and red and are connected to terminals on either side of the current three way switch – next to each other. They are connected on either side at the same position, usually marked COMMON. One of them will become “Line” for your Smart Switch, and the other will be a ‘Traveller’ but in this situation it is more like a ‘Voltage Trigger’. Mark the lines with the stickers provided in the package – One “traveller” (the black one if they are red and Black) gets marked with LINE, the Other (Red) gets marked with TRAVELLER. The appliance line (the other line connected to this three way switch) is LOAD. The White Is Still Neutral, and the Green is still Ground.2. In the OTHER switch box you will have three wires coming into the 3 Switch there. The two on COMMON terminals (2 next to each other) should be the same colours (i.e. one RED, one BLACK) as the ones you just labelled in the other box. NOW THIS PART IS VERY IMPORTANT – The wire you marked as a “LINE” in the first box will NOT connect to a switch. The third wire coming into that Switch is the live ‘LINE’ for the circuit – you will connect the wire you marked as LINE (ideally BLACK) from the COMMON terminals to this wire, and then into the line on a regular Single pole (i.e. non-3 Way) switch. Then you will connect the wire you marked as TRAVELLER (the RED) to the other terminal on this regular switch. This regular Switch will act as a Trigger for the Smart Switch in the other box.Configured this way, the Smart Switch will draw power on that line you labelled as “LINE” from the old three way circuit. The remote Switch will act as a trigger that the smart switch will use to decide to toggle itself on or off.Once set up this way, everything works well – the remote switch functions the way a normal 3 way switch does, and the smart switch works properly.