Kasa Smart WiFi Motion Sensor Switch, Single Pole, Needs Neutral Wire, 2.4GHz Wi-Fi Light Switch, Compatible with Alexa & Google Home, UL Certified, No Hub Required(KS200M),White,1-Pack

Pretty good. Installed this a few days ago, so far so good. No issues with the installation, replaced a ‘regular’ kasa smart light switch. This works as expected, though a couple of things that i wish were better:The angle of motion sensing is not as wide as i had hoped – i was thinking it would be closer to 180, but it’s quite a bit narrower. When i’m to the side of the switch or even a bit closer to the middle, it doesn’t see me. Because of that, i’ve had to set it to turn off after a longer amount of time so it doesn’t turn off while i’m in the room but out of its angle (and hope that i’ll move into range before that time is up – it’s my kitchen, so chances are good).Second slight disappointment is that the actual manual switch/button to turn it on or off feels a little kludgy – only the very bottom of the switch toggles, even though the entire lower portion of the switch is a single piece. The very middle of the switch does not depress at all. It’s not very intuitive, and the click action is a bit ‘mushy’ and inconsistent, not a solid satisfying click like the regular kasa rocker or a regular non-smart switch.All in all though, it does what i need it to do well enough so far – saves me a bit of electricity when i forget to turn it off, turns on automatically when i’m walking towards it. Has relatively good flexibility options such as making it manual only, or setting it to motion sense only during certain times. Fit and finish is on par with the kasa switches i have (which is to say pretty good). One thing to note was that it had a harder time connecting to my network than all the other kasa switches i’ve setup – had to restart the switch a couple times to finally connect to it and then be able to join my network, hopefully just a fluke.

Pretty awesome, but Kasa needs to redesign for easier and more “proper” device installation. I picked Kasa as my go-to for smart plugs, switches, etc quite a few years ago. The big seller for me was not needing an extra hub, they connect directly to wifi. They all work great, though with the newest app version (Android 13, Pixel 6 pro) the app seems slower to load and grab the status of all the devices. Normally we just yell at Google to turn things on and off, so it’s not too big of a deal. We really only use the app to set schedules, add new devices, etc. I have a really hard time waking up in the winter when you have so few hours of daylight, I love that the [non-motion] dimmer in our master bedroom can be programmed to turn on very slowly. Wife and I both have to wake up early to take meds, and it’s nice to have the schedule set to come on at 6 at 1% brightness, then from 6:15 to 6:45 it gradually increases in brightness to a set brightness.Cons: TP-Link/Kasa needs to get with the program on wiring standards and what size devices fit in the in wall boxes. I’ve been out of the game for over a decade, but back when I worked for an electrical contractor we had single gang boxes (fit one device, outlet, switch, etc) and single gang deep. The box size you would install for new construction depended on the wire size (& quantity), and device. These devices are a little larger than a GFCI outlet, which typically is going to go into a deep box. The issue is that a lot of the places you might want to use these devices, you’re going to have a 15A circuit and a standard depth box, so it’s going to be a tight squeeze. If you’ve ever replaced your own dumb outlets or switchs you’ll be familiar with the screw terminals, for ground, hot, and neutral (and if a GFCI outlet then hot wires have line and load terminals too). A majority of the Kasa devices I have ONLY have pigtails. So you end up with a wildly unnecessary number of splices to make and jam into a box. I think this is bad news bears for any DIY’er who hasn’t had proper training in correctly splicing wires. (though you could make this argument for people not knowing how tight to screw down the terminals, the correct direction to loop the wires around the terminal, etc) I digress… given the huge size of the devices, there’s not a lot of room for having to stuff up-to 3 additional wirenuts into the back of the box. They come with the tiny orange wirenuts, which in a dual or greater gang box is going to be way too small for all the neutrals. TP-Link/Kasa: please update all your models to have screw terminals instead of pigtails!Ok now that I’m done with my rant, I still love these devices! We use the basic motion sensor in the laundry room. Wife left the lights on all day, I’d forget too. It’s wildly convenient to walk into the laundry room with an armload of laundry and the lights turn on for you. It’s double convenient since our garage walks into the laundry room, so when you come home at 530-6 and it’s already pitch black outside because time fell-back already, it’s awesome when the lights come on for you. I thought I might have issues where the lights turn off on you while you’re switching loads, kneeling in front of the dryer trying to fold things, etc. But they seem to stay on, and the default “time off” seems to be reasonable as well. Game changer, now I have to figure out where to install the dimmer version I picked up on sale!

I have about 20 TP-Link Kasa devices, so you could say I’m invested in them. This is my second motion-sensor light switch, and it works as well as the first one. I ordered it from a Warehouse Deal, and when I got it I found that the person who sent it back had cut the ground wire to about 1/3rd of its original length , and then returned it to Amazon without the screws.I was able to get the switch installed, but it was a littler harder than usual due to the short ground wire. This brings me to my general complaint about Kasas and every other smart light switch: the size of the darn things. We can make super-slim cell phones with tiny WiFi radios and antennas, but we can’t make a Wifi light switch that fits easily into an electrical box. For some reason, these switches always have bulky backsides that take up more than half of the space in the box. To make it work, you have to artfully arrange all of the wires in the electrical box and then push the switch in with the screws. It would make a big difference if they just cut down the depth by 1/4 of an inch. Just sayin’.Once installed, the switch is easy to add in the Kasa app, and the motion detection is very good. It also has a light sensor, but I’m using it in a windowless laundry room so I just have it set to always turn the light on (and off after 30 seconds of no movement).I also want to mention the covers that TP-Link provides with their switches: they’re terrible. They have a seamless snap-on design that looks great, but are extremely difficult to remove. It feels like you’re going to break the cover or the switch just to get it off initially. When I tried to remove one from an installed switch, I thought I was going to rip the whole switch out of the wall. These covers were a great idea that was poorly executed, and nothing has changed in five years. I’d rather that TP-Link just left them out.

Works well. I’m impressed. I’m a very savvy guy when it comes to IoT. Installation was easy. Instructions were very very clear and setup was very very easy and did not take long at all. Just a few taps from my phone and this was setup. Under 3 minutes to get this added to my phone for controlling things. Now, I’m all automated.

Works great – fixed a flickering issue from other brand. Bought another brand, installed, and it flickered the LED lights that equal less than 50w. It had multiple settings for dip switches but flickered no matter what. Was twice as expensive as this one. Installed this and it works perfectly except the top dimmer buttons actually get stuck behind the faceplate sometimes. I’ll be switching the plate with standard one to see if that helps. Maybe spacers. Also I wish these would pair with smart life app or with Alexa without having to add another app to my phone. Too many apps now when all I need is the Alexa one really. But otherwise, if not for the faceplate sticking the dimmer buttons it’d get 5 stars.

Not 3 way. I originally tried installing it on one of two hallway switches. Then I learned that it wasn’t able to replace three way switch. I ended up installing it for my dining room and connected the white neutral wire to green wires after watching troubleshooting instructions and it works great. It even responds to alexa voice commands.

4.8 out of 5. This is a great product and works exactly as advertised. I would recommend this.For my use case, I aimed to reduce the amount of switches needed to turn on, on my way to the bathroom which is three! So installing an auto light helped tremendously, and I don’t have to worry about if I left the light on. I want a home like the Star Trek Enterprise Fully automated.CONS• No manual override to keep onI would have assumed with all the great features baked into this, there was a setting that would allow you to keep it on, but no. I have one in the bathroom so I have to set the time out really long in the evening to keep it from turning off when showing. PLEASE KASA update to have an option to keep the light on, something like press the switch twice to keep on until you press it again.•No fine movement sensitivityThough, you can easily adjust from three sensitivity levels, it’s not great at detecting fine movement. I have one installed in a 3.5 x 7 “room” and it will turn off if I’m sitting rather still but just using my phone, or reading a book and slightly moving my hands and head as I read.OVERALLit’s a great product. I’m on 1gig fiber and the network traffic has not been affected. I like that you can set the dim on and off, brightness for certain times, and put it in a timer.

I love these. So simple to install (for those that know about electrical house installation) and they pair great with automation. Have a few in different areas I often forget to turn off the lights. Works great!

Makes life easy, but has a few issues. Update, Oct 2024:The motion sensor is still very sensitive but it turned out the problem with the timer was my error. I’d set up a rule to turn the light off after 10 minutes but elsewhere in the app I’d set it to turn off if it didn’t detect motion for 1 minute. So after 1 minute of me being out of sight of the motion detector it turned itself off, as I’d instructed it to. So a good slap of my own forehead here, a very loud “D’oh!” in my best Homer Simpson voice, and I’m restoring the fifth star to the product.Update, Aug 2024:The motion sensor is very sensitive. I’ve got mine set to the lowest setting and it activates when I’m 10 feet away in an adjacent room. It would be nice to be able to set it to be much less sensitive, so it activates if I walk past it but not if I walk somewhere in the general vicinity. It’s as if the angle of view is fairly narrow, so that if I’m walking along the wall where it’s located it doesn’t respond until I walk right in front of it, but if I’m in the next room it will activate with me a clear 10 feet or more away. That’s tedious, because it means if I stand at my bench to mend something the pantry light keeps turning on.There’s also an issue that might be with the switch and might be with the Kasa app (I suspect the app, but the two go together). Because I’m prone to forget to turn off the pantry light (and sometimes it’s hard to turn it off if I’ve got both hands full) I set up a rule in the software that activates when the light is turned on, and turns it off 10 minutes later. 10 minutes is plenty of time to find what I need in the pantry and leave, except that it actually turns off after more like 2-3 minutes.These aren’t major issues but are irritating enough to knock off a star. There’s not much point having time-based options if what happens bears so little resemblance to what I programmed, and it’s been known for years that motion sensors that activate whenever anything happens remotely near them are of limited use.I still plan to install the other one in the attic, I’ll just leave it to a standard rule to turn it off.Original review:I fitted a motion sensor switch to the room in my basement where I keep the chest freezer. When I take stuff down to the chest freezer I need to figure how to turn the light on, which can be tricky when I’ve got both hands full with stuff to go in the chest freezer. I can flick a switch with an elbow but it’s a bit of a drag. And sometimes when I leave the room I forget to turn the light off, and find it still turned on a couple of days later when I’m next down there.A switch like this solves all these problems at once. The motion sensor means all I have to do is walk past it and the lights come on. And being a smart switch it means I can set up a rule that turns the light off again after 15 minutes. As a fallback I have a “scene” set up in the Kasa app that turns all the automated lights off at midnight regardless, so if the rule doesn’t work as expected it will still shut off at midnight.Be aware these switches are quite deep. I had to replace the back box to fit it, because the previous switch I had was the smallest switch available. The metal back box that was in place was deep enough to hold the Kasa switch but didn’t have enough free space to handle the cables in and out and the wire nuts behind the switch. But now I have a deeper back box and a switch that works very nicely.Installing the switch is about as easy as it gets. It has four wire tails – a white one to connect to neutral, a green one to connect to earth, and two black ones to connect to line/load. All you have to do is figure which wire is which, use the supplied wire nuts to join the wires together, and configure the switch. If you can’t figure out electrics as simple as this, pay an electrician to do it for you.The default level of sensitivity had the light triggering if I went anywhere near it, so I turned it to the lowest sensitivity (this is done in the Kasa app) and now I have to walk right up to it before it activates. That’s perfect for my needs, I don’t want it turning on unless I actually go into the room where it is installed.As a smart switch it can be configured to activate only when ambient light is low, it has different levels of sensitivity for the motion sensor, and it can be controlled remotely and programmed to turn on and off at particular times. That sort of thing has obvious uses if you’re going to be away for a few days, you can set up timers so it’s not so obvious you’re not home. You can also do all sorts of weird and wonderful things if you’re so inclined, so if it takes your fancy you can set it up so that if you walk into the room where the switch is installed it will some totally unrelated device on or off. Why you’d want to turn the attic power strip off when you walk into a room in the basement is another matter, but you can if you want to.I have two of these, and I’m thinking a motion switch to turn the attic light on might be a handy thing to have, for similar reasons.

Works Well and a Good App. I have several Kasa smart plugs, a doorbell and a monitoring camera so I am already committed to the Kasa brand/app. I was looking for a solution for an enclosed laundry room to solve for lights being left on or having to turn on the light with an armful of laundry.This Kasa unit didn’t disappoint. I had to look up and study the wiring a bit because the switch being replaced had just a black and a red wire, in addition to ground. All the white neutral wires were nutted in the back of the box. After some review of install videos and wiring in general, I added a pigtail wire from the white/neutral bundle to connect with the Kasa white wire. Then connected red to one of the Kasa switch black wires and the other black wire from my original switch to the other black wire on the Kasa switch. Ground was obvious/easy.Once I connected wires and beaker back on it was easy to follow the familiar Kasa app process to connect to the switch via WiFi and establish the connection to my WiFi network. I keep all IoT devices like this on their own “guest” WiFi network just as an added precaution. Straight forward as an existing Kasa user but the app walk through is easy enough to follow as long as you know how to connect to and switch between WiFi networks on your phone. With the initial WiFi connection to the Kasa device, you may have to force your phone to stay connected/not change to another network when the phone “warns” you there’s no internet available when connected to the Kasa device.I altered the default setup on the app to turn the light off after 30 secs of no motion detected and this works great. It seem to detect a person but not just a door opening near it but its a small room and works just as I had hoped – the convenience is just what I wanted.

KASA switches are the best you can buy. The media could not be loaded. I would like to first point out that I’ve been using smart switches since their inception. I have tried just about all major brands and there is just absolutely no comparison to these switches. Set up couldn’t be easier. Integration with Amazon Echo devices (Alexa) is automatic after you set up the switch. The switches are a bright white color. One would think that is a given, but not so. Other switches can have a slight yellow hue to them that stand out when using a bright white cover plate. The user has the option to turn off the small LED light incorporated in the switch rocker. I have 24 of their switches (3-way combo sets, single pole switches, and several of their motion sensing switches). All have performed flawlessly over the years. Not one glitch to date. Now Lutrøn on the other hand. They inevitably go bad, all of them, and their switches only provide manual on/off and vacancy sensing. Their options for how long the light stays on is very limited (only 5 settings), not to mention their recessed logo and multiple seams collect dirt over time. I have one of their vacancy sensor switches left, but I anticipate it is going to go bad here in a short while (they all do). Their app for the devices is tops! Easy to navigate, and program the switches. The one feature that I truly love about these switches is their vacation setting. I have certain switches go on and off throughout the night to create the illusion that someone is awake and turning on lights throughout the night and early morning hours. All their switches have a sunrise/ sunset option which is great for porch lights and external illumination. They are a set it and forget it kind of switch, unlike their competitors in which you have to manually set daylight savings hours, and adjust their on/off hours according to the time of year. The sensitivity of these KASA vacancy sensors switches are on par with anyone’s expectations.I have included a few photos and a video illustrating above mentioned and their functionality through Alexa. 1st photo is that of a Lutrøn vacancy sensor switch (not sleek at all), the switch to the left of it is a standard switch (note its color discrepancy compared to the wall plate and smart switch). 2nd photo is the KASA switch, it stands out a bit proud, but I don’t mind, and the switch to its left is a standard switch (again take note of the difference in white hue). 3rd photo is two KASA smart switches (left and middle), and the 3rd is GÉ fan smart switch. Take note of the LED circle on the middle switch. That can be disabled in the app if you choose.

Excellent addition to shoe closets or pantry closets. I already have other Kasa products and I know their products are of good quality. I would have given this 5 stars if not for two minor issues.1. The box was opened before. The sticky seal was completely broken at the seam. One of the switches looked like it had been handled before, e.g., the protective clear sheet was removed and put back into the box.2. The enclosure (for internal electronics) behind the switch is just slightly too chunky…protruding too deep into the junction box. I had to use some really strong force to push the switch into the junction box so that the switch plate can be flush with the wall

I recently added the KS200M motion-sensor light switch to my mixed suite of home automation devices, replacing a similar Incipio switch that failed. The TP-Link switch was a little more expensive than some alternatives, but in general my TP-Link Kasa devices have been a little more trouble-free than other brands. And it works fine, so 4 stars for sure.But it’s a bit annoying that TP-Link still has some easily-fixed annoying flaws after years of customer feedback.Most annoying issue with motion-sensor smart light switches (not just TP-Link), why isn’t there a easy way to temporarily override the automatic timeout when you want the light to stay on? Like when you are working in the room just out of view of the motion sensor, or sitting still in the room?As for the Kasa UI, why isn’t there a custom timeout setting instead of a limited choice of timeout values like “10 minutes” or “20 minutes”, but no way to set “15 minutes”? Don’t they realize that apps have access to a keyboard where you could actually type a number (gasp!) ?And it would certainly be more flexible for home automation if they exposed the motion sensor as a separate device. Yes, you can trigger actions based on the light turning on, but that’s not always what you want.

Perfect for laundry room. Bought this because the light switch in the laundry room is next to the door that goes to the garage. I was always bumping around feeling for the light in a dark room when I went to the laundry room. I bought this light so that when I enter the room the light comes on immediately and I don’t have to pay to have another switch placed in the room. I have had it for 6 months and it works perfectly every single time. It was easy to install, and it looks nice. Would recommend these lights to anyone. I also have a timer light by Kasa and it works perfectly. Hasn’t failed once in over a year of use.

Have this setup in the garage and it does a pretty good job at detecting motion. You can change the settings to make it more or less sensitive which is also nice. Setup was pretty simple, don’t forget to make sure your breaker is tuned off :)It would get a 5 if it could detect the door as motion but I think it’s based off heat and only detects me once I’ve gone down one of the stairs (180 degrees in relation to the switch)Also, app is pretty good too, simple enough to use and the connectivity was easy. I like that Kasa has widgets available on iOS so you can toggle the light from your home screen (See screenshot). You can also set a timer for how long the light stays on after it stops detecting motion.