Kasa Smart Plug Power Strip HS300, Surge Protector with 6 Individually Controlled Smart Outlets and 3 USB Ports, Works with Alexa & Google Home, No Hub Required , White

A Power Strip So Smart, It’s Probably Judging My Life Choices
Look, I didn’t need a smart power strip. But after buying the Kasa Smart Plug Power Strip HS300, I now feel like the kind of person who irons their socks and alphabetizes their spice rack. This thing is that organized.First impressions? It’s sleek, white, and looks like the kind of gadget a Bond villain would use to power their espresso machine and laser cannon. It even stands up nicely on its side — which is great if you want to pretend your surge protector is striking a heroic pose while managing your chaotic cable jungle.Actual Features That Surprised Me (In a Good Way):Works with HomeSeer and Sense. Yes, it actually integrates with your unnecessarily complicated smart home setup. Now your home automation scripts can finally control your lava lamp and judge your coffee maker’s electricity addiction.Shows individual power usage per outlet. Fantastic! Now I can see exactly how much energy my air fryer is consuming while it reheats a single chicken nugget. Spoiler alert: it’s embarrassing.Wi-Fi connectivity actually works. After the obligatory 20-minute app dance and three failed attempts to “connect to device,” it stayed connected and hasn’t dropped off the network once — which is more than I can say for my $200 router.Stands up well. No, seriously. It stands. Upright. Like a champion. No flopping around like a sad fish behind your TV. It knows its purpose.Some Gently Sarcastic Notes:The app is… fine. It works. It’s just not winning any UX design awards. But hey, once you’ve named each plug something inspiring like “Lamp 1,” “Lamp 2,” and “Definitely Not a Lamp,” you’re golden.Don’t be fooled by how smart it is — it won’t do your taxes or explain crypto. It’s still just a power strip. With ambition.The energy monitoring is cool until you realize your desk fan is basically a power-hungry gremlin. Knowledge is power… and now you can literally measure it.Final Thoughts:If you’re the type who wants to know exactly how much electricity your fish tank filter is using at 3 AM — congratulations, this is your holy grail. Works well, plays nice with all the smart home toys (including HomeSeer and Sense), and looks like it came straight out of a sci-fi movie.Just don’t expect it to do anything actually intelligent, like stop you from buying more smart plugs.

Easy connect and programming of plugs.
Wow! Simple and easy plug and play. This sure beats buying individual plugs, though now I have 4 I will need to re-purpose for other use, but that should be easy. Since I had the KASA app and Alex, it was a smooth connect and play. Programming was easy once Alexa found the strip. This was a great buy at a 1/2 off. I would highly recommend this to anyone needing some programmable switches for timing needs with lighting or other devices needing control for on off schedules. Great find and Great product.Pros: Room between plugs, even with fat transformers, Easily Plug and Play with Kasa App or Alexa, All plugs are clearly marked, Clean white color, USB ports, small LED’s for on/off on each plug and status LED’s for ground, protection and system status (these are small and visible, but not super bright which is perfect).CONS: Maybe the power cord itself could have another 1 or 2 ft added, 4 ft makes it a little shorter than desired.Over All Great Product Especially on sale!

Pretty good interface and easy to setup
So I just got this and set it up and I’m pretty pleased with it overall. The app is good but not great. I did have a little trouble with the initial connection, but that probably mostly my lack of attention. I didn’t read/interpret the on screen directions correctly. 🙂 Once I connected to the power strip wifi it connected with no issue.I bought this to limit the consumption of idle devices using vampire energy. My TV and sound system was using > 10 watts just idle and realistically I only use them 3 – 4 hours a day. My Laptops when powered off were consuming > 10 watts too. My concern was how much energy was this power strip going to use. I couldn’t get accurate measurements from TP – Link and reviewers answering the question were simply guessing, so I took a chance and bought a couple of these. I did some testing and the following are my results:> When the power strip is switched on and all 6 plugs turned off my Kill A Watt meter showed that it was using between 0.9 and 1.0 Watts.> Each plug you turn on increases watts it was using, by roughly 0.45 watts. With all 6 plugs powered on (nothing plugged in) my Kill A Watt meter measured 3.6-3.7 watts.*I also tested this with LED status light on and off. It is a little hard to find but this can be turned on/off in the app. What I found was that there was no measurable difference on my Kill A Watt meter when the LED status light was on or off. I measure them individually as well as with all plugs turn on. I’m sure there is some consumption but the Kill A Watt is limited to 0.1. So I left the status light on for now so I can visually see if the plug is on or off.The app:Overall I’m happy with the app functionality, but it seems to me that it is missing a couple of things that I would find useful.Good:> The ability to create groups and turn on and off that group from the app with one action.> scenes (way to turn on/off a group of plugs) is extremely nice. Similar to a group it gives you the ability take an action on an individual plug or a group (i.g. turn on or turn off the defined plugs).> Scheduling. I have setup a couple of schedules but haven’t yet monitored things to see if they work as intended. Again the schedule allows you to take some action at a particular time of day. You can create it based on day of the week and time. Pretty basic but it covers my needs.Bad/needs improvement:> Power consumption: I found a bit annoying and think that TP-Link/Kasa could greatly improve upon here is the ability to view/measure the consumption of each device. To do so you have to go into each plug and open up the “energy” section. What would be nice is if you could see or add the consumption to the screen next to or below the defined plug. It would also be nice to see the total consumption for the entire power strip or group for example.Other things good and bad:Good:> built in surge protection> USB outletsNegative:> Not Homekit compatible, but for me I don’t really care and the Kasa app is ok for me.> USB A outlets ONLY and may limited in charging ability for fast charge or higher power needs. However, at 12 watts output it does seem to charge my tablet with no complaints. So no real complaint here other than I need an adapter for all the new USB C plugs.> can’t control the USB outlets. It would be nice to be able to control these too so if you left your tablet plugged in you could limit power consumption by turn it off after a set time.> For some theSummary:If you have a single device or multiple devices that you don’t need/want to control separately it would be cheaper and easier to get a single smart plug versus a strip. I bought the Kasa slim homekit single outlet and they only consume ~4.5 watts when the plug is off and 1.0 watts when the plug is on. However, if you have 2 or more devices you want to control them all separately then this is more efficient than individual smart plugs. At least from the standpoint of energy consumption. However, the power strip does have the advantage of a built in surge protection which isn’t something the single outlets usually provide.Over all I think this strip provides decent value and should pay for itself in a couple years by saving power on several idle devices that are always sucking power. By scheduling and making it easy to turn on groups of devices (like my TV and sound system) I calculated that I should be able to reduce my power bill by at least $70/year. Maybe more if I find other vampire energy devices that are idle most of the time.

Es buena y construida con materiales que se sienten de mucha calidad. Funciona perfecto y puedes encender solo los enchufes que ocupes.Compatible con Alexa para encender o apagar, al igual que puedes hacerlo desde la app aunque no estés en casa. Los USB ayudan a cargar cosas sin el cubito (por ejemplo un firetv)Recomendada 100%

Este multicontactos WiFi es un gran producto, la calidad habla por sí sola, es práctico y bien diseñado, incluso es bonito. La App funciona bien, es fácil de entender.Puntos a mejorar…- El cable de 90 cm resulta corto, sería mejor un cable de entre 120 a 150 cm- Los puertos USB trabajan a 2.4 A, y podrían trabar a 3.0 A para carga rápida; con eso podría eliminarse la necesidad de utilizar cargadores de dispositivos como celulares o tabletas- No es posible apagar los LEDs indicadores SYS, Grounded, Protected a través de la App, lo cual puede resultar molesto de noche en un dormitorio, en cambio, sí se pueden apagar los LEDs de cada contacto