If you're wanting to purchase these switches dont do it. Wanted to send them back but I dont have any switches to replace them with after spending dollars on these. Its not a matter of simply reconnecting and re adding them as new switches because the reset procedure doesnt work. Bought 6 of these, all worked well for about a week, then stopped working one at a time. Reviewed in the United States on 13 April 2015 The saga of my home automation continues, but I still have this feeling this was the right setup to go with. This time cutting the power didn't fix it either, so the electrician is coming back to see if they can do anything. After I paired all of my items back to the hub (I'll detail that whole thing when I can update my Wink review) I could not get the one that had to have a hard reset to work again. Unfortunately though a few days later my Wink hub crashed as part of the major outage and I basically had to start over again. I was asked to shut power off to the switches from the breaker and that did the trick to getting them back online. So after about 20 min on the phone with Wink support we discovered that my light switch was part of a group of switches that needed a hard reset. I'm going to try to reconfigure everything tonight and give these one more shot. This kept us from using the switch on our light post on our driveway (disappointingly the one I wanted to use it with the most) and as you can see from the picture left us with three Tapt switches and one regular. One thing that he found during the install is that these don't work with lights on the GFI so it just kept flipping the reset and wouldn't stay on. Self install was pretty difficult, and we ended up getting an electrician to install these for us. Our house doesn't have the requested "red wire" unless we were already working with a 3-way light, which you aren't supposed to use with these switches. My biggest complaint though so far though has been with installation. I don't think that being able to control a smart switch with a smart bulb from either the wall, or switch should be considered a big ask, but maybe home automation just isn't there yet. One will not connect to the app and is only working at the base, and one will not turn on from the wall if its off on the app. Out of the four switches we have installed, two of them don't work properly. Just my two cents.This product has been kind of disappointing so far. I am down to the last one of these and will be replacing it shortly. They are quirky (pun intended) and will go offline randomly. Keep in mind that the device type required will not update the status of the switch in the app if you press the switch buttons.Īs my two cents, if you are to use the ST hub, get rid of these switches. Not sure how the second part works but I’ve gotten the switch to be controllable.ġ- Login to the IDE and create a custom device type using the device type for from my github once created, save and publish.Ģ- Add Tapt to SmartThings by pressing and holding both buttons for 5 seconds while ST is looking for new devices.ģ- The device should show up as “Quirky GE Tapt Switch” If it doesn’t manually change it to that device type.Īt some point, the Tapt switches could be recognized by ST as a Zigbee switch, but after an update from Wink this could no longer be used to pair them. I’ve read this device can control a load and also a scene/mode. Using a dual load Zigbee Device Type written by I have created a starting point for the Tapt Switch. Quirky GE Tapt Switch Device Type Connected Things
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