YoLink Smart Energy Plug, 15A, YS6614

If you need an outdoor smart switch that can maintain a rock-solid connection over extreme distances, the YoLink Smart Outdoor Energy Plug is an outstanding solution. It arrives safely in compact, weatherproof packaging that keeps the internal LoRa wireless components completely protected during transit. Physically, the housing features a rugged, impact-resistant build with an IP63 weather-resistance rating, meaning it can handle heavy dust and direct splashes of rain without skipping a beat. The built-in heavy-duty cord extension feels premium and thick, ensuring a safe, stable link between your outdoor outlet and your devices. The defining feature of this smart plug is its phenomenal long-distance signal strength. Unlike traditional Wi-Fi or Bluetooth outdoor plugs that constantly drop connections when placed too far from the house, YoLink utilizes LoRa (Long Range) technology. This allows the plug to effortlessly communicate with its hub from hundreds of feet away, even through thick exterior walls and dense landscape barriers. It performs beautifully in demanding utility roles, such as remotely controlling a main water pump for the house, or handling automated scheduling for distant front yard accent features like mailbox lighting and illuminated house numbers. It gives you total, instantaneous control over your peripheral property infrastructure right from your phone. The Major Current Limitation: While the range is virtually unmatched, you must keep the physical power limitations in mind before plugging in heavy equipment. This plug is strictly rated for 15 Amps / 1800 Watts maximum. While it handles standard residential utility pumps, LED landscape configurations, and seasonal lighting with ease, it is not designed for heavy commercial-grade 220V/240V well pumps or high-draw workshop machinery. Always check the amperage plate on your water pump to ensure it falls safely within the 15A limit to avoid tripping the internal overload protection. Pros: Unbeatable LoRa Range: Maintains a lightning-fast, rock-solid smart connection across massive distances where standard Wi-Fi completely fails. Real-Time Energy Monitoring: Conveniently tracks live power consumption via the app, making it easy to monitor the runtime costs of household water pumps. Rugged Weatherproof Design: IP63-rated enclosure stands up to harsh sun, rain, dust, and freezing outdoor temperatures. Cons: Strict 15A Limit: Cannot be used with larger, high-draw industrial pumps or heavy machinery that exceed 1800W. Requires YoLink Hub: Because it uses proprietary long-range LoRa frequencies instead of direct Wi-Fi, you must have a YoLink Hub connected to your router for smart functionality to work. Overall Recommendation: A well-deserved 5-star outdoor plug for anyone needing dependable, long-range automation for home pumps and exterior accent lighting, provided your equipment stays within standard 15-amp electrical boundaries.

I have been using another brand of smart plug for around a decade now, but they don't do one designed for outdoors use, and since I've been very happy with all my other YoLink devices, I thought I should try this out. First up, like every YoLink product it feels solid and well built. I paired it in seconds, and plugged it in, and was up and running straight away. You can remotely control it from your phone, turn it on or off manually, or set schedules, or use a countdown timer as well. The scheduling is really cool because once you program the schedule from the phone, the schedule is stored on the actual smart plug. That means even if there's no internet connection, your schedules will continue to run. That's really nice for peace of mind. Secondly, the chances of this losing internet are pretty low. Unlike my other smart plugs that are hit or miss picking up a WiFi signal, this YoLink smart plug uses LoRa like all their other devices. That means great range, far exceeding that of WiFi. Unless you live in a Beverly Hills sized mansion your YoLink devices will have a strong signal and work reliably. But it's not just a smart outlet, it's an energy monitor too! I have a whole home energy monitoring solution from another company and they sell smart plugs, but theirs can't cope with more than 10A continuous use. The YoLink one supports 15A continuous current, which basically means that anything that can plug in, will work fine. You can also set up "if this, then that" type routines. For example if you wanted to turn on something to scare off an attempted break in, you could do that. I have YoLink vibration sensors on some of my doors and windows so if those detect vibration I could then turn on outside lights. With YoLink's other products there's a million different permutations of smart home routines you could set up. Turn on a heater when the temperature drops? No problem. One of the reasons I like YoLink products is how well designed they are. One example of that is the plug that goes into the outlet is really compact. That's great because bulky plugs often don't fit in outdoor weather proof boxes, or in multi-outlets with lots of plugs next to it. Overall, I think for everything this can do, it's well worth the money. Yes, you will need a YoLink hub, but once you have one of those you can add as many YoLink devices as you like. If you haven't already got their water leak sensors those should be your next purchase, to protect your home from the risk of expensive water damage.

I bought this so that I would know when the dehumidifier under my house is running and it works very well to do that. It did lose connection with the hub, which is absolutely necessary, so don’t forget to buy the hub also, and I had to crawl under the house to reset it. The next time that happened I figured I could just turn the breaker to that receptacle on and off, and it worked perfectly. That was a few weeks ago, and it hasn’t lost connection since, even after several power failures. I also purchased the hygrometers so that I would know what the temperature and humidity is under the house, and also inside my camper refrigerator in the back yard.

This smart plug has worked well for what I bought it for. Setup was quick, and it paired with my YoLink hub without any issues. The built-in power monitoring is useful, and it integrates well with Home Assistant for automations and monitoring. The biggest advantage is YoLink's long-range communication. I'm using this in the concrete basement of a multi-unit condo building where Wi-Fi and Zigbee devices would never maintain a reliable connection. The signal has been rock solid, which is exactly why I chose the YoLink ecosystem. I originally planned to use this with a chest freezer, but I ultimately removed it after experiencing a nuisance GFCI trip. I don't believe the smart plug itself was necessarily the cause, but for a critical appliance I decided to keep things as simple as possible and monitor the freezer with a separate temperature sensor instead. Overall, if you need a reliable smart plug in a location that's difficult for Wi-Fi or Zigbee to reach, this is an excellent option.

So I'm a cybersecurity engineer, automating my personal systems. I have houses 700 miles apart, and I have a ridiculous level of automation because that's just how I roll. So much of the gear I use works great when I'm in the room, and fails the hour I leave for the other house. Wifi is a wonderful thing, when it works. The problem is it is easy to jam up wifi, AND so many of the IOT devices are based on 2.4ghz wifi that can be shut down by any baby monitors that use wifi frequencies but do not use wifi. A baby monitor /can/ shut down any 2.4ghz wifi within a half mile. So as a result I see tons of wifi failures in that 2.4ghz band. It's not just baby monitors, but those are a common example, there are many others. Yolink uses loran technology for communication, easily overcoming wifi failure modes. This is important to ME. Your mileage may vary. I have only two issues with yolink products. One is the speakerhub, it is wifi only, so it falls outside of my "sphere of reliability", I /really/ with it had an ethernet port. Speakerhub makes a noise when wifi goes up and down... I hear that noise a LOT. And it isn't my wifi router's fault, any properly operating wifi AP will fail to operate when blocked by a interfering signal, that is a required part of the wifi protocol, wifi that doesn't do this is actually illegal because it might be near a military radar installation. The second thing about YoLink is that sometimes I need polling cycles of short duration, so for example a temperature probe on an air conditioner will need to have fast polling cycles to capture the curves needed to check performance of the unit. The hour polling cycles are great for most things, but sometimes I need more frequent polling cycles, even if only temporary. I wish there was a way for me to buy extra polling cycles on a month to month basis, but I think that functionality is probably reserved to larger customers with larger operations. So the power of the yolink platform is that because it is not on your wifi, it can be used to repair and remediate issues with your wifi. In my redundancy setup, I have a hub on each of the ISP's feeding a site, so that if one ISP is down, I can reboot the router from the other ISP connection, from anywhere on the planet. And in the short time I have been doing this, I have used it to resolve issues with both ISP's, thereby avoiding 20 hours of driving. I have many brands of remote power modules, as well as temperature sensors, 4 brands of surveillance cameras, a cisco dual-wan router, hvac controls, and automations to manage some of my personal "infrastructure". YoLink has been the solution for many problems, and a joy to build ifttt automations for. It is clean and simple.

I have three of these for outdoor lighting and they have been solid and reliable - no issues with the hub or connecting. In general I really like the YoLink products (I have several others). The app for these devices could be better which is why I'm not giving it 5 stars - the scheduling cannot be programmed for dusk/dawn like other outdoor systems like Wiz, and you can't share schedules between devices so changing schedules is a bit of a pain. But for the basic function these work really well.

Just added one of these to the string lights in the backyard. Flawless performance. This runs on LoRa so no concerns with WiFi and the IoT especially if you have the hub connected to your network via Ethernet.

I'm using this for my electric blanket. It has an auto shut off of 10 hours but that is way too long for me. I' like to turn it up and fall asleep all toasty warm but then I wake up several hours later way overheated. This smart plug has been the perfect solution. I have the blanket plugged into it and I set it to turn off in 2 hours, so my blanket shuts off after I'm asleep. It's very reliable. If I wake up and want to heat my blanket again, I can just grab my phone and turn the plug on for another couple hours. The app is very easy to use though I wish the colors were brighter and icons and print were larger so that I could do it without having to put my glasses on. I can also set the plug to power on and off at a certain time each day, on a schedule. You can use a schedule mode or a timer mode and set it for however long you want to. You can also review the history of when it was powered on and off. I do wish the app worked on my tablet, hopefully they will develop that in time, but all in all it is a great product and has made my life so much better. Highly recommend.

No issues. Simple setup. Note that you must plug this in to get it online. Plug it on, turn it on (blue light) and then bind it to the app. It will not show as online in the binding screen unless you plug it in before binding. I would consider this a *light duty* switch regardless of the 10A rating. It's just too small to have a powerful relay imo. I will use these to turn off power to my 3D printers remotely as they only draw around 3A. You could also use this in conjunction with any other sensor to control equipment using the app....like a temperature sensor to kill power to your furnace if the house temp starts going crazy (I know 2 people this happened to....scary af). If required, you could use this to control a higher current relay with a 120Vac coil if needed.

Works perfect. App is very friendly. Have many of their products.

Love Yolink products for my smart house. Devices respond quickly, are reliable and have a great range of response. I use this device in combination with other Yolink devices for my Sump Pump setup in my basement. These devices easily link with Home Assistant for a whole home automation solution.

Works perfectly.. used with the phone and it’s programmed to turn on and off at certain times. ( also bought a remote for it incase my phone isn’t around and my wife wants to control it manually)

The performance was good but not as good as other yolink products. I am not sure why but the signal strength goes from low to very strong at random times. Even though the unit is always in the same place. Approximately fifty feet from the base station. I've never had any problems with yolk products except this one is baffling me.