I had a few day at the off grid place so I took this up to see how well it may perform.
My Plan is to use it for control of my outdoor wood furnace which also has propane back up which can be set to light with propane(easy start)
The furnace is about 50 feet from the house many be 60 to the router.
Not being able to wire this up this time of year I decided to attach a simple plug to the input and plug it into the outlet at the furnace.
Doing so I was able to get the unit to connect and send it on/off commands being halfway to the house with my phone (this unit has no RF) but not from inside the home.
Since the Furnace is metal and the unit can't get wet it was inside the furnace control panel so I'm sure that was the issue.
I have plans to use a small plastic box and install it on the side of the control panel door with maybe an external antenna.
The next step I wanted to be sure of (before attaching it to the furnace) was my connection to it from the city.
I hadn't tested out side the lan prior.
I brought it back in and plugged it into a outlet next to the router and made sure it was connecting.
At this point I noticed a scrolling text in the info screen for the device.
It stated "this device has a update available" beside it was a update button.
Wow! This device has upgradable firmware something I doubt the X10 Wi-Fi unit will have.
I attempted the update but got a splash screen stating the device couldn't be update from this location or something like that.
I returned to the city.Once back I attempted to connect to the switch and send a off/on command.
Nothing no notification that this was working or not
The next day I decided to try again thinking maybe it was my phone and hadn't turned on the Wi-Fi ( I don't have a data plan).
Still failing I decided to try my PC (BlueStacks) success!
the icon changed state. of course this doesn't mean it actually changed state.
From the PC I attempted the firmware update which this time I got the spinning update icon. WOW was this going to work I thought.
However after several mins nothing. Restarting BlueStacks and checking the firmware version I noticed it hadn't changed, no biggy maybe that was a bug and it actually did take.
I turned off BlueStacks and tried my phone again this time it connected however it was still saying a firmware upgrade was available so I tried it from the phone after a few min the firmware # still hadn't changed however I noticed some extras in the App so it looks like the app got updated
I tried the firmware update once more and this time it took.
Not sure what is going on but everything from initially adding a device to upgrading firmware was taking several attempts.
Since the updates the connection and control seems to work fine from my phone as well as the PC ( so maybe the bugs are worked out now
Since the unit is at the off grid place I can't check to see if the install process will now work from a PC
Once I get this mounted on the furnace I'll post an update, however that may be a while as I have to go in for a knee operation (may be in mobile for a bit)