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

The HS300’s Energy Monitoring feature provides the ability to monitor energy usage for each individual port.

Regards, … The HS300’s Energy Monitoring feature provides the ability to monitor energy usage for each individual port.

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According to an article on pcmag dot com, this surge protector offers 1,710 joules of protection. Google search for “HS300 joules pcmag” and it should be the first result. Hope this helps, as I had the same question but couldn’t find a good answer.

Oh.. so you mean power is back while internet is not? Yes, it will return to previous state but you can’t control it until the wifi is back.

Cord – 3ft

Only on/off mode with electricity but for tv you would need a monitor.

With a Raspberry Pi (or windows 10 or macOS) you can run HomeBridge (from homebridge dot io) and this power strip will be available through HomeKit.

No, solo esta disponible en 110v, por lo tanto tuve que devolverlo, es una pena porque es el
Mejor que he podido encontrar en internet. Espero que TP-Link se anime a producir una versión a 220v o de 100 a 240v.

Nope it doesn’t sent you no msgs, it make you switches off / on convincent not a voltage or outlet repoter

No – the HS300 is designed for use with the Kasa app, or supported integration platforms such as Alexa or Google Assistant.

No. This device is controlled through the Kasa App. The Kasa app has integration with several z-wave hubs (IE: Smarthings, Google, etc…) but as far as I can see, it does NOT integrate with Apple HomeKit.

Yes

Yes. With the native integration you get basic on/off control. With the community DTH you can have energy monitoring as well but it seems to be a little slower to respond to commands depending on your internet connection. In either case each outlet shows up as it’s own device in Smartthings for a total of 6 devices … Yes. With the native integration you get basic on/off control. With the community DTH you can have energy monitoring as well but it seems to be a little slower to respond to commands depending on your internet connection. In either case each outlet shows up as it’s own device in Smartthings for a total of 6 devices per power strip. USB power is always on and can’t be controlled even in the KASA app.

There is a physical power switch next to each outlet. You can use them in addition to the app.

Yes, if a lamp on port 3 was on and everything else is off, that same configuration will come up after power is restored.

It will work fine but you have to keep the plug from the first strip that feed the second strip always on, if not the plugs from the second strip will show as unavailable.
I have 70+ Kasa devices (light bulbs, outlets, switches, strips) 4 google home, 3 google hub, 1 Alexa (gift) and I can control all my Kasa devices… It will work fine but you have to keep the plug from the first strip that feed the second strip always on, if not the plugs from the second strip will show as unavailable.
I have 70+ Kasa devices (light bulbs, outlets, switches, strips) 4 google home, 3 google hub, 1 Alexa (gift) and I can control all my Kasa devices with no issues with voice commands or thru the app

First off you cannot monitor or turn off/on the power over the USB ports. Only the 6 sockets. The USB ports are also non QI ports so its a constant 5V 2.4 amps.
My unit made it through QA with cosmetic damage on one of the USB ports and it was intermittently faulty. I brought a new one and it new one is 100% perfect. Returned the old one.

I like that the outlets are spaced out enough to allow wall adapter plug like those for external hard drives and each outlet has a physical button to turn off/on the outlet. The angle wall plug is great too as it doesn’t steal the adjacent outlet.

Now I must say that with the Kasa app, it is a better experience on Android. IOS falls short on a few things such as real-time updates on the energy monitoring. When you go to the energy tab on IOS it goes to a static image, to update the readings you must switch to another section like timer or away and switch back to see the new energy reading. This is not the case on Android, all the energy readings update in realtime.

Icon layout inconsisty between products in the app. On this HS300 Power Strip the icons are displayed from left to right "Schedule, Timer, Away, Energy" on the HS105 Smart Plug the icon layout from left to right is "Schedule, Away, Timer". May seem a little picky but a consistent layout in the app between products should be straight forward.

Update 2/27/2019
It appears TPLink have resolved my gripe about the icon layout inconsistently across all the devices. Version 2.9.0 on IOS was just rolled out and now the GUI on the HS300 power strip , HS105 smart plugs and the HS200 wall switches are all the same.

Recently inherited a reef tank (saltwater fish tank). The previous owner gave me his programmable aquarium power strip, but I decided to replace it with this. GREAT DECISION. I must pat myself on the back. The benefits are:

1. I can individually turn on/off each outlet from my phone. No more reaching into the back of the aquarium stand when I want to turn off certain components when changing water.

2. I can set timer for each outlet on my phone. Much easier interface than any timer switch.

3. I can view the wattage of each outlet on my phone. This means I can tell when the automatic tank heater comes on by looking at how much power is used at the heater outlet. As you know many aquarium heaters’ thermostats are prone to fail. This gives me an extra layer of security.

I have not tried the fancy Alexa integration features, and I don’t plan to.

The Kasa app interface is very easy to use. I hope they never update it. You know how the engineers like to update apps and ruin a great product? I hope they don’t do that to the Kasa.

The ease of use of this device is it’s best feature. I’ve been using the two outlet plug for a few weeks and liked it enough to purchase the power strip. I liked that enough to order 2 more, one for my house and one as a gift to my technologically-challenged mother. Alexa integration is seamless. I can say, “Alexa, turn on the fan” and it happens without having to say, “Alexa, ask Kasa to turn on the fan.” The app makes it easy to name items and put them on schedules if desired. Unlike many smart home products, I don’t need a hub or separate app (other than the TP Link Kasa app) to make it work it efficiently with Alexa (no IFTTT needed). I haven’t had to do any resets and after playing with it quite a bit, have not needed to repeat myself once for things to turn off and on. The Alexa integration is seamless.

Once I used the first power strip for tracking electricity use, I bought the second power strip to get a handle on what devices are “energy vampires” in our home in other rooms even though I have plenty of dumb power strips that would suffice otherwise. With this, you’re able to see total, daily, and monthly energy usage and I schedule things to turn off during the night and when we’re not usually home/in that room much. A simple voice command still turns it on if it is needed during the scheduled off times. Hopefully this will lower our electric bill over time.

I bought this power strip to help me monitor electricity usage in an off-grid situation. I would not recommend it for this purpose. For one thing, the monitoring capability is minimal. You can monitor each outlet individually, but you can only see three numbers for each: how much is currently being used, how much has been used for the day, and how much has been used on average (but for what time period is unclear). There is no historical data available, so you can’t evaluate usage patterns or identify spikes without constantly monitoring the app on your phone.

The other downside probably should have been obvious, but I didn’t think of it before I purchased it. Which is that the power strip itself draws power, even when nothing is plugged in. I didn’t measure how much it was drawing specifically, but it was enough that the power strip was getting quite warm to the touch from just sitting idle, plugged in. It wasn’t quite uncomfortable to hold, but let’s just say it would work nicely as a hand warmer. It makes sense, when you think about it, because there’s a WiFi radio in there that’s running all the time. If you’re in a normal on-grid situation, this is probably not much of an issue, but when you’re counting your kwh, you don’t want your monitoring equipment adding to the overhead.

It also, really does need an internet-connected wifi router to connect to. It’s absolutely mandatory to set the thing up. It was strange, because when I plugged the power strip in for the first time, it shows up as an available wifi on my phone, and you can successfully connect to it. But this connection is not sufficient for the app to work. It can’t find the power strip even though it’s connected directly to the power strip. I then tried to turn on the hotspot for my phone, and let the power strip connect to that, but that also doesn’t work. You and the power strip must both be connected to a third wifi network, then the app works as expected.

However, all that was mostly due to the fact that I was using the item for a purpose other than what it was designed for, so I can’t fault the manufacturer for that. All in all, it’s a very solid piece of equipment, very high quality, good thick cord and good solid manufacturing. The app is well designed and easy to use It is a large power strip, probably 25% bigger than your normal, average, non-smart power strip, which means it’s got lots of room between the plugs for big adapter- or brick-style plugs.

The one thing that’s poorly designed is the mounting holes on the back. It has two holes that are the typical keyhole style, and they are made in such a way that you can mount the power strip either horizontally or vertically, which is a nice touch. However there was an error made in the design process, because a screw will not slot into the narrow part, no matter which way you try to slide it. There’s a small piece in the corner that blocks a screw from entering the slot either way. That’s an unfortunate error in an otherwise excellently engineered piece of equipment.

The media could not be loaded.  I use the surge protector to operate all of my different saltwater reef equipment. I’m able to individually set timers daily for all of the lights power heads and pumps. You are also able to turn each individual outlet on and off on its own. this is an amazing product and I have had zero issues working the surge protector.

I use these ALOT. I have no issues so I’m not going to detail the obvious. Read other review for the obvious stuff. My review is going to list what I think could be improvements. First the APP is good but not if you have multiple homes. Everything is listed in a single list. So if you have 3 of these you have a long list (3×6) in order to get to what you want to control. The APP supports groups of things to control all at the same time but not segmented by location. Secondly, as a network technician I would love a rack mount version of this device. It makes it hard to have a nice clean install with this thing haphazardly strapped up or hanging down. :Lastly the tiny mounting holes in the back of the unit as too weak to hold all the power cords plugged into this unit. How about some front mount holes with some heft?

Just my opinion. I hope TP-Link reads this review and takes some action.

The media could not be loaded.  It is a lot bigger than other power strips out there. Because each plug is generously spaced out, I am able to utilize all 6 plugs without having any of them blocked by a power adaptor. Not only I can turn on and off each plug via app, there are also individual physical switches. This allows me to turn off by pressing the physical switch, then turn back on using the app. The wonders! Thou, the strip makes weird sound when it is initially turned on.

Our ebikes shouldn’t be charged for longer than 12 hours, and for general safety we don’t like them being connected to live power 7×24. We charge them in our (insulated) garage, and I was looking for a way to help automate this task.

I found this smart power strip and, man, does it work great for us. I’m using 5 of the 6 plugs. The first three are for our three ebikes with batteries attached, the 4th is for charging our spare battery, and the 5th has the USB adapter that charges our Sena wireless helmets.

I have the Kasa app on my phone, it’s integrated with Smartthings and Google Home. I have created a Google routing called ‘Charge the bikes’, and it turns the five outlets on (with two second delays between outlets in the routine, to prevent power-up surge overload), then after 12 hours it turns them off again. It’s fantastic!

Our ebike manufacturer (Rad) also recommends the BOOB method for connecting and disconnecting bike batters – B: connect charger to the Bike; O: plug charger into Outlet; (battery charges, then to disconnect); O: unplug charger from Outlet; B; unplug charger from the Bike. The routine above gives us an automated BOOB routine.

I also have manual routines setup to manually turn the outlets on and off for those times we need ad-hoc power.

Overall this was a FANTASTIC investment that solved our problems elegantly.

The only con I can see for this product is that the onboard USB ports can’t be controller automatically. This isn’t an issue for us because we’re plugging in a USB charger to one of the power ports, but I was disappointed to see that USB was not controllable.

In any case, highly recommended!

I got this mainly to monitor power drain. Sure, some plugged-into-the-wall devices work to that end, but either you have to scooch down to the outlet to see it, or put it on an extension cord and then it’s still far too unwieldy. With this, you can just open the Kasa app and see what the wattage is real time, plus see kWh of daily and long term use. That’s just nice.

Also just having the switches there on the strip to turn items on and off individually is great. Especially good if you have a computer you like to put into hibernate. The lightest wind gust against the mouse and it’s right back on again. Not anymore! Heh heh.

My only real complaint is that, like a lot of “smart” devices like (scales, lightbulbs, etc.), it only uses 2.4GHz, not 5GHz. Fine if you’re in a house surrounded by nothing, but if you’re in an apartment, hoo boy, better make sure you’re not sharing WiFi channels with anyone. There’s tools for monitoring who’s using what nearby, and as long as you use your own router, changing those settings are easy. Still, idk why they can’t use 5GHz. Why do some devices do that? Why do so many still use Micro-B USB plugs/ports?

Other than that, I have no complains. Highly recommend.

I don’t use the TP-Link (Kasa) app (except for setup) so I’m not super interested in the power usage info but for Google Home this is a must have for that room where you have several things plugged in to a power strip that are suited for automation. Each outlet can be turned on/off manually OR via the Kasa app / Google Home. Super easy to set up (Kasa App is pretty good) and adding to Googe Home was a snap. I know have (3) devices plugged into this smart power strip configured for Google Home and (2) devices just using power. I could not be happier with the quality and reliability of the TP-Link smart outlets / power strips that I’ve purchased (so far I have 7). Highly recommend this item.