Woods® WiOn‪™‬ 4+

App looks like it hasn’t been updated since the iPhone 5. Instructions are fine enough to get a smart plug up and running. Let’s you control the device from your phone.

Instructions for connecting your account to Google Assistant are out of date. I was able to create an “account” with WiON, but the link to Google Home keeps giving an error, “Something went wrong. Please try again later.” Nothing I’ve tried as a workaround was successful.

Works for home control, but doesn’t live up to what it advertises for integration with Google. Will probably keep if for the holidays and return the smart plug - haven’t decided yet.

We have a total of ten WiOn outlets, four outdoor and six indoor, and use eight of them on a regular basis, and the other two seasonally for holiday lighting. We even use an outdoor outlet to control our low voltage outdoor lighting transformer, due to the WiOn outlet having more programming options than the transformer timer. The WiOn outlets are great devices, simple to use and very reliable. The app works very well, and has a lot of functionality and options. The only limitation is that it has a limit of 3 hrs - 59 mins. for the On or Off delay following being turned on or off by the Astronomic Timer. This limitation prevents being able to leave the lights connected to the timer, on past 9:30 pm, when they are turned on at sunset, and sunset is at 5:30 pm. It would be great if WiOn would update this functionality to allow a longer time (6-8 hrs), and I would think it would be a fairly simple fix!

I had given this app a very low rating as it stopped working when IOS 16 came out. It was a nightmare as I relied on the app to turn on important items. Here’s what I love about the app 1. Aside from the recent IOS issue, it it VERY reliable, if you look at many competitors’ apps, that is definitely not the case. 2. The app is very simple - easy on/off and easy to program with a few clicks. 3. No constant and definitely unnecessary updates like the competitors - very annoying. 4. It doesn’t constantly prompt me to enter my user name and password like competing apps - every other time I try to use those I end up wasting 5 minutes looking for and entering credentials. Kudos development team, keep it up!