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  • Jeepers, I've been running Wemo switches for a few years now and haven't ever had an issue with them.

    I've got one on the Coffee machine of course, but also have the garden lights and fish tank on Wemo's.

    My experience has been solid.

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    • Originally posted by Logga View Post
      Morning readeral, when you updated your firmware how long did it take?. I tried mine and its been about three hours now. Hopefully it mite fix the issues with it, if it updates at all.
      Oh gee only 3-4 minutes... I'd be pulling it out of the wall and doing a complete reset of some sort I reckon. Maybe google how to do that?

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      • I had issues with my wemo as well I kinda tracked it down to being a problem with my internet connection. Even when using the wemo on your own network it seems to be contacting belkin servers (I believe updating on its status and the like) well with my spotty internet it caused problems it would drop connections have packet loss and the like and it gave me no end of troubles it wouldn't connect when I was out, sometimes wouldn't click on when I was around, would freeze up and disconnect. Updating would fail regularly as well.

        I've no idea why belkin didn't make it a bit more robust in this area but I eventually gave up and it's been collecting dust ever since.

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        • I've allocated mine it's own specific IP on my network just to make sure I don't have any internal network issues, and yeah, at the mercy of my provider for the Belkin server authentication stuff.

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          • Originally posted by readeral View Post
            Oh gee only 3-4 minutes... I'd be pulling it out of the wall and doing a complete reset of some sort I reckon. Maybe google how to do that?
            I tried this twice a couple of months ago but didn't work so tried again with deleting the wemo app and then installing it again.
            Now it works great, it updates fine and works perfectly.

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            • Awesome. Glad you've had success!

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              • Hi everyone I thought I would add my piece on the WEMO switch.

                I have been using one to power up my Profitech Pro 500 both on a schedule and remotely as required on the way home. The remote access gave me a lot of issues and was patchy at best. I had a bit of a dig and found my firewall was blocking the remote access for the WEMO which explained the patchy remote access, but solid wifi performance. I manually opened the ports which were being blocked and the WEMO has been flawless since. The only explanation for this is the UPNP is not performing effectively for all router firewalls which explains the mixed results amongst users.

                My my fix in the end was opening the following ports:

                TCP/UDP - 3478
                TCP - 8080
                TCP - 8443

                I hope this helps as when it's working it is a fantastic device.

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