Gadgetory

Belkin Wemo devices let you automate your lights and appliances or control them right from your phone now the new Wemo bridge for apple homekit wants to let Siri take control to plug it into your router and sync it up with Apple's home app on your iOS device and you'll be able to control most of your existing Wemo accessories alongside other home kit compatible gadgets or turn things on and off using Siri commands available now the Wemo bridge retails for $40 and that actually seems pretty fair to me after all if you want to control your remote gadgets using an assistant like Alexa or the Google assistant but you'll need to spend at least that much on a compatible smart speaker like one of these asking $40 to add Siri into the picture seems like a reasonable ask in comparison is the nice thing here is that the Welo bridge is really easy to use you plug it into your router using the attached to nine inch LAN cable and then you plug it into power with the included micro USB cable open up the home app and tap the little plus sign icon to add a device then select the Wemo bridge from there it'll automatically import all of your devices into the home app like a bouncer checking their IDs and letting them inside the home kick Club one more thing I like about the Wemo bridge is that it supports a pretty wide assembly of giemo gadgets along with the current gen Wemo mini and MIMO dimmer devices like this original first should we little light switch and even the first gen Wemo smart switches that aren't even sold anymore are all supported by this home bridge plug it in and the all be home kit compatible now Belkin told me that we Mo's wired motion detector would be supported as well and indeed the Wemo bridge brought it over into the home app when I tested it out however it was often unresponsive and the home app couldn't even tell that it was a motion detector to begin with so I couldn't use it I suspect that more fine-tuning is in order hopefully apple and Belkin find a fix in all in all I think this is a good product at a fair price that works as promised if you've been patiently awaiting the day when Syria can turn your Wemo gear on and off and all the lights and appliances you've got plugged into them then your wait is over you