Ascend Smart Wi-Fi 15 Amp 7-Day Indoor Programmable In-Wall Timer, Works with Alexa, Auto Dst & Astro On/Off, White

Works well is in our garage and the Wi-Fi seems to always connect even though it’s inside a wall in a box. These units are way easier to set and adjust compared to typical digital light timers. I can easily adjust as the time changes as needed. Highly recommend.

It was not as easy to program using my iPhone as I had expected. That being said the technical support could not have been better. The fellow walked me through the programming step by step and it works perfect. Many thanks to him.

I needed a timer to control a pump, and I chose this version as it had a slightly enhanced feature set (namely, wifi connectivity). I thought this would be better as I could remotely control the timer (rare, but could be useful), remotely monitor the on/off status, and auto-sync time and schedule changes in the event of a power outage or other situations. This timer does work as a timer should, so that's great, but the app and timer connectivity could use a definite upgrade. The app interface looks like it could be from 20 years ago, and it takes quite some time to load and view the timer status. I also had the unfortunate situation of deciding to set it up locally first (just to get it going quickly), then try to sync with an online account I made later. Whether it was a cloud server issue or a timer connectivity issue, it took many tries and fiddling before it synced with my online account properly, which is the only way to access the timer when not connected to your local wifi network. In the end, I'm happy with it and do not plan to be using the app that much, but if you're someone who wants a "smart timer" and will constantly be interfacing with the app for on/off or schedule viewing/changes, this might not be the best solution.

All other light timers are hard to program and they glitch when you manually turn on or off.I really only could find 3 brands and tried them all. None of the others use wifi or an app.This one can be programmed using your phone or front controls. You dont even have to connect it to the internet if you dont want to, it will run independent so if servers ever shut down, you can still use this forever.It will autoset by dawn and dusk times or however you make the schedule.The best part is it tells you on the screen the time and action for the next event so you know it is working.Buy this one.I cant understand how other companies dont make a timer like this.

I've had pretty much ever version of the Intermatic wall timers and this puppy finally addresses the biggest issue - keeping crap time since it keys off the 60Hz frequency of your power (which varies) and gets significantly off fairly quickly. Thus far, this internet enabled device appears to be keying nicely off the network times. It's not perfectly sync'd but I'd say within 10 seconds at worst... so much be fairly frequently pinging. The internet accessibility for remote access is nice and I hope they continue to further improve the UI, which is somewhat basic... but useful. Would be good to check for new firmware updates manually too. I'd like to see an ability to have brightness settings for the backlight - versus just off/on. I'd love the ability to further customize the screen layout... if that's exposed to the software. I'm optimistic though, as the foundational pieces are now in place.

I have a lot of IoT/cloud device experience. Since these, inside, seem to be a rebadged Zentri, they use a pretty standard system (like you see with Tuya IoT systems) where the units, when first powered up (or reset), act as a wireless AP broadcasting an SSID usually related to the MAC Address of the unit. (The router reports the units as being Zentri based units. Zentri was recently acquired by Silicon Labs.) You then log into that, run the App, and it communicates with the unit. In my case, I bought two units which immediately updated their firmware from v2.0 to v2.0.2 as soon as the Android app connected vie their SSID's. I was able to configure them to log into the AP I have dedicated to IoT stuff which is on a tagged VLAN on my network that can't access any computers, just the internet via my Enterprise grade router/firewall. The router reports them as having successfully logged into the correct AP as well as having acquired the correct IP addresses that I tied to their MAC Addresses. However, at that point the Android App stopped being able to find or communicate with them even while logged into the same AP & VLAN. (I can see both the phone & units are on the same IP subnet, which also has Internet access, yet the phone can't locate the units, which implies they are not responding to a local broadcast from the phone.) Because I can't access the units on the local network, I can't configure them for "Cloud Access" via the phone. Unfortunately, like a lot of this IoT junk, Intermatic only allows cell phone App control rather than Web access, so there's no way to figure out if the units can see Intermatic's cloud other than my setting up a packet sniffer. The Intermatic website is useless for trouble shooting. So at that point, I manually set up the schedules from their panel menus, so the units do function. I presume, since they can get IP addresses from the router, that they can keep their clocks properly synchronized, which is the main issue with timers. (These units replaced Intermatic ST101C's whose clocks would drift by almost an hour in the course of a year - horrible.) I don't really care about the cloud access stuff, and since I have the units on an isolated VLAN, I'll not waste any more time on them unless these timers show their clocks are drifting.Update 11-30-2019I noticed that after about 18 months, the clocks on my two units had drifted off the correct time by about 5 minutes, despite them being on my network and hence having access to Internet time (NPT) servers if Intermatic bothered to implement even the most basic of network functions. So I factory reset my two units, went through the setup again. This time the app upgraded their firmware to 2.04. same behavior as 18 months ago - the app can't locate the units even though they are on the network (& confirmed by looking at the router). Adjusted the schedules manually through the front panel since the app could not locate them. So net result is the same - switches work, clocks will start drifting, and the app can't see them. No hint of any cloud capability. I should also point out that on the same network, I have a Honeywell WiFi/cloud thermostat, Rainmachine WiFi/cloud sprinkler controller, Flume WiFi/cloud water monitor, Sense WiFi/cloud electricity monitor and four Tuya WiFi/cloud Smartplugs. Everything works flawlessly except these Intermatic switches.Update 1-8-2020Put a packet sniffer on the network, factory reset the STW700W units, and reconfigured them using the Ascend app while monitoring the network traffic. Unlike all my other IoT devices mentioned in my 11-30-2019 update, the Ascend app while connected to the STW700W switches own SSID, doesn’t really configure the switch to Intermatic’s server, it really only sets up the unit to connect to the local WiFi network (from it’s own SSID). After that, it wants to talk to the STW700W switch via the local network WiFi to finish the job of connecting it to the Intermatic servers. This is what, in the business, we call “bad architecture”. The issue is that if the VLAN is properly secured, it’s running Level 2 Isolation which blocks this process. So to work around this, one has to temporarily turn off the Level 2 Isolation for the SSID one wants the STW700W switch to use on your network, then have the Ascend app finish configuring the STW700W switch’s connection to Intermatic’s servers. Once the STW700W’s are communicating with Intermatic’s servers, one can turn the Level 2 Isolation back on for that VLAN, which then forces the Ascend app to communicate with the switches via the server all of the time.Update 8-10-2020Once again, one of the timers stopped communicating with Intermatic's Cloud Servers yet according to my router the switch is connected to the LAN and the switch's display also indicates it's connected to the LAN. The fact that these switches have such massive WiFi connectivity issues is appalling. I have noticed that even when a switch is controllable through Intermatic's Cloud service, the switches still can't keep their internal clocks synchronized.Update 10-22-2020Since my 8-10-2020 update, one of the two of these switches, or the other, would lose connection to the cloud, and hence the app, despite loggng into my WiFi network. Throwing the breaker to power them down & force a cold boot would not help, only fully resetting them & re-registering them to the app. And then in about a week or two, they'd fail again. So today I replaced them with cheap $14 Tuya, Alexa, Google Home and IFTTT compatible smart wall switches that Amazon sells under a variety of vendors. I've used several of these cheap smartwatches for a couple of years and never had a problem. I only kept working on these over priced Ascend units because I like the displays. No more. I'd suggest people pass on these.