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The KS200M is smart switch with an advanced motion and ambient light sensor built in. Ideal for areas where hand-free operation is ideal, the KS200M is perfect for those who want more automation in their home, including those with limited mobility or those with children in the home. Walk into a room and have your lights automatically turn on. Lights can be programmed to turn off after a set time without motion detection to save on electricity. The smart switch also includes an ambient light sensor that will detect daylight conditions and prevent the lights from turning on during the daytime if desired. Fully customize your experience with settings based on your routine. Best of all, the KS200M is hands-free, voice controllable, and app accessed. From Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, to Samsung SmartThings, the Kasa Smart KS200M gives you convenient voice controls.You can expect Kasa Smart quality with the KS200M which has undergone rigorous safety testing and has been UL certified by 3rd party Underwriter Laboratories. In addition, the device is backed by an industry leading 2-year limited warranty. If you are one of the 7 million plus Kasa Smart users, you will also appreciate that the KS200M is compatible with other Kasa devices meaning, you can set groups, and smart actions to work in conjunction with other Kasa Smart devices.Take control of your smart lighting, and have total automated freedom with the Kasa Smart KS200M Smart Switch with motion sensor.This which can achieve more automation, intelligence, and personalized settings. Standard: IEEE802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi Standard: 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi only Max load: 600W INC, 300 W CFL. Power Supply: AC 100~125 V, 50/60 Hz Neutral Wire Required. 2-year warranty.
Product Dimensions : 5.06 x 3.33 x 1.82 inches; 4.48 ounces
Item model number : KS200MP2
Date First Available : April 25, 2022
Manufacturer : TP-LINK
ASIN : B09XYYMJ9D
Country of Origin : Vietnam
【Advanced Motion Detection】Completely hands-free and smart operation of your connected lights. The switch automatically turns lights on when motion is detected and turns off after a preset time. Ideal for areas such as bedrooms, hallways and restrooms where hands-free operation is ideal.
【Daylight Detection】Smart ambient light detection will sense daylight and prevent lights from turning on during the day.
【Smart Mode & Away Mode】Set different light triggers based on your routine for effortless control. Automatically turns devices on and off at different times to give the appearance that someone is home.
【Works w/ All Bulb Types】600W Incandescent/Halogen, 300W CFL/MLV/ELV
【Voice & App Control】Manage your device with voice commands via Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Samsung SmartThings. Hands-free operation of your lights from anywhere through the free Kasa app.
【Trusted & Reliable】The KS200M is UL certified, meaning rigorous testing is done for safety and certified by a 3rd party laboratory. Includes our industry leading 2-year warranty. Kasa is trusted by over 7 million users worldwide.
【Kasa Smart Action】A part of the Kasa Smart Ecosystem, the switch works with other Kasa devices, so you can set smart actions, and groupings with your other Kasa devices.
【App-Guided Setup】Neutral wire is required, standard wall plate size. No need to understand complex switch wiring or master vs auxiliary switch configurations; The Kasa app guides you through easy step by step installation. Need 2.4GHz Wi-Fi connection.
Aaron C Reskew –
Makes life easy, but has a few issues
Update, Oct 2024:The motion sensor is still very sensitive but it turned out the problem with the timer was my error. I’d set up a rule to turn the light off after 10 minutes but elsewhere in the app I’d set it to turn off if it didn’t detect motion for 1 minute. So after 1 minute of me being out of sight of the motion detector it turned itself off, as I’d instructed it to. So a good slap of my own forehead here, a very loud “D’oh!” in my best Homer Simpson voice, and I’m restoring the fifth star to the product.Update, Aug 2024:The motion sensor is very sensitive. I’ve got mine set to the lowest setting and it activates when I’m 10 feet away in an adjacent room. It would be nice to be able to set it to be much less sensitive, so it activates if I walk past it but not if I walk somewhere in the general vicinity. It’s as if the angle of view is fairly narrow, so that if I’m walking along the wall where it’s located it doesn’t respond until I walk right in front of it, but if I’m in the next room it will activate with me a clear 10 feet or more away. That’s tedious, because it means if I stand at my bench to mend something the pantry light keeps turning on.There’s also an issue that might be with the switch and might be with the Kasa app (I suspect the app, but the two go together). Because I’m prone to forget to turn off the pantry light (and sometimes it’s hard to turn it off if I’ve got both hands full) I set up a rule in the software that activates when the light is turned on, and turns it off 10 minutes later. 10 minutes is plenty of time to find what I need in the pantry and leave, except that it actually turns off after more like 2-3 minutes.These aren’t major issues but are irritating enough to knock off a star. There’s not much point having time-based options if what happens bears so little resemblance to what I programmed, and it’s been known for years that motion sensors that activate whenever anything happens remotely near them are of limited use.I still plan to install the other one in the attic, I’ll just leave it to a standard rule to turn it off.Original review:I fitted a motion sensor switch to the room in my basement where I keep the chest freezer. When I take stuff down to the chest freezer I need to figure how to turn the light on, which can be tricky when I’ve got both hands full with stuff to go in the chest freezer. I can flick a switch with an elbow but it’s a bit of a drag. And sometimes when I leave the room I forget to turn the light off, and find it still turned on a couple of days later when I’m next down there.A switch like this solves all these problems at once. The motion sensor means all I have to do is walk past it and the lights come on. And being a smart switch it means I can set up a rule that turns the light off again after 15 minutes. As a fallback I have a “scene” set up in the Kasa app that turns all the automated lights off at midnight regardless, so if the rule doesn’t work as expected it will still shut off at midnight.Be aware these switches are quite deep. I had to replace the back box to fit it, because the previous switch I had was the smallest switch available. The metal back box that was in place was deep enough to hold the Kasa switch but didn’t have enough free space to handle the cables in and out and the wire nuts behind the switch. But now I have a deeper back box and a switch that works very nicely.Installing the switch is about as easy as it gets. It has four wire tails – a white one to connect to neutral, a green one to connect to earth, and two black ones to connect to line/load. All you have to do is figure which wire is which, use the supplied wire nuts to join the wires together, and configure the switch. If you can’t figure out electrics as simple as this, pay an electrician to do it for you.The default level of sensitivity had the light triggering if I went anywhere near it, so I turned it to the lowest sensitivity (this is done in the Kasa app) and now I have to walk right up to it before it activates. That’s perfect for my needs, I don’t want it turning on unless I actually go into the room where it is installed.As a smart switch it can be configured to activate only when ambient light is low, it has different levels of sensitivity for the motion sensor, and it can be controlled remotely and programmed to turn on and off at particular times. That sort of thing has obvious uses if you’re going to be away for a few days, you can set up timers so it’s not so obvious you’re not home. You can also do all sorts of weird and wonderful things if you’re so inclined, so if it takes your fancy you can set it up so that if you walk into the room where the switch is installed it will some totally unrelated device on or off. Why you’d want to turn the attic power strip off when you walk into a room in the basement is another matter, but you can if you want to.I have two of these, and I’m thinking a motion switch to turn the attic light on might be a handy thing to have, for similar reasons.
Smiddy –
Yes! Been wanting this for a while!
This switch was one I’ve been waiting for. I have a variety of of brands of smart switches and other devices in my house. I have some from some major brand sold in home stores. So far The Kasa – TPLink switches have been not only the most reliable, but by far have been the most affordable for a quality switch. This brand has become my favorite. This switch had a neutral wire. It installed very easily. It came with paper stickers to flag wires, if you are into that. I tried doing setup from memory. It almost worked. I was stuck in a state where I couldn’t enter my house wifi credentials. So I deleted it from the Kasa app, and followed the instructions. It worked great. I set the minimum brightness for 1% and added it to my Alexa list, and to my kitchen group. I named it’s type as a light, to keep it simpler for Alexa. It works perfectly! I highly recommend. Now I can ask Alexa to turn the light on if it times out. I have 12 LED’s in my kitchen, and this switch controls only 4 of them. This way I have some light when I enter, and I can command the rest of the lights on if I want. Very happy. Very fair price.
John Rit –
Very Reliable, won’t have any problems tuning it for your space, and even Alexa/Google controlled.
Excellent device, great quality. This occupancy sensor is tunable, so it works a variety of ways including through Alexa by wifi. It replaced GE and a Lutron Maestro Motion Sensor Switches which died within the year (HD purchases). I cannot wait for the other 2 Lutron to die so I can replace with this model.
Anon –
It IS compatible with 4-way switches
If you look into the KS230 KIT V2 product reviews and help forums, you will find that the internet has decided these are incompatible with 4-way switch setups. I was able to get this to work. Additionally, I found that you DO NOT need two satellite switches to make it work. I believe the point of confusion is where the controller switch must go in each configuration (even Kasa customer service led me down the wrong path here).It starts by understanding the difference between where power comes into the loop in a 3-way vs a 4-way switch configuration.3-way:Power -> 3-way Switch -> Satellite Switch4-way:Power -> Satellite Switch -> 4-way Switch -> Satellite SwitchIf you are like me, you will naturally try to install the Kasa Controller Switch in the 4-way switch position. This is even what Kasa support asked me to try when I asked them if this was possible. That’s wrong because the controller switch needs to receive power directly from the breaker to work.So, to get this to work, you need to set up your switches like this:Power -> Kasa 3-way dimmer controller -> Kasa Satellite -> Dummy Switch or Kasa SatelliteTo figure this out, you will need a non-touch voltage tester. I got one for $20 at the blue hardware store. I have attached an accompanying diagram and just hope I remembered correctly what I actually did.The process:1. Turn off breaker.2. Mark the black wire that is connected to the black screw on your current satellites. My favorite way to do this is with a short piece of green/blue shrink wrap and a heat gun.3. Remove ALL switches and separate wires. The box with the most wires in it is your 4-way switch the position where your Kasa satellite must go for this to function.4. Turn breaker back on and test the marked black wires for the two satellite switches. The one that is hot is the position your Kasa controller switch will go. This is your LINE wire.5. Turn the breaker off.6. Install the NORMAL satellite switch back into the first position.7. Turn breaker on.8. Test the black wires on the 4-way switch location to figure out which one is hot. If none of them are, hit the switch you reinstalled and test again. Test them again and mark the hot wire. This is your black TRAVELER wire for the Kasa Satellite.9. Turn the breaker off.10. Uninstall the old satellite switch and install the Kasa controller switch in its place, wiring it as indicated in the instruction manual.11. Install the Kasa satellite where the original 4-way switch was. The black wire you indicated was hot in the above test goes to the TRAVELER terminal furthest away from the ground and load wires. The two red wires are connected to the TRAVELER terminal closest to the ground and load. The load is the remaining black wire in this box. Ground goes to ground.12. For the third terminal, you can either reinstall the original switch as it was before OR install a second Kasa satellite (you will have to buy a second full kit). This time the marked wire that was on the black screw will be your LOAD wire for this third switch. NOTE: Some reviewers indicate that they have had to use a satellite from a V1 kit. This was not the case for me. I could put a V2 satellite or a regular switch here and it all worked. I ended up using the original dummy switch so that I could return the second kit I purchased.13. Turn the breaker on. If you don’t immediately have flashing orange and green or you have tried to install this already and failed, press restart and press and hold reset until you get the faster flashing orange and green.14. Set up in the app as normal. I recommend doing this step before closing everything back up.15. Turn the breaker off.16. Mount switches and plates.17. Turn the breaker on.NOTE: Even though I got the controller to work, the power delivery was a little wonky. At 100% the lights flickered. The app auto-tune also did not correctly identify the low point. I let it do its thing and changed that manually after the fact. It had to be a little higher than where the typical LED goes (this might be because this is controlling 4 interconnected higher-wattage light bulbs). Then I went in to set the max setting to about 98%, which was the highest it would go without the flicker. I also had to adjust the intermittent dimmer levels because it wasn’t quite right. Not a big deal.Give a thumbs up/comment if this works for you. I am interested to know if this works for everyone or if I just got lucky.Now for the actual product review:Good: Super happy I got this to work in 4-way. I really like the Kasa ecosystem and app. I have a TP-link router that has been awesome. I love that I was able to customize the dimmer settings to make it work in my use case. I love the scene options in the app.Okay: I want the app or an addon product to have a voice command option so I don’t have to use “the big two” to make this happen.Bad:1. Kasa… please update your documentation. I understand that maybe this is an “unofficial” use of the product, but this info should be easily found on support pages with maybe some caveats about how you don’t officially support this configuration.2. The mounting screws included require a Phillips head. Basically, all electrical is done with a flathead. Making me switch back and forth is annoying.3. The bezel on these switches are so bulky that they conflicted with my faceplates. Kasa doesn’t sell face plates for two or three gang switch boxes. So, I am forced to dremel down the offending faceplate screw support or buy a third-party screwless faceplate. Kasa could easily make the center part of the switch bezel lower/thinner and wider to be compatible with both the original mounting screws and faceplates to solve both of the above problems.I am giving this 4 stars because of the obstacles I had to overcome to get this far and the minor bad points above. That said, I love the fact that this worked and would absolutely purchase it again. Highly recommended.
April Saturnino –
We had an electrician install this as we are not handy. However I did the setting up after install and it was fairly easy to do. Able to sync with alexa flawlessly.The only caveat is whenever you change you wifi password, you will have to re install and update wifi password to each light switch.
Amazon Customer –
Very gd
AAA BBB –
Works well so far, easy to install
Eric R. Property Management –
I love this product. Its good quality and came with a quick delivery and good packaging. I will be definitely using these in my rental properties that I have. Easy install also
Albert –
I use a lot of Kasa products and I like them for reliability and features. This is the first Kasa motion activated light switch I’ve tried. The programming is similar to their other WiFi switch devices but one thing that’s missing on this one is a time setting you can adjust to shut off the lights when no motion is detected. This one is fixed to shut off after about a minute. Would be nice to be able to set the shutoff faster. Other motion activated switches I’ve used do have such a setting but not this one.