YoLink 4+

I have tried a lot of smart home technology over the years. But the products from this company are the ones I tell my friends to buy. The hardware is very good and on par with other companies but what puts this ahead of the game is how well the software was designed and laid out. It’s almost like my next question is the next thing in the software for me to do. The screens and wording used is very clear and you understand it almost immediately.

I have one request that I really really really wish the designers would implement right away. There’s a feature where you can continuously be alerted if a door is left open. But the problem is the way they designed it. The minimum alert time is 10 minutes. This is way too long for me as there is time for a pet or a young child to escape the house before I know it, when you set this door remaining open Alert, I would like it to be able to alert me every minute. Not every 10 minutes.

Other than that, I highly recommend this

We had a water filter under a sink get detached and flood our upstairs bathroom. Despite it being late at night the alarm on the unit went off (and the app notified us, but our phones were on silent) and we were able to shut the water off within a ten minutes of the leak. This water detector’s beeping allowed us to stop it before it became much worse! We would have slept through the night and the water leak would have causes massive damage. 10/10

It gets the job done if setting up the sensors and alerts, but this App needs some attention. 1)Where’s dark mode? This is 2025. Opening up the app at night in response to an alert just blinds you. 2)improved contrast. 3)open up a local hub API in case the internet is down. 4) local home assistant integration, again in case the “cloud” is unavailable. 5) again dark mode