I recently bought an HS200 smart switch to test in the house. I wasn't thrilled with the phone only interface, demand for geo location information or reliance on the cloud for full functionality, but the switch performed and at the end of the day it just needed to turn things on and off. I bought 11 more to deploy throughout my house so it wasn't until I really dove into the phone app before I realized just how limited the ecosystem is. Smart actions looked great right up until the fourth switch when I realized I couldn't have more than three smart actions. I cannot imagine a scenario where an engineer someplace thought this was a good idea.

I looked for a hub appliance that would extend the smart feature capabilities and found nothing. I looked for a Mac/Windows application that would allow for more complex management and again found nothing.

Lets be clear, this is a *completely avoidable* software limitation. TPLink needs to offer a home computer-based software managent system or develop a hub that allows for local management of complex tasks. Alternatively TPLink could open the platform and allow developers to build custom applications to manage their devices and integrate with other open technologies, I would gladly build a more robust home automation system based on TPLink hardware if any of these were an option. Until then I struggle to see how I can deploy any more hardware until I have the ability to manage it better.