GE myTouchSmart Outlet

dgtyner · March 11, 2019, 8:38pm

Has anyone successfully connected a GE MyTouchSmart outlet to SmartThings.

JDRoberts · March 11, 2019, 8:54pm

That’s a Wi-Fi device, and there is no direct integration or official cloud integration. But you can use the echo as a “man in the middle” as a one-way integration which might be enough for a pocket socket.

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