Tewke Bewertungen 

It's not often I come to Trustpilot to praise a company, but sometimes I just need to make the effort.

I've had smart devices in my home for over 10 years, from lights to central heating. It's worked pretty well, but for the switches.

When you're starting out on the Home Automation journey, it's hard to know how much to spend. I ended up buying a number of different devices for different rooms. Some needed a switch, but didn't dim. Others needed a dimmer, but many of the smart dimmers would only handle one light. We made some rooms smart, but the more complicated 2-way and 3-way set-ups were too much for the cheap import stuff.

You know what they say about "buy cheap, buy twice"? That was me!

Then I discovered Tewke via a social media post on Facebook from one of the founders. Very engaged, very knowledgeable and answered all of my questions - he even invited me down to their London demo room to see it in person. I bought a few devices to try without hesitation and deployed them in switch points I knew had been troublesome for me in the past.

It just worked. No cloud services going down all the time, no complicated set-up, no limitation on what type of Wi-FI you have. I did have one little Wi-Fi issue which gave me the pleasure of dealing with their UK based support team. Understanding, patient and easy to understand. They diagnosed the issue as a problem with my router and even worked with ASUS to find a solution to my problem. One checkbox in my router settings, it's all been perfect since. How many vendors do you know who would fix a fault with somebody else's product?

After a few weeks, I bought many more additional devices to replace the cheap unreliable ones I had and I have 6 more of the new cheaper Tap One devices on back order to use in the less important areas, like the garage, utility and children's bedrooms.

Our smart home just works now. If we walk into a room and it's dark, the lights come on. If we leave the room, they go off again. The same set of sensors can turn the heating on when cold and even lights the gas fire in our Living Room. Previously I'd been looking at separate motion and ambient light detectors which would each have needed their own power supply and wires. With the Tewke gear, all the wires are hidden in the wall box and takes up no more space than your existing light switch.

Great product, great support, great company. I can't recommend them enough.

My husband has always wanted a smart solution within our home, we've trialed smart bulbs, invested in hubs, downloaded the apps but I drew the line at light switches, they were ugly, clunky and an eyesore against my home decor. Here our smart home journey came to a slow stop, leaving us with smart bulbs that were never used. Until we found Tewke Tap. My husband loved all the features but for me it was the design and simplicity. I could actually create lighting scenes from my phone, even control lamps to create lighting schemes throughout the day, which I could edit from my phone, whenever I liked. It looks great, I have three lighting settings that I love and my husband can deep dive into home health, energy and tech. It's actually the best of both worlds for tech minded, and the none tech minded!

Finally a UK designed and built smart switch that has not only realised the value of automation but also that you make technology work for you.

Absolutely love the home health and the integration into other smart home devices. So customisable for each room.
A special note goes to the support and engineering team who are not only quick to respond but more than happy to jump on a call or a zoom with you to diagnose any issues or listen to your ideas for improvements.

I can’t wait to see what comes from Tewke next!

We first saw Tewke on an episode of Grand Designs and loved the look of the TAPs (the name for their touch sensitive light controls). At that time, we were in the middle of our own home renovation and I'd been looking at Lightwave and a few other online options for controlling lighting. I started researching Tewke the next day, liked the functionality and direction the company was going and decided it was the right choice. We had a Zoom with Piers and subsequently placed an order.

Tewke were still in beta at that time, so our electrician didn't know about them - we put they in touch and they worked out everything together. Tewke has been very helpful throughout. We had a few issues with incompatible transformers, but once they'd been replaced everything worked perfectly.

I'm an app designer and expert on user interface, so have made several suggestions to Tewke which they've adopted and rolled out in subsequent updates. It's great to be able to work with a firm that is open to customer recommendations.

Every single person who has come into our home has commented on the TAP switches. Some of the features, control and flexibility might be available with other systems, but none that I found looked this good, functioned this reliably, offered the same level of app control... and certainly none at this price point. Sure there are whole-home-automation systems that take it to a different level, but that's not comparing apples with apples... Furthermore, whole-home-automation is a whole other level of expense and only really works on a renovation project! On the other hand, Tewke TAPs are also easily compatible with most retro-fit projects.

Tewke don't shout enough about all their functionality, so we installed an outdoor day/night sensor to control our front-of-house lights, which turned out to be an unnecessary expense because it could have all been controlled by a TAP using it's programmable Habitats & Automations system in the app.

A few minor things to note...
a) Each TAP can be wired to (up to) three circuits. If you have more circuits or lights you want to control independently in a single room, then you may need more TAPs, e.g. we have two TAPs in our kitchen controlling six lighting circuits.
b) Each circuit supports a maximum of 100 watts (this may increase in the future; check latest versions), so you may need to plan carefully. For example our lounge needed about 20m of 7w/m LED strip, which is 140 watts, thus needed to be split over two circuits. However we used the 'habitat' feature to manage them with a single switch.
c) TAPs connect to the app via WI-FI, so make sure you have a good WI-FI signal in each room where you'll be putting a TAP switch.

Overall we're delighted with our investment in the Tewke TAP environment have already recommended it to several friends. We would certainly make the same choice again... that is if we ever do a major renovation again!