Earlier this year we bought an HBN outdoor smart plug to control the light strings we set up in the backyard. The control app we installed was the BN-Link Android app, which is the one the documentation said to use. It's not a great app but it worked, at least until I got a new phone with Android 14. After that it would not work due to constant crashes and I had to uninstall it.
After thinking about it a bit, I looked up the plug again on Amazon and yes, it supports both Alexa and Google Home. So I found HBN in the "Works with Google" list in Google Home app, linked it to my BN-Link account and added the plug as a device. And yay, it works, and I can now turn the lights on and off again.
I also noticed that our video doorbell may also be supported (at least the brand is in the list), so I may check that out later.
I guess the moral of this story is that if you have any smart home devices and their default app is flaky, Google may be your friend.
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