Good day
I have 11 in operation and one of them took me an hour to activate. What is very important is that it is located very close to the wifi. AP is mostly used with sockets that can be used outdoors. I don't know V, or rather I only know it for the abbreviation for Volt.
With kind regards
Rolf W.
I also find it really stupid that you can't control these things via PC.
You could use the Windows-Android emulator BlueStacks, but that's not really a solution...
The only thing I found once was this:
Energenie LAN power strip (6 x, T13, 1.80 m)