Watch this before buying Smart Plugs
Watch this before you buy smart plugs for your home automation setup. Using Google Home, Amazon Alexa, or Apple Homekit might not be as easy as you think if you buy the wrong plug!
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0:00 Will your device even work with smart plugs?
1:43 Do you have the power?
3:35 Small enough?
7:02 How much control do you want?
11:39 Are they easy to setup?
14:17 Which home assistant works?
17:24 Are they secure?
20:27 Monitoring energy usage?
22:20 What about automations?
24:08 What do they cost?
i have been using TopGreener for a few years and found it very useful, but notice their offerings for the monitoring cubes are diminishing and not on Amazon anymore.
However, in this video I also notice that BN-Link has exactly the same app interface as TopGreener. I am now wondering if there is a cross relationship between them, and I could buy BN-Link to port over the TopGreener devices.
Thank you for this video. I have a challenge for you. I have been living for the past 20 years with this issue: I have to turn on the lights to the bathroom before I close the door to it. I don’t want to do a bunch of construction to move the switch inside. Is there a wireless kit like the remote you showed in this video that does something similar?
That screw on the plug cover is not perfectly vertical!
I don’t want the monitor to be able to shut off the connected device, i.e. no relay.. just monitor the power. It would be nice if it has a way to customize the webserver interface, otherwise I’ll need my own DIY ESP32 solution? For example, the webserver would just be a green background when running, and red when off.
Is there a COTS solution, or am I better off modifying ESPHome and flashing it onto a Sonoff S31 / Athom Plug / Tasmota US Plug V2 ?
Great overview, thank you. What a racket! Perhaps if they were actually made for the U.S. market – outlet dimensions, etc. – there wouldn’t be so much confusion.