Wifi Smart Plug Set of 2 Mini Smart Outlet Compatible with Alexa Remote Control By Smart Phone from Anywhere Anytime (2 Packs)

Best Plug ever. I bought these to control The lights in my house. They work amazing Theyre actually probably making me Lazy But I dont care Because its so cool To be able To just say Alexa Turn off The light And the light turns off. They were very easy To set up And install I definitely recommend them As part of your smart home setup.

I used them for a lamp in my living room and a wall light in my bedroom. Very easy to use and works great so far. I connected them with Echo. Good thing is that you can name each plug whatever name you want. So I simply named them as “livingroom light” and “bedroom light”. Now when I come home I just tell Alexa to turn on the livingroom light for me. Never need to walk to the light switch in the dark anymore(yay!).

Warning...do NOT create an account or use this device before reading the Terms of Service. You dont have to take my word for this, go read the Terms of Service yourself. Be aware that the required phone app and this physical device are actually collecting data and could potentially compromise your phone and home network, leaving them, and the data on both, vulnerable to outside access. To be able to setup and use this device with Alexa or Google, you have to download an app to your phone, then create an account with your smart phone, using personal information that goes to the vendor in China. Based on their Terms of Service, they harvest quite a bit of personal information from your phone, including contacts, pictures and even your signature, as well as continued tracking and gathering of data when the device is used, as well as ongoing data collection via the phone app, - including data from your friends and family thats on your phone - which you have to warrant that you have permission from friends and family to disclose. Additionally, their Terms of Service states that they will share your information with third parties may be located outside your home country Some selected points copied from their Terms of Service: When you activate the SmartLife device, we may collect your age, height, weight and gender. We may also collect other details you provide as part of your profile such as your birthday, picture and signature. Personal data that are collected for creating a SmartLife Account may include your email address or mobile phone number, device related information (e.g. IMEI number) and various location related information (e.g. location area code, mobile network and country codes). When you share content or send information to family and friends, we may collect personal information of those people, such as their names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and mailing addresses When you share content or invite users to use SmartLife device, please note that other users may see personal data you share. Unless we tell you in this privacy policy, we will keep your personal information confidential. We may disclose your personal data on occasion to third parties in order to provide the products or services that you have requested. Some of these third parties may be located outside your home country.

My first venture into using our Dot to control a few things. Took a few minutes to set up and I did that twice. Set the smart outlet app up first and the app was ok, It has the on/off action just like a light switch. Next I went to the Skill in Alexa for these plugs, and set them up in Alexas Smart Home settings. All went well, Quality seems excellent, Where I plugged in one it made the outlet a little hard to use the second outlet (my strange plug), I just added a connector, one of those short plugs with 3 places to plug something in and it solved the problem. In playing around as when we are on vacation I dont trust our router to stay on all the time so I use one of those lights on/off timers to reset it in the early AM. I my brilliant thinking, I tried the second plug to see if it would work away from home to reset the router. (bad idea you figure it out, I dont recommend trying it). It is cool that you can control lights or other things remotely using the apps.

Just watch you tube videos to install. I just plugged in my Christmas lights and connected it to my google home hub. Now I can tell my hub when to turn on and off my Christmas lights.

These work great and the software that controls them works great with my iPhone. You can set up to 720 on/off cycles per day ((24 hrs/day * 60 minutes per hour) / 2 for on/off) with the same setting for each day or different settings for different days. I use it as a security light to randomly turn on and off the lights through the night. It also interfaces with my Alexa, thus giving me the option to manually control the plugs from either my iPhone or from Alexa. Setting it up is easy, although there is no documentation that states it only interfaces with 2.4GHz wifi networks. I initially tried setting it up with my 5GHz, but it only gave me frustration. Once I figured out to use the 2.4, everything went great.

I bought these as a gift for a friend. When I tried to set them up, I found that his Spectrum-installed router had assigned the exact same name to both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi bands. for some reason, the band selected always defaults to the 5GHz. I was unable to find a way around the issue. I kept them, and they work perfectly on 2.4GHz at my home.

I was a bit hesitant about how these would work, but set up was a breeze. The app works fine and works with Alexa. I use one for my kitchen cabinet lighting. No more reaching behind appliances to turn them on. The other on a light fixture that doesnt have a normal size bulb. There is no dimming function, but works fine.

Im giving a pretty high review because I easily set up both of these using the default approach, and the price is good for the feature set. I downloaded the Smart Life app on iOS, created an account (yes, it requires your phone number...Im not too troubled by that). I had one problem giving my full Wifi SSID password, it was too long to enter into the Smart Life app on iOS. So I attached these to my guest network which has a shorter password (and probably a good idea anyway). If not for this one problem I might give a 5-star review. There was also a backup connection approach which makes these their own temporary WiFi AP (a lot of devices do this as an alternative connection means). I did not need to use that, as the plan A approach worked fine for me. I renamed each of these to a good straightforward name and enabled the Alexa Smart Life smart home skill, and discovered the devices. All of this worked flawlessly and I can use the app or Alexa to control these. The Smart Life skill also supports IFTTT for the more advanced home automation tinkerers. My only concern, I guess, is that these require a cloud platform to stay running for them to continue to work - and that means ongoing costs. If the company ever decides to shut this down, these no longer function. Although made in China my two units both connect to EC2 instances in US-West-2 on the MQTT port. You can easily check this by checking your local router to find the assigned IP, then search in the list of open ports what target IP and port they connect to, and then run a whois to find ownership of the related IP block. Anyway, Im counting on these staying operative but I guess there is no guarantee. EDIT: Ive been using these for many months and theyre still great.

Good price on these. The only hold back on the 5th star was the app that came with the plugs, didnt have a schedule to turn off and on the switches at a specific time, so had to use IFTTT to set it up. Again for the price they worked great after I got it setup