in this video we'll be looking at smart home products from Knightsbridge
here at efixx we take fairly regular deliveries of boxes full of electrical items to review
tear down or install but every now and then one comes along that's a surprise and contains items
that are just a little bit special when we get a box marked Knightsbridge we know we're in for a
treat you may remember a previous video where we looked at their wide range of outdoor accessories
and another where we reviewed all the variants in their specialist sockets range
who can possibly forget the sockets with bluetooth speakers now coming from the same company you'd
expect something in the way of innovation and knightsbridge have not disappointed first of all
there's the scope of the products that they've produced as you can see on the bench here let's
look at the power side of things to start with we've got here a smart socket outlet in a white
square edge finish a really nice entry point to a smart home it simply replaces a standard double
socket outlet and is designed to match the rest of the square edge range that Knightsbridge produce
so that means that it will sit discreetly alongside non-smart accessories around the
installation in addition to this there's also available a smart outdoor socket which could
be really helpful for perhaps controlling maybe outdoor lighting or even an automated watering
system now if swapping over sockets or installing new ones for smart is just a little bit too much
knightsbridge have also produced this plug-in smart adapter reducing installation time
and also meaning that it can be moved around easily look how small that is it's incredible
it's so unobtrusive and if you can believe it it's rated at 16 amps which is really impressive
and also it will show you in real time the power consumption being used by the connected appliance
and if one smart socket just isn't enough then there's this extension lead here that gives you
access to three smart outlets as well as usb charging all of these products mentioned so
far can be connected into the Knightsbridge smart system via the easily controlled SmartKnight app so
some great innovations there from Knightsbridge regarding socket outlets but let's look at some
of their lighting products now let's look at fittings first of all we've got here a smart led
downlight that is controllable via the smartnight app and can be dimmed as you can see here and then
we can also change the color see there from red all the way around through the different colors
and back again and it can also be color tuned which means that we can adjust the temperature
of the white output going down as you can see here to a warm white and then back up again to a cool
light clever stuff now while this fitting would be perfect for using a non-fire rated ceiling we may
need to install them into a fire rated ceiling so there's some fire rated variants including
this dimmable and color tunable one and this one featuring dimming color tuning and colour changing
then there's some larger fittings that can either be surface mounted or will fit into a cutout
making them perfect for replacing old large spots in ceilings they come in two different
sizes as you can see here and the bezels can be easily swapped out for alternative finishes
these are also dimmable via the smart knight app then finally on the light fitting front there's
this led strip here which can be connected to this smart controller which gives you dimming
colour changing and colour tuning options for a flexible and creative lighting installation
now connected to the lighting we need to think about how to control the lighting
and most of this is done in the smartnight app however there are a couple of automatic control
options one of them is this contact sensor here consisting of two parts the sensor and the magnet
just like an alarm contact one part could sit on a door and the other part on the frame and as they
separate a light in say a cupboard or a wardrobe can be triggered but it's smart so it can control
a smart lamp completely remotely and not only are there no control cables required there's no
power supply either as they are battery operated and so no supply needs taking to them absolutely
couldn't be simpler an additional control can be found in the form of a motion sensor again
completely wireless as it's battery operated and look at this i love the way this mounts you screw
this back part onto the fixing surface and then the sensor sits on there magnetically but because
of the way that the back is molded you can change the direction it's pointing and there's no little
fixing screw to tighten up it's held together magnetically that actually made me laugh in
delight the first time i saw it i think that's so ingenious now i think this smart system from
knightsbridge is great partly because it's simple there's no hub required which removes expense
and also means that the area around your router doesn't start to look like a combined paint chart
and jackson pollock painting then there's the variety of devices that can all work together
allowing you to get creative with your electrical solutions and finally there's all the features
that the app itself has like timers schedules scenes geo-fencing so devices can activate when
you get home plus these devices have been sent to both amazon and google for independent testing and
approval so they go beyond just being compatible with alexa devices and google assistant which
some companies use as a workaround and have been given approval to use the works with alexa
and hey google logos which ultimately means that these devices from knightsbridge can be
voice controlled via echo and google devices all together knightsbridge have created a system
that shows how smart can still be simple and that simple can still be really really smart as always
though we want to hear from you have you installed any of these smart products from knightsbridge
what else would you like to see in the range please get involved and leave your thoughts
in the comments below all that remains in this video is to say thank you very much for watching