Today, I'm going to show you how to turn any light switch in your
house into a smart switch in like 10 seconds with a switch bot bot.
So tune in,
Hey everyone.
I'm James Monson magnet.
And back with the tech review.
This time of the switch.
But that's right.
Switch bought, bought.
Now over the years, I've been like into smart houses and then
like not into smart houses.
And again, it's a smart house is like, now I'm completely out of smart houses.
Like I do have some Phillip Hughes, light bulbs, and those are really nice.
Uh, just in the bedroom, like before I go to bed, I can turn it on.
I can turn it off right before I go to bed.
I don't have to get out of bed.
I really, really like that.
But maybe you don't have Phillips use in your house or you're like me where
you have lights outside your house and you want to turn them on and off.
And maybe on a schedule, like, you know, let's say you're leaving
and it's dusk and you want him to turn on at 6:00 PM, but then turn
off automatically at like 9:30 PM.
Maybe you want to change that throughout the season to let's literally what
the switch bot bot is all about.
I can take any light switch in your house and automate it.
It turns.
And it turns it off.
That's it's one job on off.
That's it.
Now, what I like about it is that you don't have to have, you know, a paid
subscription to anything you don't really have to sign up for any services at all.
You just install an application and everything is scheduled via Bluetooth.
So that means.
Like, it's not connected to the internet, which is a nice thing, because I don't
want all my light switches in my house to be on the internet all the time.
Now you do have the option to get a smart hub for the switch bought,
bought, and all of their other gizmos and gadgets that they create.
And then you can connect it to, you know, Google assistant, Alexa, you
know, you can actually tie it to Siri shortcuts and things like that.
So if you do want to smartify it and Wi-Fi it, then you can, but if you're like,
My main goal was get something to turn on and off my light switches outside.
And that's the switch switch, switch, switch, switch
bought switch bought bought.
Well, anyways, it's in this nice little package here, 20
bucks, 25 bucks on Amazon.
Um, and I absolutely love it.
So let's go ahead and first do it on boxing and then I'll
show you how I've set up.
All right.
Here's the switch bot bot.
Now it is just the device.
You can buy a hub.
So if you need to connect it to smart devices like Alexa and Google
assistant and Siri, you can get that, but we're just going to use it
without it, to turn things on and off.
And all you need to do is set up the bot, download the app and control the bot.
That's all you can really do.
Now.
I'm going to use it for light switches, which I think is the best
use case, but they give you some other examples, like coffee machines,
computers, and thermostats, but light switches is definitely number one.
It's really no tool set up.
You can do scheduling password authentication and 600 days of
battery use with a replaceable battery, which is very, very nice.
So let's go ahead and bust into the packaging here and, and open
up the switch bot bot, because that's what y'all came for.
And to show you exactly how I.
Now there is some just normal plastic in here.
And there's really two things inside the box, besides instructions, which
are these little 3m sheets that are nearly impossible to get out.
So you gotta just dump out.
And the switch bought, bought.
And, um, yeah, here's the, these little 3m pieces, which are really nice.
And I'll talk about those a little bit later, but they give you enough to have
replacements in case something goes wrong.
But again, there's this switch.
Bob bought some other cardboard and of course the user
manual, just Chuck that away.
So there's a few nice things.
Very, very nice.
Just peel away that plastic.
And there's a switch bot and of course the pool.
Removed before use to activate the battery and there's 3m on the back.
So there's already one of those installed, and this is the, the, the essence of
the switch bought buys that little thing right there that will open and close.
But now let's go ahead and get into it.
I've installed the switch bot bot app, the switch bot happing
controls multiple things from them.
But for this in theory, we're going to search for a bar nearby and pull
that tab so satisfying and that.
Is there.
And that just shows up bought F nine.
So it's automatically detected my bot.
And, uh, you can say, I already have one in the house.
Um, so there's one there and this is a new one that's shown
up on the screen via Bluetooth.
When you tap on it, we're in setup mode.
So you can do all sorts of things that we'll get into, but we'll get
into this, the password and mode.
Now you can set up a password if you decide.
Or you can just go ahead and set up the mode.
There's press and switch.
I'll talk about those.
As you can imagine, one is to press something down.
I want us to turn a light switch on and off, but really that that's
mostly it finalize the initial setup.
Give it a name and put it in a room if you want to.
And you're literally done.
It's just that simple.
It's crazy.
I love every second of it.
And yeah, now we can just start tapping on the bot to open and close.
So when you tap on it here, there you go.
It's opening and that it closes.
Th that's it.
And then you tap on it again and it switches again.
There it goes just like that.
So this mode in the press mode is going in and just tapping on something, tapping
on something, tapping on something.
So if you had a computer switch that you wanted to depress something,
that's what you would use.
Now, if we put it over into the switch mode instead of press mode, this is where
things get really, really interesting because you can literally use it.
Press down on something and to pull away from something like a light switch and
a, when you tap on it on it, presses it in and when you turn it off, it pulls
it away and you can kind of see it here.
It sticks out a little bit compared to the press mode that
kind of turned it on and off.
And it's because you want to attach these little tiny 3m dongles in here.
And this is what you'll attach to your light switch.
To pull or press on it, to turn it on or off, uh, which is really cool.
So you would just put that on the bottom or the top of your light
switch based on where you want it.
And you're good to go so we can actually turn on and off.
You can see it in motion a little bit here.
It's a little bit easier to see it.
There is, it kind of pushes it forward and then pulls it away.
So what does this look like?
Let me show you on my actual light switch.
So here we go.
It's going to be pulling it away and then pushing it.
Let's see that one more time, pulling away to turn it off.
And pushing it in to turn it off.
There you go.
Really, really cool.
So that's pretty much all you can do inside of there.
You have the ability to turn things on and off and to press things.
I mean, that's what the switch bot does for switches.
I think that's really, really neat.
Now there are some other nice things in here too.
Like a schedule, for example, you can set, uh, you know, what time
you want things to turn on or off what day you want it to be on.
That's totally up to you.
So that's really, really nice, um, and complete action.
So complete automation and you don't need to be at home to do that at all.
It's syncs it to the device and stores it locally.
For example, here's my other device in the house where I have the lights
turn on at six 30 and off at eight 15, and then I just have a set up.
So it's on and off automatic.
Now some of the other things that you may want to go in and look at like cloud
services, you need a hub for that as well.
And put that in the show notes below.
If you want to attach that up, there's also things, uh, such as,
um, battery life and firmware levels.
If you want to check out that anytime.
And complete logs.
So you can see every single time things are turned on and off, no
matter what, which is pretty cool.
Um, yeah, that's pretty much the application, you know, you compare with
a remote if you have a remote from them.
Um, and I think that might be an oh, one of the things I want to talk about
here too, is now you may put your light switch on the top and the bottom.
So there's this inverse, the on-off.
That's kind of a nice thing too, and it reverses the mode basically for you.
So that's it.
That is the switch bot modes and app walkthrough.
Well, there you have it.
That is the switch bot bot.
What do you think?
I love this thing.
We use it every single night to turn on and off our lights outside.
And I thought of a lot of different use cases for it as well.
Like my coffee machine.
Or for example, like if you want to turn on and off speakers from across the room,
there's this kind of a lot of, you know, use cases for it and to push things, but
also to flip things on and off now, switch bot has a bunch of other products too.
Like they have things actually open and close your blinds.
They have different humidity and temperature, sensors, and
cameras and all that stuff.
Oh, this is the only thing I have though.
And I like it because I don't need to buy into the ecosystem.
To use it.
Right.
I don't need the hub to use it and can just set this on the nice programmable
dial as one thing that I like about it compared to some of the other ecosystems,
which is you've got to get all the things, but I'll put a link to the Amazon
page where right now this is about $30.
I think I got it for 25 or so on Amazon.
But I'll also put a link to all of their other products as well.
So you can browse all of the things that they have there.
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