and here you can see all the different casa tp-link devices that i have
you will notice that the power strip itself is not listed as a single item but it actually breaks
down each individual plug into its own item so the plugs that are part of the power strip are the
drobo here which is currently on the google which is my google home mini which is currently off
and playstation which is off and i have an unused plug which is showing the default name of plug 5
right now roku and tv now the roku and tv are the ones that i've been using this for quite a lot so
let me show you what the individual options for the plug itself are so we're going to start with
the roku you can see you can power them down and power them on so if i were to come over to google
click on that it will power it up you won't hear it but it's over in the
other room and it's powering itself on we're going to scroll down here and we're going to select the
roku so from here you will see you'll have the title of the device up there as well as a back
button and a options or settings button you have a big power button right in the middle there as
well as down here we have some options which i'm going to go over first we're going to start with
the we're going to start with the settings options up here in the upper right here it will show you
all of the devices and you can click on one to rename it or change the picture you'll notice that
there is a default picture of a plug hopefully you can see that it's a little bright but if
you click on that you can edit it and select a different picture you can also use a photo that
you've taken of the device or you can just jump right in and take a picture and use that i do wish
that tp-link would expand this thing which i did a review over there has a very good selection of
default generic icons and i kind of wish that those icon packs would become the default for
everybody but i do realize this is tp-link's default and you could add your own if you want it
coming back so we're back to the you can rename it you can choose a picture
i'm going to go back one more time and if we scroll down we have other options we can
reorder the devices so we can come here and say playstation one tv so this is you can see right
there hopefully it says plug one plug two plug three it's indicating where on the power strip
that was plugged into but maybe you don't necessarily want the roku to be plug six you
wanna drag it up here and it's going to be listed as plug one even though it's plugged in location
is technically six i'm just going to bring that back down here because i really don't care i use
mainly the voice activated portions of this so we're gonna come back led status lights so you
can turn all those lights on or off which is kind of nice because it is a bright white light
and it can be a little distracting depending on where the power strip is located so if you toggle
it off all the lights on the power strip will go off including that activation light so it's not
just the lights for each individual plugged in item it's even that activation light will turn
itself off you're not going to save yourself a lot of power because they're led lights but if you
want a completely dark room this is how you would do it you just come in there and toggle on and off
the led lights so that's kind of cool advanced you have device info clicking that will show you
a bunch of information about the device so time zone location sync date and time the network
device it's on model hardware version firmware version and then down there is the mac address
we'll not be showing you that and if you wanted to you can also select remove device from here
we're not going to do that because we like our device now these lower icons are all the same
for all of the items on the plug so we're just going to talk about the roku right now
you'll notice that there are dots right here at the bottom i scooch that up a little bit so you
can see that there are dots down there scrolling through that will scroll you through the items
on the power strip now you'll notice there's a difference between plug five which isn't currently
turned on and the roku which is turned on in that the circle is illuminated but also the
background is and it there's a nice animation when you turn on and off the plug it's it's a
neat little feature it's not going to aid you in any way but it's a nice little kind of extra bonus
so coming down to the bottom we're going to select schedule scheduling devices you can come up here
to schedule the device now this is turning on and off the device on a specific schedule so
depending on what you're using the power strip for if it's attached to a light you can say you
know set a time turn my smart plug on and then you can select repeat repeat repeat and save and then
you can also come in and use this to turn off the smart plug on these specific days and times
timer so this is allowing you to either turn on or off your smart plug after a set amount of time
generally you want to turn it off after a certain amount of time so think of it as like a mandatory
sleep timer for children if you wanted to uh so you can come in here 30 minutes turn off and then
start so after being on for 30 minutes it will turn itself off away mode this is to allow the
plug to act as if somebody was home so again if it's plugged into a light you can set a specific
time to start this action and end this action and what it will actually do is turn on and off
that device so if it is plugged into a tv it will turn on and off the power to the tv and if your tv
was left in the on state will turn that on and off during the specific time frame and again
you can select repeating on what day so if you just wanted to do it while your way on
the weekends you can do it during that you would just click start and right there it's getting
ready to we're just going to say stop because we don't actually want to do that last bit which
makes this very interesting to me is this energy usage so here it will show you today currently the
roku is using 2.8 watts and total consumption for the day is less than 0.01 now daily average is
a little uh well it's very low for the roku because it doesn't use a lot even though it's
last year's top tier model review over there we're going to we're going gonna come back
here and we're gonna swipe to something like the drobo which does use quite a bit of power
so here we can see it's currently using 3.1 watts it has a total consumption of
almost well not even quite half a kilowatt yet but if we come down to the seven day average
here's the daily average for what it actually uses here's the total consumption so i've actually used
a kilowatt and a half in the past seven days coming down to the past 30 days again it's not
quite a full kilowatt but the total consumption is 5.03 kilowatts now this is really nice information
to have especially if you are very concerned about power usage the one thing i wish that it did show
was actually the time the other tp-link spark plug i have has time but not power usage so it's kind
of a trade-off they won't give you both they give you either or now coming back here you will notice
that drobo is up here but playstation plug roku and tv which are my other items on that power
strip are down there it is kind of because it's alphabetical in the smart plug listing so there's
no way to get around that in this particular interface but it doesn't matter for me i use the
echo in order to turn on and off my devices as well as you know the google home which you saw
me power on but that was a quick look at what the casa app looks like when using your power strip
you