you've made the inside of your house smart so obviously the next step is to help
smarten up your outside hello i'm Wanderer001 and this is my review of the wise outdoor plug yes
wise that builds indoor security cameras and has started to move to the exterior of your home
with the wyzecam version 3 wise outdoor camera and the wise doorbell now have brought you this
unassuming black box well this is their outdoor plug and while the exterior might not leave a
lot to be desired it is packed with features that you probably didn't realize you actually wanted
in an outdoor smart plug i know it surprised me greatly in fact i just kind of got this as a hey i
need to test something let me get this because it just came out and after using it i am blown away
by what you get for the price point but before we get to the price point let's talk about the
unassuming outdoor plug here you are looking at something that is four inches long has a width of
2.8 and a depth of 1.4 it is a little larger than some of the outdoor plugs that you might see from
other manufacturers but there is good reason as to why this is a little chunkier we'll call it the
plug itself is also only 7.2 ounces in weight and the cable length which i feel is a little short at
six inches long i wish it was a little longer only because the way that my particular outdoor outlets
are they're flipped upside down and it just i wish it was a little longer we'll leave it at that
you are looking at a outdoor plug that is ip64 weather rated what that gets you is operational
temperatures from negative 4 up to 120 degrees fahrenheit i have personally tested this to about
96 degrees fahrenheit and it has gotten rained on a lot and a lot of that is due to the weather
proofing down there which we'll talk about up here and this is the one area that i think is a little
wax is the plug entry into the box itself if i shake this which
you may or may not be able to hear with my mic it feels like a grain of sand has gotten in here
or a small pebble and i think that's partially due because of this gasket up here because these
aren't going to allow anything in with that being said you kind of notice that it's a little dirty
well that's because it's an outdoor plug i wanted to prove to you that this has been outside for
quite some time so i didn't even bother cleaning it off for the review on the front of the box here
you have your indicators for left and right or plug one and plug two each of these will light up
and you do have a center connection illumination light i do wish that wise would update their app
and allow me to turn that off if i don't want that to be visible then you might be asking
yourself well what's this on the front well that is where this starts to shine and that is actually
a built-in light sensor yes as long as this is facing somewhere where it can catch the light your
plugs can turn themselves on and off independently of each other mind you because it might be one box
but each plug acts as an independent outlet this sensor will allow them to turn it on and
off based on the ambient light now i did test this internally meaning i took this inside to test it
and i did come up with an odd happenstance shall we say that looks something like this
all that means is if you're going to be using the ambient sensor here just make sure that
what you're turning on and off isn't close enough to mess with the sensor or else you'll run into
that weird cyclical thing it was interesting but a small price to pay for a feature like that keep in
mind also with the light sensor you don't need to have wi-fi connectivity it's going to do all that
internally which i think is actually a pretty good extra for a box like this also you are going to
have long-range wi-fi what that means is y says you can get up to 300 feet of wi-fi wi-fi range
with that keep in mind it's 2.4 gigahertz not the 5 gigahertz spectrum i have personally been able
to test this up to 145 feet because one that's as much property as i have and the length of
extension cord that i could find keep in mind that i am using a pretty beefy wi-fi router review up
there in the corner to test that out but i will say that is quite the range for something like
this and that's also why it's bigger that built-in light sensor and a beefed up wi-fi range which is
great let's actually take a look down here for our plugs you have plug one and plug two each
come with their own independent rubberized gasket and you can see right there just how deep if i can
get that to focus just how deep those gaskets are i also appreciate that they're independent
of each other but also that they attach to the box itself mind you they can be removed quite
easily if you wanted to but the fact that they're built into the box so that you don't lose them
and that they're independent of each other unlike some manufacturers where they kind of put them
both together i like that you don't realize these things until you actually start testing them
for things that you're actually looking at but you did notice uh spacing in here if you've got some
beefier plugs or ones that are l-shaped you might not be able to have two plugs running on this
at the same time it is just a data point so keep that in mind most of the time people are going
to be using this ponds and holiday lights and things of that nature so with that you'll be
okay because they're smaller plugs anyway on the back you do have some information these are not
actually rubber feeties because well this isn't meant to be sitting somewhere you just have the
connections for your weatherproofing plugs also in the box you get a mounting clamp to help keep this
in one place because well the plug is rather thick and can get away from you so having
something like this that you can anchor and help keep it in place comes in handy wise is known for
making their stuff ridiculously simple to set up so let's actually pause and take a look at
how to set up the wise outdoor plug this will be set up of wise outdoor plug to start we are going
to select plus in the upper left hand corner and then we are going to select add a device
power and lighting that makes sense okay and then we're going to add the outdoor plug all
right first we have to actually take our plug and plug it in it does specify that it needs to be
a gfi outlet possibly we're going to find out because this is clearly not a gfi outlet we can
see we've got some lights flashing which on here it indicates once it's once it's flashing blue
we can proceed so we're going to select next we need to select our wi-fi network so i'm
going to select my wi-fi network we're going to move this over here so we can keep both in view
and it's talking to the outdoor plug and i have my wi-fi network credentials already
in the wise app since i've set up lots of wise applications before and here we go wise plug
is connected and it even let me know that it's connected to alex a and it's loading there and
we can select different names for each of the plugs because there are two separate plugs on
here so what we're going to do quickly is i'm going to call it wise outdoor plug one and two
so if we come down it has suggestions and based on what field you're in it will populate
it in my case i'm just going to leave it as wise outdoor plug 1 and wise outdoor plug 2
and select finish and once we do that you can see that each plug even though it's a single device
has its own on off switch and there is a satisfying click you can't hear it because
of the lapel mic but you can turn each on and off individually and if you wanted to
on the box itself there's on off switches and just like with every wise product when you first get it
there is a firmware update so we will update it but that was the setup of the wise outdoor plug
as you can see very quick and easy to do a lot of the things that i was talking about are all done
through the wise application yes there are things that you can do on the box itself by manually
turning on and off each individual plug or using the light sensor there but a lot of the other
cool features are all done through the application so let's take a look at the wyze app for the wise
outdoor plug this will be the walkthrough for the wyze outdoor plug you can see that there are two
outlets listed because it does have two outlets for a single device the settings will be the same
for either of the two so what we're going to do is we're going to come in and select our second
outlet on our main page here we have a big power button so you turn that on goes green you'll know
that your plug is activated turn it off it is gray here you can see it shows that it's socket
two of two we can come down here for a timer if we select timer you can set time on or time off
after specified number of hours or after a specified number of minutes or a combination of
we're going to hit cancel selecting vacation mode as you can see here will have the plug turn itself
on and off arbitrarily to mimic the fact that somebody's home or not you can set this to not
show again after the first time you initiated i just left it on there for demonstration purposes
one of the neat features that you get with the outdoor plug from wise is usage stats so here
you can see they break it down into day here's all my usage and if i kind of put my finger over
there you can kind of get between the hours how much has actually been used it'll give you week
and month now the usage statistics are nice but it is a combination of both plugs currently i've only
been using one plug it's nice that it's there but i'm not entirely sure if i appreciate it as much
because quite frankly i would like to also have a usage statistic in there not just how much
kilowatt is used knowing the amount of power that has been used is useful but i would also like to
know runtime as well i'm greedy like that we're going to come up here to the settings cog in the
upper right hand corner selecting this will allow you to change the name of each individual plug
you can then set notification usage reminder on or off so you can set this to on and then after
a specified kilowatt number it will tell you hey you've used this much on both sockets maybe you
don't want to leave this on or maybe you want to turn this off more often coming back local
schedules so you've got time of day which as you can see here i have several different schedules
set up so you can set up schedule in fact here we will add a schedule which will be schedule four
you have an on off toggle and then you can set turn on at specify either sunrise sunset or custom
all of those you saw before were custom i'm gonna say turn on at sunset save and then turn off at
sunrise save and you saw for each of those it gives you an estimate sunrise will occur when
you're setting things and then you can specify what days you want this action to happen on and
then just like that it is set you can turn this on or off or we can come up to edit and we can remove
individual custom settings i wish that they would kind of label the schedule one through four even
though i know sequentially this is correct i would still like a label here but we're gonna select
that little icon which will remove my schedule for and then i'm back down to my three schedules i'm
going to select back and that was time of day we can select brightness now using the sensor on the
actual outlet itself will allow you to turn your thing on or off so turn on at dark you can switch
that and notice a switch and then select your days of the week it is a neat feature albeit not
perfect and we'll go back here you have schedules and automation so just like with every other wise
product you can set up specified schedules and automations so that it can interact with
otherwise products this is different than the time of day schedule so it's a special area unto itself
you have your sharing so selecting this will allow you to share this particular outlet with more than
yourself device this is going to give you all of the information of the plug itself and then here
you have y support which again is baked into the app which i really appreciate for the individual
product and we are going to select back and really that is everything that you need to know
for the wise application for the wise outdoor smart plug one thing that i always concern myself
with something like this that uses power even if it's going to be outside and for seasonal purposes
whether again that's to have a pond or your holiday lights going is how much power the device
actually uses well i can say say to you that the wise outdoor plug is very power efficient
when it is idling meaning none of the plugs are on and it's just hooked up to your wifi it uses only
.5 watts of power as you can see here if you turn on one plug it uses the same 0.5 watts of power
only do you get 2.6 watts of power when you have both the plugs on keep in mind that that does mean
that it's only for the plug itself not what you're plugging into it so the box itself is ridiculously
efficient on power another point of consideration for any smart home device is well what happens
when power is lost to device what state does it come back to well in the case of the outdoor plug
here if power is lost to the device it will revert to the last known state if you had one plug on one
plug off when power is restored you will have one plug off and one plug on in some cases that's good
considering that this is outside generally you'll want those things to return to the state that they
were last in and it's not like it's in the bedroom where a light that may have been on at 7 pm but
then had a blackout and didn't does not get power again until 3 a.m you don't necessarily want that
to come back on in and on state but for something like this you do big question on your mind how
much is it well wise is notorious for undercutting a lot of its competitors and even with the recent
price increases of wise because of global chip shortages it's still reasonably priced at 17
so if you are like me and are looking for an outdoor plug that is going to surprise you
with the amount of features that you get at that price point i would highly recommend checking
out the wise outdoor plug with that being said i have been Wanderer001 if you have any questions
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