There are plenty smart plugs out there on the market and a lot of them are big and bulky plus
They're difficult to set up and after you spend way too much money. You just get one with soon
How smart mini plugs those issues are fixed? I'm excited that soon how sent these over?
Because I wanted to see just how simple they are to set up, and if they'll work with my Google home
But don't worry. We pride ourselves to give you a true and honest review of how these will work
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I'm Joshua with gross tech bringing you useful reviews for your tech in your home
Welcome back techies to this week's review
First off these come in a
two-pack as you can see which is great because you know you have more than one place that you could use a
smart plug and a 2-pack is at least a great way to start now these come in at two and 1/8 inch wide and
One 1/8 inch tall not including the plug of course
and
They only weigh in at two point one ounce --is
Which is nice because they won't take up that much space on the wall and more importantly on your power strip like so many do
These will work with 120 volt AC equipment and works with your Alexa and Google home
Now there's not much to these
Just a simple plug with a ground which is nice because a lot of them are just the two prong plugs
But this is the three prong other than just being a normal plug
there is a
Single on and off button on the side that has a blue LED light behind it so nothing special really about how they look
But what matters is how they work, and how easily and well they work
So they have a QR code to download the app called taya smart
Once you have the app downloaded go ahead and sign up for an account and sign in once you're signed in plug in the smart
plug
And you'll notice that the side button starts to blink blue
now if yours isn't
Blinking hold the button down for about five seconds till it is blinking
Just like pairing essentially
Once blinking go ahead back into the app
click on add device and select the
Electrical outlet option which was the top one for me go through the prompts till your plug is added
And you can name it to be specific to where or what that is controlling
And you're done the app is able to obviously turn it on or off also
they have a countdown timer as well as a normal schedule timer that you can add multiple schedules to
you can not only use this app you can also you set it up for the Google home or the Amazon Alexa as
Well, it's as simple as that and really that's all you need to be able to do
Turn it on turn it off and schedule when it can be turned on and off and the performs perfectly
Now you're able to group these
different plugs in groups of
Kitchen or say you want all your plugs in the house to be in one group
So that way you can control multiples at the same time you can also set up scenes
For when you leave or when you come home
normal
Automated stuff you can do with this now the problem that I found with the idea of these is
I had this thought that I was going to use this for say my coffee pot my TV or my
CD player, but it's not a problem or a fault on soon house. It's more of me
Say you want it to do your coffee pot or your TV?
You not only need power to that device
but you need an interaction so the power button or the button on the coffee machine to start the brew and any kind of
interaction for a device to work is just not going to work by just
Giving it power so that is more of my issue
But this thing is more for if you have lamps around the house if you have fans that you'd like to come on
Charging devices so that way you're not
overcharging
batteries or your phone or
Anything else
Even the radio you're able to just leave the radio on and just turn it on that way
But it will only work with devices that just need to have power on to perform their job
so it's more of a problem that I have and had to realize that and
really
I don't need tons of these around and to have a 2-pack is really
For my house and for my needs all I needed so this is perfect for me
At the end of the day these plugs are
small and simple to set up and use and for a 2-pack you can't beat that price and
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