Gabe: Hi folks, this is Gabe at Security Baron and today we are checking out the AUKEY Smart
Plug.
Let's just see how smart it is.
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Gabe: I'm pumped to dive into the AUKEY Smart Plug because in today's review I'm going to
go over its design, its feature set, the installation experience before finally looking at this
mobile application to see if this could possibly be the right Smart Plug for you.
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Gabe: Let's kick off today's review of the AUKEY Smart Plug checking out its design.
It's a basic white aesthetic.
It basically matches any interior decor, looks almost exactly like your wall outlet, most
likely.
I will say this -- I do appreciate that thinness, so you can actually stack this in that wall
outlet.
You're going to be able to have two of these connected because it's pretty space-efficient.
When you're talking about the other element, you have the AUKEY logo on this side.
Your input here.
Here you have your power button.
You can actually turn it on and off just using this button if, for whatever reason, you're
not using your phone or your voice.
Here you've got an indicator light, so you can know when it's plugged in and things of
that nature.
Overall, it's pretty basic, no thrills but I'm definitely not mad at this aesthetic.
Now that we've seen the design of the AUKEY Smart Plug, let's check out its feature set.
The AUKEY gives you, of course, that primary functionality of remote control of your appliances.
Whatever you have plugged into this, through your own mobile device, you can turn it off
and on.
Boom, boom, boom.
[snaps fingers] Ready to go.
If you want to take it to the next level, you go ahead and set up a schedule.
This way you can have it turn on and off whenever you like.
If you're really trying to level it up beyond that, you do a scene.
A scene requires you to have multiple AUKEY Smart Plugs, but you can essentially have
various appliances work in conjunction.
If you know that one point in the summer you're always going to want to have your TV on, your
air conditioner on, and a fan that just goes directly on your face, you can do that with
the AUKEY Smart Plug.
One tap, and all of those appliances will turn on at the same time, which is super fun.
The final thing I'll talk about, in terms of features, is that Google Assistant and
Amazon Alexa integration.
With that smart platform integration, you can just control any appliance you'd like
by the sound of your voice.
Overall, pretty exciting feature-set for the AUKEY Smart Plug.
Let's jump into the installation experience with the AUKEY Smart Plug.
It's overall quite smooth, quite easy.
Let's just take it step-by-step.
You're going to take out your mobile device.
Download the AUKEY Home app from your home's WiFi.
Then you're going to take the actual Smart Plug, plug it in, get that blinking blue light.
You may actually have to hold the power button for five seconds to get that.
Then you'll have the option in the app to add a device.
Once you hit Add Device, you'll have to input your home's WiFi password and from there,
it will just sync.
It took me through within three minutes.
One of the most painless, straightforward installation experiences I've ever had.
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Gabe: Now that we have the AUKEY Smart Plug installed, let's check out its mobile application,
AUKEY Home.
People seem to like it.
It has a 4.5 on the Apple App Store and a 4 in the Google Play Store, but it's really
important for us to check it out ourselves, because this is where we are going to be doing
all the interfacing with the AUKEY Smart Plug.
Let's go ahead and check it out on the iPhone 10.
Here I am checking out the AUKEY Home app for the AUKEY Smart Plug.
Now you'll see it's called Smart Socket, and you'll see that it's already turned off.
Let's go ahead and check out that remote control functionality, by tapping on that power button
in the upper right-hand corner.
If I tap on it, voila, you see I was able to turn on my bulb, turned it on, you know
it's working, at that indicator like going, and it's a pretty awesome thing to be able
to do in the palm of your hand.
Let's go ahead and turn it back off by tapping, and you hear that mechanical click, let me
know that it's been turned off.
There we are.
Now, I've turned off the AUKEY Smart Plug.
Let's see what other things we can do.
If I click to the right of that, or rather tap, we have scenes.
In here, you can create your own scenes.
I've already created two scenes that I wanted to call, I'm hot and I'm cold.
I hit I'm hot, you note that I'm in New York, and I basically put that anytime is greater
than 77°F, I want the Smart Socket to switch on.
Now, this is something you would do when your Smart Socket is attached to something like
a fan or an air conditioner.
I'm cold is the same thing, but for when it gets lower than 49°F. The return Home is
one that they actually had preset, but you have to set up exactly how you want it to
work.
For example, I have it so that whenever it hits sunset in New York County, my Smart Socket
turn on.
That would be something you would use with something like a lamp.
Finally, you can even make a new one up.
Let's go ahead and hit wake up.
Wake up, we'll add a condition, we'll say sunrise.
Sunrise in New York add a task, Smart Socket switch turned on.
Now whenever the sun comes up, boom, so will my lamp.
I'll be sure to wake up right with the sun.
Overall, I'm a pretty big fan of all the functionality you get out of the AUKEY Home.
There's just a host of things one can do.
Let's go ahead and check out those smart home integrations with Google Assistant and Amazon
Alexa.
Let's talk about the setup for the AUKEY Smart Plug with the two major smart platforms -- Google
and Amazon.
If I want to set it up with Amazon Alexa, I'll go to the Skills tab, type in Smart Life,
which is the name of the application that works with the AUKEY Smart Plug.
With Skills, I'll have to go to search for device after they've synced and then I'll
just add the device to my Amazon ecosystem -- pretty straight forward.
It's even simpler with Google Assistant.
With Google, I'll just go to Smart Life in the Google Assistant app, link those two accounts
and I'm ready to go.
Then I can just say, "Alexa, turn on the plug."
Voila.
Then I can say, "Hey, Google, turn off the plug."
Google Assistant: Sure.
Turning the phone off.
Gabe: Here we have it.
Very simple, straight forward, smooth process of hands-free control of my plug from AUKEY
using Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.
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Gabe: All right, I'm reaching the end of my review of the AUKEY Smart Plug.
I have to say it, there's really just a lot to like.
It's a bit nondescript, but it's bringing a lot to the table.
Two of these for $28, and I can integrate with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, and
have various appliances work in conjunction with another with schedules and scenes.
There's really a lot of functionality you're getting out of just this little Smart Plug.
Overall, I have to say that this is a very strong choice for a smart plug.
That concludes our review of the AUKEY Smart Plug.
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Be secure.
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