Watch this before buying Smart Plugs
Watch this before you buy smart plugs for your home automation setup. Using Google Home, Amazon Alexa, or Apple Homekit might not be as easy as you think if you buy the wrong plug!
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0:00 Will your device even work with smart plugs?
1:43 Do you have the power?
3:35 Small enough?
7:02 How much control do you want?
11:39 Are they easy to setup?
14:17 Which home assistant works?
17:24 Are they secure?
20:27 Monitoring energy usage?
22:20 What about automations?
24:08 What do they cost?
3:56 still not vertical. That is worse. Grossly off is annoying. Close but just enough off is worse.
Don’t get any that connect to WiFi at all. I found one on amazon that has a radio signal remote and that’s it. Nothing else. Turns on and off every time I press it.
You’re asking the wrong question about security 18:15 you wouldn’t a 2nd floor window open in your home and then think it only directly endangers the bathroom, you worry about all of it because if it get hacked this little plug caries keys to your network, just as a door connects to the rest of your house
Coffee makers are not a small electricity draw, what are you talking about? They draw a lot.
Bigger problem with the plug. It’s oriented upside down. The ground plug is safer pointing up – less likely to cause a fire if metal slides onto a plugged in wire branching the hot and neutral. Some electrical inspectors will fail that install. Thanks for the video.