Smart Plug, POWRUI Mini WiFi Outlet Compatible with Amazon Alexa & Google Home,No Hub Required Timing Function Control Your Home,ETL Certified, (4 Pack) White

Fantastic smart plug — easy to set up, reliable connection, and works flawlessly with Alexa and Google Home. Use: Perfect for automating lights, coffee makers, fans, and other small appliances. Great for home or office smart setups. Ease of Use: Super easy to install using the POWRUI or Smart Life app. Connects quickly to Wi-Fi and syncs smoothly with voice assistants. Quality: Compact design with a sturdy feel. Provides stable power connection and never overheats. Value for Money: Excellent price for a dependable and feature-rich smart plug. Performs just like high-end brands. Functionality: Supports scheduling, timers, and remote control from your phone. Works instantly with Alexa voice commands. Look: Clean, modern, and compact design that fits any outlet without blocking others. ⭐ Highly recommended! Easy setup, reliable performance, and great value — perfect addition to any smart home.

I usually make my own wifi switches, but these were cheaper than it costs me to make my own. Got these for $19.97 on Prime Day and I'm pretty happy. They set up in 3 mins if you're using their app, but add a few more if you're controlling them with an Alexa device. The upside is you can plug a power strip into these and control several things are once. I used one to control the day/night cycle for the lights in a lizard enclosure. The downside is they take up too much space. When I make my own switches I put the unit somewhere inline in the cord. They are good for controlling ceiling fans. These are too big to plug more than one in a single outlet. I don't know why anyone would buy different plugs when these are so cheap and do everything the more expensive plugs do, other than make a lamp/light bulb dimmable.

UPDATE: I moved my review up to 4 stars after trying - once again - to get these plugs to work before returning them. My other plugs from this company work so well, it was a personal mission to figure these out! Turns out, I had to update the app. Then, make sure the light is flashing fast Auto detect worked brillantly! I gave 4 stars just because of the frustration I experienced before I thought to try updating the app. I have bought several single wifi plugs (not the mini), 3 plug smart plugs, and 4 plug smart power strips from this company. I was able to get them setup and connected thru my Alexa fairly easily. These mini wifi plugs I cannot setup. I think it is because I have 5g wifi - not 2.4g - and I can't work around this to connect the plugs thru the app. I had an issue with the 3 plug device and the company reached out to me after I left a sad review. I then managed to get the plug to work as I wanted, upgraded my review, and did not return the plug. Perhaps the same can happen. But, I wish I could buy the other single smart plug which no longer seems to be available.

Product works and gets the job done. Works with smart life app which was what I was looking for. It was somewhat difficult to set up at first as the lights kept blinking and turning on and off multiple times. The instruction booklet was a bit confusing too. But overall, it works well and is small and compact. Great value.

The important factor for me is that, if this plug is On before a power outage, it will continue to be On after the outage is over. It turned out not easy to find such behavior. I went through 2 different models of plugs and had to return them because they behaved in the opposite way - they would turn my devices off after an outage was over. Note that both behaviors are valid depending on your needs. If you are concerned about leaving your home during an outage and not realizing that you had a light or appliance turned on, then you may want the plug to go to Off state when the power comes back in your absence. But if you purposefully want to keep a device on while you are away, then you don’t want the plug to go Off every time your power cycles. I needed the latter, and these plugs fit the bill. Ideally, I wish this could be a configurable app setting, so I can have both scenarios to choose from…something for the manufacturer to consider. Also, the plugs are compact size, and the app has an easy interface and many features including automation. I’m subtracting two stars because the plugs have faulty setup and gave me a lot of trouble. It was the problem with the plugs, not my wifi…my wifi is time-tested and satisfies all the necessary requirements, I double-checked….but the plugs kept timing out during setup, despite resetting them multiple times and doing everything according to the instructions. About to return them back to amazon, I reset and tried them with another wifi network just in case…and they connected. Baffled, I went back and tried it with my main wifi one more time, and that time they paired with no problem even though I did not do anything different. Really strange behavior, so obviously some odd problem with the setup process, and that’s not a good thing…. Time will tell how reliably they will stay connected…so far so good. EDIT: I left the plugs on for a long time and have not opened the app for a couple of months. Today I opened the app and the plugs are shown offline even though they are connected and the light indicator shows them on. Physically unplugged and plugged them back in and they instantly went online in the app. Submitted the support question to the customer support in the app. They better have a good explanation. If the plugs just go offline periodically then it's totally unreliable and garbage product, and not suitable for remote control. Will update the review then I hear back from them.

Works well with Amazon Alexa - after figuring out the install and setup. Have to install Google Home first to your phone. Then add these to the Home app. Then pair it to your WiFi system (2.4gHz only). Then Download and install the Smart Life App from iPhone App Store. Then you have to open Alexa and Go to Skills and Games and Install the Smart Life Skill. THEN you Link the Smart Life and Alexa apps. Then, you can add the device as a plug or light to the Alexa devices. A bit of a round about install/Setup procedure - but once done, these work just like Amazon Alexa devices.