WiFi Smart Plug Outlet Compatible with Alexa, Google Home and IFTTT, SLITINTO Wireless Mini Smart Socket with Energy Monitoring, Timer, Remote Control from Anywhere (1 Pack)

On removing the plug from the box, I was struck at how normal it looked. There were no fancy components to fiddle with, just a single switch on the side and a tiny light on the face. This particular socket is designed to be small, so you can have two plugged in side by side and they do not touch or overlap.The instruction book was very small, that had to be my only major complaint. I am not visually impaired by a great deal, but I am 47 and I do have spectacles for reading as a lot of people do at my age. The text in some of the instruction book was so small, I had to call my son to come through and read the pages for me.The first thing to do was to download the App. It’s called Smart Life; you recognise it by its simple blue design with a house. There is a QR code in the book you can use to find the App quickly if you are in doubt.The instructions to set up the socket in the App were easy enough, once you have the App you can link as many sockets or appliances into it as you wish so long as they have the capability.The tricky bit was getting the App to link with Alexa; I struggled here because the instructions were too small. Once again, I called in my son who read the page and had it connected in about thirty seconds – I am told it was not too difficult! What would I know compared with a 15-year-old boy?You can control the socket from the App; however I think that is not the point of the item. You can also set up a basic timer or if you are clever, tell the socket to turn on under certain conditions such as when it gets dark, or even when it detects you are in the house via tracking your phone. In addition, the socket tracks power consumption of the item which is plugged in. This feature makes you aware of your energy usage and you might even be inclined to switch the item off when it is not in use.Like probably every, first time user of a smart socket I was wondering what to try out first. The obvious choice was to try plugging a lamp into it. A lamp is a visual thing; you can see when the light is on or off.We renamed the socket to ‘lamp’ inside the app. Then very politely I told Alexa to switch on the lamp and it worked. Alexa was told to switch the lamp off then on again several more times. The weird thing about asking Alexa to turn the lamp on is that she is so compliant. Her only word is ‘okay’ and the job is done, no backchat, no eye rolling, nothing. I don’t even have to say please or thank you, imagine that!I judge things by asking myself if I would buy that product again. And in this case I would, you can still operate the socket manually, but there is something inherently lazy about not getting up out of your chair to switch the lights on.

I just bought a bunch of these smart plugs from different brands but they all use the same app to setup and look identical aside from a different logo on them. I wanted to use them to control lamps and my TV etc. in the living room using my google home.These were dead easy to set up, download the app, plug them in, hold in the button til it blinks and set the device up in the app. You can assign it whatever name you want then link it to your google home app. Really straightforward and only took a few minutes to set them all up once I worked out how to do it for the first one.I haven't tested the timer functions etc, I didn't buy these for that reason- I really just wanted to be able to turn stuff on and off using google home. These work really well for that purpose and I'm toying with the idea of actually picking up another mini for my bedroom to control the lights and fan. Such a simple thing but just neat and works well.

Bought this to connect to an extension lead that has multiple devices connected to it. The 16 amp rating means this plug should be able to handle up to 3.8KW’s worth of devices which is more than enough for my needs. It works great and I’ve had no issues so far.Even with the impressive specs it manages to achieve this in a nice compact and well designed form factor. I have mine linked with my Amazon Echo dot. Using IFTT I have it set so that it turns off whenever I leave the house and turns on when I get back.There’s so many different things you can do with IFTT that if you have never used it please take a look. I use it with many of my smart devices. You will be surprised at how useful it can be.

Bought two of these as additions to my network of light control. These are better as they don’t cover the on/off switch that my others do and which had to be filed down a bit.Easy to set up and the app has tremendous versatility in setting multiple contract times. Much better than my Mihome WiFi switches are limited to three on/offs in 24 hours.Once setup they bare fast acting and include power monitoringHave taken off a star as they only work on 2.4GHz so you need to split your router signal into two streams

So you wanna make your home smart and maybe have google home or amazon alexa, then this is a perfect little gadget to make alexa do stuff. Works very well with the smart life app, just add it there and let alexa learn the skill and off you go. Tell Alexa " turn off the lamp" boom it works. Love it, simple cheap and effective. I like it that it's smaller as well fitting nicely to UK socket coz I've got some older ones that are a bit big and don't really fit wheres this is just perfect. Good buy.

This is my 6th purchase, just kept adding more to the existing ones already in use. The App is excellent and setup is easy. There’s a switch on the side so you can manually switch it on/off.Can’t fault them, it’s reliable and worth the cost. I have heaters, floor standing lamps and the electric water heater plugged into these, for over 6 months no issues, this one is for the upstairs lamp.

This adapter has replaced a time clock so assists in a number of areas.1, Makes sheduling easy on your phone and saves scramling to get to a time clock.2. Easy to change shedule.3. Easy to turn on and off outside of the shedule and not scramble to get to a timer.

Order a second batch of these plugs, found them to be excellent. Reliable, good app and integrates with Google home so you can activate them using voice control