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The EWA SWITCH Premium Smart Socket - REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
There are lots and lots of smart wall sockets that can tie in to your smarthome or work with their own smartphone apps, but they all tend to look pretty much the same. A sea of smart sockets. The EWA SWITCH offers up a very different design and a Swedish-inspired interface - particularly within the smartphone app - that's a refreshing alternative. But there are lots of reasons to be cautious about purchasing the EWA SWITCH... Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ dug into the switch and its features - and limitations - to see if it's worth the premium price tag. His conclusion might surprise you... Check it out at: https://ewahome.com/
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is this the smartest wall socket in the
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world let's check it out Dave Taylor
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here and we're looking at smart home
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products again specifically smart wall
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sockets and that's where this comes in
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this is the Eva switch it is a smart
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wall socket with power monitoring and
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it's really nice this is like the
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Lamborghini of smart wall sockets
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because there's so much that they're
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doing it has dimming capabilities it has
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timers notifications you can do power
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usage monitoring which I really really
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like and it even has a temperature and
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temperature gauge and/or sensor and you
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can actually create triggered events
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based on it hitting certain temperatures
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that could be really good for like in
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the basement where you need to kick on a
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space heater because it gets too cold
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I'd probably double check with the fire
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hazard issue there but generally having
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things like temperature sensors and
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stuff makes this very interesting now
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all of that functionality you access via
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their app so let's go ahead and start by
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just plugging something in and we'll
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plug in my usual which is just a pile of
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actually Halloween lights come at that
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and as you would expect with every smart
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switch there's a little button on the
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side that lets you override anything so
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Internet's down you don't have your
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phone handy whatever that all is great
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now in the app there's a lot more you
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can do obviously I can turn it on and
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off from the app and they have Android
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and iPhone as usual but you can also do
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things like set a timer so it can be on
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for an hour and then it turns off and
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what I really like is power consumption
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so first thing we can do is let's turn
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this light on and then we go into power
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consumption and let's see how many watts
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do you think this draws with all of
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those LEDs well if you guessed 41 watts
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you're correct now where that number
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becomes really interesting is that I
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actually called this wall socket TV
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because I plugged my TV into it to see
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how much power does my little television
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use
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turns out it uses less how about that so
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here you can see here's the power usage
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of my television when it's off so it's
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not really completely off cuz it's a
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smart TV it's probably monitoring the
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internet and it's working has chromecast
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so all of that is definitely taking a
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little power but then when I turn the TV
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on then it jumps up and it's consuming
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more now turns out that this particular
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switch has limits as they all do so it
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works with a hundred and twenty volts 60
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Hertz 10 amps and a maximum of 1,200
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watts now how did I ascertain that
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because I plugged in an electric kettle
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when I was first testing it and it
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immediately just started giving me audio
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and the little riot indicator light
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turned red and my kettle wasn't working
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so I did a little research
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turns out electric kettle to draw about
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2200 watts when they're heating up that
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water and it's a lot of power that is
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more power than the switch can handle so
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correctly the switch went ahead and
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actually just shut itself down so that's
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what I was experiencing totally no
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problem it's designed for that it
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handled it very gracefully and not only
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that but all I had to do was unplug it
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from the wall plug it back in and we
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were golden now notice speaking of the
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wall notice that when you plug this in
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you do have full access to the second
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socket that's really important
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surprisingly how many products don't
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design so that they can be one of two
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plugs on a wall outlet so you will got
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that right - really there's so much
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they've done right here on this and the
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design it's beautiful design the app is
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actually one of the nicest apps of ever
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used they actually have even funny
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little comments in there but the whole
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design it's just a very nice elegant
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design they say it's Swedish design
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which makes sense because they're based
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in Sweden and 10% of every sale they
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actually donate to the Swedish Childhood
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Cancer Foundation all good all really
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cool however there are two things you
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really need to know before you buy one
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of these the first one is that it
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doesn't work with any other smart home
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system so it doesn't work with Amazon
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Alexa it doesn't work with Google home
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it doesn't work with Siri or home kit
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maybe that's coming I don't know but
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this is very nice but I really kind of
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like to have it be part of my bigger
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smart home ecosystem that's a limitation
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the other issue is the price when I say
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this is like the Lamborghini of smart
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wall switches there's a reason I said
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that wall outlets whatever you'll call
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them and we're gonna get to that in just
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a second because I want to ask you right
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now click on that button and subscribe
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to my channel really really appreciate
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when you do that now the price you ready
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for this this is priced in Euros and
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it's 85 euros plus 17 euros tax if
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you're buying it based in the US that
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translates to a cool hundred and
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twenty-five dollars per wall socket a
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hundred and twenty-five bucks per wall
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socket and it doesn't even work with
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Alexa and Google home now you go and
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look on my channel I've reviewed other
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products that do most pretty much mostly
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what this does and there's sixteen
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dollars including shipping so you can
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buy six of those or whatever for the
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price of one of these now it is
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beautifully designed it is a really
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elegant solution I really really like
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the power monitoring features and stuff
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but a hundred and four dollars plus $20
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tax gets me one it's possible these guys
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have priced themselves out of most
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markets this is a very premium product
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it is really nice their app is really
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nice but it might not be nice enough to
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justify the price tag that's all I got
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for you on the EOS which
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I hope I will catch you in my next video
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