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a smart plug for under $20 let's see how
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Dave Taylor here and this time I'm
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looking at smart home products
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specifically I'm looking at this this is
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the sewn off s30 smart socket and it
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demonstrates just how low-cost some of
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these devices are getting which is great
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this works with Amazon Alexa and Google
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home and of course it has its own app to
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which you can use to access and control
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whatever's plugged into this from
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anywhere in the world as long as
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everything's all up via Internet so
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without further ado computer turn on
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floor lamp and there we go now my Amazon
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device is actually off camera so that's
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why I'm looking up that way and super
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easy it was however a fairly onerous
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chore to get this thing configured it
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took me about 45 minutes of doing the
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same thing again and again and again and
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again and finally it worked so I don't
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know whether that was something to do
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with my Wi-Fi network which has been a
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little flaky as of late now whether it's
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just that the switch is a bit tricky to
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configure but basically you plug it in
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you go into their app and then you
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actually do the pairing from their
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little tedious but you know I did
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finally get it to work I suspect a lot
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of people would have it work more easily
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and then once you have it then you just
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add it to your Amazon Alexa app by
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adding the skill that they specify and
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then it just shows up as you can see on
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the screen as floor lamp so I can
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actually from the app turn things on and
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off too so that's pretty easy let's see
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if it's gonna work so now it thinks the
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switch is on which is fair because it is
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on and now I can turn it off so there's
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a little out of sync there but that
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happens anyway so it's pretty
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straightforward you can plug into up to
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a 15 amp and 1500 watt device works with
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a hundred and ten to a hundred and
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twenty-five volts and you can set up
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through their app up to eight timers or
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schedules which is cool or if you're
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using something like Alexa or Google
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home then you're gonna have a lot more
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options it has smart scenes you can set
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up that are triggered by temperature I
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haven't really experimented with that
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but you know that could be something
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interesting to do you can use it outside
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it can go all the way down to minus 20
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Fahrenheit so it is rated I suppose for
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indoor outdoor use it doesn't seem like
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an outdoor device but I don't know maybe
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they certainly say that the temperatures
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that can handle or that so remote
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control from phone works with Alexa
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works with Google home one thing I will
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say is that not only was configuration a
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bit of a hassle but I have to subtract
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points from this because if you use it
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on a two outlet plug it actually
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consumes so much space that you can't
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plug anything into the other outlet
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that's not great designed in my book but
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if you have a setup where that's okay
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then that's not a big deal anyway before
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we get to the price I just want to ask
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if you can click on that subscribe
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button that'd be super helpful and I
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really appreciate it thank you
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now the sonne off s30 smart socket and
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we'll go ahead and just pull it out so
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you can see what it looks like it's this
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and it is 1990 and you can pick one up
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for yourself and check it out at ite
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ADCC so I'm gonna give this one a
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somewhat thumbs up it works well and
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actually it's quite functional and I
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like the design except I don't like that
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it blocks the other outlet that is
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something I wish they could have avoided
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so Steve Taylor and I will catch you in
