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Imagine walking into your house and saying "computer, turn on lights!" and having your light snap on. Or when it's time for your child to go to sleep saying "turn on nightlight" then "turn off bedside lamp", all while being comfortably on the couch. Both of those can be a reality with the KooGeek Smart Plug P2. Better yet, it works with both Apple HomeKit [think Siri!] and the Amazon Echo Alexa world too, simultaneously!
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ hooks up a P2 Smart Plug from KooGeek into his own home network and demonstrates how it works with both Siri -- "Hey Siri, turn on party lights!" - and the Amazon Echo 2 - "Alexa, turn off night light".
Grab a Smart Plug P2 of your own: http://amzn.to/2hBStuf
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a smart plug that works with them is on
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Alexa and apple homekit let's check it
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at
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smart plugs today specifically I'm
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looking at this this is the KU geek
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smart plug p2 now there is also the p1
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and the p1 looks pretty similar but it's
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square not more rounded and it only
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works with apple homekit so less
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exciting
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so the p2 is much more interesting
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because it works with apple homekit and
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it works with the amazon alexis system
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amazingly it didn't respond so let's
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just go and start it out right so Alexa
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turn on nightlight see that little ring
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Alexa turn off nightlight
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more fun hey Siri turn on party lights
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done
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Alexa turn off party lights
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okay you got to admit that's pretty cool
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it's really really a nice little device
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and I'm gonna just unplug it so you can
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see it's pretty small and the nightlight
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is actually a ring on the outside and
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you can actually adjust the brightness
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or intensity so this can be perfect for
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children because among other things the
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coogy app which you can get on iOS or
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Android lets you schedule so you can
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schedule having it on at 6 p.m. and then
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maybe at 8 p.m. it gets a little bit
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less bright and then at 10 p.m. it just
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shuts off entirely because by that point
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your child is actually asleep and this
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could just be automated every night it
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works that way and you actually have
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control of the nightlight ring separate
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to whatever it is you plug in to this
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device which I think you just saw there
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a second ago
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so it's really easy to work with it does
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involve using a bunch of different apps
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in total including giving specific
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custom names to all the devices on both
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Siri and in the Alexus system then it
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took me maybe five minutes to configure
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it if you wanted to use default names it
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would be faster I like having that but
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it gives me all sorts of neat
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capabilities so like on my iPhone if I
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go into apple homekit and I'll give you
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a screen shot so you see closer but now
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I can see bedroom nightlight and I can
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see party lights so I can tap oops
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guess I should ever plugged in let's try
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that again and it's on and tap and it's
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off that's about as easy as it gets but
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of course the real gem is the whole
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voice control system and that's where
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this is really fun and we have these
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throughout the house so I can do things
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like for example Alexa turn on fairy
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lights and okay those are the lights in
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my daughter's bedroom and she is now
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sitting there saying why did these
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lights come on it's really fun
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now with the coogy cap itself you
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actually have access to your switch from
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anywhere in the world as long as you're
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on your local Wi-Fi network so I could
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actually be at a conference somewhere
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else and say mmm I see suspicious
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characters in my driveway because of my
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driveway cam let me go ahead and turn on
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a light and I can just tap a button on
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my phone and the light would turn on
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even though I might be hundreds of miles
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away that's pretty cool but really what
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I most enjoy about all these smart plugs
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is the fact that I can walk into the
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house and just by talking how things
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start to happen have lights turn on have
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a coffee maker start working whatever it
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is you want to plug in it's really nice
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now one more really cool thing about the
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coogee smart plug P 2 is that it has an
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energy monitor so you can also plug in
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something where you're like I wonder how
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much energy this uses and it will show
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you a monitor over days or weeks so you
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can actually see for example plug in
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your child's television and then you can
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see do they really turn on the TV at
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midnight and watch for a couple hours
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and not only that you could control it
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remotely you could say hey turn off the
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TV and you don't even have to be in the
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room now
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when you do that they probably will say
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well I can bypass the smart plug can't I
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dad so that's probably not a great
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strategy but you can use it for energy
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monitoring which I really like now the
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only other thing I want to tell you
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about this is that it actually is 120
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volts and it can work with up to a 15
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amp product and up to 1500 watts so make
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sure you don't put something too
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powerful in this I would not plug this
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into a refrigerator for example because
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that's gonna draw more amps I think so
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for most things maybe a space heater I'd
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also check the specs but for a fan for a
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light for a multi lights system whatever
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it is this should work great imagine
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having all your track lights and as you
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walk in you just say you know hey turn
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on the kitchen lights and they all light
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up really nice so before I tell you the
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price and think you'd be impressed by
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the price let me just tell you that it
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would be fantastic if you would be
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willing to click the subscribe button
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and subscribe to my channel I really
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appreciate that so thank you for
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subscribing and while we're at it let me
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just ask if you can click on that thumbs
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up give me some feedback on this
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cool so only thing left is the price now
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the Coogee smart plug p2 works with
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Amazon Alexa and with apple homekit it
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is $35.99 at amazon.com and if you check
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the cou geek site it might be actually
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less so worth checking out and honestly
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a small investment to make your house
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feel a whole lot smarter so Steve Taylor
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and I'll catch you in my next video
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