Amazon Smart Plug, for home automation, Works with Alexa - A Certified for Humans Device

Im not real crazy about Alexa, but these are cool. Well done Amazon, you sucked me in with one for 5bucks, then I caved and got 4 more for $20/per unit. Im a geek: I make tech work for me. I have felt some interest in smart home, but no use case really spoke to me. Nevermind the crazy protocols like ZigBee, et al. Wtf. I am happy to report that, aside from being tied to big brother, these plugs give instant satisfaction. No phone app, no programming, just say Alexa turn on the light and it happens. All of my network is segmented so some things cant see other things, tldr, so Alexa is always on her owns (4 of them), but it still knows what were doing because were signed in. Theres no escaping that, so be careful what you say and do around the smart things.

This product does exactly what it claims to do. The set up was easy and quick.

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Initial installation was easy. Paired with Alexa quickly and was easy to turn on and off a light using Alexa voice commands or Alexa phone app. Adding a routine to turn on and off a light at a preset time was much more difficult. Plug came with no instructions. You must access online instruction on Amazons website. They were incomplete and confusing. I finally found a You Tube site that was step by illustrated step that helped me get the routine up and running. It now works perfectly but it was a long road.

Pairs and works great. I gave it 4 stars because it’s so big. Wish hey could make these a third of the size.

This is a great product, I just didn’t work with one of those lamps that you have to turn on every time you disconnect it, but I don’t complain, I just plugged my LED lights in it and it works perfectly! If I could give it more than 5 starts I would! Lol

I have Amazons Flex and like it very much. I decided to add a couple of smart plugs because I am disabled and sometimes getting up to turn lights on or off can be difficult. The first plug I got I used for the lights by my bed. Sometimes when Im tired and ready to sleep the activity involved in getting up to turn off a light wakes me up enough I *cant* sleep, which is really annoying. This has solved that problem. I just tell Alexa, Lights off, and theyre off. I love it. But. Setup was not intuitive at all. It took me about a half hour to wade thru the hassle of persuading Alexa that there actually was such a plug and getting her to name it. Part of the problem was that Alexa doesnt recognize the term Smart Plug, which is what I was ignorantly calling the smart plug. I finally figured out that I should be calling it Plug 1. Once that was going, I thought I would add an extra plug for a lamp I sometimes use. Plugging it in and turning it on wasnt sufficient for Alexa to find it, even tho I remembered to call it Plug 2. After searching thru the Alexa app on my Fire tablet I finally found a way to get Bluetooth to add it. Then Alexa was willing to rename it for me and it now works. All this took me over a half hour, but Im almost happy with it. Almost happy? Its theoretically possible to pair the two up so I can turn both on or off at once, but Bluetooth doesnt seem to know what the devices are so Alexa doesnt know, so its going to take another half hour, or more, to get that feature turned on. I recently read an article by a smart-home tech expert who says hes going with another brand (Google?) because Alexa can be too finicky. I dont want the stuff he was having problems with, like a curtain opener, but the hassle with setting up these two plugs makes me feel hes got a point. Still, things are easier for me than they were and I AM largely pleased with the results. It just seems like it should be simpler to get it going. If their e-readers and Fire tablets were this hard to setup, no one would buy them.

It’s easy to set. All I had to do was plug it in and Alexa did the rest.