Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Cheap Smart Home! – Gosund Smart Plug”.
The awakening mind can absorb the audio visual lesson so growing up watching tvs and movies. We were promised, like there’s a vision of the future where the smart home took on a new life, artificial intelligence. Things were going to work without you having to think about it. It was an awesome vision of the future. Obviously, that future did not happen at all.
What we’ve got right now is a bunch of smart home products that can sometimes work together and sometimes seem crazy, disjointed and i’ve been working slowly to build my smart home up. So i wanted to make a video, because that’s what i do about some of the products that i’ve found useful in my home, that won’t break your bank and hopefully you guys will find useful as well. And this video sponsor ghosan has a bunch of amazing awesome products that are usually top sellers all over amazon, we’re going to talk about them later on in the video. So before we get to the list, it is super important in this world of disjointed, smart home stuff to check the compatibility of any smart home product, the smart home hub that you’re using and that could be google amazon, apple i’ll, make sure to put symbols on The screen too, for each product, so it’s easy for you to know which system they are compatible with, so you don’t buy one from each. You end up with stuff that just doesn’t work, so my house is crowded enough. I got three kids, my wife and i, for whatever reason decided to add a fourth fur child and we got a puppy a few weeks ago, she’s a 14 week old golden doodle named millie and obviously with a puppy or any dog.
There’S a lot of things. You need to be worried about. You need to worry about, you know, potty, training, making, sure she’s safe and doesn’t escape and there’s a lot of things that are important along with that, and i want to make sure that with a dog and the responsibility that i can know where she is so, The whistle dog cracker has been absolutely amazing. Think of it like an apple watch for your dog and also important to note this has no impact on the dog itself.
It doesn’t like buzz, vibrate, no electricity. The dog has no idea that this is on what allows the owner to do is to track their location where they’ve been even calories, burned kind of all of those types of important things, but the reason i’ve really liked it. Let me kind of designate a perimeter around my house or the studio here. If i bring her there automatically alert me on my phone if millie ever wanders outside of that zone, so i can sort of keep track of her and know where she is.
Should she ever you know accidentally escape it’s just a great peace of mind for me as a as a new dog dad again, and also make sure that you know little millie is happy and, most importantly, safe. So now, because i got a dog and also uh dirty dirty kids, it seems like uh. That brings a lot of messes and there will be more hair around the house dirt track from playing outside and sort of dog food crumbs, seemingly everywhere. So with my schedule, which is usually pretty hectic, a robot vacuum is a must and i went with robo-rock company that i’ve been using their vacuums for for years uh. In this case i went with the e4 smart fact. This one can clean a house up to 2100 square feet on one charge and is also in the really good price range under 300 bucks for robot vacuums, a robo-rock and we’ve reviewed a lot of them on the channel.
They have models that are more expensive. That can do more and the main advantage to those is that they have lidar sensors. That sort of help you map out your entire house. You actually see it on the app as well, but honestly, i’ve been pleasantly surprised with the e4, especially for the price. It doesn’t have the lidar, but it had a pretty easy time kind of avoiding whatever obstacles were in its way and also it didn’t get stuck or confused, which is a really good thing. I’Ve had vacuums that kind of can get stuck under a chair and don’t know how to get out and as it is filming, the price is around 270 bucks, but i’ve seen deals go as low as 200, which is an absolute steal.
If you can find one for that price, this next one’s, probably pretty obvious most people have a smart doorbell. I went with the one from nest i had the ring pro before and it worked really well and as advertised, but i switched over to google. That’S what most of my home stuff was.
I have google nest cams in my kids rooms. I have nest. Thermostats set up just made sense and easier for me to have everything encapsulated inside of sort of one app, but it works like you’d expect you get alerts on your phone um.
When my daughter is napping, i like that. I can set quiet times on doorbell, so they can ring i’ll just get an alert on my phone, but won’t actually make noise. It’S just been a really nice thing to have to interact with delivery drivers. I might not be home to ask them to leave packages.
It’S got the two-way functionality. I can also see the feed too on the home hubs of my house, which is really awesome. It’S worked great and honestly, any smart doorbell is going to do almost all of these things. If you’re not in an ecosystem, then have at it doesn’t matter which one you get, but if you are inside of google’s ecosystem, this has been a really nice addition to have.
So i don’t know how to say this nicely. Somebody who lives in my house that drives a car – that’s not me. Uh has a problem of forgetting to close our garage door, something that we’ve been dealing with for a long time and there’s a product that solves that and made things a bit simpler, uh at home. It’S the myq smart garage door, opener. It is dead, simple to install i’m talking like two minutes to get set up and working, and it lets me control my garage door from my phone. I can check if it’s been left open, which certainly has happened. I can open and close it for my phone and it just has given me complete peace of mind to know that my house is safe whenever i am not there all right. So next, some of the things on this list i get were obvious this one.
I don’t think is obvious: it’s a piece of smart home tech that i don’t think everyone always likes to use uh, but one that we probably should is a smart scale. I try to get back into working out sort of getting my health back on track. Things like my apple watch have been great for keeping track of calories burned.
Heart rate, those kind of things, but it’s kind of only part of the picture and the scale does more than obviously just tell me your weight. It does that too, but connects to an app on your phone via bluetooth, and it keeps a record of your weigh-ins. It records your body mass index, your bmi, as well as your heart rate, that way it’s easier to see how much progress you’re making as you sort of work towards your goals. So i promised we’d get to this video sponsor gosan. If you haven’t heard of them, they are one of the leading smart home brands on amazon, make a variety of products, all of which are really good and, most importantly, really affordable, and these are things that you use every day and probably are taking for granted.
So one of the things that i’ve liked to do in my house is make my dumb products smarter and using gosund’s smart plug has allowed me to very easily do that. So the best example is, i plugged my coffee maker into one and now, every morning, when i wake up, i can tell my google home turn on the coffee maker and the plug will switch it on it’s heated up and it’s ready for me when i have To go downstairs and take millions go to the bathroom at like 5 30 in the morning uh or earlier uh. Also, it’s super cheap. It’S nine bucks for one or seventeen dollars for two or twenty eight for four.
I mean really inexpensive and works as advertised and the same concept goes for the go. Sun power switch it’s 20 bucks, but you can do a lot more with it. So i use this one for my desk. It’S easy way to plug in everything into one place.
It’S got three ac sockets, three usb ports. One thing that is totally worth mentioning, these smart plugs also act as many surge protectors as well. So if you live in an area especially like here in california, where power tends to surge on and off, it’s just nice for extra peace of mind. Probably the coolest thing, though, is that you can automatically control each socket and port by assigning the name to whatever is plug into it.
So that way, if i’ve got like my laptop a lamp and a monitor plugged in and probably charging some sort of phones, i tell it to just turn off power to the lamp or in the app or voice control, leaving everything else on and functioning and the Best part, it’s 20 bucks for one of these strips it just gives you individual control over all the products that you can plug into it uh and also smooth transition. Speaking of lamps. They also have smart bulbs. You can use to go into your lamp. Obviously, they offer just a regular white bulbs, but i personally prefer the rgb ones they offer 16 million colors. To pick from. You can pick from one of eight scenes for an easy change of mood. If you want, it can be automated for you or set a schedule before they automatically turn on and off uh. They are crazy, affordable and probably the best part is there’s no hub required to operate them. You just plug them in connect them to the app and you’re pretty much good to go. It is 10 bucks for one or 19 bucks for two. If you want to get a pack of four it’s 46 dollars, but if regular bulbs aren’t say flashy enough for you, a ghostland also offers light strips, typically good quality light trips can get insanely expensive, really quick, especially if you need to buy extenders, for you know, Put them in bigger places, but gosan gives you a really quality at a reasonable price that tends to be their kind of mantra.
Light chips are perfect for going behind your tv and entertainment center. I’Ve seen people put it like, underneath their beds or around the top of their room, there’s just a lot of places and options that you can use these. If you want to give your room a bit of color or spice up whatever you got going on your desk, the music sync feature is also pretty cool. When i’m like sitting down listening to music uh the lights kind of pulse along to the music, it’s a like a small thing, but it’s subtle uh when i’ve actually kind of come to like and lastly, uh for the basics.
You also have the option to replace your entire light switch say. Your room’s got like a fan with multiple lights and you don’t sort of feel like having to buy smart bulbs to replace each one individually. You just install ghost on smart switch, so you can still control your lights with your voice so granted. This option does require some rewiring and it can be complicated to make sure you’re, taking proper precautions like turning off the power to your house, for example, or at least to those intended wires before installing really inexpensive as well 17 bucks for one or 28 for two. So those are products that have worked out really well for me that don’t break the bank. Now there are more expensive options you can get. Obviously, if you want things in your house, they’re going to work really well, i think this list is a great place to start. If there is something that i missed, that you guys think is awesome and affordable leave in the comments down below .