Philips Hue Smart Plug, White – 1 Pack – Turns Any Light Into a Smart Light – Control with Hue App – Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit

Not just the plugs but Phillips Hue in general
I operate in an Apple ecosystem. I always try to find products that work in the home app. I started buying Phillips Hue products 10 years ago. Currently I have over $2000 worth of light bulbs. Crazy I know but it is addicting. So the only complaint I have about their product is the hub can only have I think 50 or 55 devices on it before it starts creating problems or so I have read. I am currently at 49 devices. So I tried to start adding Plugs from another company because I didn’t want to expand the Hue system to another hub. The other plugs have given me problems. I get them set up and everything works. Months later they stop working. Then I have to reset them and they work again.So a few months ago we bought a pool. I would have to go out and manually turn the pump on and off. I was trying to figure out how I could add a timer to the pump for everyday circulation. I realized if I bought this plug I could not only use the timer function but then when we go swimming I could just use my phone to turn the pump on. Because I had issues with the other plugs I decided to go back to Hue for this.Hue products just work better. I have had zero issues with this plug. Timer always works as it should. It never looses connection. I tell Siri to turn on the pool and the pumps stats in 3 seconds or less. In 10 years I have not had to change a single light bulb. Every lightbulb inside and outside of my house changes colors. I might just have to get another hub and make my whole home Phillips hue. As far as I am concerned it is the best in smart home technology. I just wish they would make a hub for 100 devices.

Rock. Solid. Every. Time.
Firstly, go and do research on the difference between wifi, Bluetooth and zigbee. You will find that zigbee was made for light, low energy, long range, low data, natural mesh network. Ie the more you have the better the results, the opposite of wifi and Bluetooth. So, on paper, it’s the ideal solution.Secondly, I had tried wemo and amazon and cheap Chinese wifi smart plugs, and poured a lot of money into unreliable stuff. Including Amazon’s wifi smart plug, it is super unreliable and slow. Because I was short on time, didn’t do my research, and hue did not have a smart plug. I upgraded my router to the ASUS axe16000 and the smart plugs became super unreliable. I thought I was screwed. I had time, finally, to sit and read. And I understood zigbee, I saw hue already had smart plugs out now, and I already had the new hue bridge. So I bought four of these, because I had spent way more of the other stuff. And, right from go, super easy to install (just take your time, uninstall/rename previous plugs, rename these), and they respond super quick over Alexa, and every single time, all four, every morning and every night for a week. Wow. Not just that, but another hue strip light that used to be a bit unreliable is super stable and responsive now because of zigbee, I have two new plugs near it. They make a nice soft click, it sounds lush. Nice. I’ve had them a week and if things change I’ll update here for sure.Thirdly, if you are sitting there thinking “oh no I don’t want to spend $50 on a hue hub”, well, you’re going to spend a whole lot more on wifi smart plugs that will drive you nuts.Fourthly, I’m no longer paranoid about changing my router because … zigbee controls my lights.

Basic plugs that just work
I wanted a plug that works natively with HomeKit and Alexa. I’ve tried numerous brands with various technologies using Matter over WiFi, Matter over Thread and just plain Cloud based connectivity using Alexa Skills. Matter over Thread would be my preference but the standard is too new and has too many problems. The one and only brand that I found to be both reliable and fast to respond is Philips Hue. It’s because they have their own central hub. They now support the new Matter standard for their Hub but all their other lights and devices do not. That means you must still use their Hub. I have chosen not to turn on Matter because it does not support adaptive lighting for their bulbs in HomeKit. They say support is coming but who knows when that will be. Besides, whatever they’re doing to keep compatibility between platforms is working great. These plugs work using Zigbee or Bluetooth so they do not take up resources on a WiFi network. They only offer the ability to program Power On Behavior. No options for LED control or timers etc. The reality is that most people will create automatons using the Hue App or the platform of their choice such as Alexa, HomeKit or Google. The LED turns green for a few seconds when the plug is on or Red for when it’s Off. The LED does not remain lit and will turn off completely so it’s not a distraction in a dark room. This plug is expensive compared to other brands that offer more but at the end of the day they just work, no hassles, no unresponsive messages, no worries.

Si tienes más productos Hue, esta es una buena opción para poder automatizar aparatos menos modernos, en mi caso lo utilicé para un ventilador de pie, está perfecto , fácil de instalar y de buena calidad como los demás productos hue, considero que sí es excesivo el precio por lo que realmente hace este producto que es pasar o dejar pasar energía, nada más. Si no usas en general hue, yo compraría alguna otra opción que valen menos de la mitad de lo que este.

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