TERRIBLE physical design/sizing of this item! Unlike other Merkury/Geeni smart plugs which were/are horizontal bars in shape that permitted 2 devices to be plugged in at same vertical 2 socket receptacles common in USA–these round plugs are so large that only slim, 2-pronged cords may be plugged in to the other outlet next to this device; nightlights, any kitchen or other appliance or device such as surge strips and extension cords with 3-prong ground plugs won't fit physically above or below this round smart plug in the same receptacle–meaning you're likely going to lose one of the 2 sockets in the receptacle you plug this in, depending on what kind of thing you want to use in the other socket. UGH, just thoughtless, poor design! Did no human being plug this into a wall receptacle and try to plug a few commonly used items into the other socket? OBVIOUSLY NOT.
DESIGN/SIZE/USABILITY GRIPES ASIDE, does this device work? YES, like the above mentioned horizontal bar-shaped smart plugs I already had from Geeni/Merkury Innovations, THESE use the Geeni app to join up to your home network and can be thereafter controlled by the app, and work fine with Alexa-driven smart speaker devices, and are normally very quick & easy to connect up. So, these work great in my experience and are straightforward to setup & use. Unfortunately though, I don't recommend this particular model because they are simply too large to plug 2 of them into the same receptacle, and too large to permit many other electrical devices (particularly 3 prong plugged-items) to plug in next to it. I would say the Geeni brand devices I have used so far have been fine, but as for these round plugs, just look for their other smart plug offerings in a different shape & size, unless you don't mind potentially losing the other socket in the receptacle you plug this into. I saw in the pictures these were round instead of bar-shaped, but it never entered my mind they'd be too large to sit next to each other (or many other device plugs) in a 2-socket receptacle. I just can't believe, in this day and age after people complaining for years about big, socket-hog wall wart designs, that any aspirational company would launch a poorly-sized smart plug. Surely 1/4inch could have been shaved in design & prototyping stage…it's so small but would have made these good neighbors in sockets instead of hogs & socket-blockers.
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