fitted one of these today, at last1, so now my study devices that were on standby are turned off at the wall. See my energy usage go down! I hope. This is a BG Electrical smart socket, it's quite a neat setup but it would have given a lesser person a headache - had to change my home network to reenable 2.4GHz. It really tries to be helpful but I can see people struggling with this. Big downside is this is entirely its own wifi protocol as far as I can see, so I need to use its app to control it. Also the app and device seems like it's going to "phone home", and there's no good reason really for a device in my house to go out of my house to control another device in my house. However its app is good, works well, and you can set timers / random / delays etc, and integrate it with alexa / google home etc. Also it's cheap as hell, less than twenty quid.
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