A smart home should be an energy-efficient home. Smart appliances usually offer great cost-savings, but you also need ways to cut the costs of your dumb old devices. Smart plugs seem like the obvious solution, but do smart plugs save energy? Smart plugs draw a small amount of energy in standby mode, but it’s far […]
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Lack of outlets is a problem in most smart homes. Smart plugs compound the problem by blocking entire outlets. There’s an obvious solution, but only if it works safely. So can you plug a smart plug into a power strip? Smart plugs can safely be connected to a power strip as long as the plug
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Smart plugs are a mainstay in most smart homes. They offer a cheap, easy way to control your dumb devices and integrate them into your smart home ecosystem. Most smart plugs run on 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, but some brands have now started offering 5 GHz-compatible smart plugs. In this article, you’ll discover what a 5
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Smart plugs are one of the cheapest and most versatile ways to start automating your home. When you get one, though, it’s not immediately apparent how to best use a smart plug to simplify your life. After all, it’s just a plug. In this article, I’ll show you dozens of smart plug uses that will
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