Drayton Wiser Smart Plug & Smart Heating System Range Extender - Works with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, IFTTT

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You can tap on a room and edit the schedule or access the room settings, where you can view the battery level for the thermostat, rename it and turn Open Window Detection on or off. Editing a schedule was made super-easy as a result of the ‘copy’ feature, which lets you duplicate a schedule with just one tap, rather than having to input it all for each day and on each device. When supplying power to the electrical appliance connected to it, the smart plug will illuminate it’s blue LED and when not supplying power, the LED will be off. The Wiser Smart Plug is rated for 230v and 13a which is more than enough to supply even the most high-tech TVs or powerful gaming PCs. They might look like an ordinary adaptor or extension lead, but they can do so much more, connecting to your wifi and letting you manage your gadgets from an app on your phone. Adding Alexa compatible smart plugs to your smart home system is one of the most efficient, cost-effective, and simple ways to upgrade a smart home system. If you have a Wiser smart heating network, integrating Alexa compatible smart plugs into it couldn’t be easier. What Can You Do With Alexa Smart Plugs?

We also found it was easy to create some basic automations in the app using the Moments feature - such as turning the radiators in the lounge on, while also dimming the map connected to the Wiser smart plug to create a cozy atmosphere of an evening. App The Drayton Wiser system lets you set a schedule for each thermostat, indicating a desired temperature for each room in your home at different times of the day. For example, you can set the bathroom to warm up first thing in the morning and last thing at night, if you don’t use it during the day. As already mentioned, you can override a set schedule at any time by manually twisting the top of the radiator thermostat (turning the heating on in that room for 30 minutes) or from the app, where you can choose for the heating to remain on for between 30 minutes and three hours. These smart radiator thermostats replace the TRVs (thermostatic radiator valves) on your radiator, the type that let you adjust the temperature of the radiator manually. If you don’t have TRVs then you’ll need to bear the cost of changing your current valves to TRVs on top of the cost of the smart heating system. There’s no denying the radiator thermostats are bulkier than TRVs, but we found we didn’t notice them as much as we expected to. The Wiser smart plugs offer the ultimate smart home convenience; when you are away from home, you can still control what goes on within your own four walls from a completely different location. They also work with your Alexa products. Thanks to a new update of the Wiser Smart App you can now get real-time updades on the wattage passing through the Smart Plug! Perfect for those looking to accurately monitor your home’s energy expenditure and save costs by maximising the use of energy efficient products and reducing stand-by energy wastage.Powered by two AA batteries, the smart thermostat can be freestanding on a table or shelf, or mounted on a wall. It has three touch controls on the front. The plus and minus button allow you to adjust the desired temperature of the room, while the middle button boosts the heating in said room by two degrees. The screen automatically goes to sleep after 15 seconds to conserve the battery, but pressing any of the three touch controls will wake it up.

The Heat Hub is a rectangular box with two buttons. One button activates the set-up process, while the other starts the whole system heating. LEDs above the buttons glow green when these options are active. The Heat Hub should be screwed to the wall next to your boiler. The square smart thermostat has a two-inch screen that shows the current temperature of the room it’s in, as well as the desired temperature. It also displays the relative humidity and battery level, and features a flame icon to indicate if the heating is switched on. They also have the added benefit of a built-in signal range extender, automatically boosting the signal of all nearby Drayton Wiser devices. Our Verdict: You can access your smart plugs on the home screen. They will appear in whichever rooms you assigned them to during set up. We did notice a slight delay of around 10 seconds to one minute between boosting the heating from both the radiator thermostat or the app and the boiler springing into action. The further away from the Heat Hub the thermostat is, the longer the delay. Initially, we also struggled to get the radiator thermostat in the room furthest from the Heat Hub to remain connected to the system at all times. It would often drop the signal, meaning we were unable to control it via the app. However, after installing an optional Wiser Smart Plug – which also doubles as a range extender for the system – in a room between the Heat Hub and the troublesome radiator thermostat, connection issues were no longer a problem.From the home screen, you can also view the weather for your location and sunrise and sunset times, too. The cog icon at the top of the home screen provides access to the main Settings menu, from where you can activate smart modes such as Eco and Comfort, and set a temperature for the Away mode. When the plug is ON, the on/off button will be displayed in green beside the plug and the smart plug will provide power to the electrical appliance connected to it. When the plug is off, the on/off button will be light grey and the smart plug will not provide power to the electrical appliance connected to it.