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Kasa’s servers then sends a request to your smart plug, telling it to turn on.Amazon Alexa (in the cloud) will understand that you want to turn your Kasa smart plug on, so it sends a request to TP-Link Kasa’s servers.

a set of instructions that it can carry out).

It sends this to Amazon, who turn your words into machine language (i.e.

For example, when you say “ Alexa, turn my Kasa smart plug on“: The flaw with both of these approaches is that when you use your smart plug app or issue a voice command, this sends a request up through the internet to the smart plug cloud service. turning the smart plug on/off, as you requested).

Or you issue a voice command to your Echo (or Google Home) device, which will interact with the smart plug in the cloud, and carry out your instruction (e.g. So the general way that smart plugs work (once they’re already setup) is that you pull out your smart phone, press “on/off” on the smart plug app, and it’ll turn the plugged-in device on/off accordingly. The Problem With Using Smart Plugs When The Internet Is Off Therefore using a smart plug which has energy measuring capability can be a good way of tracking how much the router is costing you. Whilst many internet routers are fairly low power (with a typical household router only costing around $10 per year), some more expensive routers will use more power. Therefore if you wanted to temporarily disable your smart cameras – perhaps you want privacy from your backyard camera whilst you have a backyard party – you can use a smart plug to turn the internet router off.

This can vary per smart camera, of course, but the main ones (Ring and Nest) both work this way. This means that if the internet is off, any captured video footage will be lost. They instead upload any video footage to the cloud in real time. This might seem a weird point, but bear with me: many smart cameras don’t have local storage. Anything else which is useful… sets the lights to a dimmer, more ambient setting perhaps?.Announces “dinner is ready” to all Echo devices in the house.Alternatively you can build a routine on Alexa (or Google Home) which: There if you have set meal times, you can again use the timer/schedule feature on the smart plug to disable the WiFi router at this time. They are a really important way of families to discuss their day to day lives and anything important, so having most people around the dinner table Constant screen use during family meals can have a range of downsides.

A similar idea: turning the internet off during meal times.

Your kids may not like it, but it’s a useful idea! This can easily be achieved by using timers (or schedules) on the smart plug, setting it to turn off at a set time (the start of the ‘no screentime’ rule) and turn on again at the end of the ‘no screentime’ rule. Yes smartphones have mobile internet data too, but turning the general WiFi off will usually help a lot for setting out such a rule.

Setting out a “no screentime” rule, and backing this up by disabling the internet.

plugging a smart plug into the wall socket, and then plugging the router into the smart plug) might not seem too sensible, but it actually has a range of possible uses and benefits: Hooking a smart plug up to your internet router (i.e. A device (such as a WiFi router) plugged into a smart plug.