IKEA releases its Trådfri smart plug in the UK and US

[HEXUS]

Smart home device is only £9/$10 but Apple HomeKit support isn't ready yet.

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[MajorZod]

"let's call them 'smart plugs' for short"...

[Tabbykatze]

Very competitive pricing!

[cheesemp]

Tempting at that price (just need the rest of the kit to make it worthwhile...)

[r86x]

Good price but not sure I want another hub, the tplink plugs were £12 each last week and the hub is optional.

[deejayburnout]

Been holding off getting a smart plug but as we have 3 Echo devices at home now, these are tempting, as long as I don’t need to by the IKEA gateway.

At that price, worth a shot I say.

[jibjab]

It would be great if there were some open standards around these types of devices so that they don't become obsolete as soon as the manufacturers stop supporting.

[peterb]

Looks interesting but I’ll wait I until it is HomeKit compatible - I don’t want yet another hub!

Does the app give feedback as to the actual state of the plug or just the last command sent?

The reason I ask is that I looked at ‘smart’ sockets which had a local control switch - operating the local control switch did not update the state of the socket on the app.

[Strawb77]

smart? but in the pictures the sockets are switched off- hello?

[Wolfsbane2k]

A big part of me wants to put one of these into the Router's and Alexa power supply.. and test how quickly they work.

Is that wrong?

[Peter Parker]

It would be great if there were some open standards around these types of devices so that they don't become obsolete as soon as the manufacturers stop supporting.

[edit] Reading a page linked in the article, it seems the Ikea plug already has a Zigbee chip. I might order one to test out

Zigbee perhaps? Samsung seems to be supporting it (and Z-Wave?) with it's SmartThings Hub. Other manufacturers too.

https://medium.com/iotforall/smart-h...e-71efa4b410e1
https://support.smartthings.com/hc/e...e-FAQ#What_Are