Govee Smart Plug with Energy Monitoring, WiFi Bluetooth Plug Work with Alexa and Google Assistant, 15A Smart Outlets with Timer & Group Controller, No Hub Required, ETL&FCC Certified for Home, 4 Pack

Great Smart Plug that Integrates Well into Govee’s Ecosystem
This smart plug is useful for remotely controlling a lamp or an appliance, but its versatility grows if you have other Govee devices.First, you get the mobile app control, which works locally with a Bluetooth connection, and remotely from anywhere you have a data connection via WiFi and internet. The contacts are rated at 1500 watts, which means it is capable of handling pretty much any appliance that you can plug into it, including most space heaters. The energy monitoring is useful to not only to see usage, but also a great way to confirm that the device plugged into it is working properly. Got a heat lamp for the chicks? Checking the real-time current/power monitoring will tell you that the lamp isn’t burned out.While I wish the logic automation that you can setup with this smart plug were a bit more versatile, it’s usually adequate for most applications. Where it shines is when you have other Govee devices, mainly sensors connected in your app. For example, if you have a Govee temperature sensor, you can have the plug switch on a block heater when the temperature goes below freezeing (and likewise, turn it off if the temperature rises). This can be further conditioned to only run at certain times of the day and week. Add a Govee motion sensor, or remote button and you can have various lights switch on.The smart plug also works as a gateway for most Govee devices that are only Bluetooth and not WiFi enabled, extending the functionality and reporting of these devices. There’s also the Alexa and Google integration, if you choose to control this through a voice assistant as well.Setup is generally quite easy, and it’s apparent that Govee has been working diligently on this aspect over the years. The process is getting close to the experience of when you connect an Apple accessory to your iPhone, with automatic discovery and clear step-by-step prompts, when required. No frustrating steps of having to back out of the app to go change or pair something in your phone’s settings.As for the control app, it’s remarkably solid and sufficiently configurable to organize your devices. I haven’t experienced and crashing. While some minor aspects of the UI could use some polishing, including a couple points of grammar in the English version, it works well and reliably.All things considered, these smart plugs are a great value, and offered by a company that has been around for some time now. I’ve used other devices, including previous generations of these plugs for several years and can’t say that there’s much of anything serious to be a true disappointment, maybe just a couple of refinements here and there.

Functions just as I expected them to.
I got what I expected to get and the smart plugs work great. I especially like the device monitoring feature because, well, that’s why I got them. You see, if you have a generator or some kind of power station that you got for power outages or for camping or for anything like that? Something like these smart plugs is what you want to have so that you can determine how much power different devices are going to use, BEFOREHAND. That way, when it comes time to use your generator or power station, you can have a plan for which devices you are going to plug into it, as well as if it’s going to be enough to power what you want to power.Just to be clear, these smart plugs are the H5086 models. At the time of this review they are the newest ones, and I believe they are the only ones like this that Govee makes that are capable of energy monitoring. There are smart plugs that Govee sells that look almost identical to these, that I’m pretty sure do NOT have energy monitoring, which are the H5080 models. And then there’s also the H5082 model smart plugs that Govee sells. They are similar to these too, except that they have two sockets on each smart plug, and I’m pretty sure they don’t have energy monitoring either.Anyway, besides all of that, these smart plugs function pretty much how I have come to expect things to function that are made by Govee. They are easy to use. They work with Alexa AND Google. They have the necessary electrical certifications. And they have superb safety features. Oh, and they can also be controlled through Wi-Fi OR Bluetooth. Basically, whatever you need a smart plug to do should be covered by these awesome little smart plugs by Govee.