Gosund, a new leader in the smart home industry, has unveiled her newest product line—smart bedside lamp, this product has tons functions, like voice control via Alexa or Google home, remote control from anywhere, RGB light mode for seven options, touch sensor for convenience using, etc. With the continuous development of technology, the original seemingly unreachable ‘smart home‘ is gradually being a necessity in our daily life. With its many characteristics such as intelligence, safety and environmental protection, smart home rapidly becomes a hit in the market. But here is the question, how should we pick and purchase the right smart products for our home?
First, you need to know what a smart home is. The term ‘smart home’ is used to describe a house that contains a communication network that connects different appliances and allows them to be remotely controlled, monitored and accessed. Guess you have already known that smart home products can make your life much safer, smarter and easier, and cannot wait to equip your home with those products. To make sure you get the best fit for your home, consider below 6 factors before shopping.
- Energy saving and environmental protection
Smart home products have the functions of electricity recording and automation, so they can provide comprehensive monitoring services in water, fire, electricity, etc., thus achieving energy saving and environmental protection. For example, the Gosund smart plug has functions timer, scheduling, and energy tracking. These functions can not only extend the lifespan of the connected appliance, but also reduce the energy consumption.
- Remote control
What makes smart home so fascinating is its remote control function. Take our Gosund smart plug as an example, after connecting it with your smart phone, you can open the plug-in home appliances through the App from anywhere. You can enjoy your bath when just back home from work.
- Integrated function
The smart home unifies the control of the electrical appliance in your house. Through the connection of each system, the information and operation can be shared with mastered by each other. Therefore, we must make an in-depth understanding of function-integration when selecting smart home products.
- Easy to use
The simpler the smart home device system, the higher the system integration, the easier it will be to use. Especially nowadays, many smart home products have the function of family sharing, so the simpler the system, the quicker the family members can get started to use them.
- Customer service
The after-sales service is quite important. Since the current maintenance service for smart home products is not perfect enough, after buying a smart home product, it will be difficult for users to deal with the after-sales problem. So in addition to the product function, the user also needs to take after-sales service into consideration.
How to connect gosund to alexa？Amazon Alexa Routines
Smart plug, Gosund Mini Wifi Outlet Works with Alexa, Google Home, No Hub Required, Remote Control Your Home Appliances from Anywhere
- VOICE COMMAND TO CONTROL: Gosund smart plugs that work with Alexa and Google Home Assistant. Just give a simple voice command to control your home device with smart outlet via Alexa or Google Home Assistant. No hub required to install the wifi plug. Gosund alexa outlet plug works with stable 2.4GHz network.
- SCHEDULE & TIMER: By setting schedules and timers for your home smart wifi electrical plugs, you can prepare a crock pot meal and get home with dinner’s ready. Get ready to have a smart home and create customized schedule to automatically turn on/off any home electronic appliances such as lamps, Christmas lights, coffee maker, etc. Please note that alexa outlet plug is not suitable for the appliances whose power is more than 10A,1200W (eg: air conditioner, microwave oven, induction cooker etc.)
- REMOTE CONTROL FROM ANYWHERE: Gosund google smart plug can help you control your home appliances from anywhere. Even you are not at home, you also can control your alexa wifi outlet via Gosund App directly, as long as your phone access a secure 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network. Ideal for someone who cannot move around very well and needs easy access to turn on/off a device
- CREATE GROUP AND SHARE TO FAMILIES: Set a group for all google home outlets and control them in one command. Share your wifi plugs that work with alexa to all family members in a minute. No more worries, everyone can control them easily.
- EASY TO INSTALL AND SAFE: Just plug a device into the mini wifi smart outlet and connect to your secured 2.4GHz network with “Gosund” App. The smart plug uses high-quality materials and technology, such as V-0 flame-retardant thermoplastics, pure copper connectors and advanced PCBA boards. It can avoid fire hazards and provide overload protection to ensure the safety of family members. And ETL certification ensures complete protection.
Of course, you can use your smart devices like gosund smart plug or smart light switch in order to turn your lights and appliances on or off and set them on timers. But smart assistants could help you do much more for the purpose of automating your dumb appliances. You can allocate various tasks to Alexa that would be achieved by a single command and that would really help you to simplify controlling your smart home. If you want to use commands in sequence, then setting routines is the best thing you can do. For example, set a routine to turn on the light at a particular time in the morning and read the news headlines. You can set routines directly with your Echo speaker or you can add your alexa compatible smart devices to your routine.
Now, if you are thinking how to set up routines, then let’s go through the simple steps to set up routines. You will need Alexa app. If you don’t have one, then download it from Play store or App store and open the app and then.
How to connect gosund to alexa？
- Click the Menu icon in the top left corner
- Click Routines
- Click the Plus icon in the upper right
Now you will be able to create a Routine. First thing first, you need to decide how you want to start a Routine. Click the + which you will see on the right side of “when this happens” and select a trigger for your Routine:
When you say a command;
At a certain time;
When one of your connected devices detects something, like a motion sensor detecting motion;
When you arrive or leave a location, based on your phone’s geo-location;
When you press an Echo button
Select one of these commands of your choice and add the details.
Once this much done, you have to decide what you want your Alexa to do when you start the Routine. Tap on the + sign to the right of “add action” and select what your routine should do:
Say something, including telling jokes or reading fun facts;
Tell you what’s on your calendar;
Change device settings, like adjusting the volume;
Send a message to the Alexa app or to your Echo devices;
Play music from Amazon music or other services;
Read the news from your Flash Briefing, which you can customize under Setting > Flash Briefing
Control smart home devices that you’ve set up with Alexa;
Tell you the traffic;
Tell you the weather;
Wait for a specific period of time before performing an action
Select one of the options you want and follow the prompts on the app. If you want to chose multiple actions, just hit the + sign again to add another one. If you need to rearrange the actions, simply drag and drop them. Click save when you are done. It may take a minute or two till the Routine gets automatically enabled on your Alexa devices. To view, edit or delete any of these Routines, go to Setting > Routines and click the Routine you want to modify.
You can now do much more as you know how to create Alexa Routines.
For more product information about gosund, please visit the official website.