Treatlife Smart Plug - Review 2022

Smart plugs offering an piece of cake way to turn regular appliances such as lamps, coffee makers, and desktop fans into smart devices that you tin can control with your phone. The Treatlife Smart Plug ($15.99) does all that, and as is the case with well-nigh models, it can also be turned on and off using Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant vocalism commands. The plug is like shooting fish in a barrel to install and worked well in testing, merely it lacks some of the features that yous go with our Editors' Choice, the $17.99 Samsung SmartThings Wi-Fi Smart Plug.

Design and Features

The Treatlife Smart Plug looks identical to the SmartThings and Amazon smart plugs. Its white enclosure measures 1.five past ii.9 past 1.2 inches (HWD) and has an on/off button on the left side, a tiny LED indicator and a unmarried three-prong receptacle on its face, and a 3-prong plug effectually dorsum. It has an 1800W maximum ability rating and connects to your home network using an embedded 2.4GHz Wi-Fi radio.

Treatlife Smart Plug plugged into fan

The Wi-Fi radio also allows the plug to respond to Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice commands, but it doesn't work with Apple HomeKit or back up IFTTT applets that allow information technology to interact with other smart home devices. You can add the plug to scenes in the mobile app to have it turn on and off at the same time every bit other Treatlife devices such as smart bulbs and smart dimmer switches, and you can have it plough on and off based on your local sunrise and sunset times, just it won't trigger or exist triggered by other devices. Also missing are the power usage reports that y'all become with other smart plugs including the SmartThings model, the ConnectSense Smart Outlet two, and the Eve Free energy.

The Treatlife mobile app for Android and iOS devices is powered by Smart Life. It opens to a My Family screen with tabs for all of your connected Treatlife devices. This is likewise where you lot'll see one-touch buttons for any scenes you've created. Next to the name of the plug is an on/off button that's dark-green when the plug in on and white when it'due south off. Tap the tab to open a screen with a much larger on/off button in the center. Oddly, in that location's another smaller power button on the bottom, along with timer and settings buttons.

Tapping the timer push takes you to a screen where you lot can utilise a countdown timer to plow the plug off after a set up period of time, and create on and off schedules for various times and days of the calendar week. Hither you tin can too set the plug to an Abroad manner that will take information technology turn on and off randomly to give the appearance that someone is dwelling house when you are away.

Dorsum at the My Family screen, in that location are 3 buttons located along the lesser edge. The My Family button takes yous back to the opening (dwelling) screen, and the Smart button takes you lot to a screen where you tin create the in a higher place-mentioned Tap-to-Run scenes. Use the Profile button to edit the name and location of your dwelling house, add together rooms where Treatlife devices are installed, enable app notifications and sounds, set a do not disturb schedule that disables notifications during a specific time period, and test your network connexion. Here you can also link the plug to your Alexa and Google accounts and view frequently asked questions.

Treatlife Smart Plug app screens

Installation and Performance

I had the plug up and running in a manner of minutes. I started by downloading the mobile app and creating an account, and then verified my electronic mail address. I tapped Add Device on the opening screen, selected Smart Plug from the listing of devices, and plugged it in. Once I confirmed that the LED was blinking rapidly, I entered my Wi-Fi password (the app automatically selected the Wi-Fi SSID used by my phone) and waited around xxx seconds for the plug to be added to my account. I gave it a proper noun and the installation was finished.

The Treatlife Smart Plug worked as advertised. I had no problem turning information technology on and off using the mobile app, and the plug never failed to adhere to my schedules. Tap-to Run scenes worked without issue, equally did Alexa vocalism commands to turn the plug on and off.

Conclusions

If you lot're looking to smarten up some of your home appliances without spending a lot of money, the Treatlife Smart Plug volition become the job washed. Information technology offers built-in Wi-Fi and is easy to install, and information technology supports vocalisation command using Amazon Alexa and Google Banana vocalism commands. You can besides create on and off schedules and apply scenes to command multiple plugs with the touch of a button. Yet, the plug doesn't interact with other smart devices, nor does it offer ability usage statistics. For only $2 more, our Editors' Pick, the Samsung SmartThings Wi-Fi Smart Plug, gives you usage reports and supports IFTTT applets, and it plays nicely with other devices that are continued to a SmartThings hub.