Koogeek Smart Plug converts regular light socket into Apple HomeKit light

Smarthome vendor Koogeek has updated its line of HomeKit products, and has released the Smart Socket — a device that plugs into any Edison-style lightbulb receptacle turning it into a Siri-controllable light.

The recently released Smart Socket plugs into any standard E26 or E27 socket, and will drive any bulb up to 25 watts — making it more suited to LED and CFL bulbs than incandescent ones. Fully HomeKit compatible, the hardware and app allows for schedule setting, use in Scenes, Siri control, and control from outside the house, when used in conjunction with a HomeKit Hub.

The app allows for monitoring of real-time, daily, and monthly power consumption of the bulb in the socket.

Not all lamps are physically compatible with the Smart Socket. The socket extension adds about two inches to the distance between the end of the bulb and the socket, and is also two inches in diameter.

The Koogeek Smart Socket is only available in white, and available now for $39.99.

While a fourth-generation Apple TV is able to be used as a HomeKit hub, starting with iOS 10, an iPad can be used as well. Further improvements to HomeKit in iOS 10.2 added support for for notifications from a variety of HomeKit accessories, including window coverings, occupancy, motion, door and window detectors, smoke, carbon monoxide, and water leak sensors.

Apple announced in October that it expects to have more than 100 HomeKit-compatible accessories available on the market by the end of this year. Device maker support has been slow due in part to Apple's requirements for a proprietary HomeKit chip, which helps to secure smart home devices.

15 Comments

mike1 3431 comments · 10 Years

About 7 years ago

Really?! Couldn't manage to make it handle a paltry 60-watt incandescent bulb?
What I'd really like is simply a Wemo-type wall outlet that was HomeKit compatible.

lkrupp 10521 comments · 19 Years

mike1 said:

Really?! Couldn't manage to make it handle a paltry 60-watt incandescent bulb?
What I'd really like is simply a Wemo-type wall outlet that was HomeKit compatible.

Jesus what a Neanderthal. Incandescent? Really?

opticdisc 1 comment · 7 Years

mike1 said:

Really?! Couldn't manage to make it handle a paltry 60-watt incandescent bulb?
What I'd really like is simply a Wemo-type wall outlet that was HomeKit compatible.

You mean like this..
https://www.connectsense.com/smart-outlet

Or this..
http://www.ihomeaudio.com/iSP5WC/

Or this..
http://www.koogeek.com/product_p1.html

or there's this too..
https://store.idevicesinc.com/idevices-wall-outlet/

eightzero 3142 comments · 14 Years

mike1 said:

Really?! Couldn't manage to make it handle a paltry 60-watt incandescent bulb?
What I'd really like is simply a Wemo-type wall outlet that was HomeKit compatible.

WeMo/Belkin had a press release that clarified that their products will never me HomeKit compatible, and it is Apple's fault because reasons.

Remember: when the lamp is powered off via it's existing switch, this device will no longer work. Plan accordingly.

macgui 2451 comments · 17 Years

eightzero said:
Remember: when the lamp is powered off via it's existing switch, this device will no longer work. Plan accordingly.

Easily done. I have three Hue lights and that's how I roll.

mike1 said:

Really?! Couldn't manage to make it handle a paltry 60-watt incandescent bulb?
What I'd really like is simply a Wemo-type wall outlet that was HomeKit compatible.

I'll never buy another paltry 60W incandescent bulb. No need, and equivalent output smart LEDs will get cheaper and cheaper. I will buy the occasional 100W incandescent because there is no comparable smart, Hue compatible LED. Yet, anyway.

I'm not a fan of WeMo kit. I've tried two wall switches, and they didn't work, support was horrible and in actuality, none existent, and they are very cheaply constructed. If I go the switch route, it'll probably be Lutron.