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Xiaomi Mi Smart Socket AU $18.18 Delivered @ TinyDeal
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ScoMosas on 20/11/2015 - 19:56 tinydeal.com (851 clicks)
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Product feature:

Works with WiFi router and smart phones
Wireless WiFi Repeater, amplify WiFi signal
Remote Control by a smart phone, such as iPhone,Android phone
Support Android system, covering almost all mainstream smart mobile Phone
Timing function: can arbitrarily set the time and multiple timing tasks
All household appliances controlled by your phone anywhere any time
Widely used in industry, family, teaching, mall etc
Input Voltage: AC180-250V
Output Voltage: AC180-250V, DC 5V
Maximum Load: 2200W 10A
Wireless Type: WIFI 2.4GHz
Wireless Standard: 802.11b / g / n
Color: White
Net Weight: 90 g / 3.17 oz
Size: 55 x 33 x 62 mm / 2.17 x 1.3 x 2.44 inch

More details can be found here : http://en.miui.com/thread-68738-1-1.html

This video will show how to use it : https://youtu.be/9RyHib5aT3s

I had chat with rep and was informed that Order will be sent with AU power plug converter.

I would like to mention here that on request this is a special price offered for the community.

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  • Lord Fart Bucket on 20/11/2015 - 20:09
    +1

    Are these allowed? Don't they need to comply to the AS (Australian Standard)?

    • [Deactivated] on 20/11/2015 - 20:20
      +6

      No they don't have an AS approval. Yes in theory you're supposed to have one, but then again how much other junk have people imported without an AS sticker? At least Xiaomi (the real) stuff is high quality. It's basically just an electronic on/off switch, it's unlikely to damage anything.

        • [Deactivated] on 20/11/2015 - 21:38
          +12

          1 person getting electrocuted. More people die on the dunny each year from pushing too hard. Was it the one in the bathtub?

          Plenty of products that have the AS/NZ sticker ar still found faulty every year.
          The risk is small. And more importantly how would this Mi plug electrocute you? It's a pass thru plug - no different to a power point. This panic panic everything is a risk to life & limb culture is just absurd.

          end of Friday rant.

        • stewy on 22/11/2015 - 01:32

          @supabrudda:

          The woman was killed because the internal circuitry had inadequate insulation and clearance distances between the LV and ELV circuits.

          Even from the "pass thru plug" aspect, you've also got the risk of a fire being initiated if the connection between the plug and socket hasn't been specced right for a sustained 10A load. There is also a risk if the plug arrangement isn't aligned properly and of a durable construction. The specifications state the it is rated for 2200W, whereas 2300W would be the nominal rating of a GPO in Australia. I reality we would assume it to be 2400W as you will find a supply voltage of 240V+ is more common than 230V…

          The fact you think this is the same as a powerpoint (which is actually called a GPO to anyone in the know) is absurd. It is an electronically switched outlet…there is no similarity to a GPO! Even still I would only ever install a Clipsal/HPM/Legrand GPO which I know is designed and made right.

          Yes I am aware that many approved items are recalled, due to the nature of my work I receive every single recall notice for electrical products. There in recent years has been an exponential increase of recalls and it is mostly for cheap stuff coming out of China. The current model of self-regulation is failing consumers. That said, if tested products are falling through the cracks I would hate to imagine the quality of products that have had no testing.

          It's not a panic panic culture at all, I have a degree in Elec Eng and am a licensed Electrician, so I am fully aware of the consequences when electrical stuff goes wrong. Despite people in the electrical trade being at an elevated risk of electric shock, we make up a small portion of electric shocks. Put simply, people that aren't in the electrical trade do not respect the dangers of electricity.

        • [Deactivated] on 22/11/2015 - 23:01
          +1

          @stewy: Obviously electrical engineering has changed since I went to uni on the 80's, as something that turned power on & off is a switch (like this product & a power point does). But some how magically you can draw parallel between a simple switch and a device with transforms voltage from 240v -> 5v, rectifies AC to DC and that's an ok similarity?

          It is a panic panic culture. How many people die from electrocution? Bugger all. More people die each year crossing the road in Melbourne, then all the electrocutions in Austral & NZ combined.

          As for people in the electrical trades have more respect for electricity? In the UK people are allowed to wire their own houses, but in Australia that's illegal. Yet more people die in Australia then the UK from electrocution. I used to work with qualified electricians when I was a young lad who thought it was a great joke to plug the fuses back in when I was working on live wiring. Or plug equipment into the mains that I was working on.

          I agree with you on Clipsal, not HPM, as their product quality is questionable.

          Back to the product. It's a switch, essentially no different to a power point or GPO (i.e. it effectively turns power on & off to the attached device). No great risk if it fails. Unless of course if you're stupid enough plug your toaster into it when you're removing your toast with metal tongs & your flatmate thinks it funny to grab your phone & turn the power on, then the gene pool is probably better off without you (& your flatmate).

          anyway end of my weekend rant…scheduled program will follow.

  • ltwo on 20/11/2015 - 20:10

    Looks like a pretty cool device. What is tinydeal like though?

    • [Deactivated] on 20/11/2015 - 20:21

      you'll get the item, sometime in the next few months :-)

  • [Deactivated] on 20/11/2015 - 20:22
    -3

    Isnt this illegal?

  • Clear on 20/11/2015 - 20:32

    These are pretty good, but the downside is that the top can go over the switch on a lot of wall outlets and China's plug is upside down.

    • ScoMosas on 20/11/2015 - 20:40
      +1

      I had chat with rep and was informed that Order will be sent with AU power plug converter.

      • Clear on 20/11/2015 - 20:49
        +4

        Defeats the whole purpose of it. The adapter will make it stick out of the wall and probably won't be able to support the weight. It's still usable with it being upside down. I have quite a few Xiaomi powerboards like it.

        • ScoMosas on 20/11/2015 - 20:53

          You are right.

      • jtb on 20/11/2015 - 21:02

        Hi Nisarg, The picture looks like an Australian plug, why would an adapter be required? Is it just so that it's not upside down?

        • ScoMosas on 20/11/2015 - 21:03

          Some of us may not like upside down. I wouldn't mind at all.

        • jtb on 20/11/2015 - 21:12

          @nisarg: Thanks for the reply mate.

  • No on 20/11/2015 - 20:35
    +2

    I have one of these, if you don't read chinese you need to use a not very good half translated version made by some dude on the miui forums.

    Apart from that its a good product, you can set separate timers for the power point and the usb point. For example you could plug a usb light into the usb port and a lamp into the power point and have the usb light come on 10pm-6am and the lamp for 6-10pm or whatever.

    • ptsordos on 20/11/2015 - 21:00

      Looks interesting. Can you tell us what's the name of the app to control it?

      • Store RepTorben @ TinyDeal on 20/11/2015 - 21:07

        There's QR code in the Manual, you just need to scan it with your smartphone and download.
        Then you can control your home appliance easily.

        • ptsordos on 20/11/2015 - 21:12

          Thanks. Is the app in chinese?

        • Store RepTorben @ TinyDeal on 20/11/2015 - 21:15

          @ptsordos:
          You can reset the language as the video show.

        • ptsordos on 20/11/2015 - 22:12

          @Torben: Cool. Thanks

        • maxell86 on 20/11/2015 - 22:13
          -4

          @ptsordos: There be no such language as Chinese, Mandarin and Cantonese are what most Chinese people speak.

          You know what is better than eating a mandarin? Eating amanda out ☺

        • voteoften on 20/11/2015 - 22:39

          @maxell86:
          Actually I have met a few Chinese people in Thailand and was told that they speak and write basic chinese. Not mandarin or cantonese. My child takes mandarin lessons but other than that and encountering Cantonese in hk, I don't really know much about the languages of that country. I'm only going by what people who claim they were tourists from china have told me.

        • Cronium on 20/11/2015 - 23:44

          @maxell86: You know this only applies to the spoken language right? Chinese logograms are the same for both Cantonese and Mandarin, the only possible difference is for places like Taiwan and Hong Kong which prefer to use Traditional characters.

        • stalker878 on 21/11/2015 - 01:35

          i think Mandarin is one of the spoken forms of Chinese. Cantonese is another.
          the written form ie chinese characters, comes in traditional and simplified form.

        • Kaboda on 21/11/2015 - 07:48
          +1

          @stalker878: the Chinese language we know it is essentially Mandarin and the next largest spoke direct is Cantonese. Though there are many other large groups of Chinese like Hokkien, Haninese, Hakka and Teo Cheow (Thai chinese) Foo Chow, whose dialects are still widely spoken everywhere you find Chinese people.

  • daleroy1234 on 20/11/2015 - 21:05

    Will they track everything they can via it, and also serve up ads before the lights come on?

    • Store RepTorben @ TinyDeal on 20/11/2015 - 21:37

      As long as your appliances need to charge with plugs you can use this smart socket to control them.

    • maxell86 on 20/11/2015 - 22:17

      They'll just flick the lights on and off in tune the the ad ☺

      Jokes aside it does look interesting, how many units can the app control? Does it supportgroups as well?

      Looked for the app in Google play, only one non xiamio alarm clock thingy. Found the yi camera. Smart plug finds competitors smart plug apps, not xiamoi

  • mutantx on 21/11/2015 - 01:07

    do you know which version of android you need to use the app ?
    I have an older TAB that is still running on 2.1 or 2.3 or something around that mark
    (it needs a complete reRoot to upgrade to anything more recent - and i can't be bothered).

  • douglasb on 21/11/2015 - 09:32
    +2

    I have two of these. They're very good.

    The device has a single power port and a usb charging port, each of which can be controlled independently by the Android app (ie: you can have power on and usb off, both on, both off, etc). The button on the side, above the USB port, turns the power port on and off when pressed.

    The Android app will speak English with some coaxing, the one on my phone is in Traditional Chinese right now (probably because my phone is using the Indian localised version of MIUI) and the phone recognises that it's not in Mainland China.

    (It's fun to watch white people argue about whether a written language is Mandarin or Chinese. It works like this:

    • Mandarin - A group of broadly similar spoken languages used predominately in Mainland China (PRC), and Taiwan (ROC) and Singapore.
    • Cantonese - A group of broadly similar spoken languages spoken predominately in Hong Kong (SAR) and also in other locations (Australia, for example) where lots of the locals came originally from the SAR.
    • Traditional Chinese - a written language with visibly complex characters used in the SAR, ROC and many of the other overseas territories. The ideograms are also used in part of the written languages with similar but not 100% consistent meanings in Vietnam and Japan.
    • Simplified Chinese - A, literally simplified, version of the written Chinese language introduced by the Chinese government in the 1950s and 1960s to improve literacy amongst PRC Chinese, the premise being that if it's easier to read and write, more people will gain literacy. Also in common use in Singapore.

    )

    The Xiaomi Smart Socket can be a real bastard to get linked up to the phone. Like the other devices (scale, wifi router, etc) it comes up initially with it's own wifi network, connects to the phone, receives info on what wifi network it should connect itself to, then works via that afterwards. The process is hidden a bit by the app, and it's not 100% smooth. I've spent 30+ minutes working through the process over and over again until it just suddenly complies. Once it's connected, it works absolutely flawlessly. Patience and persistence do pay off.

    The app has manual on/off switches, and also 'timer' and 'alarm'.

    The translation (I'm using the one by Sum Yung Guy from the Xiaomi forums) is a bit rough, so once you learn what all the buttons do, it's fine to leave it in default Chinese mode and work from memory.

    The plug is a modern PRC, which is identical in shape to the Australian plug but does not have the insulation leading down each pin that is required in new Australian plugs. Yes, the PRC plug is inverted as compared to the Australian one, but that's irrelevant with this device, because there's no markings, no 'up' or 'down'. It just plugs and works.

    It's a little bit wide, like a power adapter, so won't play nice on a power board if you hope to put other fat plugs. It's not too bad, though.

    Even with the initial grief setting this thing up, this is a really good device. Highly recommended.

  • BALLE BALLE on 21/11/2015 - 10:24

    Would be nice to use it to turn on Aircon before you get home.

    • [Deactivated] on 22/11/2015 - 23:08
      +1

      yeah, check how many amps your AirCon uses as it's only suitable for 240v 10amp, not the 240v 15amp which many aircon's run on (the extra 5amps will likely cook the plug) - your fusebox might have the amp rating for your air con if it's on a seperate circuit.

  • ulun-lpg on 22/11/2015 - 21:44

    it doesnt really say anything signal repeater. does anyone know if it works well as wifi signal repeater?

    • [Deactivated] on 22/11/2015 - 23:09

      I don't, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't work. Just like it should work over the internet with the right ports unblocked.

      • ulun-lpg on 23/11/2015 - 10:08

        Thats a weird analogy you used there as an example. Port forwarding has nothing to do with signal repeating.

  • gbh on 24/11/2015 - 15:44

    Does this also act as a wifi bridge/repeater/range extender? Can't find out much info re this functionality.

  • jtb on 02/12/2015 - 18:29
    +1

    Odd. I just got a partial refund of 17.64 AUD, no notes… Did this happen to anyone else?

    • ptsordos on 03/12/2015 - 14:40

      Same here.
      Paid $18.18 AUD
      Got partial refund of $17.64 AUD
      I checked the order detail and I didn't use any TD points

  • Store RepTorben @ TinyDeal on 02/12/2015 - 18:51

    Dear customers,
    Due to the hot sale of Xiaomi smart socket, it was out of stock and we have to refund your money.
    However, we have many other products for you to choose, and Cyber Monday is still on:
    Save more money here: 2015 Cyber Monday Collection

    Sorry for the inconvenience.

    • jtb on 02/12/2015 - 19:12

      It would have been nice if I was told that instead of just receiving a refund. Also, why was I only given a partial refund instead of the entire $18.18?

      • Store RepTorben @ TinyDeal on 02/12/2015 - 20:17

        Hello，there
        I'm really sorry for this issue.
        As for the refund, do you use TD points when check out?
        If yes, we will refund both your money and TD points, please check your account.

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