# Smart Home Tanzania

> Home Automation & Smart Home in Tanzania


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- [Shipping and Delivery Policy](https://smarthome.co.tz/shipping/): At SmartHome Tanzania, we aim to get your order to you quickly and reliably anywhere in the country. Below are our shipping and delivery guidelines. This policy applies alongside our Terms and Conditions and our Refund and Returns Policy. Shipping coverage We deliver to all regions within Tanzania, including Zanzibar and Pemba. Shipping charges are calculated at checkout based on the delivery location you select. Delivery charges Within Dar es Salaam, the charge depends on your zone: Upanga — TZS 3,000 Town / Kariakoo — TZS 5,000 Masaki / Mikocheni — TZS 10,000 Sinza / Mwenge — TZS 15,000 Goba / [...]
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## Products

- [Aeotec Nano Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-nano-switch/): The Aeotec Nano Switch is a relay small enough to hide in the wall box behind a switch you already have. The light, the fan or the socket it controls becomes something you can switch from a phone, put on a schedule or fold into a scene, and the switch on the wall keeps working exactly as it did for everybody who never wants to open an app. Where the Aeotec Nano Switch goes and why The number on the carton is not the number for Tanzania It switches, it does not dim Box depth, and the controller it needs What [...]
- [Aeotec Nano Dimmer](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-nano-dimmer/): The Aeotec Nano Dimmer is a dimmer the size of a matchbox that hides behind the switch you already have. The wall switch keeps working and gains a long press to ramp the brightness; the app, schedules and scenes run alongside it. What the Aeotec Nano Dimmer needs from your wiring Minimum load is the figure that catches people The bulbs have to say dimmable Motor loads, and the controller Before you order Read this first: it is Z-Wave, not Wi-Fi. It needs a Z-Wave controller, which is not included. We sell three that run it: the Fibaro Home Center Lite, [...]
- [Fibaro Dimmer Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-dimmer-2-in-wall/): The Fibaro Dimmer 2 hides behind the switch you already have, and that switch keeps working. It works without a neutral Read this first: it is Z-Wave, not Wi-Fi Two things decide whether it works properly The Fibaro Dimmer 2 load range, top and bottom The wall switch keeps dimming It works without a neutral That is the practical reason to choose a Fibaro Dimmer 2 in an older house. It runs two wire or three wire, so a switch box with only a live and a switched line is not a problem. A great deal of Dar wiring is exactly [...]
- [Fibaro Double Switch 2](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-double-switch-2-in-wall/): The Fibaro Double Switch 2 gives two independently switched circuits out of one back box, each one metered. Two circuits from one back box Read this first: it is Z-Wave, not Wi-Fi Watch the load figures: they are lower than a single channel Metering on both channels Fitting the Fibaro Double Switch 2 Two circuits from one back box The ceiling light and the wall lights. The veranda light and the security lamp. Both switched independently and both metered, from one module behind the switch plate you already have. On a two gang plate that is one module instead of two, [...]
- [Fibaro Single Switch 2](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-single-switch-2-in-wall/): The Fibaro Single Switch 2 is a metered relay small enough to hide in the back box behind a switch you already have. Read this first: it is Z-Wave, not Wi-Fi What Z-Wave gives you back Metering to within 1 per cent Check the load and the box What the Fibaro Single Switch 2 does not do Read this first: it is Z-Wave, not Wi-Fi The Fibaro Single Switch 2 will not pair with your phone on its own. There is no app that talks to it directly. It needs a Z-Wave controller, and we sell three that run it: the [...]
- [Fibaro Swipe](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-swipe/): The Fibaro Swipe is a gesture pad. Move your hand in front of it and the house answers: up, down, left, right, and circles in either direction, with sequences of gestures on top for the things you want to be deliberate about. Where a Fibaro Swipe earns its place Six gestures, and sequences on top It tells you the gesture registered The menu is driven by gestures too What it needs Nothing is touched. That is the point. A Z-Wave controller is required and is not included. Where a Fibaro Swipe earns its place Anywhere your hands are not free or [...]
- [Fibaro Keyfob](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-keyfob/): The Fibaro KeyFob is a six button Z-Wave remote that goes on the keyring. Each button reads a single, double and triple click and a hold, and on top of that you can record sequences of two to five presses, which takes it to 30 different actions from one small remote. How the Fibaro KeyFob gets to thirty actions It can be locked, which matters if a button opens a gate IP54, because it lives outdoors half the time Battery and encryption What it needs A Z-Wave controller is required and is not included. How the Fibaro KeyFob gets to thirty [...]
- [NodOn 2 Gang Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/nodon-2-gang-switch/): The NodOn 2 gang switch is a battery powered wall switch that looks like an ordinary plate and needs no wiring at all. Two rockers, four buttons, and it sticks up with the adhesive tape in the box or screws to the wall if you prefer. Why a NodOn 2 gang switch looks like a switch Sixteen actions from four buttons Where it goes that a wired switch cannot Range and battery What it needs A Z-Wave controller is required and is not included. Why a NodOn 2 gang switch looks like a switch Because it is meant to be mistaken [...]
- [Aeotec Wallmote Touch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-wallmote-touch/): The Aeotec WallMote Touch is a four zone touch pad that goes on the wall and runs on a battery. No wiring, no back box, no electrician. A switch appears beside the bed or at the top of the stairs wherever you decide to put it. The Aeotec WallMote Touch puts a switch where there is no wiring Swipe is a real dimming gesture Eight scene IDs from four zones Charging and size What it needs A Z-Wave controller is required and is not included. The Aeotec WallMote Touch puts a switch where there is no wiring No back box, no [...]
- [Philips Hue - Dimmer Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-dimmer-switch/): The Hue Dimmer Switch is four buttons on a magnetic wall plate: on and scenes, brighter, dimmer, off. It works straight out of the box without a Hue Bridge, holding up to 10 Hue lights, so a room can be dimmed the day it is unpacked. The Hue Dimmer Switch works before you own a Bridge It lifts off the plate, and that is the whole design What a Bridge adds later Fitting, if you can call it that What it controls The Hue Dimmer Switch works before you own a Bridge Out of the box, with no Bridge and no [...]
- [WiFi LED Strip Controller](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-led-strip-controller/): A WiFi LED strip controller is the part that makes a dumb LED strip smart, going in between the power supply and the strip. What a WiFi LED strip controller actually does The spare nobody buys until it is too late Check what your strip is before ordering Control without a phone One figure that is published two ways What a WiFi LED strip controller actually does If you already have plain RGB strip running off a 12V or 24V supply, it is a dumb light: whatever the little remote that came with it can do, and nothing more. This controller [...]
- [WiFi LED Strip](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-led-strip-kit-5m-rgbw/): A complete WiFi LED strip kit: five metres of strip, an in-line Wi-Fi controller, a plug-in power adapter and a 44 key handheld remote, all in one box. Why this WiFi LED strip kit has a white channel Everything is in the one box IP44, and what that permits One colour at a time along the run Fitting it, and one figure to confirm It joins your Wi-Fi through the controller and runs from the Tuya or Smart Life app, with Alexa and Google Assistant and a music sync mode. Why this WiFi LED strip kit has a white channel A [...]
- [WiFi Smart Bulb](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-smart-bulb-e27-colour/): A WiFi smart bulb E27 is the cheapest way to put a light on your phone. It goes into an ordinary holder, joins your Wi-Fi on its own with no hub to buy, and appears in the Tuya or Smart Life app. Pairing a WiFi smart bulb E27, and what goes wrong Where a colour bulb is actually useful Timers and schedules, without a hub Wi-Fi or Zigbee: which to buy One honest note on the figures 16 million colours, and a proper tunable white from 2700K warm to 6500K cool daylight for the rest of the time. Pairing a WiFi [...]
- [Philips Hue - Phoenix Bathroom Light](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-phoenix-recessed-spot/): The Hue Phoenix recessed spot is a Hue light that disappears into the ceiling. No bulb to change and nothing hanging down. The Hue Phoenix recessed spot has no bulb in it Tunable white, and why a bathroom wants it Read this before you choose a position Installation and control One published figure that disagrees with itself The Hue Phoenix recessed spot has no bulb in it The Hue Phoenix recessed spot has its LED built into the fitting, so there is nothing to change and nothing hanging below the ceiling line. It drops into a 12.5cm cut out and sits [...]
- [Philips Hue - Ambient Play Light](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-play-light-bar/): The Hue Play light bar is a slim black bar that throws colour onto the wall behind it. 500 lumens and the full Hue colour range from one unit. Three ways to stand a Hue Play light bar Base pack or extension pack, and why it matters What it does without a Sync Box, and what it does not What it needs to work properly The numbers, and where it fits Three ways to stand a Hue Play light bar Upright beside a television, flat on a shelf, or stuck to the back of the screen itself. The mounts for all [...]
- [Philips Hue LED Strip - 2m Outdoor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-outdoor-lightstrip-2m/): The Hue outdoor lightstrip 2m is the sealed version, built to live outside. 16 million colours and the full white range, in a strip that survives the rain. Why a Hue outdoor lightstrip 2m is sealed to IP67 Two metres is two metres Where people actually put it The Bridge is not optional An honest note about the pack we stock Why a Hue outdoor lightstrip 2m is sealed to IP67 The Hue outdoor lightstrip 2m is sealed the whole way along. Rain, dust and a hosing down are all fine, which is the one thing the indoor Lightstrip Plus cannot [...]
- [Philips Hue - Lightstrip Plus 1 meter extension](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-lightstrip-plus-1m-extension/): The Hue Lightstrip Plus 1m extension adds one metre to a Lightstrip Plus you already own. It clips onto the end of the run and lights up as part of the same strip. A Hue Lightstrip Plus 1m extension is not a light on its own How it joins the run Ten metres is the ceiling per base kit What one extra metre gives you Buy it with the base kit, not after A Hue Lightstrip Plus 1m extension is not a light on its own The Hue Lightstrip Plus 1m extension has no power supply and no controller in the [...]
- [Philips Hue - Lightstrip Plus 2 meters](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-lightstrip-plus-2m/): The Hue Lightstrip Plus 2m is Hue in a strip, for the places a bulb cannot go. 1,700 lumens at 4000K, which is brighter than most people expect from a light strip, and the full colour range with it. Where the Hue Lightstrip Plus 2m goes that a bulb cannot Brighter than people expect Cutting it down, or extending it out What is in the box, and what is not Indoors only, and the outdoor alternative Where the Hue Lightstrip Plus 2m goes that a bulb cannot Under a kitchen counter, so the worktop is lit and the fitting is invisible. [...]
- [Philips Hue Bridge](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-bridge/): The Philips Hue Bridge is the small white square that turns Hue from a handful of Bluetooth bulbs into a proper lighting system. It plugs into your router and takes the lights onto a Zigbee network of its own. What the Philips Hue Bridge unlocks Accessories are counted separately from bulbs Why Zigbee fixes the range problem Voice, and everything else it connects to Setting it up, and what it needs from your router What the Philips Hue Bridge unlocks Hue bulbs work on Bluetooth straight out of the box, and a lot of people never realise that is the limited [...]
- [WYZE Cam Pan v3 - Pan and Tilt](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-cam-pan-v3-pan-tilt-security-camera/): The Wyze Cam Pan v3 is a motorised camera at a price that usually buys a fixed one. One unit covers a whole room instead of one corner of it, keeps colour after dark, and records to a microSD card with no subscription attached. What the 360 degree pan and tilt actually covers Colour at night, not black and white Powering the Wyze Cam Pan v3 and where to mount it Detection, storage and what needs a paid plan Who this camera suits, and who it does not It records 1080p through a starlight sensor, which is the part that matters [...]
- [WYZE Cam v3 with Color Night Vision](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-cam-v3-colour-night-vision-camera/): The Wyze Cam v3 is the camera that made Wyze’s name. It is small, it costs very little, and its starlight sensor with an f/1.6 lens holds colour in light levels where most cameras give up and switch to infrared grey. Infrared is still there for complete darkness. What the starlight sensor changes after dark Indoors or outdoors, and the adapter catch Recording without paying a monthly fee Siren and two-way audio Where the Wyze Cam v3 still makes sense It records 1080p across a 121° view, and it is rated IP65, so the same camera works on a shelf indoors [...]
- [Danapad](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/danalock-keypad-danapad-v3/): A round weatherproof keypad that goes on the wall outside, next to the door, and opens the Danalock V3 with a code instead of a phone. It is the piece that makes a Danalock usable by everybody in the house rather than only the people whose phones are paired to it. Why add a Danalock keypad at all Fitting a Danalock keypad outside Check which Danalock you own first One question before you order Children without phones, a house help, an older relative, a visitor whose phone is flat: they get four to ten digits and they are in. You can [...]
- [Danabridge V3](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/danalock-wi-fi-bridge-danabridge-v3/): The plug that takes the Danalock V3 off Bluetooth and onto the internet. Put it in a socket near the door, and the lock you could only reach from the hallway becomes one you can lock, unlock and watch from anywhere. How the Danalock Wi-Fi bridge connects Who a Danalock Wi-Fi bridge is for Before you order a Danalock Wi-Fi bridge Before you add a bridge This is what makes a Danalock useful to a landlord. Somebody arrives at the flat and you are across town: you open the door from your phone. A guest leaves and you want to know [...]
- [Danalock V3 Bluetooth & Z-Wave](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/danalock-v3-smart-lock-cylinder/): A Danish made motor that mounts on the inside of your door and turns the cylinder for you. From outside, the door looks exactly as it did: same handle, same keyhole, same key in your pocket if you want it. Nobody passing knows there is a smart lock on it. What a Danalock V3 smart lock leaves alone Getting in from outside the house Cylinder, batteries and what is not in the box Ordering a Danalock V3 It fits any door with a euro profile cylinder, which is the ordinary European mortise fitting, and it goes on without drilling. It talks [...]
- [Ring Chime](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/ring-chime/): The Ring Chime is a small speaker that plugs into a socket and rings when somebody presses your Ring doorbell. That is the whole job, and it is a more useful one than it sounds. What the Ring Chime is for It needs a Ring device, and it does nothing on its own One in the hallway, one upstairs What it is not One thing to check before you order What the Ring Chime is for A Ring doorbell, on its own, rings your phone and nothing else. That is fine until the phone is charging in the bedroom, sitting face [...]
- [Vilros Raspberry Pi 4 - 8GB Starter Kit (Transparent)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/raspberry-pi-4-8gb-complete-kit-clear/): A Raspberry Pi 4 8GB complete kit in one box, and the version to buy if you want to be running the same evening. Clear case, fan already fitted, so you can see the board doing its work. The card is included and already imaged What a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB complete kit will run The clear case, and cooling that actually works Ports, screens and power What is not in the box The card is included and already imaged A 64GB microSD card comes preloaded with Raspberry Pi OS. There is nothing to download and nothing to flash: put the [...]
- [Lightwave - RF Link Plus Hub](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/lightwave-link-plus-hub/): The Lightwave Link Plus hub is what makes a Lightwave system work. It plugs into your router with the supplied cable, and from that point the lighting, the heating and the power sockets all answer to your phone from anywhere. Why the Lightwave Link Plus hub instead of Wi-Fi switches It works with both generations of Lightwave kit Lighting, heating and sockets in one app Voice, and which parts Siri reaches What it needs to work Why the Lightwave Link Plus hub instead of Wi-Fi switches Lightwave devices talk on 868MHz rather than Wi-Fi. That radio reaches roughly 100 metres through [...]
- [Fibaro HC Pro 2](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-home-center-2-controller/): The Fibaro Home Center 2 is the full-size controller, and the one to choose when the house is large or the automations are ambitious. LUA scripting is what separates the Fibaro Home Center 2 Headroom for a large installation Ports, and being able to recover from a bad update How you actually use it day to day This or the Lite LUA scripting is what separates the Fibaro Home Center 2 Alongside the drag-and-drop scene builder there is proper scripting: real conditions, loops, variables and virtual devices you write yourself. If you have ever hit the ceiling of a block editor [...]
- [Fibaro HC Lite](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-home-center-lite-controller/): The Fibaro Home Center Lite is the compact controller: a 90mm square that plugs into your router and runs a Z-Wave house from a shelf. The Fibaro Home Center Lite runs a whole Z-Wave house Scenes built by dragging blocks The app for using it, the browser for building it The one thing to know against the Home Center 2 What it does not need The Fibaro Home Center Lite runs a whole Z-Wave house The Fibaro Home Center Lite handles up to 230 Z-Wave devices, which is far more than most houses will ever fit, out of a square the [...]
- [Homey Hub](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/homey-smart-home-hub/): The Homey smart home hub is a white sphere with a colour-changing ring that speaks almost every wireless language a house uses. Most hubs handle one protocol and leave you buying a second box for everything else. This one carries seven radios in one. Flows are the reason to own a Homey smart home hub Seven radios, and the ones that matter here Talking to it, and reaching it from outside Local processing, and no subscription This one, or one of the Pros Plug it in, connect the ethernet, and it is yours. Flows are the reason to own a Homey [...]
- [Battery - CR123A (Varta)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/cr123a-battery/): The CR123A battery is the cell behind most Z-Wave sensors. Three volts, lithium, also sold as 123A and CR17345. Photo lithium chemistry, which means it can hand over a lot of current in a hurry, then sit quietly for months. That is exactly the pattern a motion sensor or a smoke detector asks for. Which of our products take a CR123A battery Photo lithium is the right chemistry for a sensor A ten year shelf life makes spares sensible It copes with a roof space Other names for the same cell Which of our products take a CR123A battery More than [...]
- [Battery - ER14250](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/er14250-battery/): The ER14250 battery is the half AA cell that runs Fibaro door sensors. Lithium thionyl chloride, 3.6 volts, 1200 mAh. It is the size of half an AA and it is not interchangeable with an AA or a AAA. What an ER14250 battery is, and what it is not Lithium thionyl chloride, for years of nothing Which of ours take one Nothing about a roof space troubles it The specification What an ER14250 battery is, and what it is not It is a half AA. Physically half the length of an AA cell, 3.6 volts rather than 1.5, and it will [...]
- [Remotec Z-Wave Scene Master Remote](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/remotec-scene-master/): The Remotec Scene Master is a flat eight button remote that fires 16 different scenes on your Z-Wave hub. Movie, dinner, goodnight, gate, everything off, all on one plate. Sixteen scenes on the Remotec Scene Master It works as a plate or as a remote No wiring, no back box, no electrician Where eight buttons beats four What it needs A Z-Wave controller is required and is not included. Sixteen scenes on the Remotec Scene Master Eight buttons, and each reads a single press and a double press. That is sixteen instructions to your hub from one flat plate, which is [...]
- [Philips Hue White Filament LED Bulb with Bluetooth](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-filament-bulb-st64-edison/): A Philips Hue filament bulb is meant to be seen. The ST64 Edison glass and the exposed spiral filament are the decoration, so it goes where a frosted bulb would look wrong. Where a Philips Hue filament bulb belongs 2100K is warmer than warm white Deep dimming, and why cheap filament LEDs fail The glass, and the numbers behind it Bluetooth now, Bridge later Where a Philips Hue filament bulb belongs In a fitting that shows the bulb. An open pendant over a dining table, a bare holder on a wall, a cage or a glass shade where you can see [...]
- [Philips Hue - Smart Button](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-smart-button/): The Hue Smart Button is one round button, 32 mm across, that does whatever you tell it to. A press turns a room on and off, a hold dims it, and with a Hue Bridge a press can fire a named scene instead. What one Hue Smart Button actually does It comes out of the plate and goes wherever you are Why one button rather than four No Bridge needed to start What to put it with What one Hue Smart Button actually does More than the single button suggests. A press switches a room on and off. A hold dims [...]
- [Philips Hue Go 2.0 White & Colour Ambiance Smart Portable Light](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-go-2-0-portable-light/): The Philips Hue Go 2.0 is a Hue light with a battery in it, so it is not tied to a socket. Lift it off the charger and it keeps going for up to three hours. The Philips Hue Go 2.0 has no cable attached 300 lumens is deliberate The button on the unit matters more than it sounds Bluetooth now, Bridge later Where to use it, and where not to The Philips Hue Go 2.0 has no cable attached Every other Hue light is tied to a socket or a lamp holder. The Philips Hue Go 2.0 has a rechargeable [...]
- [Philips Hue Smart Plug with Bluetooth](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-smart-plug/): The Philips Hue Smart Plug is how an ordinary lamp joins a Hue system. How the Philips Hue Smart Plug adopts a lamp It works out of the box over Bluetooth The Bridge changes what it can do It switches, it does not dim What it will run How the Philips Hue Smart Plug adopts a lamp Plug the lamp into a Philips Hue Smart Plug and the lamp appears in the Hue app beside your Hue bulbs. It switches with them, joins the same scenes, and follows the same routines. That is the point of it. A standard lamp with [...]
- [Table Stand for Echo Dot 3rd Gen](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-dot-desk-stand-3rd-gen/): An Echo Dot desk stand that stands the Dot up instead of leaving it lying flat. A small pedestal that docks an Echo Dot 3rd generation at a 105 degree tilt, so the light ring faces you rather than the ceiling and the speaker fires into the room rather than into the table. Read this first: it fits the 3rd generation Dot What an Echo Dot desk stand actually changes It hears you better across a desk The grip is the detail Where it suits Read this first: it fits the 3rd generation Dot This Echo Dot desk stand is made [...]
- [Eufy Lumi Motion Light (Battery operated) 3 PACK](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufy-lumi-motion-light-3-pack/): The eufy Lumi motion light is a small warm white light that sticks where there is no socket and no wiring, sold here as a set of three. They sense movement, come on, and go out again on their own. Where each eufy Lumi motion light usually ends up A year per set, and why that is believable Buy batteries with them Sticking them up, and taking them down again Where these are not the right answer Where each eufy Lumi motion light usually ends up The eufy Lumi motion light comes as a set of three, which is more useful [...]
- [Wall Mount Stand for Dot 3rd Generation](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-dot-wall-mount-3rd-gen/): An Echo Dot wall mount that hides the cable behind it. The Dot clips in vertically, sitting flat and clear of the surface, and the power lead winds around a reel on the back of the mount so nothing dangles down the wall. Check the generation before ordering an Echo Dot wall mount The cable reel is the whole idea Held clear of the surface, so it sounds better No screws, no screwdriver The alternatives Check the generation before ordering an Echo Dot wall mount This fits the Echo Dot 3rd generation and other small round speakers of a similar size. [...]
- [WiFi Temp Sensor (Shelly)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-humidity-sensor-ht/): The Shelly humidity sensor is a temperature and humidity sensor that joins Wi-Fi on its own. No hub, no gateway. It reports to the app and, more usefully, it can tell any other Shelly device on the network to do something about what it has read. What a Shelly humidity sensor is really for It has no display, and that is the trade Where you put it matters more than the sensor does Battery, or the USB adapter Which one you want What a Shelly humidity sensor is really for Reading a number is the small half. The useful half is [...]
- [WiFi Relay - Shelly Dimmer](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-dimmer-wifi-relay/): The Shelly Dimmer hides behind the switch you already have, and that switch keeps working. Read this first: the bulbs have to be dimmable It works with or without a neutral The Shelly Dimmer load range, narrower than a relay The wall switch keeps dimming Fitting and independence Two things decide whether this will work in your house, and both are covered below. Read this first: the bulbs have to be dimmable An ordinary LED bulb on a dimmer flickers, buzzes or simply refuses to work, and no module fixes that. The bulb has to be marked dimmable on the box. [...]
- [Bluetooth Blind Driver](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/bluetooth-blind-driver/): A Bluetooth blind driver is the cheap way into motorised blinds, and it replaces nothing you own. If your roller, Roman or zebra blind is opened by pulling a beaded chain, this Zemismart unit clips onto the wall beside it and takes over the pulling. Nothing is cut, nothing is drilled into the blind, and it comes with you when you move house. What a Bluetooth blind driver can and cannot do What you get instead: price and no dependencies Fitting it to a chain blind When to spend more than this What a Bluetooth blind driver can and cannot do [...]
- [WiFi - Motorized Roller Shade](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-roller-blind-tube-motor/): Read this first: this is a roller blind tube motor, not a finished blind. If you want a complete motorised roller blind, a blind maker builds one around this motor, or you fit it into a roller blind you already own. Everything that is and is not in the box is set out below. What a roller blind tube motor is, and what it is not Tube diameter is the question to settle first Mains power, and what that buys Control without a bridge One honest gap, and the alternative What a roller blind tube motor is, and what it is [...]
- [Philips Hue Color Bulb](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-color-bulb/): The Philips Hue Color bulb is the full colour one: 16 million colours plus the whole white range, in a standard E27 screw fitting that goes straight into an ordinary lamp holder. Read this first: the Philips Hue Color bulb needs a Bridge Sixteen million colours, and the whites as well Scenes are the reason people keep them Dimming, and the flicker that is not there Fitting, power and one published discrepancy Read this first: the Philips Hue Color bulb needs a Bridge There is no Bluetooth radio in this bulb. It speaks Zigbee only, so a phone cannot reach it [...]
- [Philips Hue White Ambience](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-white-ambiance-bulb/): Philips Hue White Ambiance is the tunable white bulb. Same E27 fitting and same 806 lumens as the plain white one, but the colour of the light moves the whole way from candle warm to cool daylight. What the Philips Hue White Ambiance range looks like The four presets, and why they are there Bluetooth now, Bridge later Whites only, and what that rules out Where tunable white earns its place What the Philips Hue White Ambiance range looks like At 6500K the light reads as overcast daylight: slightly blue, sharp, and the colour a room wants at seven in the [...]
- [Philips Hue White](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-white-bulb-e27/): The Philips Hue White bulb is the plain one, and the cheapest way into the system. Warm white at 2700K, 806 lumens, an ordinary E27 screw fitting. The Philips Hue White bulb starts on Bluetooth Dimming that a wall dimmer cannot match What it does not do Fitting and lifespan Why start with this one The Philips Hue White bulb starts on Bluetooth The Philips Hue White bulb has both radios in it. Out of the box, Bluetooth lets your phone control it while you are in the room, with no Bridge and nothing else bought. Add a Hue Bridge later [...]
- [Hogar Touch Switch HP 16A](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/hogar-touch-switch-1-gang-zwave/): The Hogar touch switch is a single-gang glass panel from Hogar Controls: a white square face with a champagne bezel and one circular touch zone that lights with a blue ring. It replaces an ordinary wall switch in a standard two-module back box, so it is a retrofit rather than a rewire, and being capacitive glass there is nothing mechanical to wear out or rattle. A retrofit, not a rewire It needs a Hogar hub, and the bands must match Why the current rating is not printed on this page Wiring a Hogar touch switch into older installations Two things to [...]
- [Hogar Touch Switch 2 Gang](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/hogar-touch-switch-2-gang/): The Hogar Touch Switch 2 Gang is a Z-Wave touch panel in white glass with a metal bezel. It takes the place of a conventional two switch plate and retrofits into the existing back box, so the wall does not have to be opened up. Toggle or momentary, set per button Nine association groups, so it can work without the hub The Hogar Touch Switch 2 Gang is built for the conditions It strengthens the mesh What it needs A Z-Wave controller is required and is not included. It needs a neutral wire at the switch box. Toggle or momentary, set [...]
- [Hogar Touch Switch 4 Gang](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/hogar-touch-switch-4-gang/): The Hogar Touch Switch 4 Gang is a Z-Wave touch panel in black glass. Four circuits on one plate, retrofitted into the existing back box, so the wall does not have to be opened up. Black glass, and where it belongs The Hogar Touch Switch 4 Gang, retrofitted into the existing box Each of the four can be a scene instead of a light Nine association groups What it needs A Z-Wave controller is required and is not included. It needs a neutral wire at the switch box. Black glass, and where it belongs The Hogar Touch Switch 4 Gang comes [...]
- [WiFi Bulb - Shelly Duo](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-duo-bulb-tunable-white/): The Shelly Duo bulb is a tunable white Wi-Fi bulb that needs no hub and no gateway. It joins your router on its own. The Shelly Duo bulb reports its own power use Open, and not dependent on anyone's cloud 2700K to 6500K, and what each end is for No hub, and no colour Who this bulb is really for The Shelly Duo bulb reports its own power use The Shelly Duo bulb reports its own power consumption in watts, live, in the app. Almost no other bulb does this. On one bulb that is a curiosity. Across a house of [...]
- [WiFi Bulb - Shelly RGBW](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-rgbw-bulb-e27/): The Shelly RGBW bulb is the colour one: 16 million colours plus a white mode, in a standard E27 fitting. The Shelly RGBW bulb is open, and that is the point No hub, no gateway, no bridge 800 lumens of colour, plus a white mode Check your shade before ordering One figure we will confirm rather than guess The Shelly RGBW bulb is open, and that is the point Most smart bulbs will only talk to their manufacturer’s app and whatever cloud sits behind it. The Shelly RGBW bulb speaks MQTT and a plain HTTP interface on your own network as [...]
- [WiFi Relay RGBW (Shelly)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-rgbw2-led-strip-controller/): The Shelly RGBW2 turns a plain LED strip into a smart one, across four channels. Read this first: it is low voltage, not mains Shelly RGBW2 four channels, used two different ways Work out the power budget before you order What you get for putting it in Setup and independence Read this first: it is low voltage, not mains The Shelly RGBW2 runs on 12V or 24V DC and needs a power supply of the right voltage for your strip. That supply is not included. It does not go on 240V and it is not a wall switch module. If you [...]
- [WiFi Curtain Track + Motor 4m](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/4m-smart-curtain-track-wifi-motor/): A 4m smart curtain track supplied as a complete system: the aluminium track, the motor that drives it, the runners your curtains hang from, and a handheld remote. Curtains glide open in the morning on a schedule, close at dusk, and answer to your phone from wherever you are or to Alexa and Google Home. Wi-Fi is built into the motor, so there is no hub or bridge to buy. What a 4m smart curtain track actually covers Fitting it without calling anybody in Choosing between 4, 6 and 8 metres The touch worth having is the manual one: give the [...]
- [WiFi IR Controller](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-ir-controller/): A WiFi IR controller is a small black puck that puts every infrared remote in the room onto your phone. Why most people buy a WiFi IR controller It fires in every direction What else comes onto the phone Read this: it is infrared only What is in the box, and what is not Why most people buy a WiFi IR controller A split unit in a Dar bedroom answers to a plastic remote and nothing else. It has no app, no Wi-Fi and no way into any schedule. A WiFi IR controller learns its codes and puts it on your [...]
- [WiFi Door Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-door-sensor/): A WiFi door sensor for doors and windows that joins 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi directly. No hub, no gateway, nothing else to buy. Stick the two halves on, add it in the Smart Life app and your phone is told within a few seconds of the door opening. What a WiFi door sensor saves you The 1 cm gap tolerance matters more than it sounds History and sharing What you give up against Zigbee What is in the box It goes anywhere you want to know about: front door, back door, windows, cabinets, drawers, a store room, a shop shutter, an office. [...]
- [WiFi Relay - Shelly 1PM](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-1pm-wifi-relay/): The Shelly 1PM is the Shelly 1 with a meter built in. The meter is the reason to pay the difference It shows a fault before the appliance does Your switch keeps working, and it survives an outage Fitting it, and the size question Shelly 1PM ratings and the alternatives The meter is the reason to pay the difference A geyser, a borehole pump, a freezer or a security floodlight all cost real money every month and almost nobody knows how much. A Shelly 1PM on the circuit turns a suspicion into a number: watts now, kilowatt hours over time. On [...]
- [Formular Z8+](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/formuler-z8-plus/): The Formuler Z8+ is an Android media box built for IPTV, and the reason people choose it over a generic Android box is the software: it ships with Formuler own MYTVOnline2 player, which handles playlists, the programme guide, catch-up and recording as a proper application rather than something bolted on afterwards. The software is why people choose a Formuler Z8 over a generic box Sockets are the reason to buy a box instead of a stick It can live inside a closed cabinet The remote learns your television Picture and processing The software is why people choose a Formuler Z8 over [...]
- [WiFi Siren](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-siren/): A WiFi siren with a strobe and a temperature and humidity sensor in one round white unit that joins 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi directly. No hub and no gateway. What a WiFi siren is for The offline alarm is the unusual part Eighteen tones, and why you want more than one Power, and the backup slot What sets it off, and what else to look at What a WiFi siren is for Everything else in a smart security setup is quiet. A door contact, a motion sensor, a water sensor: all of them send a notification to a phone that might be [...]
- [Broadlink RM Pro +](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/broadlink-rm-pro-plus-ir-rf/): The BroadLink RM Pro+ is one black triangle on a shelf that replaces every remote in the room, and then some. What sets the BroadLink RM Pro+ apart It learns anything you point at it What it puts on your phone What it needs from your network One radio figure published two ways What sets the BroadLink RM Pro+ apart Infrared needs line of sight and stops at a wall. A great deal of what people already own is radio instead: garage doors, roller shutters, some ceiling fans, cheap remote sockets. The BroadLink RM Pro+ sends both. The radio side reaches [...]
- [WiFi Relay - Shelly 1](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-1-wifi-relay/): The Shelly 1 makes an ordinary light circuit smart without changing anything on the wall. Nothing on the wall changes The dry contact is what makes it versatile No hub, no account, and it survives an outage Whether it will fit What the Shelly 1 will not do An electrician fits it. Nothing on the wall changes The Shelly 1 hides in the back box behind the switch you already have, and that switch keeps working exactly as it did. That is the whole argument for an in-wall module over a smart switch plate. Nobody has to learn anything, a guest [...]
- [WiFi Relay - Shelly 2.5](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-2-5-wifi-relay/): The Shelly 2.5 puts two relays in one module, each with its own meter. Two circuits from one back box Or one motor instead of two lights Check the load: 10A per channel, 20A total No hub, no account, and it survives an outage Fitting the Shelly 2.5, and the current generation Two circuits from one back box The ceiling light and the wall lights. The veranda light and the security floodlight. Each switched on its own schedule and each metered separately. On a two gang plate that means one module instead of two, and one set of wiring in a [...]
- [Sonoff Wifi 10A Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/sonoff-basic-wifi-switch/): The SONOFF BASIC is the plainest smart switch there is. It is not a plug and not a wall module Where the SONOFF BASIC is the right answer Read this about where it can go What it does not do When 10A is not enough It is not a plug and not a wall module The SONOFF BASIC is an in-line box. The cable feeding the appliance is cut and wired through it, which is a different job from plugging something in or fitting a module behind a switch. That is why it suits a fixed appliance with its own flex: [...]
- [Sonoff WiFi 16A Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/sonoff-th16-temperature-switch/): The SONOFF TH16 does something none of the other modules here do: it switches on temperature and humidity. It switches on temperature, not just on a clock The probe is what makes it that, and we will check the box What the label actually says How it goes in, and where it must not SONOFF TH16 modes and app It switches on temperature, not just on a clock This is the one thing no other module in this category does. Plug a probe into the socket on the bottom and the SONOFF TH16 becomes a thermostat. A greenhouse fan that comes [...]
- [SwitchBot](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/switchbot-bot-button-pusher/): The SwitchBot Bot button pusher is a small robot thumb that sticks next to a button and presses it for you. What the SwitchBot Bot button pusher is for Nothing is opened, wired or drilled Press mode and switch mode What it does without a hub, and what it does not Force, battery and one figure published twice What the SwitchBot Bot button pusher is for Every house has appliances that will never be smart. The coffee machine with a mechanical button. The geyser isolator on the wall. The gate intercom. A computer power button. A light switch you cannot rewire [...]
- [SwitchBot - Hub Plus](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/switchbot-hub-plus/): The SwitchBot Hub Plus does two jobs from one cloud-shaped box, and both are covered below. The SwitchBot Hub Plus does two jobs at once Why your SwitchBot devices need it The infrared fires in every direction It is also a night light Two range figures published two ways The SwitchBot Hub Plus does two jobs at once The SwitchBot Hub Plus is an infrared blaster, so televisions, decoders and air conditioners come onto your phone. And it is the bridge that puts your SwitchBot devices online, which is the part that matters if you already own any. Most people buy [...]
- [Amazon Echo Flex](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/amazon-echo-flex/): Alexa in a plug socket. No cable, no shelf space, nothing standing on a surface. The Amazon Echo Flex goes into a socket in a hallway, a garage, a storeroom or a landing and puts a voice assistant in the parts of the house nobody wants a speaker in. Where an Amazon Echo Flex goes that a speaker will not The small speaker is a deliberate choice, not a compromise The USB port on the front is what makes it interesting Announcements are the real use in a large house The details Where an Amazon Echo Flex goes that a speaker [...]
- [Govee RGBIC LED Strip Lights](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/govee-rgbic-led-strip-5m/): Five metres of Govee RGBIC LED strip for under a counter, behind a headboard, along a shelf or up a stair. Why a Govee RGBIC LED strip is worth the difference Five metres, and where it goes What the app actually lets you do Power and connection Indoors only Why a Govee RGBIC LED strip is worth the difference An ordinary RGB strip is one colour end to end. Set it red and all five metres are red. A Govee RGBIC LED strip is divided into segments that each hold their own colour, so it runs a rainbow, a gradient or [...]
- [WiFi Motion Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-motion-sensor/): A WiFi motion sensor that joins 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi directly, with no hub and no gateway. It watches a 110 degree arc and pushes an alert to your phone the moment something moves in it. The mount is the best part of this WiFi motion sensor Two modes, and they are not the same job The 60 second sleep is deliberate On voice assistants, our sources disagree What it needs The mount is the best part of this WiFi motion sensor The body sits on a magnetic ball joint. Put the bracket where you like and the sensor clicks on and [...]
- [Aeotec NanoMote Quad](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-nanomote/): The Aeotec NanoMote Quad is a four button Z-Wave remote the size of a car key, 50 mm square and 25 g. Every button does two things, a tap and a press and hold, so four buttons give your hub eight separate scenes. Four buttons, eight scenes on the Aeotec NanoMote The size is the reason it gets used S2 security, and why it matters on a remote Charging, not battery changing What it needs Put the lights on one button, the gate on another, and a whole goodnight scene on a hold. A Z-Wave controller is required and is not [...]
- [Aeotec Z-Wave Extender](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-range-extender-6/): Fills the gaps in a Z-Wave network. The Aeotec Range Extender 6 plugs into a wall socket and sits between your hub and the devices that are too far away to answer reliably. It listens for the commands and reports moving around the network, catches the weak ones, and repeats them on at full strength. What an Aeotec Range Extender actually fixes Where to put it, which is the whole trick Why battery devices cannot do this job It does not block the next socket What it needs What an Aeotec Range Extender actually fixes The device that works sometimes. A [...]
- [Amazon Echo - White Sandstone (3rd Gen)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/amazon-echo-3rd-gen-white-sandstone/): The Amazon Echo 3rd Gen is the cylinder one, and still one of the best sounding speakers Amazon have put an Alexa in. A 3 inch woofer with a 0.8 inch tweeter firing into a 360 degree cabinet, which is why it does not matter where in the room you put it. What the Amazon Echo 3rd Gen still does very well Two of them make a stereo pair Read this: there is no Zigbee hub inside The microphone button is a real disconnection The socket on the back Ask it for music, the radio, a timer, the news or the [...]
- [Echo Show 8 (2nd Gen, 2021 release) Glacier White](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-show-8-2nd-gen-glacier-white/): The Echo Show 8 2nd Gen is an 8 inch HD touchscreen with a 13 megapixel camera and two 2 inch drivers behind it, in glacier white. The Echo Show 8 2nd Gen is the earlier model, and here is the difference The screen adapts its colour to the room Two 2 inch drivers, which is why it works as a radio The camera and the shutter Which of the two The Echo Show 8 2nd Gen is the earlier model, and here is the difference Be clear on this before you compare prices. This is the second generation, 2021, in [...]
- [Echo Show 8 (newest model - 2024) Charcoal](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-show-8-2024-charcoal/): The Echo Show 8 2024 Charcoal is an 8 inch HD touchscreen with a 13 megapixel centred camera above it, and a speaker good enough that people use it as the kitchen radio. The Echo Show 8 2024 Charcoal is a hub with a screen on it The camera is centred, and that changes calls It is also the monitor for your cameras The privacy hardware Which Echo Show 8 The Echo Show 8 2024 Charcoal is a hub with a screen on it Zigbee, Matter and a Thread border router are built into this one, so bulbs, plugs and sensors [...]
- [Amazon Echo Show 5 (newest model - 2024) - Black](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/amazon-echo-show-5-black/): The Echo Show 5 Black is a 5.5 inch touchscreen with Alexa behind it, small enough for a bedside table or the corner of a kitchen counter. Everything you would ask a speaker, but with something to look at: the weather rather than a description of it, a recipe you can follow, a video call, a camera at the gate. The Echo Show 5 Black is a bedroom device, so start with the privacy A 5.5 inch screen is the right size for a nightstand What the screen adds over a speaker Drop in, and the children Which one to buy [...]
- [Google Nest Hub (Charcoal)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/google-nest-hub-max-charcoal/): The Google Nest Hub Max Charcoal is the dark version of their 10 inch display, and the only one you would choose on sound. The Google Nest Hub Max Charcoal is also an indoor camera One switch cuts the camera and the microphones together The Thread border router matters more each year Charcoal, and a screen that adapts The rest of it It is a Google Home hub: lights, plugs, thermostats and cameras on one screen. The Google Nest Hub Max Charcoal is also an indoor camera This is the part that gets forgotten in the display comparisons. The 6.5 megapixel [...]
- [Google Nest Hub (Chalk)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/google-nest-hub-max-chalk/): The Google Nest Hub Max Chalk is a 10 inch smart display with a proper stereo speaker behind it. The Google Nest Hub Max Chalk is the one you would play music on Chromecast is built in, which changes what the screen is Ambient EQ, and why photographs look right on it It is a Google Home hub with Thread inside The camera and the privacy switch The Google Nest Hub Max Chalk is the one you would play music on Two 18 mm tweeters and a 75 mm woofer, 30 watts on the bass driver. That is a real stereo [...]
- [Amazon Echo Show 5 - STAND](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-show-5-stand/): An Echo Show 5 stand that gets the screen pointing at you. What an Echo Show 5 stand fixes The camera is the half people forget Magnetic, so it is not a commitment Where it makes the most difference What it fits What an Echo Show 5 stand fixes The angle. A Show 5 is short, so on a bedside table or a kitchen counter it ends up aimed at your chest or, from a bed, at the ceiling. You then either lean over it or squint at it. This stand tilts it forward or backward so the screen faces where [...]
- [Ring Power Adapter - USB](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/ring-camera-power-adapter-usb/): A Ring camera power adapter, on a long enough lead to actually reach. A plug in power supply with a flat black cable that ends in a USB connector for the camera. Plug the adaptor into a socket, run the flat cable to where the camera is, and the camera stops running on battery. Read this before ordering a Ring camera power adapter The short lead is the real constraint A flat cable disappears Off the battery for good The details Read this before ordering a Ring camera power adapter Ring use different power connectors across their range, so check the [...]
- [Ring Power Adapter - 2 Prong](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/ring-doorbell-power-adapter-24v/): A Ring doorbell power adapter: constant 24 volts from an ordinary wall socket. Most houses here have no doorbell transformer behind the front door, and without one a Ring doorbell runs on its battery and has to come off the wall to be charged. Why a Ring doorbell power adapter is usually necessary here Nothing is chased into the wall What the low battery message actually costs you It fits more than doorbells What it suits Why a Ring doorbell power adapter is usually necessary here Video doorbells are designed around a bell transformer sitting behind the front door, which is [...]
- [GU10 Fitting](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/gu10-fitting/): A GU10 fitting: the ceiling housing the lamp sits in. A round recessed downlight in a polished chrome finish, with two sprung clips on the sides. Cut the hole, squeeze the clips, push it up, and the springs hold it flush against the ceiling board. Buy the GU10 fitting now and decide about smart bulbs later How it goes in Polished chrome, and when it suits GU10 is the twist and lock base What to put in it Buy the GU10 fitting now and decide about smart bulbs later This is the argument for downlights over integrated LED fittings. A GU10 [...]
- [Wyze Power Cable 26ft](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-power-cable-26ft/): A Wyze power cable, 26 feet long, so the camera goes where it should. The lead in a camera box gets you as far as the nearest socket, which is almost never where the view is. This one runs about eight metres, which covers a corridor, a stairwell, a garage wall or a corner of a compound from the nearest indoor outlet. Why a Wyze power cable at 26 feet changes where the camera goes Two amps, because a camera does more than watch The protection inside is not decoration Built for being moved What it fits Why a Wyze power [...]
- [Mounting - Wyze Pan (Chinese)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-cam-pan-bracket-metal/): A solid metal Wyze Cam Pan bracket. The Pan is taller and heavier than the standard Wyze Cam and it moves, so the bracket holding it has to be steady. This one has a 6.9 cm base, which is wide enough that the camera does not rock when it swings across the room. Why a Wyze Cam Pan bracket has to be heavier Read this: it does not fit the standard Wyze Cam It fits far more than Wyze cameras Mark the holes last Which camera, which bracket Why a Wyze Cam Pan bracket has to be heavier Because the camera [...]
- [Mounting - Wyze Cam v2 (Chinese)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-cam-mount-with-cover/): A Wyze Cam mount and a weather cover in one part. It holds the camera on a wall or a ceiling and shrouds it at the same time. The top edge stands a centimetre proud of the camera, so the lens is shaded from sun glare and shielded from dust, scratches and falling leaves. A Wyze Cam mount that is also a hood Aim it after it is fixed, not before Under an eave is where it earns its money What is in the pack Which bracket for which camera A Wyze Cam mount that is also a hood Most brackets [...]
- [Micro SD Card-128gb](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/micro-sd-card-128gb/): A micro SD card 128GB, for local camera storage or more room on a phone. SanDisk Ultra. Drop it into a security camera and the camera records to the card, which means footage keeps saving whether or not the internet is up, and there is nothing to pay monthly. Check the camera limit before buying a micro SD card 128GB Why anybody wants this much One card per camera, not one card moved about Speed, and what the classes mean First thing to do Check the camera limit before buying a micro SD card 128GB This is the one size where [...]
- [Micro SD Card-64gb](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/micro-sd-card-64gb/): A micro SD card 64GB, for local camera storage or more room on a phone. SanDisk Ultra. Drop it into a security camera and the camera records to the card, which means footage keeps saving whether or not the internet is up, and there is nothing to pay monthly. What capacity really decides on a camera A micro SD card 64GB is microSDXC, so check your camera The middle size is usually the right buy Speed and heat Before you use it What capacity really decides on a camera How far back you can look. A security camera records in a [...]
- [Micro SD Card-32gb](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/micro-sd-card-32gb/): A micro SD card 32GB for local camera storage, or more room on a phone. SanDisk Ultra. Drop it into a security camera and the camera records to the card, which means footage keeps saving whether or not the internet is up, and there is nothing to pay monthly. What a micro SD card 32GB actually buys you in a camera 32 GB is a microSDHC card, and that matters The speed classes, briefly It survives the heat One thing to do first What a micro SD card 32GB actually buys you in a camera Recording that does not depend on [...]
- [WiFi Relay + RF](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-relay-with-rf-433mhz/): A WiFi relay with RF answers to two different things: your phone, and a 433MHz radio handset. A WiFi relay with RF: two ways in, and why that matters Which in Dar is not a theoretical advantage What we will not claim about the remote Where it can and cannot go When to choose something else A WiFi relay with RF: two ways in, and why that matters A WiFi relay with RF answers to your phone over Wi-Fi and to a 433MHz radio handset. The Wi-Fi side gives you the Tuya or Smart Life app, schedules, scenes and voice control [...]
- [Aeotec ByPass for Nano Dimmer](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-bypass-nano-dimmer/): The Aeotec Bypass Nano Dimmer is a small accessory that fixes one specific and very common problem: LED lamps that flicker, glow faintly when switched off, or refuse to start on a dimmer module wired without a neutral. When you need an Aeotec Bypass Nano Dimmer It goes at the light fitting, not the switch box What it will not do Order it with the dimmer What to tell us Here is why that happens. A two wire dimmer has no neutral to power itself from, so it draws a trickle through the lamp instead. An old filament bulb swallowed that [...]
- [Ring Video Doorbell | HD-Silver](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/ring-video-doorbell-satin-nickel/): The Ring Video Doorbell Satin Nickel is the doorbell that made video doorbells a thing. Somebody presses it, your phone rings wherever you are, and you see them, hear them and talk back. 1080p across a wide 155 degree view, a rechargeable battery so no wiring is needed, and Alexa support so an Echo can announce the door. Where the Ring Video Doorbell Satin Nickel looks right What works out of the box, and what Ring charges for Motion zones, so the road stops waking you Putting it up One thing most buyers add straight away Where the Ring Video Doorbell [...]
- [Ring Video Doorbell | HD-Bronze](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/ring-video-doorbell-venetian-bronze/): The Ring Video Doorbell Venetian Bronze is the dark version of the doorbell that started the category. Somebody presses it, your phone rings wherever you happen to be, and you see them, hear them and talk back. Frames the Ring Video Doorbell Venetian Bronze suits Battery, charging and the wired option Alexa, and answering the door with your voice Night vision, Wi-Fi and the upload speed nobody checks What the free features cover, and what they do not Fitting it is a screwdriver job. The bracket, the screws and the tools are in the box, it goes on a door frame [...]
- [Hogar Fan Regulator](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/hogar-fan-regulator-in-wall/): A Hogar fan regulator handles the one thing an ordinary relay does badly: a ceiling fan that needs speeds. What a relay does badly and a regulator does well The Hogar fan regulator replaces the regulator, not the light switch Manual control keeps working What it is not Three things we will read off the unit before you order An electrician fits it. What a relay does badly and a regulator does well An ordinary relay gives a ceiling fan on and off. A Hogar fan regulator gives it speeds, which is what a fan actually needs. In a Dar bedroom [...]
- [Google Nest Mini 2nd Gen](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/google-nest-mini-2nd-gen/): 360 degree sound with 40 mm of driver in a puck the size of a scone. The Google Nest Mini is the cheapest way to put Google in a room, and it is the one people buy three of. The Google Nest Mini hangs on a wall, and that is the trick Voice Match, and why it matters in a family 360 degree sound from a 40 mm driver Buy more than one The details Ask it anything, set timers and alarms, play music and radio, and control every light, plug and thermostat that works with Google Home. The Google Nest [...]
- [Apple Homepod](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/apple-homepod/): The Apple HomePod is their full size speaker, and it is a speaker first. A 4 inch high excursion woofer and five horn loaded tweeters, each with its own neodymium magnet, inside a cabinet that measures its own bass with an internal microphone and corrects it. The Apple HomePod is a speaker that happens to have Siri in it Read this before you buy: it needs an Apple device The sensors do more than you would expect It is the hub for an Apple Home The practical details It is an Apple device and it needs an Apple one to set [...]
- [Amazon Echo Show 5 (newest model - 2024) - White](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/amazon-echo-show-5-white/): The Echo Show 5 White is a 5.5 inch touchscreen with Alexa behind it, sized for the corner of a kitchen counter. The Echo Show 5 White belongs on a kitchen counter Timers and lists, which is most of what it does Video calls that work while you carry on The camera has a cover you slide Which one to buy The Echo Show 5 White belongs on a kitchen counter White is the colour that sits with a pale worktop, white tiles or a fridge door without looking like a piece of equipment somebody left out. And the kitchen is [...]
- [Amazon Echo Plus](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/amazon-echo-plus/): The Amazon Echo Plus is the cylinder Echo with the smart home hub inside it. That is the whole point: a Zigbee hub is built in, so Zigbee bulbs, plugs and sensors pair straight to the speaker and you buy no gateway at all. What the Amazon Echo Plus is actually for The temperature sensor is the underrated part The same 360 degree cabinet Zigbee, and not Matter or Thread The rest of it What the Amazon Echo Plus is actually for It is the cylinder Echo with the gateway built into it. Zigbee bulbs, plugs and sensors pair straight to [...]
- [Fibaro Door / Window Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-door-sensor-2/): The Fibaro door sensor is a Z-Wave magnetic contact for doors, windows, garage doors and roller shutters, with a temperature sensor built in, so one small device tells the hub both that the window is open and how warm the room is. What a Fibaro door sensor is actually doing The temperature reading earns its place It sticks on, and it says if it is interfered with One thing to know about the mesh Colours, and what it needs A Z-Wave hub is required. What a Fibaro door sensor is actually doing It reports one thing honestly: the body and the [...]
- [Fibaro Flood Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-flood-sensor/): The Fibaro Flood Sensor is a Z-Wave water leak detector that sits on the floor. The contacts underneath close the moment water reaches them and the hub is told at once, which is the difference between a wet corner and a ruined room. Where a Fibaro Flood Sensor pays for itself It reports three things, not one The contacts can be extended on a wire The relay output, for a panel you already have Power and what it needs A Z-Wave hub is required. Where a Fibaro Flood Sensor pays for itself Under the kitchen sink, behind the washing machine, beside [...]
- [Fibaro Smoke Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-smoke-sensor/): The Fibaro Smoke Sensor is a Z-Wave smoke detector small enough that it does not announce itself on the ceiling. It reacts to smoke and to a sudden rise in temperature, and it tells the hub, which is what makes it different from a stand alone alarm that only screams into an empty house. What a Fibaro Smoke Sensor adds to an ordinary alarm Smoke, and a sudden rise in temperature Adjustable sensitivity, which matters in a kitchen The event memory Fitting and what it needs A Z-Wave hub is required. What a Fibaro Smoke Sensor adds to an ordinary alarm [...]
- [Fibaro The Button](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-the-button/): One big, obvious, satisfying button. Fibaro The Button does whatever your Z-Wave hub is told to do with it, and it reads one, two, three, four and five clicks and a hold, so six different jobs sit under the same dome. Six jobs under one dome on Fibaro The Button The point is that anybody can use it No wiring, so it goes anywhere Battery and colours What it needs It needs no wiring at all. A Z-Wave controller is required and is not included. Six jobs under one dome on Fibaro The Button It reads one, two, three, four and [...]
- [Aeotec Siren](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-siren/): The Aeotec Siren is a mains powered Z-Wave siren that your hub can sound for any reason you choose: a door opened at night, a flood sensor that has tripped, smoke in the kitchen, or somebody at the gate. What the Aeotec Siren is actually for 110 dB, and why the flashing matters It keeps sounding through a power cut Doorbell mode What you need alongside it This is a Z-Wave device and it needs a Z-Wave hub. On its own it does nothing. The hub is what decides when it sounds. What the Aeotec Siren is actually for It is [...]
- [Door Sensor - Aeotec](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-door-sensor-7/): The Aeotec door sensor is a slim Z-Wave door and window contact that reports three states rather than two: open, closed and tilted. A tilted window is the one an ordinary magnetic contact calls closed, which is how a house ends up open all night. Why the Aeotec door sensor reports three states The spare input is the feature nobody advertises It tells the hub if somebody interferes with it Fitting and battery life What it needs It is a Z-Wave device and needs a Z-Wave hub. Why the Aeotec door sensor reports three states Open and closed is what every [...]
- [Motion Sensor - Aeotec (Multisensor 7)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-multisensor-7/): The Aeotec MultiSensor 7 is six sensors in one small cube. Motion, temperature, humidity, light, ultraviolet and vibration, all reported to your Z-Wave hub from a device that fits in the palm of your hand. What six sensors in the Aeotec MultiSensor 7 buy you Motion and light are the two that do the daily work Temperature and humidity for cooling that is not on a timer Battery or USB, and it changes the behaviour Mounting and what it needs The UV sensor reads 0 to 11 on the index. A Z-Wave hub is required. What six sensors in the Aeotec [...]
- [Motion Sensor - Philips](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-motion-sensor/): The Philips Hue Motion Sensor is a motion sensor for Hue lights with a daylight sensor built in, so the lamps only come on when the room is actually dark. Walk in and the light is there. Leave, and after a delay you set, it goes off again. What the Philips Hue Motion Sensor does that a plain PIR cannot The time of day rule is the real reason to buy it Where it goes It talks to the Bridge, not to the lights What you need with it It needs a Hue Bridge. What the Philips Hue Motion Sensor does [...]
- [Motion Sensor - Fibaro](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-motion-sensor/): The eye. The Fibaro Motion Sensor puts four sensors into one ball the size of a golf ball: motion, temperature, light level and an accelerometer. It sits on a shelf or on the supplied bracket in a corner and needs no wiring at all. What the Fibaro Motion Sensor actually sees Motion plus light level is the pair that matters The lens tells you what it is thinking The accelerometer does two jobs Where it goes, and what it needs A Z-Wave hub is required. What the Fibaro Motion Sensor actually sees Four things from one ball 44 mm across: movement, [...]
- [WiFi Extension 3 way](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-extension-lead-3-way/): A WiFi extension lead where each of the three sockets switches on its own, from your phone, on a schedule or by voice. Six USB ports across the top handle the charging. A WiFi extension lead replaces three smart plugs The USB ports work differently from the sockets Nothing to wire It still works with the internet down Three figures we will not print until we have read them A WiFi extension lead replaces three smart plugs A WiFi extension lead with independently switched sockets replaces three separate smart plugs, three Wi-Fi connections and three entries in your app with one [...]
- [WiFi Smart Plug](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-smart-plug/): A WiFi smart plug is the cheapest way to put something on your phone. It goes into a socket, joins your Wi-Fi, and whatever is plugged into it switches from anywhere, on a schedule, or by voice. What people actually use a WiFi smart plug for Countdown is the underrated one A mini body, which matters on a double socket The safety shutter Ratings, app and one figure we will check What people actually use a WiFi smart plug for A WiFi smart plug sells on the idea of switching a lamp from the sofa. What people actually keep using it [...]
- [TP Link WiFi Plug](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/tp-link-kasa-smart-plug-hs100/): The TP-Link Kasa smart plug is the one most people should start with. It goes in a socket, joins your Wi-Fi, and whatever is plugged into it switches from your phone, on a schedule, or by voice. Why a TP-Link Kasa smart plug costs more Away Mode is the feature to know about It does not measure energy Pairing it Ratings and size Why a TP-Link Kasa smart plug costs more A TP-Link Kasa smart plug costs more than an unbranded one, and the reason is not the hardware. It is that TP-Link is a large manufacturer with a maintained app, [...]
- [Aeotec Smart Plug](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-smart-switch-6-z-wave/): The Aeotec Smart Switch 6 does two jobs: it switches whatever is plugged into it, and it measures what that thing actually costs you. The Aeotec Smart Switch 6 is Z-Wave, not Wi-Fi It measures what a thing actually costs you A system rather than a gadget The light ring and the USB socket Ratings and where it can go The Aeotec Smart Switch 6 is Z-Wave, not Wi-Fi The Aeotec Smart Switch 6 will not talk to your phone on its own and there is no app that pairs with it directly. It needs a Z-Wave controller. We sell three [...]
- [Fibaro Wallplug](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-wall-plug-z-wave/): The Fibaro Wall Plug is the neatest plug-in switch we sell, and the one that measures best. The Fibaro Wall Plug is Z-Wave, not Wi-Fi Metering to within 1 per cent The LED ring tells you two different things It also extends the mesh Check the load before you buy The Fibaro Wall Plug is Z-Wave, not Wi-Fi There is no app that pairs with a Fibaro Wall Plug directly. It needs a Z-Wave controller, and without one it is an inert socket. We sell three that run it: the Home Center Lite, the Home Center 2 and the Homey Pro. [...]
- [Google Chromecast with Google TV (4K)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/chromecast-with-google-tv-4k/): Chromecast with Google TV, on a dongle in Snow. It plugs into an HDMI port, runs off USB-C, and puts 4K HDR at 60 frames a second on the screen with Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HDR10+, and Dolby Atmos passed through to a soundbar or receiver. The home screen is what separates Chromecast with Google TV from a plain stick It is still a Chromecast The kids profile is a real one Read this about the power supply Picture, sound and the remote The home screen is what separates Chromecast with Google TV from a plain stick Google TV gathers what [...]
- [Amazon Fire Stick 4K](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/amazon-fire-stick-4k/): The Amazon Fire Stick 4K is a streaming stick the size of a thumb that hangs off the back of the television and does everything a set-top box does. Ultra HD at up to 60 frames a second, with Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG, and Dolby Atmos passed through to a soundbar or receiver. What the Amazon Fire Stick 4K gives you over the Full HD one Dolby Atmos passed through to your sound The MIMO radio is doing real work Two practical notes What you need What the Amazon Fire Stick 4K gives you over the Full HD one [...]
- [Amazon Fire Stick](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/amazon-fire-stick/): The Amazon Fire Stick is a Full HD streaming stick that turns any television with an HDMI port into a smart one. Plug it into the back, put it on the Wi-Fi, sign in, and Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video and the rest are on the screen. The remote is the reason to buy the Amazon Fire Stick over the Lite Voice search instead of an on-screen keyboard Full HD, and when that is the right choice Keep the HDMI extender What you need The remote is the reason to buy the Amazon Fire Stick over the Lite The Alexa Voice Remote [...]
- [Apple TV 4K](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/apple-tv-4k/): Apple TV 4K drives a 4K set the way it was meant to be driven: 2160p at up to 60 frames a second, with Dolby Vision and HDR10, and Dolby Atmos passed through to a receiver or a soundbar. The picture is graded frame by frame rather than stretched, which is the difference between a 4K panel looking expensive and looking like a big 1080p television. What the Apple TV 4K actually does to the picture The chip is doing more than you think Read this about the HDMI cable Storage, and what we are holding The rest of it An [...]
- [Apple TV](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/apple-tv/): Apple TV HD puts the Apple world on an ordinary television: the App Store, Apple TV+, Netflix, YouTube, and AirPlay so anything on an iPhone, iPad or Mac lands on the big screen in a second. Siri is on the remote, so you ask for the film instead of spelling its name out one letter at a time with a directional pad. AirPlay is the reason an Apple household buys this box Read this: the Apple TV HD is 1080p, not 4K The Ethernet socket earns its place here The Siri Remote does more than search Before you order An HDMI [...]
- [Logitech Harmony Elite](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/logitech-harmony-elite/): The Harmony Elite is the top of the range. A colour touchscreen on the remote, every button backlit, a charging cradle so the battery is never a job, and control of up to 15 entertainment devices plus an unlimited number of smart home devices. The touchscreen is what you are paying for on the Harmony Elite Every button is backlit, and it matters at night The charging cradle removes a chore Fifteen devices, and the ones a remote cannot see The rest of it The touchscreen is what you are paying for on the Harmony Elite Activities, channels and favourites laid [...]
- [Logitech Harmony Companion](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/logitech-harmony-companion/): The Harmony Companion is one remote for the whole rack, with a hub that puts the same controls on your phone. It handles up to eight entertainment devices and an unlimited number of smart home devices. What an Activity is, and why the Harmony Companion is worth it The hub reaches things a remote cannot Equipment behind a closed cabinet door Six buttons for the lights, not just the television The practical details What an Activity is, and why the Harmony Companion is worth it One button that does the whole sequence. Press Watch a Movie and the television comes on, [...]
- [Home Energy Meter Gen5 3A60](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-three-clamp-energy-meter-3-phase/): An Aeotec three clamp energy meter: the same Gen5 meter with three clamps instead of one. An Aeotec three clamp energy meter has two uses Each clamp reports on its own schedule Nothing is cut Two conditions before you order One supply figure published loosely An Aeotec three clamp energy meter has two uses An Aeotec three clamp energy meter has two quite different jobs, and which one you are buying it for decides how it gets wired. On a three phase board it takes one clamp per phase, each reported separately, which is the only correct way to meter a [...]
- [Home Energy Meter Gen5 1A60](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-home-energy-meter-1-clamp/): The Aeotec Home Energy Meter tells you what the house is actually using, minute by minute, instead of once a month on a bill. How the Aeotec Home Energy Meter clamp works Minute by minute instead of monthly Two things to plan for before ordering One clamp, one supply Z-Wave, or something simpler How the Aeotec Home Energy Meter clamp works The clamp on the Aeotec Home Energy Meter is split core: it opens, clips around the incoming live cable and closes again. Nothing is cut and nothing is disconnected. The clamp reads the magnetic field around the cable rather than [...]
- [Aeotec Heavy Duty Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/heavy-duty-smart-switch-40a-zwave/): A heavy duty smart switch is what you reach for when the thing you want to switch is too big for an ordinary one. A borehole pump, a three-phase-fed water heater, a large geyser, a workshop compressor: loads where a normal glass touch panel would be well outside its rating. The Aeotec Heavy Duty Switch is rated to 40 amps, which is 9,600 watts at 240 volts, and it is built as a hard-wired module with heavy screw terminals rather than a wall plate. Loads a heavy duty smart switch is for It measures as well as switches It needs a [...]
- [Lightwave - 16 Amp Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/boiler-switch-lightwave-jsjslw920/): This is a boiler switch. It goes on the wall next to the boiler, takes its instruction over radio from a Lightwave thermostat or from the app, and closes a relay to tell the boiler to fire. It is the piece that sits between a smart thermostat and the heating plant, and it handles combi boilers, Y plan and S plan systems and multi-zone setups. What a boiler switch does, and what it does not The rating, read off the unit Systems it handles Hub and fitting Make sure this is the box you need The face carries a power button, [...]
- [Sensibo Sky - AC Controller](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/sensibo-sky-ac-controller-wifi/): The Sensibo Sky is the cheaper of the two Sensibo controllers we stock, and for most households in Dar it is the sensible one. It is a small dark box that sits where it can see your air conditioner’s indoor unit, learns the infrared codes from the remote you already have, and then sends them on command from your phone. How the Sensibo Sky AC controller works What you can do once it is in Sky or Air What costs nothing, and what does not Sky or Air, and how to get one That turns any remote-controlled air conditioner into one [...]
- [Walli Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-walli-switch/): The FIBARO Walli Switch is a two channel Z-Wave wall switch that fits an 86 mm back box and finishes with a single cover plate and an illuminated ring. The ring is not decoration: it shows the network joining, shows what the load is doing, and can be set to show power consumption as a colour. The Fibaro Walli Switch is a wired switch, not a battery pad 13 A per channel is a serious rating It measures what the circuit costs The illuminated ring is not decoration What is in the box, and what it needs It needs a neutral [...]
- [WiFi Touch Switch-Fan Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-touch-switch-fan-switch/): A WiFi touch switch fan controller, in the same tempered glass panel as our touch light switches. It replaces the fan switch on the wall and puts the fan on your phone, with speed steps rather than a single on and off. Why a WiFi touch switch fan controller is not a relay The schedule that people actually set Better still, drive it from a temperature Tell us the fan before you order The wiring Why a WiFi touch switch fan controller is not a relay A relay gives a fan on and off. That is fine for a light and [...]
- [WiFi Touch Switch-3 Gang](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-touch-switch-3-gang/): A WiFi touch switch 3 gang in tempered glass that replaces the light switch on your wall and puts three circuits on your phone. No hub, no gateway: it joins your Wi-Fi on its own and appears in the Smart Life app. Where a WiFi touch switch 3 gang usually goes Three circuits, three sets of rules The one tap that people actually use The wiring, before you buy What to send us There is no mechanism in a touch panel, so there is nothing to wear out and nothing to snap. Where a WiFi touch switch 3 gang usually goes [...]
- [WiFi Touch Switch-2 Gang](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-touch-switch-2-gang/): A WiFi touch switch 2 gang in tempered glass that replaces the light switch on your wall and puts two circuits on your phone. No hub, no gateway: it joins your Wi-Fi on its own and appears in the Smart Life app. What a WiFi touch switch 2 gang actually means Each gang is its own device in the app Scenes are where it stops being a novelty The wiring question What to confirm before ordering The tempered glass wipes clean and will not scratch from a key or a ring. It answers Alexa and Google Assistant. What a WiFi touch [...]
- [WiFi Touch Switch-1 Gang](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-touch-switch-1-gang/): A WiFi touch switch 1 gang in tempered glass that replaces the light switch on your wall and puts one circuit on your phone. No hub, no gateway: it joins your Wi-Fi on its own and appears in the Smart Life app. Before anything else: the neutral wire Why a WiFi touch switch 1 gang uses glass, not plastic One gang, and when that is the right one What it does once it is in What to check with us It needs a neutral wire at the switch box. Before anything else: the neutral wire This is the question that decides [...]
- [Lightwave RF 3x Relay](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/lightwave-rf-3x-relay/): The Lightwave RF 3x Relay puts three relays in one box on the Lightwave radio system. Three circuits, or one motor driven open, stop and closed, from Lightwave switches and remotes and from the app once a hub is added. What the Lightwave RF 3x Relay is really for Or one motor, open stop and close 433 MHz, and what runs without the hub Where it belongs The one figure to confirm Read this first: it is 433 MHz radio, not Wi-Fi. Paired to Lightwave switches and handsets it works entirely locally with no internet. For the phone app, schedules and [...]
- [Lightwave RF Smart Relay](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/lightwave-rf-smart-relay/): The Lightwave RF Smart Relay is an in-line relay from the Lightwave range. It goes into the cable feeding a light, a fan or a motor and puts that circuit under radio control, from a Lightwave wall switch, a handset, or the app once a hub is added. Where the Lightwave RF Smart Relay earns its place It keeps working when the internet does not What you control it with Siting it properly Confirm the load rating with us Read this first: it is 433 MHz radio, not Wi-Fi. On its own it pairs with Lightwave switches and remotes and works [...]
- [Fibaro Roller Shutter 3](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fibaro-roller-shutter-3-module/): The Fibaro Roller Shutter 3 is not a light switch. It motorises what you already have. Not a light switch: it motorises what you already have Venetian blinds get their own mode Two hard constraints to check before you buy The Fibaro Roller Shutter 3 meters the motor Read this first: it is Z-Wave, not Wi-Fi Not a light switch: it motorises what you already have A Fibaro Roller Shutter 3 drives a roller shutter, a blind, an awning, a gate or a garage door up and down and stops it anywhere in between. The position is remembered, so you can [...]
- [Zigbee Touch Switch - Black Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-touch-switch-black-switch/): A Zigbee touch switch black, in glass. Apple HomeKit as well, which is rare at this price The Zigbee touch switch black, and where it belongs The indicator light is yours to set Every switch strengthens the mesh What it needs A Zigbee 3.0 gateway is required and is not included, and it needs a neutral wire at the switch box. Apple HomeKit as well, which is rare at this price A Zigbee touch switch black on this platform works with Tuya, Apple HomeKit, Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. HomeKit is the one worth noticing, because most inexpensive switches skip it [...]
- [Zigbee Touch Switch - Gold Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-touch-switch-gold-switch/): A Zigbee touch switch gold, in glass. What the indicator light on a Zigbee touch switch gold can do Gold is a decision about the fittings, not the wall Four ecosystems, including HomeKit Zigbee, and what it gives back What it needs A Zigbee 3.0 gateway is required and is not included, and there must be a neutral wire at the switch box. What the indicator light on a Zigbee touch switch gold can do Two different jobs, and you pick. Leave it lit permanently and the switch is findable by feel and by eye in a dark corridor, which is [...]
- [Zigbee Smart Bulb](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-smart-bulb-e27/): A Zigbee smart bulb E27 is for a house being built out rather than a single lamp. Colour, tunable white, standard screw fitting, and it lands in the same app as the rest of your Zigbee kit. Why a Zigbee smart bulb E27 rather than a Wi-Fi one You must have a gateway, and it is not in the box It lands beside everything else you own Colour, white and dimming Two figures, stated as we find them Why a Zigbee smart bulb E27 rather than a Wi-Fi one Every Wi-Fi bulb takes a slot on your router. Ten of them, [...]
- [Motion Sensor - Aeotec Tri Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-trisensor/): The Aeotec TriSensor is three sensors, 45 mm across and 50 grams. Motion to say whether a room is occupied, temperature to run the cooling, and light level so lamps only come on when it is dark. That is most of what a house needs to automate itself. What the Aeotec TriSensor covers, and what it leaves out It can act without waiting for the hub Adjustable sensitivity, and the dog Three years on one cell, and where it goes What it needs Z-Wave Plus with S2 security. A Z-Wave hub is required. What the Aeotec TriSensor covers, and what it [...]
- [Govee - RGBIC Interior Car Lights with App Control](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/govee-rgbic-car-lights-interior/): Govee RGBIC car lights: four short LED strips that tuck under the dashboard and along the door sills and light the footwells in colour. Govee RGBIC car lights need no wiring at all RGBIC in a footwell Thirty scenes, four music modes Bluetooth, because a car has no Wi-Fi A word about where you drive Govee RGBIC car lights need no wiring at all These Govee RGBIC car lights run off the 12V cigarette lighter socket. No stripping wires, no tapping into the fuse box, no trim panels removed, no risk to a warranty. The four strips are 30cm each and [...]
- [Govee Ambient Portable Smart Light](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/govee-ambient-portable-smart-light/): The Govee Ambient portable smart light is a cordless colour lamp with a battery in it, shaped like a shallow bowl on two small feet so you can tilt the light where you want it. Two versions of the Govee Ambient portable smart light A lamp with no cable attached The scenes are the reason people keep it out Size and weight Portable, or plugged in Two versions of the Govee Ambient portable smart light Govee sell the Govee Ambient portable smart light in a Bluetooth-only version and a Bluetooth plus Wi-Fi version, and only the Wi-Fi one answers to Amazon [...]
- [Govee - Aura Smart Table Lamp](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/govee-aura-smart-table-lamp/): The Govee Aura smart table lamp is a small lamp with a frosted dome that lights up in colour, and changes the feel of a corner without lighting the room. What the Govee Aura smart table lamp does with RGBIC Where a 350 lumen lamp belongs Music mode, and the microphone inside it Wi-Fi, voice and the app One figure Govee publish two ways What the Govee Aura smart table lamp does with RGBIC An ordinary colour lamp shows one colour at a time. Set it purple and the whole thing is purple. The Govee Aura smart table lamp splits the [...]
- [Govee Lyra Smart Corner Floor Lamp](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/govee-lyra-smart-corner-floor-lamp/): The Govee Lyra smart corner floor lamp is a slim column made to stand in the corner of a room and wash the two walls behind it in colour. Why the Govee Lyra smart corner floor lamp changes a room 1,500 lumens is real light Several colours at once, up its height The remote is also the microphone Setting it up Why the Govee Lyra smart corner floor lamp changes a room The Govee Lyra smart corner floor lamp stands 1.4 metres tall on a 137mm square base, so it occupies almost no floor and washes the two walls meeting behind [...]
- [Zigbee Heater Switch (Tuya)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-geyser-switch-20a-tuya/): A Zigbee geyser switch, the same idea as our Wi-Fi heater switches but on the mesh: a white glass touch panel with a champagne bezel that replaces the geyser’s wall switch and puts the water heater on your phone. Turn it on from bed before you get up, schedule it to heat morning and evening rather than sitting on all day, set a countdown so it switches itself off after a set period, and check from anywhere whether somebody left it running. Read the gateway line before anything else When Zigbee is the better choice What a Zigbee geyser switch does [...]
- [Zigbee Tuya Gateway](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-tuya-gateway/): A Zigbee Tuya gateway is the small white box that turns a pile of separate Zigbee devices into one system. It joins your Wi-Fi and runs a Zigbee 3.0 network of its own. What a Zigbee Tuya gateway is for Why Zigbee rather than putting everything on Wi-Fi Fifty devices, which is a large house Setting it up When to spend more than this What a Zigbee Tuya gateway is for Zigbee devices cannot talk to your router. They talk to each other and to a gateway, and the gateway is the only thing in the house that speaks both Zigbee [...]
- [Zigbee Siren](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-siren/): A Zigbee siren: the noise your sensors do not make. A door sensor sends a quiet notification to a phone that may be face down in another room. Link it to this and the whole house is told instead, at 85 dB with a flashing light. What a Zigbee siren adds to a shelf of sensors 85 dB, and what that is for It keeps working when the power goes It tells your phone as well What sets it off A Zigbee hub is required and is not included. What a Zigbee siren adds to a shelf of sensors Sensors are [...]
- [Zigbee Door Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-door-sensor/): A Zigbee door sensor for doors and windows. Two parts stick on, one on the frame and one on the leaf, and the moment they separate the hub is told and your phone follows. Why a Zigbee door sensor rather than a Wi-Fi one A Hall sensor, not a reed switch It does not fail quietly Where it fits What you need first A Zigbee hub is required and is not included. Why a Zigbee door sensor rather than a Wi-Fi one Three reasons, and they compound. Zigbee draws a fraction of the power, so a coin cell lasts where a [...]
- [Zigbee PIR Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-pir-sensor/): A Zigbee PIR sensor on a swivel stand. The head tilts and turns on the foot, so once the base is fixed to a wall or a ceiling you aim the lens exactly where you want it and leave it. It detects a person moving 5 to 7 metres away across a wide arc, enough to take a whole room from one corner. What a Zigbee PIR sensor actually detects On the arc, we will not print a number we cannot stand behind The swivel stand is what makes it work in awkward rooms Battery, and being warned in time Which [...]
- [Zigbee Motion Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-motion-sensor/): A Zigbee motion sensor on a rotating head. The ball turns in its base, so once the magnetic holder is on the wall or the ceiling you aim the lens exactly where you want it, across a 110 degree arc, and leave it. The holder is magnetic, so it lifts off in your hand to be re-aimed or moved. Aiming a Zigbee motion sensor is half the job It logs, it does not only notify What it can set off Zigbee keeps it off your Wi-Fi Which of our two motion sensors A Zigbee hub is required and is not included. [...]
- [Zigbee 4 Button Push Switch (Wireless)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-4-button-push-switch-wireless/): A Zigbee 4 button push switch that needs no wiring at all. A Zigbee 4 button push switch goes on any surface The magnetic back is the part people underestimate Twelve scenes from four buttons Read this: it switches nothing by itself What it needs A Tuya Zigbee hub is required and is not included. A Zigbee 4 button push switch goes on any surface No wiring, no back box, no chase in the wall and no electrician. The tape supplied holds it on glass, tile, painted plaster or a rented wall you may not touch. That means a switch can [...]
- [Zigbee 4 Button Scene Switch (White)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-4-button-scene-switch/): A Zigbee 4 button scene switch that needs no wiring at all, with a magnetic back so it lifts off and works as a remote. How a Zigbee 4 button scene switch reaches twelve scenes Read this before ordering: the voice assistants It has no relay in it Where it goes What to pair it with A Tuya Zigbee hub is required and is not included. How a Zigbee 4 button scene switch reaches twelve scenes Each of the four buttons reads three different presses: a single, a double and a hold. Four times three is twelve separate instructions to your [...]
- [Zigbee Relay Tuya](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/tuya-zigbee-relay-in-wall/): A Tuya Zigbee relay is the same small module as our Wi-Fi version, on Zigbee instead. Read this first: it needs a Zigbee gateway What happens at the tenth module So which one should you buy Where the Tuya Zigbee relay goes and what it needs One figure we will read rather than print Read this first: it needs a Zigbee gateway Zigbee devices do not join your Wi-Fi. A Tuya Zigbee relay talks to a gateway, and one is not included. Without a gateway this module does nothing at all. We sell two that run it: the Zigbee Tuya Gateway, [...]
- [Zigbee Push Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-push-switch/): A Zigbee push switch with a real rocker rather than a glass panel. Zigbee is the reason to choose it: it uses very little power, it keeps your router free, and because it is mains powered it repeats the signal for every other Zigbee device in the house. Why a Zigbee push switch beats a Wi-Fi one in a big house A real rocker, for the people who want one One, two or three gang The app side What it needs A Zigbee gateway is required and is not included, and it needs a neutral wire at the switch box. Why [...]
- [Zigbee Touch Switch - Silver Frame](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-touch-switch-silver-frame/): A Zigbee touch switch with a silver frame, on white glass. Why a Zigbee touch switch silver frame instead of a Wi-Fi one The frame is there to match the metal in the room Four ecosystems on one switch The indicator, and what it can tell you Before ordering A Zigbee 3.0 gateway is required, and so is a neutral wire at the switch box. Why a Zigbee touch switch silver frame instead of a Wi-Fi one Because of what happens when you fit the tenth one. Wi-Fi switches each take a slot on your router, and past a dozen devices [...]
- [WiFi Relay Tuya](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/tuya-wifi-relay-in-wall/): A Tuya WiFi relay is the cheapest module in this category. For one light it does the same job as the expensive ones It lives in the same app as everything else What you give up with the Tuya WiFi relay at this price What it needs to go in One figure we will read rather than print For one light it does the same job as the expensive ones A Tuya WiFi relay hides in the back box behind the switch you already have and puts that circuit on your phone. On a single light, the result is indistinguishable from [...]
- [WiFi Push Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-push-switch/): A Wi-Fi push switch rather than a touch panel: it has a real rocker you press, with the smart part behind it. If you want the lights on your phone but the family would rather keep pressing something, this is the one. Why anybody chooses a WiFi push switch over a touch panel It also works in the dark and with wet hands Everything the touch versions do Ask us the gang count The wiring question Why anybody chooses a WiFi push switch over a touch panel Because it clicks. A real rocker gives you the feedback a glass panel cannot, [...]
- [WiFi Touch Switch - Silver Frame](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-touch-switch-silver-frame/): A WiFi touch switch with a silver frame around the tempered glass panel, which is the version people choose when the rest of the room has chrome or brushed metal fittings. Who buys the WiFi touch switch silver frame It is a finish, not a different switch Ask us the gang count before ordering The wiring, as always What to send us It joins your Wi-Fi on its own and appears in the Smart Life app. No hub and no gateway. Who buys the WiFi touch switch silver frame People whose rooms already have chrome or brushed metal in them. Door [...]
- [Smart WiFi Single Socket (White)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/smart-wall-socket-with-usb-white/): A smart wall socket with USB that replaces the one already in the wall, in white. One universal outlet taking UK, European and American pins, two USB charging ports, and Wi-Fi built into the back of it. A smart wall socket with USB is wired in, not plugged in What being in the wall actually buys you Two USB ports, and they are not the same It still works when the internet is down Ratings, and the black version A smart wall socket with USB is wired in, not plugged in A smart wall socket with USB is a socket, not [...]
- [Smart WiFi Aroma Diffuser - Black](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/black-aroma-diffuser-300ml-wifi/): A black aroma diffuser with a 300ml tank and a single touch ring on the front, for the rooms where a wood-grain finish would look out of place. On a dark side table or a desk the light ring is the only thing that gives it away when the mist is off. Why pick the black aroma diffuser over the wood-grain ones The touch ring, and why it matters more than the app Two mist settings and a 300ml tank Seven colours, and using it as a lamp Which of the three diffusers to take It runs on Wi-Fi through the [...]
- [Nanoleaf Hexagon Shape Starter Kit - 9 Light Panels](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/nanoleaf-hexagon-starter-kit-9-panels/): The Nanoleaf hexagon starter kit is nine light panels that clip together into whatever shape you draw on the wall, each one lighting independently. The Nanoleaf hexagon starter kit makes any shape Each panel lights independently Touch to control, no phone required No hub, and Matter built in Growing the kit later The Nanoleaf hexagon starter kit makes any shape The Nanoleaf hexagon starter kit is nine hexagonal panels that clip together edge to edge. Each is 230mm across and 200mm tall, and about 6mm thick once mounted, so the arrangement sits almost flat against the wall. There is no fixed [...]
- [SwitchBot Curtain Smart Electric Motor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/switchbot-curtain-motor-rod-version/): The SwitchBot Curtain motor is a small unit that clips onto the curtain rod you already have and drags the curtain along it. No track to install, no wiring, no drilling: it clamps to the rod in about half a minute and hooks onto the first curtain ring. Give the curtain a gentle pull and the motor takes over and finishes the job, which is the feature people end up using most. Measure your rod: the SwitchBot Curtain motor needs 15 to 40mm Your curtains have to hang from something that slides A pair of curtains needs two motors What works [...]
- [Shelly Door Sensor 2](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-door-sensor-2/): The Shelly Door Sensor 2 is a door and window sensor that joins your Wi-Fi directly. No hub, no bridge, no gateway. Two parts stick on, the sensor on the frame and the magnet on the leaf, and the moment they separate your phone is told. What the Shelly Door Sensor 2 reports beyond open and closed Tilt and vibration catch what a plain contact misses It does not depend on anybody cloud Batteries are not included What it works with Batteries are not included. What the Shelly Door Sensor 2 reports beyond open and closed Five things, not one. Separation [...]
- [Shelly Motion Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-motion-sensor/): The Shelly Motion Sensor is a motion sensor that joins your Wi-Fi directly and runs for a year or more on its own built in battery. No hub, no gateway, and no wire to the wall once it is charged. Why the Shelly Motion Sensor reacts before you notice it 256 sensitivity levels, and the dog The light sensor changes what the rule can be It charges, it does not take batteries What it drives Why the Shelly Motion Sensor reacts before you notice it Under 200 milliseconds from movement to trigger. That number sounds like a specification and behaves like [...]
- [Sensibo Pure-Smart WiFi Air Purifier](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/sensibo-pure-air-purifier-hepa/): The Sensibo Pure air purifier is a quiet white cylinder that cleans the air in a bedroom or an office and decides for itself when to work harder. What the Sensibo Pure air purifier filters at each stage The PM2.5 sensor is what you are paying for Pure Boost, and coming home to clean air Noise, and where to put it The filter is the running cost, so plan for it It joins 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, and everything below is what that buys you day to day. What the Sensibo Pure air purifier filters at each stage Air is pulled through the [...]
- [Philips Hue - Play HDMI Sync Box](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-play-hdmi-sync-box/): The Hue Play HDMI Sync Box is what makes Hue lights follow the picture, pushing matching colour to the lights in the room frame by frame. How the Hue Play HDMI Sync Box reads the picture Four in, one out, and what it passes through What else has to be in the room Setting it up An honest note about the pack we hold How the Hue Play HDMI Sync Box reads the picture Cheap TV backlight kits use a camera clipped to the top of the television, pointed at the picture. That works until somebody walks past, or the room [...]
- [Philips Hue - Play Gradient Lightstrip](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/philips-hue-play-gradient-lightstrip/): The Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip wraps the back of a television and shows several colours at once along its length, rather than one colour end to end. What the Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip does differently Check your screen size before ordering Two things you need that are not in the box Brightness, and living with it Gradient strip or Play bars What the Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip does differently An ordinary light strip is one colour along its whole length. Change it and the entire run changes together. The Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip shows several colours at once, spread along the [...]
- [Govee - Flow Pro Gaming Table Lamps](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/govee-flow-pro-light-bars-camera/): The Govee Flow Pro light bars stand either side of a screen and throw colour onto the wall behind it. A camera is in the box, which is what separates this set from ordinary light bars. The Govee Flow Pro light bars include the camera RGBIC per bar, not one colour each Desk, monitor or television Music mode, and the control box Bars, or a strip behind the screen The Govee Flow Pro light bars include the camera Plenty of RGB light bars stand beside a monitor and glow. The Govee Flow Pro light bars come with a camera in the [...]
- [Govee Immersion WiFi TV LED Backlights with Camera](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/govee-immersion-tv-backlight-camera/): The Govee Immersion TV backlight is an RGBIC strip that sticks around the back of a television, with a camera that makes it follow the picture. Why a Govee Immersion TV backlight is easier on the eyes The camera means the source does not matter RGBIC, not plain RGB Fitting it, and getting the size right The other two options Why a Govee Immersion TV backlight is easier on the eyes A bright picture in a dark room is the reason your eyes ache after two hours. The pupil keeps adjusting between the screen and the black wall around it. The [...]
- [Wyze Cam V4](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-cam-v4-2k-security-camera/): The Wyze Cam v4 is Wyze’s current indoor and outdoor camera, and a real step up from the v3 it replaces. Sharper sensor, spotlights built into the face of it, a 99 dB siren, and the same microSD recording with nothing to pay every month. Why the Wyze Cam v4 jump to 2.5K matters Spotlights instead of infrared grey Siren, audio and what the app can do live Storage, Wi-Fi and the one limitation to check v4 or v3, and white or black It keeps the small square housing of the older models, so a shelf spot or a mount that held [...]
- [Sonoff Mini Zigbee](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/sonoff-zbmini-zigbee-relay/): The SONOFF ZBMINI is the same idea as the Wi-Fi MINI, on Zigbee instead. Read this first: it needs a Zigbee gateway Why Zigbee is the right way round for a whole house So which should you buy With the SONOFF ZBMINI the switch on the wall keeps working Which app you end up in Read this first: it needs a Zigbee gateway Zigbee devices do not join your Wi-Fi. The SONOFF ZBMINI talks to a gateway, and one is not included. Without a gateway this module does nothing at all. We sell two that run it: the Zigbee Tuya Gateway, [...]
- [eMylo RF Relay Switch Wireless Remote Control Light Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/emylo-rf-relay-remote-switch/): An eMylo RF relay and two key fob remotes. Press the fob, the relay switches. No app, no Wi-Fi, no internet Two fobs, and where they end up Where the eMylo RF relay earns its place Where it must not go Two things we will read off the unit No app, no Wi-Fi, no internet An eMylo RF relay is 433MHz radio and nothing else. Press the fob, the relay switches. That is a limitation and a feature at once. It keeps working when the router is off, when the fibre is cut, and when the power has just come back [...]
- [WiFi Relay - Shelly 1L + Bypass (NO Neutral required)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-1l-no-neutral-relay/): The Shelly 1L is the one that does not need a neutral. That is the whole point of it. Why the Shelly 1L needs no neutral, and why that matters What you give up: the load rating The bypass, and why it is in the box Fitting and switches What it does not do Why the Shelly 1L needs no neutral, and why that matters Most in-wall modules need a live and a neutral in the switch box. In older Dar wiring the switch box often has only the live and the switched line going up to the fitting. That single [...]
- [eufy Security 2K Indoor Cam Pan & Tilt](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/pan-and-tilt-indoor-camera-2k-t8410/): One camera, the whole room. This pan and tilt indoor camera sits on a shelf or mounts to the ceiling and turns a full circle, 360° left to right and 96° up and down, so a single unit covers a living room, a nursery or a small shop floor that would otherwise need two or three fixed cameras. Point it where you want from the app, or let it pick up movement and swing round to follow on its own. Why a pan and tilt indoor camera beats three fixed ones 2K, and a lens wide enough for the corners It [...]
- [eufy Security 2K Indoor Cam](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufy-indoor-camera-2k-t8400/): A small plug-in eufy indoor camera for one room. It stands on a shelf or screws to the wall, watches in 2K, and sends what it sees straight to your phone through the eufy Security app. There is no hub to buy and no HomeBase to set up first. What it watches, and what it ignores Where the footage lives Talking through it, and seeing in the dark Before you buy Which eufy indoor camera The detection runs on the camera itself rather than in the cloud, so it separates a person from a pet from a passing shadow and only [...]
- [eufyCam 2 Camera - Add-On](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufycam-2-add-on-camera-1080p/): Read this first: a eufyCam 2 add-on camera is not a complete system. eufyCam cameras do not join your Wi-Fi. They talk only to a eufy HomeBase, which is where the recordings are kept and where the intelligence lives. There is no HomeBase in this box. If you do not already own one, this camera will not work at all, and you want the eufyCam 2 system instead. It will not work on its own If you already have a HomeBase The eufyCam 2 add-on camera itself A year per charge Check before ordering If you do already have a HomeBase, [...]
- [WiFi Boiler Room Thermostat Control](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/boiler-thermostat-wifi-bht-002/): A wall thermostat for a boiler: it reads the room temperature, decides when heat is needed, and closes a contact to tell the boiler to fire. Three touch buttons under a black LCD, mode and up and down, with the room temperature and the set point shown side by side. It joins your Wi-Fi directly with no hub, so schedules, remote control and voice come through the Smart Life or Tuya app with Alexa and Google Home on top. What a boiler thermostat actually switches The schedule is the part people use A correction to the figure on the old page [...]
- [WiFi - Air Condition Thermostat Controller](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fan-coil-thermostat-wifi-bac-002/): Read this first: this is not for a normal split air conditioner. It is a fan coil thermostat, wired to the fan coil unit, the kind found on central and chilled-water systems, and it works by switching the fan motor and a motorised water valve. It has no infrared emitter, so it cannot talk to a wall-mounted split unit or a window unit the way a remote does. If you want to put your bedroom AC on your phone, the product you want is the Sensibo Sky or Sensibo Air, both of which we stock and both of which learn your [...]
- [Tuya Smart Video Doorbell](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/tuya-video-doorbell-battery-chime/): The budget end of the doorbell shelf. This Tuya video doorbell runs on a battery, comes with a plug-in chime, sticks to the door frame with no wiring at all, and lets you see and talk to whoever is at the gate from your phone. The Tuya video doorbell goes straight onto your Wi-Fi 166 degrees, which is wider than most The card goes in the doorbell, not the chime About the cloud plan, honestly Two limits worth knowing before you buy The Tuya video doorbell goes straight onto your Wi-Fi The Tuya video doorbell joins your router directly. There is [...]
- [Tuya Bluetooth Hub Wifi Smart Home Bridge](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/tuya-bluetooth-hub-gateway/): The Tuya Bluetooth hub is the small white box that turns a Bluetooth lock into one you can use from anywhere. It plugs in, joins your Wi-Fi, and everything Bluetooth in range starts appearing in the Tuya or Smart Life app whether you are in the house or not. What the hub actually adds Which of our locks need one Where to put a Tuya Bluetooth hub What happens when the internet drops Do you actually need one Most of the cheaper smart locks talk Bluetooth, not Wi-Fi. On their own they are perfectly good locks: finger, code, card, key. What [...]
- [Smart Lock - Smart Padlock S501](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fingerprint-padlock-s501/): A padlock you open with your thumb. No key to lose, no combination to forget, no key to cut for the second person who needs it. It stores 30 fingerprints, so a household or a small team can all be enrolled and any one of them can be removed later without changing anything for the others. Where a fingerprint padlock earns its place Thirty people, added and removed one at a time The app, and its limits Charging and weather Which padlock, and where it will live Store rooms, a gate chain, a generator housing, a toolbox, a shop shutter, a [...]
- [Sonoff Smart WiFi Ceiling Fan & Light Switch](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/sonoff-ceiling-fan-controller-light/): A SONOFF ceiling fan controller is built for one job the other modules on this page do badly: a ceiling fan and its light, on one device, with fan speeds. Fan speeds, which an ordinary relay cannot do The radio remote is the underrated part Where it fits, and why that is the part to plan Which fans the SONOFF ceiling fan controller suits What it will not do Fan speeds, which an ordinary relay cannot do Put a plain relay on a ceiling fan and you get on and off. That is all it can do, because it is a [...]
- [Sonoff Micro USB Smart WiFi Adaptor 5V](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/sonoff-micro-usb-smart-adaptor/): The SONOFF Micro USB smart adaptor is the smallest smart switch we sell, and the only one that works on 5 volts instead of mains. The SONOFF Micro USB smart adaptor is not a mains plug What it is genuinely good for It is a switch, not a charger The app and what it works with Size and build The SONOFF Micro USB smart adaptor is not a mains plug There is no pin on it. A SONOFF Micro USB smart adaptor needs a USB port to live in: a charger, a power bank, the USB socket on a wall plate, [...]
- [Wyze Cam Outdoor Add-on Camera](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-cam-outdoor-add-on-camera/): Read this first: this is an add-on camera and there is no base station in the box. The Wyze Cam Outdoor add-on camera does not join your Wi-Fi directly. It links to a Wyze Base Station, which is what connects to your router and holds the recordings. Without one already in the house this camera cannot be set up, and you want the Starter Bundle instead. Why the add-on camera will not work on its own How many Wyze Cam Outdoor add-on cameras one base station carries What the camera itself does Where a second outdoor camera earns its place If [...]
- [Wyze Cam Outdoor Starter Bundle (1 Camera)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-cam-outdoor-starter-bundle-battery-camera/): The Wyze Cam Outdoor starter bundle is the complete package: one wire-free camera and the Base Station it needs. This is the one to buy first, because the camera cannot work without the base station, and the add-on camera sold separately does not include one. What comes in the Wyze Cam Outdoor starter bundle box Battery life and how the camera decides to record Picture quality, night vision and zoom Is this the right outdoor camera for your compound The Base Station plugs into your router by Ethernet and is what the camera actually talks to. It also takes a microSD [...]
- [Echo Dot (newest model - 2024) Deep Sea Blue](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-dot-5th-gen-deep-sea-blue/): The Echo Dot 5th Gen Deep Sea Blue is the small one in the colour that is meant to be looked at. Buy more than one Echo Dot 5th Gen Deep Sea Blue Drop in and announcements change how a house works Deep sea blue, and the point of a colour What it does not have The things it shares with the rest of the range Buy more than one Echo Dot 5th Gen Deep Sea Blue This is the argument that gets missed. Several Dots in several rooms play the same thing in step, so music follows you from the [...]
- [Echo Dot (newest model - 2024) Glacier White](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-dot-5th-gen-glacier-white/): The Echo Dot 5th Gen Glacier White is the pale one, and Amazon call this generation their best sounding Dot. The Echo Dot 5th Gen Glacier White and the temperature sensor Routines are the reason it stops being a novelty White, and where it belongs What it will not do Multi room, if you buy more than one Tap the top to snooze an alarm or pause music without saying anything. One button turns the microphones off electrically. The Echo Dot 5th Gen Glacier White and the temperature sensor There is a thermometer inside this small speaker, and it is the [...]
- [Echo Dot (newest model - 2024) Charcoal](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-dot-5th-gen-charcoal/): The Echo Dot 5th Gen Charcoal is the small one, and the one most people should start with. Why the Echo Dot 5th Gen Charcoal is where most people should start The sound is better than the size suggests Read this: there is no Zigbee hub inside Charcoal, and why the colour is the easy decision The two features you will use daily Why the Echo Dot 5th Gen Charcoal is where most people should start It does everything the expensive Echo does with your voice, for a fraction of the money. Music, radio, timers, alarms, questions, reminders, calls to another [...]
- [Amazon Echo - Red (4th Gen)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/all-new-echo-4th-gen-red/): The Echo 4th Gen Red is the same speaker as the charcoal one in a colour that does not intend to blend in. The Echo 4th Gen Red is a different decision from the grey one The upward firing woofer is the reason it sounds bigger than it is Music, and everything that is not music It is a smart home hub as well The practical details The Echo 4th Gen Red is a different decision from the grey one Same speaker, same radios, same everything inside. What changes is whether the object is meant to be seen. Charcoal is the [...]
- [All-new Echo (4th Gen) - Charcoal](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/all-new-echo-4th-gen-charcoal/): The Echo 4th Gen Charcoal is the one you buy when the speaker has to be good enough to actually listen to, and when you would rather not also buy a smart home gateway. The Echo 4th Gen Charcoal replaces a gateway you were going to buy What the built in radios actually reach The sound, since it has to earn its shelf space The socket on the back and the button on top What to pair with it Ask it for music, the weather, a timer or the news. Tell it to turn the lights off. Call another Echo in [...]
- [Amazon Fire Stick Lite with Alexa Remote](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fire-tv-stick-lite-with-alexa-remote/): The Fire TV Stick Lite is the cheapest way into Fire TV. A Full HD streaming stick with HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG, a 1.7 GHz quad-core processor, 8 GB of storage and Dolby Atmos passed through, plugged into any television with a spare HDMI port. Read this before ordering the Fire TV Stick Lite Everything else is the full Fire TV HDR on a Full HD picture Bluetooth headphones, which is the underrated feature What you need Read this before ordering the Fire TV Stick Lite It ships with the Alexa Voice Remote Lite. That remote drives the stick and takes [...]
- [Homey Pro Hub](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/homey-pro-2019-seven-radios/): The Homey Pro 2019 is the Pro version of the Homey sphere: the same seven radios in the same white body, with twice the processing power and twice the memory behind them. Where the Homey Pro 2019 sits between the other two What twice the processor is actually for Seven radios, one app An ethernet port, which the 2023 model does not have Talking to it, and what it costs to run Automations are built as Flows, dragged together from a trigger, a condition and an action, so devices from brands that have never heard of each other end up working [...]
- [eufyCam 2 Wireless Battery Security Camera System](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wireless-security-camera-system-eufycam-2-kit/): A complete wireless security camera system in one box: two wire-free eufyCam 2 cameras and the HomeBase 2 they run on. Nothing else to buy and no monthly fee. Why a wireless security camera system lasts a year What the HomeBase 2 actually does Picture and detection Room to grow The one limit to know Kit or add-on The cameras have no cables at all. They mount wherever you like, indoors or out, and the battery is rated at a full year per charge, which is the longest eufy makes. Each records 1080p through a Sony Starvis sensor across a wide 140° [...]
- [WiFi Pet Feeder](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-pet-feeder-with-camera/): A WiFi pet feeder with camera feeds the dog or the cat on a schedule and lets you watch it happen. Why a WiFi pet feeder with camera beats a plain timer Two way audio, and the voice recording Eight meals a day, each portioned separately Read this: dry food only Capacity and power Why a WiFi pet feeder with camera beats a plain timer Any timer can drop food into a bowl. The point of a WiFi pet feeder with camera is that you can see it happen. The camera in the front shoots 720p with infrared night vision to [...]
- [Smart Water Irrigation System - With Solar Panel](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/solar-smart-water-timer-tap/): A solar smart water timer: the same tap timer, supplied with a solar panel on a stake. Why a solar smart water timer exists Everything else works the same Where to put the panel A question we will not guess at Panel, or a plug Why a solar smart water timer exists That is the whole reason this version exists. A solar smart water timer solves the problem that stops most people fitting a tap timer at all. The timer itself has no battery compartment. It runs on 5V through a socket on its side, and in this version the panel [...]
- [Smart Water Irrigation System](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/smart-water-timer-wifi-tap/): A smart water timer that screws onto an outside tap and waters the garden on a schedule from your phone, whether you are in the house or out of the country. A smart water timer screws onto the tap you have Watering while you are away is the point It skips a watering when rain is coming Read this before ordering: it needs USB power Build and rating A smart water timer screws onto the tap you have A smart water timer goes on the outside tap and the hose goes on the other end. Nothing else about the tap changes [...]
- [Smart Lock - Mortise Lock with Handle (S811)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fingerprint-door-lock-s811-mortise/): The QLeung S811 is a mortise fingerprint door lock with a lever handle, and it opens five ways: fingerprint, code, card, mechanical key and the Tuya app. The reader sits in the ring at the base of the handle, so the hand that already reaches for the door is the hand that opens it. Five ways into the door Will this fingerprint door lock fit your door? Setting it up in the Tuya app Power, and what happens when the batteries go flat Finishes Measure twice, order once Five ways into the door The semiconductor reader is built into the handle [...]
- [Smart Lock - Cycle U Shape](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fingerprint-bike-lock-u-shape/): A U-lock for a bicycle or a motorbike that opens on your fingerprint. Nothing in your pocket, nothing to lose halfway through a ride, and nothing to hand over when somebody else takes the bike out. A fingerprint bike lock with nothing to carry The app, and the log What to know before ordering Ask us to measure the shackle The battery is built in and charges over USB, so there are no cells to replace. It opens on your thumb, or from the Tuya app over Bluetooth when your phone is near it, and the app keeps an access log [...]
- [Smart Lock - Cylinder / Keypad (C001D)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/keypad-cylinder-lock-c001d/): A euro cylinder with a keypad and a fingerprint reader on the outside knob. It replaces the barrel in the lock you already have, so the door, the handle and the mortise are untouched. Ten minutes with a screwdriver and one screw. What the keypad adds Five ways in Fitting a keypad cylinder lock The cylinder length is the whole job The keypad is the difference between this and the fingerprint cylinder: a code can be given to somebody over the phone, and it works for a person who has never stood at the door before. Codes are 6 to 12 [...]
- [Oclean Brush Heads - 2 Pack Spare](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/oclean-brush-heads-2-pack/): Two replacement Oclean brush heads, with rounded DuPont filaments in a 3D profile that follows the shape of a tooth rather than skating across the top of it. When to change Oclean brush heads, and how long a pack lasts What the filaments are made of A 3D profile rather than a flat cut Which Ocleans they fit Buying these on their own When to change Oclean brush heads, and how long a pack lasts Dentists suggest changing a brush head every three months, and sooner if the bristles start to splay outwards. Splayed filaments have stopped following the shape of [...]
- [Aeotec Nano Switch (Dual)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-dual-nano-switch/): The Aeotec Dual Nano Switch puts two circuits out of one back box, each switched on its own. The ceiling light and the wall lights, or the veranda light and the security lamp, behind the switch plate that is already there. What the Aeotec Dual Nano Switch actually gives you The per output rating is the number to read Z-Wave, so a controller comes first Energy measurement, and which version we hold Fitting it, and what to tell us Read this first: it is Z-Wave, not Wi-Fi. A controller is needed and is not included. We sell three that run it: [...]
- [GPS Tracker For Vehicle Car Truck](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/magnetic-gps-tracker-vehicle/): A magnetic GPS tracker for a car, a lorry or a container. There is nothing to wire and nothing to fit. The magnets are strong enough to hold it under a chassis, and once it is there it reports where the vehicle is. Why a magnetic GPS tracker rather than a wired one The battery is the reason to choose this one Three ways to get a position Read this about the SIM before you buy What you need to have ready It needs a SIM card, and it is a 2G device. Why a magnetic GPS tracker rather than a [...]
- [WiFi Blinds Motor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-blind-motor-chain-driver/): A WiFi blind motor for the blinds you already own. If your roller, Roman or zebra blind is opened by pulling a beaded chain, this Zemismart driver clips onto the wall beside it, the chain runs over the wheel on top, and the motor does the pulling from then on. Nothing is cut and nothing is drilled into the blind. Where the WiFi blind motor differs from the Bluetooth one Do not throw the bridge away with the box What it fits and how it goes on Battery life in real use Which of the three drivers to buy Where the [...]
- [Smart WiFi Aroma Diffuser 300ml](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/300ml-aroma-diffuser-wood-grain/): A 300ml aroma diffuser in a pale wood-grain teardrop, small enough for a bedside table and quiet enough to leave running while you work or sleep. A few drops of oil into a full tank and the room holds the scent for hours. What a 300ml aroma diffuser gets you through It is also a small humidifier The wood-grain finish, and where it belongs Seven colours, timers and voice Choosing between the three The mains adapter comes in the box. What a 300ml aroma diffuser gets you through Three hundred millilitres is six to twelve hours depending on which mist setting [...]
- [Sonoff Mini](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/sonoff-mini-wifi-relay/): The SONOFF Mini is the cheapest way to make an existing light circuit smart. The cheapest way to do several rooms The wall switch keeps working DIY mode, if you run Home Assistant Measure the back box first SONOFF Mini ratings, and what it will not do An electrician fits it. The cheapest way to do several rooms Price is the honest reason to choose a SONOFF Mini over a Shelly. It is the module that makes doing three or four rooms at once realistic rather than a project you spread over a year. The compromise is the load rating and [...]
- [WiFi Touch Switch - Black](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/sonoff-touch-switch-black/): A SONOFF touch switch in black glass, and the important thing to know is that it runs on eWeLink, SONOFF’s own app, not the same app as most of the other switches we sell. Read this first: a SONOFF touch switch uses a different app The 433 MHz receiver is the thing the others do not have Timers that go beyond a schedule The panel and the approvals What it needs A neutral wire is required at the switch box, and the router must be 2.4 GHz. Your phone can be on anything. Read this first: a SONOFF touch switch uses [...]
- [Oclean X Pro Smart Sonic Toothbrush](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/oclean-x-pro-toothbrush-sonic/): The Oclean X Pro toothbrush is a sonic brush with a colour touchscreen built into the handle, and everything below is what that and the motor inside it add up to. What the Oclean X Pro toothbrush screen changes 84,000 movements a minute, and 32 steps to dial it back It notices when you press too hard Thirty days between charges What is in the box, and what you will need later What the Oclean X Pro toothbrush screen changes A colour touchscreen on a toothbrush sounds like a gimmick. It stops sounding like one the first morning you want to [...]
- [3 Pack - Remote Control Plug Socket, 13A](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/remote-control-plug-sockets-3-pack/): Three remote control plug sockets and one handset. Press a button, the socket switches. That is the whole product, and for a lot of people it is exactly the right one. Remote control plug sockets use radio, not Wi-Fi Who they are actually for Range and how the signal behaves They work out of the box What they will run Remote control plug sockets use radio, not Wi-Fi These remote control plug sockets are a radio remote on 433.92MHz and nothing else. There is no app to install, no account to make and no network to join. That is a limitation [...]
- [WiFi Heater Switch 20A - White](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-geyser-switch-20a-white/): This WiFi geyser switch is a white glass touch panel that puts the water heater on your phone. It replaces the geyser’s existing wall switch, so the plate on the wall stays a plate on the wall and still works by touch when the internet is down. What it adds is everything you cannot do with a rocker switch: turn the geyser on from bed twenty minutes before you get up, set it to heat for an hour each morning and evening rather than sitting on all day, and see from the app whether somebody left it running. The countdown is [...]
- [Sensative STRIPS Door and Window Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/sensative-strips-door-and-window-sensor/): 19.5 cm long and 3 mm thick. Sensative Strips is a door and window sensor you fit into the rebate of the frame, where the door closes over it, so once the door is shut there is nothing to see at all. Why Sensative Strips disappears completely The battery is sealed in, for ten years It is certified for outdoor use One job, done properly What it needs It comes in two parts: the thin strip goes on the frame and a small square magnet goes on the moving leaf. Separate them and the hub is told the door or window [...]
- [Shelly Button 1](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-button-1/): The Shelly Button 1 is a Wi-Fi scene button in black, 45 mm square and 16 mm thick. Four different actions sit under the one button, fired by single, double and triple click and a long press, so one button can run four different things. Four actions from one Shelly Button 1 It joins Wi-Fi on its own Charging, and the option to leave it plugged in Where it goes What it controls It joins your Wi-Fi directly. No hub is required. Four actions from one Shelly Button 1 Single click, double click, triple click and a long press, each doing [...]
- [Amazon Firestick - Spare Remote Only](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fire-tv-stick-remote-replacement/): A replacement Fire TV Stick remote. Remotes get sat on, dropped behind the sofa and taken by children. This is the same Alexa Voice Remote, on its own, so a working Fire TV Stick does not become a paperweight. A Fire TV Stick remote on its own, because remotes disappear Bluetooth, so the stick can stay hidden What the buttons do Buy the batteries with it What it works with A Fire TV Stick remote on its own, because remotes disappear They get sat on, dropped behind a sofa, taken to a bedroom by somebody who never brings it back, and [...]
- [roborock S5 Max Robot Vacuum Cleaner](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/roborock-s5-max-robot-vacuum/): Roborock built its name on navigation, and the Roborock S5 Max is the model that made the case. How the Roborock S5 Max maps a house The mop here is a real mop No-mop zones, set separately The biggest bin in this section One published figure that disagrees 2,000 Pa of suction, and the specifications below cover the rest. How the Roborock S5 Max maps a house The laser rangefinder on top of the Roborock S5 Max spins at 300rpm and maps the house to a claimed 98 per cent accuracy. What that buys you is discipline. It cleans in straight [...]
- [Automatic Fish Feeder](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/automatic-fish-feeder/): An automatic fish feeder that feeds the tank while you are away. The drum turns at the times you set and a measured amount of food drops in. What an automatic fish feeder solves How it mounts Setting the portion Where it lives Two versions, and we will tell you which is in stock What an automatic fish feeder solves Going away for a week with a fish tank means asking a neighbour to come round, and neighbours are generous. A tank fed by somebody who thinks a pinch looks small goes cloudy within days, and cloudy water is harder on [...]
- [eufy RoboVac X8 Hybrid, Robot Vacuum and Mop](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufy-robovac-x8-hybrid-vacuum-mop/): Two turbines instead of one. The eufy RoboVac X8 Hybrid is aimed squarely at the thing that defeats most vacuums: hair wound into carpet. The eufy RoboVac X8 Hybrid runs twin turbines Four suction levels, and why that matters at night Recharge and resume The biggest bin here except one Which of the three eufy robots It navigates by laser, so it maps the house and finds its way back to the dock. The app adds no-go zones, room by room cleaning and a map editor. The eufy RoboVac X8 Hybrid runs twin turbines The eufy RoboVac X8 Hybrid runs a [...]
- [Smart WiFi Coffee Machine](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/smarter-coffee-machine-wifi/): The Smarter Coffee machine is a filter coffee maker with a grinder on top and Wi-Fi inside. The Smarter Coffee machine grinds as it brews Why put a coffee machine on Wi-Fi It still works when the internet does not Capacity and the filter Practical notes The Smarter Coffee machine grinds as it brews Whole beans go in the hopper on top and the Smarter Coffee machine grinds them the moment it brews. That is the single biggest change you can make to coffee at home, and it is a bigger difference than the water, the filter or the machine itself. [...]
- [Smart WiFi Kettle](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/smarter-ikettle-wifi-kettle/): The Smarter iKettle boils to a temperature rather than just boiling. The Smarter iKettle boils to a temperature Three modes that do something Keep warm, and knowing when it is empty Power, size and what it needs The kettle or the other kettle The Smarter iKettle boils to a temperature The Smarter iKettle holds anywhere from 20 to 100 degrees, set in one degree steps. That is the difference between green tea that tastes like green tea and green tea scalded at 100. Black tea wants the full boil, green wants about 80, and a coffee pour-over wants somewhere around 92. [...]
- [eufy Security Floodlight Camera](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/floodlight-camera-2500-lumen-t8420/): A floodlight camera replaces an ordinary outdoor light and puts a lens behind it. Two adjustable panels put out 2,500 lumens at 5,000 K, a bright and slightly cool white light, and a 1080p camera sits between them, so the area that lights up is also the area being recorded. The PIR sensor watches a 270° arc, wider than the camera itself sees, which means the lights and the recording usually start before someone is properly in frame. What a floodlight camera does that a light cannot Built to stay outside Storage with nothing to buy This one needs an electrician If [...]
- [eufy Security Video Doorbell Wireless S220](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufy-video-doorbell-s220-2k-homebase/): The eufy Video Doorbell S220 is the middle of the three we stock, and the most flexible of them. A 2K camera on a Sony sensor, a HomeBase in the box that keeps every recording inside your house, and the choice of running it on a battery or wiring it in. The eufy Video Doorbell S220 runs on battery or mains 2K on a Sony sensor, in a 4:3 frame The HomeBase is included, and it is required Detection that runs on the device Where the S220 sits in the range The eufy Video Doorbell S220 runs on battery or mains [...]
- [Amazon Echo Show 8 - STAND](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/amazon-echo-show-8-stand/): An Echo Show 8 stand that gets the screen pointing at you. The kitchen counter case for an Echo Show 8 stand A taller device wants a steadier base Camera framing for calls Magnetic and reversible What it fits The kitchen counter case for an Echo Show 8 stand An 8 inch screen on a counter is a recipe you read while your hands are busy, and you are reading it from a step or two back with a knife in one hand. Flat on the worktop it points at your waist and you end up leaning in over it, which [...]
- [eufyCam 2C Pro - Wireless Home Security Camera Kit](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufycam-2c-pro-kit-2k-two-cameras/): The eufyCam 2C Pro kit is a complete system in one box: two wire-free cameras and the HomeBase 2 they run on. No cabling to the cameras, no monthly fee, nothing else to buy. What the eufyCam 2C Pro kit does after dark What the HomeBase 2 does Room to grow Pace out the distance first Storage limit 2C Pro or eufyCam 2 The 2C Pro is the sharper camera in the eufyCam 2 family. It records 2K across a 135° view, and it has a spotlight built in, which means night footage comes back in colour rather than infrared grey. On-device [...]
- [X-Sense Mini Smoke Alarm (Interlinked)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/x-sense-interlinked-smoke-alarm/): The X-Sense interlinked smoke alarm: when one sounds, they all sound. That is the whole idea. A fire that starts in the store room at the back of the house is announced in the bedroom at the front, which is the part that actually saves people. What an X-Sense interlinked smoke alarm changes No wiring, no hub, no Wi-Fi On the group size, X-Sense own documents disagree Sealed battery, ten years, then the unit goes What to add to it One button on each unit tests and hushes it. What an X-Sense interlinked smoke alarm changes A single detector protects the [...]
- [Smart WiFi Aroma Diffuser 400ml](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/400ml-aroma-diffuser-wifi/): A 400ml aroma diffuser in a tall wood-grain vase, and the largest of the three we stock. Fill it before bed and it is still going in the morning. What a 400ml aroma diffuser gives you over a 300ml A tall vase rather than a teardrop Filling it once and leaving it Light, timers and voice control Bigger tank, or a smaller one What a 400ml aroma diffuser gives you over a 300ml The 400ml aroma diffuser is the largest of the three we stock, and the difference is unattended running time. Six to twelve hours depending on the setting, which [...]
- [Battery - E90 1.5v](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/e90-battery-n-size/): The E90 battery is the N size cell, 1.5 volts, that is hard to find anywhere else. Smaller than an AA and shorter than an AAA, and still required by a surprising number of devices. Extra alkaline chemistry, with a shelf life of up to seven years. The E90 battery is the one nobody stocks Six names for one battery What actually uses it Seven year shelf life The specification The E90 battery is the one nobody stocks It is an N size cell: smaller across than an AA and shorter than a AAA, and it sits in an awkward gap [...]
- [Motion Sensor Closet Light (Rechargeable)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/motion-sensor-closet-light-rechargeable/): A rechargeable motion sensor closet light in a slim aluminium bar, for the places that were never wired. It senses movement, lights up, and switches itself off a few seconds after you leave. Where a motion sensor closet light earns its place No wiring, and no socket either It only comes on in the dark What it does not do Two figures we will not guess at Where a motion sensor closet light earns its place Inside a wardrobe, where there has never been a socket and nobody is going to chase a cable into one. Under a kitchen unit. Along [...]
- [Ceiling Mount for Dot 3rd Generation](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-dot-ceiling-mount-3rd-gen/): An Echo Dot ceiling mount that gets the Dot off the surface and onto the structure. A flat steel bracket with three arms that cradle an Echo Dot 3rd generation and hold it flat against a ceiling or a wall. The Dot sits in it face out, so nothing covers the speaker and nothing muffles the microphones. Which Dot an Echo Dot ceiling mount fits Why put a speaker on the ceiling at all No drill, unless you want one The open design is not decorative The other two options Which Dot an Echo Dot ceiling mount fits The 3rd generation [...]
- [Amazon Echo Studio (newest model - 2024)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/amazon-echo-studio/): The Amazon Echo Studio is the one you buy for the music. Five speakers inside a single cabinet: three 2 inch midrange drivers, a 20 mm tweeter and a 5.25 inch woofer with a bass aperture, driven by a 24 bit DAC with 100 kHz bandwidth. What is inside an Amazon Echo Studio It measures the room and keeps measuring The formats it does not throw away It is also a hub, and a television speaker Who it is for What is inside an Amazon Echo Studio Five drivers in one cabinet: three 2 inch midrange units, a 20 mm tweeter [...]
- [Wyze Cam V1/V2 Mounting Kit (Wyze)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-cam-v1-v2-mounting-kit-wyze/): The Wyze Cam v1 v2 mounting kit, the official part for wall mounting. A metal plate that the camera magnetic base grips onto, plus the extra cable length needed to get the camera away from the socket. What is in the Wyze Cam v1 v2 mounting kit Tape or screws, and when to use which Read this: it does not fit the Pan The extension is an ordinary USB cable Which kit for which camera The camera is not included. What is in the Wyze Cam v1 v2 mounting kit A metal plate and a cable extension, and both halves matter. [...]
- [Wyze Cam Pan Mounting Kit (Wyze)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-cam-pan-mounting-kit-wyze/): The Wyze Cam Pan mounting kit, the official part for putting a Pan on a wall or a ceiling. A bracket with a detachable magnetic base that screws into the tripod thread on the bottom of the camera. The magnet is strong, so the camera snaps on and stays on, and lifts straight off when you want to move it. The magnetic base is what makes the Wyze Cam Pan mounting kit worth having 180 degrees of hinge, which is why it works on a ceiling Fifteen feet of cable is the real reason people buy the kit This is the [...]
- [Wyze Smart Lock Keypad](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-lock-keypad/): Read this first: the Wyze lock keypad does not work on its own. It is an accessory for the Wyze Lock and it will not open anything without one. It also does not work with the Wyze Lock Bolt. If you do not already have a Wyze Lock, this is not the product you want. Read this before you order What it adds to a Wyze Lock Where a Wyze lock keypad goes Small things that matter at the door Only buy this with a Wyze Lock With one, it is the piece that makes the lock work for everybody in [...]
- [Wyze Smart Lock + Gateway](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-smart-lock-gateway-retrofit/): A retrofit. The Wyze smart lock replaces only the thumb turn on the inside of an existing deadbolt: the outside of the door, the keyhole and your keys stay exactly as they are. Fitting is a screwdriver and about fifteen minutes. A retrofit, not a replacement The gateway is not optional The two features that earn their keep Sharing a Wyze smart lock with the household Will it fit your deadbolt The Wyze Gateway is in the box and it is not optional: the lock talks Zigbee to the gateway, the gateway plugs into a socket and carries it onto your [...]
- [Wyze - Smart Weighing Scale](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-smart-scale-heart-rate/): The Wyze smart scale does something most scales do not: it takes your heart rate as well, measured on the scale itself while you stand on it barefoot. Why the Wyze smart scale takes your heart rate Step on anywhere Twelve figures, and what they are based on Eight people, plus anyone passing through Wyze or eufy Twelve figures land in the Wyze app each time you step on, and the app charts them over time, which is the part that tells you whether anything is actually changing. Readings feed through to Apple Health and Google Fit, so the weight chart [...]
- [Battery - CR2032 (Varta)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/cr2032-battery/): The CR2032 battery is the coin cell that runs half the house. Three volts, lithium, 20 mm across and 3.2 mm thick. It is in remotes, car keys, wall clocks, kitchen scales, calculators and a long list of smart home buttons and sensors. What a CR2032 battery runs in this house Lithium fails cleanly, which is a feature Buy more than one Sizes that look similar Other names What a CR2032 battery runs in this house The Logitech Harmony Companion remote, the Philips Hue Smart Button and the NodOn Z-Wave switch all take one. Outside the smart home it is in [...]
- [Battery - CR2450](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/cr2450-battery/): The CR2450 battery is the larger coin cell, for dimmer switches and keyfobs. Lithium, 3 volts, 24 mm across and 5.0 mm thick. It looks like a CR2032 but it is wider and thicker, and holds a good deal more. A CR2450 battery is not a large CR2032 550 mAh is a lot for a coin cell What takes one here It is built not to leak Equivalents A CR2450 battery is not a large CR2032 They look like the same thing on a shelf and they are not interchangeable. This one is 24 mm across and 5.0 mm thick against [...]
- [Battery - V23GA (Varta)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/v23ga-battery/): The V23GA battery is the small 12 volt cell in remotes and garage door openers. Alkaline, 10.3 mm across and 28.5 mm long. It is narrow and tall, and it is 12 volts rather than the 1.5 or 3 volts most small batteries give, so nothing else will substitute for it. Twelve volts is why nothing substitutes for a V23GA battery It goes by an absurd number of names Where it turns up Alkaline, for short bursts The specification Twelve volts is why nothing substitutes for a V23GA battery Almost every small battery in a house is 1.5 or 3 volts. [...]
- [Battery - CR2](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/cr2-battery/): The CR2 battery is a 3 volt lithium cell for door sensors and SwitchBot. A short cylindrical cell, 800 mAh, that lasts a great deal longer than an ordinary alkaline battery because it loses very little charge just sitting there. Why a CR2 battery suits a door sensor What takes one here Heat is not a problem Buying spares The specification Why a CR2 battery suits a door sensor Self discharge. A door sensor spends almost all of its life doing nothing at all, waiting for a magnet to move. A cell that quietly drains while it waits is no use [...]
- [Amazon Echo Show 11](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/amazon-echo-show-11/): An 11 inch Echo Show, which is a Full HD touchscreen sitting on a fabric covered base with Alexa built in, a camera for video calls and a smart home hub inside the same box. It does what a smart display does: the time, the weather, your photographs, your doorbell and camera feeds, timers in the kitchen, music out of a real woofer, and an answer when you talk to it. The screen, and what the extra size buys you The camera and video calls It is a smart home hub as well as a speaker Glacier White and Graphite What [...]
- [Amazon Echo Pop](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/amazon-echo-pop/): The Amazon Echo Pop is the smallest Echo we sell. It is a half sphere rather than a ball, and the speaker fires straight out of the flat face. Pick your colour above. What the Amazon Echo Pop is, and who it suits The speaker fires forwards, so point it at the room The smart home question, settled before you buy Three colours, and the fabric is the whole front What you need before it will work What the Amazon Echo Pop is, and who it suits Everything Alexa does with your voice, in the cheapest and smallest body Amazon builds [...]
- [Smart Lock - Mortise Lock with Handle (S851)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/s851-smart-lock-mortise-doorbell/): A mortise lock with a lever handle and a doorbell button on the keypad. It opens by fingerprint, code, card, key or the Tuya app, and the bell on the front means a visitor has something to press instead of hammering on the door. Always-On mode, and when to use it A doorbell on the panel Users and codes Fitting the S851 smart lock Buy it for Always-On Always-On mode is the feature worth knowing about. Switch it on and the lock stops asking for authentication, so during the day an office or a shop door simply opens on the handle. [...]
- [Smart Lock - Facial Recognition Lock (S958 Max)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/palm-vein-smart-lock-s958-max/): A palm vein smart lock, fully automatic, with 3D face recognition as well. You walk up, it knows you, and the bolt withdraws on its own. Nothing to press and nothing to turn. Palm vein, and why it is on here Eight ways in The screens and the doorbell Fitting a palm vein smart lock, and its alarms The one to buy if hands are always full Palm vein is the one that matters when your hands are full or wet. It reads the vein pattern under the skin, not the surface, so it works where a fingerprint will not. There [...]
- [Customizable Screen Touch Switch – Tuya Zigbee](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-touch-switch-with-screen/): A Zigbee touch switch with a screen, so every button carries its own name. Type Kitchen, Balcony or Stairs into the Tuya app and it appears on the glass. No stickers, no guessing which button is which, and no relabelling with a marker when a room changes use. Why a Zigbee touch switch with screen solves an old problem The proximity sensor is the half nobody mentions Backlight you can set to the room The build, and the size What it needs A Tuya Zigbee hub is required and is not included, and it needs a neutral wire at the switch [...]
- [Smart Lock - Cylinder / Fingerprint](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fingerprint-cylinder-lock-euro/): This is not a lock so much as a replacement for the barrel inside the lock you already have. Pull out the euro cylinder in your door, slide this one in, and the door itself is untouched: same handle, same mortise, same holes. Why a fingerprint cylinder lock instead of a whole lock Four ways in, and one deliberate omission Power, range and fit No keypad, and that is deliberate That makes it the cheapest way to put a fingerprint on a door you cannot or do not want to modify, and the obvious answer for a rented flat, a shop [...]
- [Smart Lock - Rose Set Handle - S604L - Gold](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/gold-smart-lock-s604l-handle/): A gold smart lock: a lever handle for an inside door, in gold. The fingerprint reader is in the handle and the keypad is the glass strip along it. The round escutcheon with the cylinder mounts separately, which is what makes it a rose set: no long plate down the door, just a handle and a disc. Why a gold smart lock rather than the black Four ways in Bluetooth, not Wi-Fi Fitting Stand in the room first Gold is the reason to choose this one over the black. The hardware is identical. In a room with brass or gold fittings [...]
- [Smart Lock - Rose Set Handle - S604L - Black](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/interior-smart-lock-s604l-black/): An interior smart lock: a lever handle for an inside door, in black. The fingerprint reader is in the handle and the keypad is the glass strip along it. The round escutcheon with the cylinder mounts separately, which is what makes it a rose set: no long plate down the door, just a handle and a disc. The door this is built for Four ways in Bluetooth, not Wi-Fi Fitting an interior smart lock An inside door, not a front door This is the lock for a bedroom, a study, a store room or a private office. It is slimmer and [...]
- [Smart Lock - Mortise Lock with Handle (S821)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/s821-smart-lock-mortise-handle/): The S821 smart lock is a slim mortise handle that opens five ways: fingerprint, code, IC card, the Tuya app and a mechanical key. It joins your Wi-Fi directly, so there is no gateway to buy. Five ways into the door Codes you can take back No gateway to buy Fitting an S821 smart lock Straightforward, if the mortise matches Codes can be temporary, so a guest or a contractor gets one that stops working on its own, and the app keeps the record of who opened the door and when. It holds 300 users, nine of them administrators. The keypad [...]
- [Echo Spot (2024) Ocean Blue](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-spot-2024-ocean-blue/): The Echo Spot 2024 Ocean Blue is a smart alarm clock with a speaker worth listening to rather than tolerating. The Echo Spot 2024 Ocean Blue on a bedside table The alarm is the job it is really doing A screen that stops at what is useful No camera, and a speaker worth having What else it does The Echo Spot 2024 Ocean Blue on a bedside table Blue is the version for a bedroom you have actually decorated. Against white bedding, a wooden table or a painted wall it reads as something chosen rather than something delivered, which is not [...]
- [Echo Spot (2024) Black](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-spot-2024-black/): A smart alarm clock with real sound. The Echo Spot 2024 Black is a screen for the things you want at a glance, time, weather, the song playing, and a speaker underneath it that is worth listening to rather than tolerating. The Echo Spot 2024 Black has no camera, and that is the point A screen for the things worth glancing at The speaker underneath is the surprise Waking up, and going to sleep Where it belongs There is no camera. The Echo Spot 2024 Black has no camera, and that is the point This is the reason to choose the [...]
- [eufy L60 Hybrid Robot Vacuum Cleaner with Mop](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufy-l60-hybrid-robot-vacuum-mop/): The eufy L60 Hybrid is the one to buy if you want a proper robot without paying for a docking tower. Real laser navigation and a mopping module in the box, at a price that undercuts everything else in this section. How the eufy L60 Hybrid finds its way around 5,000 Pa, and what that is for What the mop does, and what it does not You empty this one yourself Two figures eufy publish twice How the eufy L60 Hybrid finds its way around Cheap robot vacuums bump around at random and hope. A spinning laser on top of the [...]
- [eufy X8 Pro Robot Vacuum Self-Empty Station](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufy-x8-pro-self-empty-robot-vacuum/): The eufy X8 Pro self-empty station is the top of the range here, and the only robot in this section that empties itself. What the eufy X8 Pro self-empty station changes Twin turbines at 2 x 4,000 Pa No-mop zones, not just no-go zones Three hours, and quieter than most Where it sits against the other two What the eufy X8 Pro self-empty station changes Every other robot here needs its bin emptied by hand every run or two. On a dusty Dar floor that is a small chore attached to a machine bought to remove chores. The eufy X8 Pro [...]
- [eufy Security SoloCam S220 - WiFi Solar Camera](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/solar-wifi-camera-s220-2k/): A solar wifi camera, and the cheapest way to stop thinking about charging. A solar panel is built into the top of this camera, and with roughly three hours of direct sun a day it keeps its own battery topped up indefinitely. Without any sun at all a full charge lasts about three months. Three hours of sun and you can forget it What a solar wifi camera of this size records Storage, and the optional HomeBase Where the S220 gives ground Outdoors Cheapest solar, or the better one It records 2K through an f/1.6 lens across a 135° view. A [...]
- [eufy Security SoloCam S340 - Solar Pan and Tilt](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/solar-pan-tilt-camera-s340-dual-lens/): A solar pan tilt camera, and the most capable in eufy’s solar range, and the only one that moves. The head pans a full circle and tilts, so one unit watches a whole compound rather than a single approach, and AI tracking turns it to follow whatever it has picked up. The only one in the solar range that moves Two lenses, and why that matters at a gate The detachable panel solves the usual problem A solar pan tilt camera after dark Storage The top of the solar range It carries two lenses. A 3K wide-angle lens takes in the [...]
- [eufy Security Indoor Cam C220 White](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufy-c220-indoor-cam-2k-white/): The eufy C220 indoor cam is the sensible middle of eufy’s indoor range. It is a small, upright camera on a motorised base that pans a full 360° and tilts 75°, recording in 2K with 4× digital zoom. One unit on a shelf covers a whole room, and the app can swing it wherever you want to look. Where the eufy C220 indoor cam sits in the range It sorts what it sees before it bothers you Recording without a subscription Check the model number on the box C220 against the rest It sorts what it sees before it bothers you. [...]
- [Smart Lock - Mortise Lock with Handle (S811 - Hotel TTLOCK)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/ttlock-hotel-smart-lock-s811/): A TTLock hotel smart lock: the same slim mortise handle as the S811, running TTLock instead of Tuya. If you are locking one door in your own house, that difference does not matter. If you are running a guest house, a serviced apartment or a block of let rooms, it is the only thing that matters. Why TTLock rather than Tuya Running more than one door on a TTLock hotel smart lock Inside the panel The hardware, and the doors it fits For letting rooms, not for one front door TTLock is built for handing out keys you did not have [...]
- [Smart Lock - Mortise Lock with Long Handle (S928)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/automatic-smart-lock-s928-push-pull/): An automatic smart lock, full height, that throws and withdraws the bolt by motor. You do not turn anything. Present a finger, and the deadbolt pulls back on its own; push or pull the long handle and walk in. Close the door and it locks itself. What automatic actually means here An automatic smart lock with no gateway to buy Cylinder, alarms and the screen Fitting it to your door The one you do not have to think about That is a real difference at a front door with shopping in both hands, and it is also the security difference: a [...]
- [Smart Lock - Mortise Lock with Long Handle (S819-2)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/long-handle-smart-lock-s819-2/): A long handle smart lock for a main door. The escutcheon runs 375 mm, which is what a heavy steel or aluminium front door usually wants, and the fingerprint ring sits at the base of the handle where your hand already is. What the long escutcheon is for Six ways in Doors a long handle smart lock fits Power and alarms For a heavy front door It opens six ways: fingerprint, code, card, mechanical key, the Tuya app and an optional remote control. The reader is a semiconductor type, which reads the live ridge pattern rather than a picture of it. [...]
- [WiFi Touch Switch-4 Gang - Black](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-touch-switch-4-gang-black/): A WiFi touch switch 4 gang black in tempered glass that replaces the light switch on your wall and puts four circuits on your phone. No hub, no gateway: it joins your Wi-Fi on its own and appears in the Smart Life app. Why choose the WiFi touch switch 4 gang black The illuminated touch points against black Four circuits, four separate devices Count the buttons, and check the neutral What we need from you The black glass wipes clean and resists damp, so a kitchen is fine. Alexa and Google Assistant both answer to it. Why choose the WiFi touch [...]
- [WiFi Heater Switch 20A - Black](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/black-geyser-switch-20a-wifi/): A black geyser switch: a glass touch panel that puts the water heater on your phone. It replaces the geyser’s existing wall switch, so the plate on the wall stays a plate on the wall and still works by touch when the internet is down. What it adds is everything you cannot do with a rocker switch: turn the geyser on from bed twenty minutes before you get up, set it to heat for an hour each morning and evening rather than sitting on all day, and see from the app whether somebody left it running. The same panel, in black [...]
- [JR Touch Neon Switch - 8 Gang](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/jr-touch-neon-switch-8-gang/): The JR Touch Neon Switch 8 Gang is an eight channel Z-Wave touch panel, made in India, on a single wide sheet of toughened glass with a metal bezel. Eight backlit icons cover a whole room from one plate, and each icon is chosen by you through the JR web portal. The JR Touch Neon Switch 8 Gang: eight circuits, one sheet of glass Eight identical dots would be useless, so the icons are chosen What eight mains circuits ask of a panel It repeats for everything else What it needs A Z-Wave controller is required and is not included. The [...]
- [JR Touch Neon Switch - 4 Gang + Fan Controller](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/jr-touch-neon-switch-4-gang-fan-controller/): The JR Touch Neon Switch 4 Gang Fan Controller is a four channel Z-Wave touch panel with a fan controller, made in India. Four backlit icons handle the lights and the circle on the right runs the fan, with four speed steps and its own on and off, so the room needs one plate rather than a switch plate and a separate regulator. One plate instead of a switch plate and a regulator The JR Touch Neon Switch 4 Gang Fan runs four speed steps The icons say what each one does Backlight, ratings and the mesh What it needs A [...]
- [JR Touch Neon Switch - 4 Gang](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/jr-touch-neon-switch-4-gang/): The JR Touch Neon Switch 4 Gang is a four channel Z-Wave touch panel, made in India, in a 2M glass panel with a metal bezel. Four backlit icons sit on the face and you choose each one through the JR web portal, so the plate is labelled for the room rather than left blank. The JR Touch Neon Switch 4 Gang on a 2M plate Set the backlight colour to the room Every panel strengthens the network Five amps a channel, with surge protection What it needs A Z-Wave controller is required and is not included. The JR Touch Neon [...]
- [JR Touch Neon Switch - 2 Gang](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/jr-touch-neon-switch-2-gang/): The JR Touch Neon Switch 2 Gang is a two channel Z-Wave touch panel, made in India. One sheet of toughened glass takes the place of a conventional two switch plate, and the two backlit icons on the face are chosen by you through the JR web portal, so a fan reads as a fan and a light reads as a light. The icons are the reason a JR Touch Neon Switch 2 Gang is not a blank plate The backlight adapts, so it is readable at both ends of the day It makes your Z-Wave network stronger Ratings and protection [...]
- [eufy Security Indoor Cam S350 Dual Cameras](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/dual-lens-indoor-camera-s350-4k/): The S350 is a dual lens indoor camera: one unit with two lenses, not two cameras. A 4K wide-angle lens takes in the room and a 2K telephoto lens sits beside it, and the two work together to give 3× genuine optical zoom, so when you zoom in on a face across a room you get real detail rather than a bigger, blurrier crop. Push further and it reaches 8× hybrid zoom. It can also show both lenses at once in Dual View. How a dual lens indoor camera zooms It follows what it finds The best radio eufy puts indoors [...]
- [eufy Security Video Doorbell Wireless C210](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufy-video-doorbell-c210-battery/): The eufy Video Doorbell C210 is the simplest of the three eufy doorbells we stock, and for a lot of houses it is the right one. A slim battery unit that goes on the door frame in a few minutes with no wiring at all, supplied with a small white chime that plugs in indoors. How the eufy Video Doorbell C210 and its chime work as a pair The chime holds the recordings, and the card is not in the box Battery life on a busy gate Picture shape, not just picture size Which of the three eufy doorbells suits your [...]
- [Zigbee Tuya Gateway with IR + BT](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-gateway-with-ir-blaster-bluetooth/): A Zigbee gateway with IR blaster and Bluetooth Mesh built in, which is three hubs in one black disc. It runs all three at the same time, which means one device on a shelf can reach your Zigbee sensors and switches, your Bluetooth Mesh lights, and the air conditioner and television that only ever answered to a remote control. What a Zigbee gateway with IR blaster replaces Three radios, and why they are in one box Fifty devices, and a network that improves as it grows What still works when the internet drops Which of the three gateways to take The [...]
- [Smart Lock - Smart Padlock S502 - Heavy](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/heavy-duty-smart-padlock-s502/): A heavy duty smart padlock, the bigger of our two fingerprint ones. Same idea as the S501, in a bigger body with a thicker shackle, for the jobs where the small one looks out of place: a compound gate chain, a generator cage, a container, a shop shutter. Why the heavy duty smart padlock, and what it costs you No key, no keyhole The app Battery and weather rating Ten people, and a thicker shackle You open it with your thumb. No key to lose, no key to cut for the second person, no keyhole to pick. It stores 10 fingerprints, [...]
- [Danalock LINCE Cylinder](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/danalock-lince-cylinder/): The Danalock LINCE cylinder, the one the Danalock is built to sit on. A Euro profile security cylinder with five stainless steel pins, supplied with five physical keys and a security card. Fit it in the door first, then mount the Danalock on the inside. On the Danalock LINCE cylinder, the security card is the part that matters Fit the cylinder first, then the Danalock The door still works as a door Euro profile What it goes with On the Danalock LINCE cylinder, the security card is the part that matters Copies of these keys are only cut on presentation of [...]
- [WYZE Cam v4 - Black](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wyze-cam-v4-black-2k-security-camera/): The Wyze Cam v4 black is the same camera as the white one, for the times when a white box on a dark wall is the last thing you want. Identical hardware, identical price, darker shell. When the colour of the camera is the point What the Wyze Cam v4 black sees at 2.5K Spotlights, siren and night behaviour Cards, subscriptions and Wi-Fi bands Black or white, and which Wyze to buy 2.5K sensor, twin spotlights in the face of it, a 99 dB siren, IP65 sealing and microSD recording with no monthly fee. When the colour of the camera is the [...]
- [WiFi Curtain Track + Motor 6m](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/6m-smart-curtain-track-wifi-motor/): A 6m smart curtain track, sold as the whole system: aluminium track, motor, runners and a handheld remote. It opens on a schedule in the morning, closes at dusk, and takes orders from your phone anywhere you happen to be, or from Alexa and Google Home. The Wi-Fi radio sits inside the motor, so there is no hub or bridge to buy alongside it. The windows a 6m smart curtain track is bought for Corners, bays and runs that do not go straight Weight, brackets and keeping a long run straight Six metres, or a tier either side The feature that [...]
- [Smart Lock - Rim/Gate Lock (S8535)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/surface-mounted-smart-lock-s8535/): A surface mounted smart lock, or rim lock: it bolts onto the face of the door instead of being cut into its edge. That is what makes it the answer for a steel gate, an iron door or a framed glass door, none of which have an edge you can sink a mortise into. The doors a surface mounted smart lock is for Five ways in, and no gateway The fitting rule that decides whether this is the right lock Power and what we will not guess at Send us a photograph of the gate The round fingerprint reader sits above [...]
- [Smart Lock - Sliding Glass Lock (G9S)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/glass-door-smart-lock-g9s/): A glass door smart lock for the one door most locks cannot go on: frameless glass. Shopfronts, showrooms, meeting rooms and reception areas, where the door is a sheet of toughened glass with no frame to screw into. It clamps the glass instead. The door most locks cannot go on Why a business wants a glass door smart lock Screen, doorbell and speed Two things to settle first Glass thickness, and the handles Five ways in: fingerprint, code, IC card, the Tuya app and a mechanical key. Wi-Fi is built in, so there is no gateway to buy. For a business [...]
- [Smart Lock - Facial Recognition Lock (S937)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/facial-recognition-door-lock-s937/): A full height facial recognition door lock, push-pull, with 3D face reading, a 2 MP camera, video calling and a screen on the inside panel. Walk up, it reads your face from 50 to 80 cm away and the door is open before you have taken your hands out of your pockets. How the face reader works The screen, the camera and the app Door sizes a facial recognition door lock fits Power and finishes Fitting a full height panel The face reader is 3D rather than a flat camera, so a photograph will not open it. There are six ways [...]
- [Battery - Varta AAA 4 Pack](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aaa-battery-4-pack/): A AAA battery four pack, for everything that needs them. Longlife Extra alkaline AAA at 1.5 volts, in a four pack. Remote controls, wall clocks, torches, keypads, door chimes and the long tail of small things around a house that quietly run flat. What actually runs down an AAA battery in a house Alkaline is right for low drain The dispenser is a small mercy Where AAA turns up in a smart home The specification What actually runs down an AAA battery in a house The long tail of small things nobody thinks about until one of them stops. Remote controls, [...]
- [WiFi Touch Switch + RF (3 Gang)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-touch-switch-rf-3-gang/): A WiFi touch switch RF 3 gang, with a 433 MHz receiver built in as well as Wi-Fi. Three circuits, and a way in that does not need the network Where three gangs and RF go together On a WiFi touch switch RF 3 gang, each circuit is its own device The build Before ordering It needs a neutral wire at the switch box. Three circuits, and a way in that does not need the network The WiFi touch switch RF 3 gang covers three circuits from one plate, and carries a 433 MHz receiver behind the glass as well as [...]
- [WiFi Touch Switch + RF (2 Gang)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-touch-switch-rf-2-gang/): A WiFi touch switch RF 2 gang, with a 433 MHz receiver built in. That second radio is the whole reason to buy this one instead of the plain version: when the Wi-Fi is down, an RF remote still works the lights. The second radio is the entire reason to buy this one A remote that reaches the far end of the house The WiFi touch switch RF 2 gang gives two devices in the app What it is made of The wiring, and the remote The rest is the usual: Smart Life with no hub, Alexa and Google Assistant, timers, [...]
- [Vilros Raspberry Pi 4 - 8GB Starter Kit (Black)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/raspberry-pi-4-8gb-starter-kit-black/): A Raspberry Pi 4 8GB starter kit in a heavy aluminium case, and the one to take if you already have memory cards in a drawer. It is the full 8GB Model B, the top of the Pi 4 range, in black anodised alloy with a fan already fitted. Read this first: no memory card is included Why this Raspberry Pi 4 8GB starter kit uses an alloy case What 8GB of RAM is actually enough for Ports and connections What else you will need Read this first: no memory card is included This is the basic kit. You supply a [...]
- [Echo Dot Clock (5th Gen, 2022 release) Cloud Blue](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-dot-clock-cloud-blue/): The Echo Dot Clock Cloud Blue is the same speaker with an LED display through the fabric. What the Echo Dot Clock Cloud Blue adds over a plain Dot The display dims itself Tap the top and the alarm stops Cloud blue, and what it does to a bedroom Everything else a Dot does What the Echo Dot Clock Cloud Blue adds over a plain Dot An LED display behind the fabric, and on a bedside table that display is the entire reason to buy this version instead of the cheaper one. The time at a glance in the dark without [...]
- [Echo Dot Clock (5th Gen, 2022 release) Glacier White](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/echo-dot-clock-glacier-white/): The Echo Dot Clock Glacier White puts an LED display behind the fabric of the standard Dot. What the Echo Dot Clock Glacier White is for Timers are the kitchen argument It does not glare at night What it shares, and what it lacks Which one to buy Tap the top to snooze the alarm. What the Echo Dot Clock Glacier White is for A bedside table, mostly, and a kitchen counter after that. The LED display sits behind the fabric and shows the time, the outside temperature, a timer counting down and the title of what is playing. In white [...]
- [Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 Plus](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/aeotec-z-stick-gen5-plus/): The Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 Plus turns a computer into a Z-Wave hub. Plug it into a laptop, a desktop or a Raspberry Pi, run the Z-Wave software you prefer, and every Z-Wave device in the building answers to it. Who the Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 Plus is for The battery inside is the clever part S2 security, and why it matters on a controller Firmware updates over the air What you need Who the Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 Plus is for People who would rather run their own controller than buy a finished hub. Plug it into a laptop, a desktop or a [...]
- [WiFi Curtain Track + Motor 8m](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/8m-smart-curtain-track-wifi-motor/): An 8m smart curtain track supplied complete: aluminium track, drive motor, runners and a handheld remote. It runs to a schedule, answers the phone from anywhere, and takes voice commands through Alexa or Google Home. The Wi-Fi radio is built into the motor, so nothing else has to be bought to make it work. Who buys an 8m smart curtain track Fabric weight is the thing to get right on a long run One motor, one continuous run Before you commit to eight metres It also starts on a hand pull. Touch the curtain and the motor takes the rest of [...]
- [Smart Lock - Bluetooth Key Box](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fingerprint-key-safe-bluetooth-key-box/): A fingerprint key safe you bolt to the wall or hang on a gate, opened by fingerprint, code, IC card or the Tuya app. Inside it are the ordinary keys to the house. It is the answer to a problem that has no good answer otherwise: how do you let somebody in when you are not there and you are not willing to hand over a key you can never get back? What a fingerprint key safe is actually for Four ways to open it Where you can put it The cheapest way to solve the key problem The cleaner, the [...]
- [Smart Lock - Mortise Lock with Camera (S802Max)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/smart-lock-with-camera-s802-max/): A smart lock with camera: a mortise handle with an HD lens above the keypad. Somebody stands at your door, and you see them. The camera also captures the face of anyone who tries a wrong code, so a failed attempt leaves a picture rather than just a log entry. It opens by fingerprint, code, card, mechanical key and the Tuya app. The reader is the ring at the base of the handle. The handle itself is a free handle: it turns without moving the latch until the lock has recognised you, so forcing it achieves nothing. The keypad takes a [...]
- [Smart Lock - Deadbolt Handle Lock (A290)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/deadbolt-handle-lock-a290/): A deadbolt handle lock with a lever above and below the keypad panel, in black anodised aluminium. It is the shape most people picture when they think of a smart lock on a front door: you unlock it and pull the handle, rather than unlocking it and then hunting for something to grip. Why a handle rather than a bare bolt Five ways in, and no gateway Fitting a deadbolt handle lock, and mortise options Batteries and getting in without them Handle or bare bolt Five ways in: fingerprint, IC card, a wristband, the Tuya app and a mechanical key. Wi-Fi [...]
- [Smart Lock - Rose Set Handle Lock (S1-Y)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/rose-set-smart-lock-s1-y-handle/): A smart lever handle with the fingerprint reader built into the handle itself and a separate round escutcheon for the cylinder. No long plate down the door: just a handle and a disc, in black. A handle, not a plate Speed and capacity Fitting a rose set smart lock Two things to plan for Ask us about the batteries It reads a finger in 0.3 seconds and holds 120 fingerprints, which is more than most houses will ever need and enough for a small office. Four ways in: fingerprint, a dynamic password, the Tuya app over Bluetooth and a mechanical key. [...]
- [Homey Pro (Early 2023)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/homey-pro-2023-matter-thread/): The Homey Pro 2023 is the flagship, rebuilt as a slim black disc with a quad-core processor behind it. It carries more radios than anything else on this shelf and adds the two that matter for what comes next: Thread and Matter. Thread and Matter, and why they are the reason to buy this one Every radio the Homey Pro 2023 carries Range and processing, against the older spheres Flows, and nothing leaving the house One thing to plan for before it arrives Thread and Matter, and why they are the reason to buy this one Matter is the standard the [...]
- [Standalone Fridge Door Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fridge-door-alarm/): A fridge door left ajar is a slow, expensive accident. Nobody notices until the milk has turned and the freezer has thawed. This is a small white fridge door alarm that notices for you. Why a fridge door alarm is worth the money here It escalates rather than shrieking Four volume modes, set with one button Fitting it, and checking the gap What it fits Why a fridge door alarm is worth the money here A door left on the latch does not announce itself. The compressor runs and runs, the freezer creeps up, and the first anybody knows is spoiled [...]
- [Standalone Door Sensor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/standalone-door-alarm/): No app, no hub, no Wi-Fi. A standalone door alarm that works entirely on its own. Two parts stick on, one on the door and one on the frame. Open the door while it is switched on and it sounds, right there at the door. What a standalone door alarm is good at Noise at the door, not a notification on a phone It moves when you do What it will not do The alternatives, if you want to be told What a standalone door alarm is good at Being used. There is no app to install, no account to make, [...]
- [eufy security S330 Video Doorbell Dual Camera (Battery-Powered)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufy-s330-dual-camera-video-doorbell/): A dual camera video doorbell, and the second camera is the reason it exists. A 2K lens looks forward at your visitor and a second 1080p lens looks down at the step, so you see the caller and whatever they left on the ground. Why a dual camera video doorbell beats a single lens Two sensors, so the wind stops waking you Delivery Guard, and how much to expect from it The HomeBase is in the box, and it is not optional Before you order: two things to check Everything is stored in your house and there is nothing to subscribe [...]
- [eufy Smart Weighing Scale P1](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufy-smart-scale-p1-body-composition/): Step on and the eufy Smart Scale P1 does the rest. Weight appears on the LED display in a second or two, and by the time you have stepped off, fourteen measurements are sitting in the app on your phone: weight, BMI, body fat, body water, muscle mass, bone mass, lean body mass, visceral fat, protein, basal metabolic rate and body age among them. How the eufy Smart Scale P1 reads fourteen figures Why the chart matters more than the number Sixteen people on one scale Where the readings end up This one or the Wyze scale A conductive measuring layer [...]
- [eufyCam 2C Pro - Add-On](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufycam-2c-pro-add-on-camera-2k/): Read this first: the eufyCam 2C Pro add-on is not a complete system. eufyCam cameras do not join your Wi-Fi. They talk only to a eufy HomeBase, which holds the recordings. There is no HomeBase in this box, and eufy is blunt about what that means: the camera alone will not work. If you do not already own one, buy the eufyCam 2C Pro kit instead. Not a system on its own What the eufyCam 2C Pro add-on gives you over the eufyCam 2 Battery and detection Measure the distance before you mount it Before you add one If you already [...]
- [Sensibo Air - AC Controller](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/sensibo-air-ac-controller-homekit/): Most air conditioners in Dar are split units with an infrared remote, and the remote is the weak point. It gets lost, the batteries die, and there is no way to switch the unit on before you get home. The Sensibo Air AC controller replaces that remote with your phone. It is a small square puck that sits on a shelf or sticks to the wall where it can see the indoor unit, learns your existing remote’s infrared codes, and then fires them on command from the app, from a schedule, or when your phone crosses a geofence on the way [...]
- [X-Sense Mini Smoke Alarm (WiFi)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/x-sense-wifi-smoke-alarm/): The X-Sense WiFi smoke alarm tells your phone. It joins 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi directly, with no base station and no hub, and sends a notification the moment it detects smoke, whether you are downstairs or out of the country. What the X-Sense WiFi smoke alarm covers that a plain one does not It also reports the dull things Twelve accounts, no subscription The sensor and the body Which X-Sense to buy What the X-Sense WiFi smoke alarm covers that a plain one does not The empty house. A detector on its own is a noise in a room, and if nobody [...]
- [RF Wireless Remote](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/rf-wireless-remote/): An RF wireless remote on 433 MHz with four buttons, A to D, that pairs straight to an RF receiver. No Wi-Fi, no hub, no account and no app. Press the button, the receiver hears it, the load switches. What an RF wireless remote pairs with The 1527 learning code is why it is so widely compatible No app, no account, no internet The battery is the one thing to plan for What it works with here What an RF wireless remote pairs with Anything that has a 433 MHz receiver in it, and in a typical house that is more [...]
- [RF Wireless Switches](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/rf-wireless-switches/): RF wireless switches at 433.92 MHz look and press like an ordinary light switch and has nothing wired behind it. It sends a radio signal to an RF receiver, and the receiver does the switching. Where RF wireless switches solve a problem nothing else can It looks and presses like a normal switch Adding a second switch to an existing circuit Read this: it needs a receiver Sizes and what it needs Where RF wireless switches solve a problem nothing else can A glass partition. A finished brick or concrete wall where nobody is cutting a chase. The far end of [...]
- [Smart WiFi Twin Socket (White)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/smart-twin-wall-socket-glass/): A smart twin wall socket on a glass front plate, with two universal outlets that switch independently and a USB-A and a USB-C port between them. A smart twin wall socket switches each outlet alone Wired in, and what that involves USB-A and USB-C, sharing one supply Touch rings, so it works without a phone Check the load before you order A smart twin wall socket switches each outlet alone This is what makes a smart twin wall socket worth more than a double adaptor with one radio in it. Put a television on one outlet and a router on the [...]
- [Smart WiFi Single Socket (Black](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/black-smart-wall-socket-usb/): A black smart wall socket that replaces the one already in the wall. One universal outlet, two USB charging ports, and Wi-Fi built into the back of it. Why a black smart wall socket exists An electrician fits it, not you One outlet that takes any plug Charging built into the wall What it is rated for Why a black smart wall socket exists The hardware is identical to the white socket. Same universal outlet, same two USB ports, same 13A rating, same app. Nothing technical separates them. A black smart wall socket is for the walls where a white face [...]
- [Smart Water Valve](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/smart-water-valve-actuator/): A smart water valve actuator is not a valve. It is a motor that turns the valve you already have, and everything that follows from that is set out below. A smart water valve actuator is not a valve Check your valve before you order The leak sensor pairing is why most people buy one It tells you where it is Two things to plan for A smart water valve actuator is not a valve A smart water valve actuator is a motor that turns the valve you already have. It clamps onto the pipe, an arm grips the existing lever, [...]
- [Fingerbot - Button Pusher (With Accessories + Hub)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/fingerbot-button-pusher-with-hub/): A Fingerbot button pusher is a tiny robot finger that sticks beside a button and presses it on command, and this listing includes the hub. Why a Fingerbot button pusher needs the hub The accessories are what make it fit Nothing is opened, wired or drilled Charging rather than batteries Force, and one figure published two ways Why a Fingerbot button pusher needs the hub A Fingerbot button pusher on its own is a Bluetooth device with about 15 metres of range. It works when you are in the house and stops when you leave. This listing includes the hub, and [...]
- [X-Sense Remote Controller](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/x-sense-remote-controller/): The X-Sense remote is the handset for a set of interlinked X-Sense alarms. It tests them all and it silences them all, from the floor, without a ladder or a broom handle. What the X-Sense remote is actually for Finding the source is the clever part Pairing is the same button Which alarms it works with What it goes with What the X-Sense remote is actually for Testing and silencing a whole group of interlinked alarms from where you are standing. That sounds like a convenience and turns into a safety feature, because the alarm nobody can reach is the alarm [...]
- [Smart WiFi Kettle with Alexa](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/weekett-smart-kettle-wifi/): The WeeKett smart kettle is temperature controlled, with buttons on the base as well as in the app. The WeeKett smart kettle has buttons on the base Finer control in the app The baby milk programme, done properly Keep warm, capacity and safety One power figure published two ways The WeeKett smart kettle has buttons on the base Four presets sit on the base itself: 70, 80, 90 and 100 degrees, plus keep warm. That is what makes a WeeKett smart kettle usable by everyone in the house rather than only by whoever set it up. A house guest, a child [...]
- [eufy Security Smart Lock Touch + Fingerprint + Wi-Fi](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufy-fingerprint-deadbolt-touch-wifi/): eufy’s deadbolt, and the one lock here with a proper brand behind it: an app that is not a white label, a company that publishes its own manual, and a frame of zinc alloy and stainless steel tested to 250,000 cycles. How the eufy fingerprint deadbolt reads a finger No bridge, no hub Measure your door before ordering this deadbolt Deadbolt, not mortise Your finger is the key. It reads in 0.3 seconds and the door is open inside a second. It holds 50 fingerprints and 100 access codes of four to eight characters, and there is a keypad and a [...]
- [eufy Security 5-Piece Home Alarm Kit](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufy-security-5-piece-home-alarm-kit/): The eufy Security 5-Piece Home Alarm Kit is a complete alarm in one box: a HomeBase, a keypad, a motion sensor and two entry sensors. Nothing else is needed to cover a front door, a back door and a room. What is in the eufy Security 5-Piece Home Alarm Kit The keypad matters more than it looks on the box No monthly fee It grows into the cameras How it behaves, and what to add There is no monthly fee. What is in the eufy Security 5-Piece Home Alarm Kit A HomeBase, a keypad, a motion sensor and two entry sensors. [...]
- [eufy Security S330 eufyCam 3 - Solar](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/eufycam-3-solar-camera-4k-s330-kit/): A complete eufyCam 3 solar camera system in one box: two 4K eufyCam S330 cameras and the HomeBase 3 they run on. The cameras are wire-free and mount anywhere, with no cabling to run and no socket needed, and each one carries its own solar panel on top. About two hours of daily sunlight is enough to keep them charged indefinitely; without any sun at all a full battery lasts up to a year. Why a eufyCam 3 solar camera needs no wiring 4K, in colour, after dark The HomeBase 3 is the clever part Range, weather and one compatibility rule Two [...]
- [eufy security SoloCam E40 WiFi](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/solocam-e40-wire-free-2k/): The SoloCam E40 is the simplest way into eufy’s wire-free outdoor range. The SoloCam E40 has no cables to run and no base station to buy: it mounts wherever you point it, joins your Wi-Fi directly, and runs about four months on a charge. Nothing to run, nothing to buy alongside What it records Storage that cannot be expanded Two places the SoloCam E40 shows it is the entry model Adding solar later Where it sits in the range It records 2K across a 135° view with 8× digital zoom. On-device AI picks out people rather than every moving leaf, so [...]
- [Shelly Wall Frame - Single](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-wall-frame-single/): A Shelly wall frame single. A holder frame that attaches to the Shelly Wall Switch button and carries one Shelly Wall Switch button, with a matching frame plate in the same colour so the finished switch looks like one piece on the wall. A Shelly wall frame single is the finishing part Where a single is right The three parts of a finished Shelly switch Black What to order with it Black finish. A Shelly wall frame single is the finishing part It holds one Shelly Wall Switch button square in the wall box and gives it a clean edge, with [...]
- [Shelly Wall Frame - Double](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-wall-frame-double/): A Shelly wall frame double, the frame that finishes a Shelly Wall Switch. A holder frame that attaches to the Shelly Wall Switch button and carries two Shelly Wall Switch buttons side by side, with a matching frame plate in the same colour so the finished switch looks like one piece on the wall. What a Shelly wall frame double is for Count the buttons, not the circuits Black, and matching The switch is not included What to order alongside it Black finish. What a Shelly wall frame double is for Two Shelly Wall Switch buttons side by side in one [...]
- [Shelly Wall Switch 4](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-wall-switch-4-way/): The Shelly Wall Switch 4 is the plate and the buttons, in white, with four buttons on the face. It is not a smart device on its own. Four buttons is about scenes, not four lights The Shelly Wall Switch 4 is a plate, and nothing more Where four buttons genuinely beats four plates Fitting and compatibility What to order with it Four buttons is about scenes, not four lights Most back boxes do not feed four circuits, so the Shelly Wall Switch 4 is usually bought for a different reason: a Shelly Plus i4 behind it, and four buttons that [...]
- [Shelly Wall Switch 2](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-wall-switch-2-way/): The Shelly Wall Switch 2 is the plate and the buttons, in white, with two buttons on the face. Two circuits from one box, with the Shelly Wall Switch 2 It has no electronics of its own Which module goes behind it Fitting What to order with it It works with Shelly 1, 1PM, 2.5, 1L and Dimmer 2, the Plus range, and the Gen3 and Gen4 units including 1, 1PM, 2PM, i4, Dimmer and DALI Dimmer. Two circuits from one box, with the Shelly Wall Switch 2 This is the plate for a back box that feeds two things: the [...]
- [Shelly Wall Switch 1](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-wall-switch-1-way/): The Shelly Wall Switch 1 is the plate and the button, in white, with a single button on the face. Read this first: the Shelly Wall Switch 1 is not a smart device What it is actually for One button, and when that is right What it works with What to order with it Read this first: the Shelly Wall Switch 1 is not a smart device It is a plate and a button. There is no radio in it, no processor, nothing to pair and nothing that will appear in an app. The intelligence lives in the Shelly relay behind [...]
- [WiFi Relay - Shelly Plus i4](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-plus-i4-scene-controller/): The Shelly Plus i4 does not switch anything. It has no output at all, and everything below follows from that. Read this first: the Shelly Plus i4 switches nothing What it does instead: turns switches into scenes Why a physical switch still matters What it needs to be wired Setup and independence Read this first: the Shelly Plus i4 switches nothing It has no output. There is no relay in it and no load terminal. Sitting in a category called relays, that needs saying before anything else. It is four inputs and nothing more. If you want to switch a light, [...]
- [Shelly Pro 3](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-pro-3-din-rail-relay/): The Shelly Pro 3 puts three relays on DIN rail in the distribution board, switched from the app, on schedules, or by the wall switches that already control them. Three dry contacts, and why that matters Wired ethernet into a metal board Read this: there is no metering Existing switches still work Shelly Pro 3 load ratings and installation Three dry contacts, and why that matters The outputs on a Shelly Pro 3 are dry contacts: they close a circuit rather than carrying the load down it. That is what makes a three channel module worth more than three separate switches. [...]
- [Shelly Plus Humidity & Temperature](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-plus-humidity-temperature/): The Shelly Plus Humidity and temperature sensor puts the reading on an e-paper display, so the reading is on the wall as well as in your phone. E-paper draws almost nothing, which is how it shows a number all day and still runs about a year on four AA cells. Why the Shelly Plus Humidity sensor has a screen at all The two thresholds are the clever part What it actually triggers Power and where it goes Which of the two you want It joins Wi-Fi directly. No hub and no gateway. Why the Shelly Plus Humidity sensor has a screen [...]
- [Shelly Pro 1PM](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-pro-1pm-din-rail-relay/): The Shelly Pro 1PM does the same job as the in-wall modules, done properly in the distribution board. It clips onto DIN rail next to your breakers. Why a relay belongs in the board, not the back box The network socket is the Pro range advantage Metering on the output Your wall switches keep working Shelly Pro 1PM ratings and the alternatives An electrician installs it. Why a relay belongs in the board, not the back box Two reasons. There is room and airflow on DIN rail, so a 16A load is not sitting in a sealed plaster box behind a [...]
- [Shelly EM + 2 x 120A Clamp](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-em-energy-meter-120a-clamps/): The Shelly EM energy meter reads two circuits properly, over your own Wi-Fi, with no hub to buy. Which two circuits to put the Shelly EM energy meter on It measures more than watts A year of history, stored in the device Open, and readable locally The relay is not what people assume Which two circuits to put the Shelly EM energy meter on Two 120A clip-on clamps come with the Shelly EM energy meter, which is enough for the main incomer on one channel and a heavy circuit on the other. The pairing worth choosing is the whole house against [...]
- [WiFi Relay - Shelly Plus 2PM](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-plus-2pm-wifi-relay/): The Shelly Plus 2PM puts two metered relays in one back box: two lighting circuits switched and measured separately, or one motor driven up and down. Roller shutter mode is why most people buy the Shelly Plus 2PM Or two circuits, switched and measured separately Check the load before you plan it How it wires in Setup and what it needs Roller shutter mode is why most people buy the Shelly Plus 2PM Set the Shelly Plus 2PM to roller mode and the two relays become open and close for a motor: a curtain track, a blind, a gate, a garage [...]
- [WiFi Relay - Shelly Plus 1](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-plus-1-wifi-relay/): The Shelly Plus 1 is the current generation of the module that started all this: a relay hidden in the back box that leaves your wall switch working. The dry contact is what makes it more than a light switch It runs on DC as well as mains What the Plus generation adds Your wall switch keeps working What the Shelly Plus 1 does not do The dry contact is what makes it more than a light switch The output on a Shelly Plus 1 is a potential free dry contact. It closes a circuit rather than sending mains down it. [...]
- [WiFi Relay - Shelly Plus 1PM](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-plus-1pm-wifi-relay/): The Shelly Plus 1PM is the Plus 1 with a meter in it. It hides in the back box and leaves your wall switch working. What the Shelly Plus 1PM metering is actually for It is also a diagnostic Protection built into the module The Plus generation, and where it hides 16A, and what it will not do What the Shelly Plus 1PM metering is actually for A geyser, a borehole pump, a chest freezer or a security floodlight each cost real money every month and almost nobody knows how much. A Shelly Plus 1PM reports what the circuit is drawing [...]
- [eufy Security SoloCam L40 Spotlight](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/spotlight-security-camera-l40-600-lumen/): The bright one. A spotlight security camera with 600 lumens in the front of it, adjustable both in brightness and in colour from a warm 4,000 K to a cold 6,000 K, and it is what turns night footage from infrared grey into full colour. On a driveway or a yard gate it doubles as a security light that happens to record. 600 lumens, and what that buys you Behind the light of a spotlight security camera The biggest battery in the range The one thing to settle before choosing the L40 L40 or S40 Behind it is a 2K camera with a [...]
- [eufy Security Solo Outdoor Pro](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/mains-powered-outdoor-camera-2k-t8441/): A mains powered outdoor camera, and the odd one out in eufy’s outdoor range: this camera plugs into the mains and stays plugged in. There is no battery to charge and no four-monthly trip up a ladder. If you have a socket within reach of where you want to watch, that is a real advantage over every battery model beside it. No battery, no ladder A 32 GB card in the box What it sees Outdoors, all year Where a mains powered outdoor camera makes sense Only if there is a socket It records 2K across a 130° view, with 8× [...]
- [eufy Security 2K Indoor Cam Pan & Tilt - Mini](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/mini-pan-tilt-camera-2k-t8414/): This mini pan tilt camera is the smallest one eufy puts a motor in. It stands about as tall as a credit card is long, so it disappears on a bookshelf or a kitchen counter, and it still turns a full 360° and tilts 100°, slightly further up and down than its full-size sibling. One of these covers a whole room from a corner shelf. Small enough to disappear What this mini pan tilt camera notices Privacy mode that actually moves the lens What the Mini gives up for its size Mini or full size It records in 2K, and the [...]
- [WiFi Touch Switch-4 Gang](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-touch-switch-4-gang/): A WiFi touch switch 4 gang in tempered glass that replaces the light switch on your wall and puts four circuits on your phone. No hub, no gateway: it joins your Wi-Fi on its own and appears in the Smart Life app. Four gangs is rarer than people think A WiFi touch switch 4 gang means one plate instead of two Four independent devices in the app The wiring question, and it is not optional Before you order Tempered glass, treated to resist damp, so a kitchen or a bathroom is fine. Four gangs is rarer than people think Before ordering [...]
- [Shelly Pro 4PM - Relay](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/shelly-pro-4pm-din-rail-relay/): The Shelly Pro 4PM is the top of the range: four metered relays on DIN rail with a colour screen on the front. The screen is not decoration Metering on all four channels Wired ethernet, because the board is steel Check the total, not just the per channel figure Shelly Pro 4PM installation and the smaller options The screen is not decoration The colour LCD on the front of the Shelly Pro 4PM shows the time, the network state and all four outputs, and the outputs can be switched from the front of the board. When somebody is standing at the [...]
- [Amazon Fire Stick 4K (Max](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/amazon-fire-stick-4k-max/): The Amazon Fire Stick 4K Max is the quickest stick Amazon put in this shape. A 1.8 GHz quad-core processor, 2 GB of DDR4 memory and Wi-Fi 6, driving 4K at up to 60 frames a second with Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG, and Dolby Atmos passed through. Wi-Fi 6 is the reason to buy the Amazon Fire Stick 4K Max AV1 decoding, which matters more each year A camera on the screen without pausing the film The remote has app shortcut buttons Which of the two 4K sticks Wi-Fi 6 is the reason to buy the Amazon Fire Stick [...]
- [Eufy Wifi + Solar Camera S40](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/solar-camera-s40-spotlight-2k/): The solar camera S40 is the sensible pick in eufy’s outdoor range: a bright spotlight, a big battery and a solar panel that keeps it fed. Around two hours of direct sun a day is enough to keep it charged indefinitely, and even with no sun the 13,400 mAh battery is rated at about four months. What a solar camera S40 puts in one housing Colour at night, not infrared grey Behind the light Storage S40 against the L40 Which of the three solar models The 600 lumen spotlight is adjustable in both brightness and colour, from a warm 4,000 K to a [...]
- [Smart Lock - Euro Cylinder with Motor](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/motorised-euro-cylinder-smart-lock/): A motorised euro cylinder. Where the plain fingerprint cylinders only release the barrel so you can turn the handle, this one has a motor in it and drives the bolt itself. Present a finger and the door unlocks, no turning. What the motor in a motorised euro cylinder changes Fitting it to the door you already have Access, encryption and range Measure before you order One length only, so measure It goes in the door you already have. The cylinder comes out, this goes in, one screw, no drilling and no damage. Fitting is five to ten minutes and needs no [...]
- [Smart Lock - Deadbolt Lock (A220)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/smart-deadbolt-a220-keypad/): A black keypad deadbolt for a door that takes the American style fitting: a round bore through the door and a bolt that shoots into the frame, with no handle attached to it. Three things this smart deadbolt does that cheaper locks do not Five ways in, managed one by one Is your door the right shape If the batteries die while you are out Before it goes on the door Five ways in: fingerprint, IC card, code, the Tuya app and a mechanical key. Wi-Fi is built in, so it joins your router on its own with no gateway to [...]
- [Smart Lock - Rim/Gate Lock (R5)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/smart-gate-lock-r5-rim-lock/): A rim lock: it bolts onto the face of the door rather than into a mortise cut through it. That is why it goes on a gate, a steel door or a rental flat where nobody wants a carpenter making holes. Why a rim lock goes where a mortise cannot Five ways in Fitting a smart gate lock outdoors Power Which side of the gate is dry Five ways in: fingerprint, code, IC card, mechanical key and the Tuya app. The reader is the illuminated ring at the top of the panel. The outside panel is 168 x 59 mm and [...]
- [Zigbee Gateway with Apple HomeKit Compatibility](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/homekit-zigbee-gateway-zmhk-01/): A HomeKit Zigbee gateway puts your Zigbee devices into Apple’s Home app, and that is the whole reason to choose this one over an ordinary Tuya hub. What a HomeKit Zigbee gateway does that a Tuya one cannot It is not an either-or Wired to the router, not on your Wi-Fi The compatibility question, honestly Device limits and the alternatives Wired to the router, it runs a Zigbee 3.0 network of its own. Every mains-powered device on it repeats the signal onward, so coverage grows as you add more rather than thinning out. One thing to settle before you order, and [...]
- [Zigbee Smart Bulb GU10](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-smart-bulb-gu10/): A Zigbee smart bulb GU10 is a colour spot made for ceilings full of downlights rather than for a single lamp. Why a Zigbee smart bulb GU10 beats a Wi-Fi one The gateway is required, and it is not in the box Grouping a ceiling Fitting them Buy the ceiling in one order Why a Zigbee smart bulb GU10 beats a Wi-Fi one A downlit ceiling is never one bulb. A kitchen has six, a sitting room eight, a corridor four. Put those on Wi-Fi and every one of them is a device competing for a slot on your router, alongside [...]
- [WiFi Smart Bulb GU10](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/wifi-smart-bulb-gu10/): A WiFi smart bulb GU10 for the two-pin push-and-twist spots used in ceiling downlights, track lights and display fittings. Will a WiFi smart bulb GU10 fit your ceiling Downlights come in groups, and so does the payoff Colour in a ceiling, used properly No hub, and the band it needs Before you order a ceiling full Will a WiFi smart bulb GU10 fit your ceiling GU10 is the two-pin push-and-twist spot used in ceiling downlights, track lighting and display fittings. You push it up into the holder and turn it a quarter turn to lock. If your ceiling is full of [...]
- [Zigbee Electric Curtain Motor Only](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-curtain-motor-only/): This is a Zigbee curtain motor on its own, for a house already running Zigbee. Same job as the Wi-Fi motor in our track kits, different radio. No track comes with it. It is meant to drive one of our curtain tracks, either because you are building a system around Zigbee rather than Wi-Fi, or because a motor needs replacing. What the gateway does, and why nothing works without one Why a Zigbee curtain motor beats a Wi-Fi one in a busy house What is in the box Should you buy this or a complete track kit Buy it if your [...]
- [Zigbee Blind Driver](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-blind-driver/): This is the Zigbee blind driver, the third member of the family. It clips to the wall beside a roller, Roman or zebra blind, the beaded chain runs over the wheel on top, and from then on the motor pulls the chain instead of your hand. Nothing is cut and nothing is drilled into the blind itself. Which blinds a Zigbee blind driver will fit Three gears, because chains are not standardised Limits, speed and how loud it really is Zigbee, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth: pick by what you already own Buy this one only if you already run Zigbee, or intend [...]
- [Zigbee 4 Button Scene Switch (Black)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-4-button-scene-switch-black/): A Zigbee 4 button scene switch in black that needs no wiring at all, with a magnetic back so it lifts off as a remote. Why choose the Zigbee 4 button scene switch black Twelve instructions from four buttons It is a controller, and it has no relay The voice assistants, stated plainly What it needs A Tuya Zigbee hub is required and is not included. Why choose the Zigbee 4 button scene switch black Because of the wall behind it. On dark timber, a deep painted wall or a black feature panel, a white scene switch is the loudest thing [...]
- [Zigbee Repeater](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-repeater/): A Zigbee repeater that pushes the network further into the building. Small and USB powered, it that sits between your Zigbee gateway and the devices at the edge of its range, taking the signal on another 20 to 30 metres. When you need a Zigbee repeater Any USB source will run it Where to place it It behaves like any other Tuya device What it needs When you need a Zigbee repeater When a sensor in the back room reports sometimes, or a switch at the end of a corridor takes three attempts. Those symptoms look like faulty devices and almost [...]
- [Zigbee Smoke Sensor (Tuya)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-smoke-sensor-tuya/): A Zigbee smoke sensor that tells your phone as well as the room. The alarm sounds at 85 dB or more where it is fitted, and at the same moment a notification goes out, so a fire that starts while the house is empty is not discovered by the neighbours. The notification is the whole reason to buy a Zigbee smoke sensor Photoelectric, and what that changes It can act, not only alert The battery says something before it dies What it needs, and what else to consider A Zigbee hub is required and is not included. The notification is the [...]
- [Zigbee Flood/Water Sensor (Tuya)](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/zigbee-water-leak-sensor/): A Zigbee water leak sensor the size of a bottle cap. It sits on the floor and the contacts underneath close the moment water reaches them. Your phone is told at once, which is the difference between a wet corner and a ruined room. Where a Zigbee water leak sensor belongs It can shut the water off, not only tell you Two years on a button cell Why the size matters What it needs A Zigbee hub is required and is not included. Where a Zigbee water leak sensor belongs Wherever a slow leak can run for a week before anybody [...]
- [Govee Immersion Pro Kit TV Backlights with Camera + Sidelights](https://smarthome.co.tz/product/govee-immersion-pro-kit-tv-backlights/): The Govee Immersion Pro kit is the full set: a strip for behind the television, two light bars for either side of it, and a camera that watches the screen and drives both. What the Govee Immersion Pro kit has that the plain kit does not RGBIC, and why it matters on both parts The camera reads the screen, not the cable Check the size before ordering Which Govee TV kit to buy What the Govee Immersion Pro kit has that the plain kit does not Two light bars. The standard Immersion kit is a strip behind the screen and a [...]

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