GE CYNC Indoor Smart Plug, Matter Compatible, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Outlet Socket, Compatible with Alexa and Google Home, Voice Control Outlet, Great Christmas Gifts for Men, Holiday Gift Idea (3 Pack)

10 reviews for GE CYNC Indoor Smart Plug, Matter Compatible, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Outlet Socket, Compatible with Alexa and Google Home, Voice Control Outlet, Great Christmas Gifts for Men, Holiday Gift Idea (3 Pack)

1. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Tommy F. – 23 October 2024

   
   They work great as timers to turn on my grow lights for my carnivorous plants in the morning and turn them off in the evening. I have the other plug for my air purifier so I dont have to get out of bed to turn it on. Install was easy and it works seamlessly with google home

2. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Nancy – 20 September 2024

   
   I’ve used several other brands of smart plugs and most of them are hard to use and stop working. Yes the GE CYNC is more expensive but it’s worth it. If you have trouble setting up they have live customer support. They are reliable, so I feel comfortable spacing a little more to get something that will last.

3. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Papa Pastie – 30 September 2023

   
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   So far so good. It works with the Alexa app alone. It doesn’t really advertise it. And it comes with a piece of literature that says you should download this CYNC app or something like that so this is what I did on my iPhone.Go to your settings turn on Bluetooth. Go to your Wi-Fi and put it on a Wi-Fi network. That is 2.4 some people don’t have that I had to go get a router and set it up plug it into my 5G router and then set it set the 2.4 G up. It just works better and it’s a lot easier to set your phone to that 2.4g net work.I downloaded the app but I never signed in. I never logged in. I never even opened it so I’m assuming that I didn’t need to do it but I did do from here on out wasOpen the Alexa appOn the bottom, go to devicesThere’s a plus sign on the top right hit that plusI think this is where your hit plugThey will ask you for your brand. The brand is GE it takes a second to register.Plugging your device into a plugIt helps if you were relatively close to the net work. When I said my plugs, I always make sure that I am really clothes are in the same room with the Wi-Fi net work, and I set it up and then I hand carry it to the actual room in the house that I wanted to go to. This works a lot faster in a lot more reliable.So plug in your plug and then hit find devices or something like thatAnd then you wait there may be another step once it find it it’ll ask you to set it upThat means you’ll pick the room rename it I don’t reading them I don’t pick the room I just tested and make sure it turns on and offThen I bring my six plugs or whatever to wherever I want them and plug them in and then in the Alexa app it’ll show me where it is and I will name where it is later. I’ll come back and start grouping those off and after that I start putting them into routines if I want things to automatically turn on and off.I have to be setting up a new house. My old loft was wide open, and I had about 30 different plugs, and I kind of got carried away and it was very very elaborate.Two out of my six plugs did not work when I plug them back in there was no light when I push the button on the side for a few seconds it didn’t work so I wanted to tell you how to fix that alsoOn the side push the button for a very long time I’m gonna call it like 10 to 20 seconds it’ll turn red. And then you let it go and it’ll be reset and it’ll be flashing green. Like I said two of these did that I had to reset them, but it took me a while. I was getting mad that I was gonna have to send them back but they actually really worked. And so far they feel really solid but I haven’t connected a ton of them up.So on a sidenote, I first tried to buy 5G sockets and I got like 15 of 12 or something and they just didn’t work. They clogged up the 5G system. Somehow I never had that problem with two point 4G plugs so I basically took them all out and just put them in a box and now I’m going to this and I’m hoping that I can change all my switches and all my lamps and everything so I can do the proper light settings. Hope this helps I don’t get paid to do this, so I’m not gonna spell check this.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Rob Starnes – 1 October 2024

   
   Out of most choices of accessories for Smart products, the GE is the best for Alexa or Google. Quick, easy setup. Lasts a long time because I’ve had one for my coffee machine two years now and still using it. Very good price when bought in bundle packs like this one.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Henry Garcia – 29 October 2024

   
   Works great with Alexa. Functions just as advertised and easy setup.

6. 

   Rated 1 out of 5

   Amazon Customer – 19 July 2023

   
   Terrible product. I purchased one plug to see how it worked. Set up is clunky with the app, but I finally worked out the scene/schedule thing. The plug worked great! I ordered 3 more plugs and got them all set up followed the exact same method as the first plug and while setup “worked,” from the moment I had more than 1 plug, none of them would stay connected to the wifi and working off bluetooth just made every plug disconnect as soon as I left the room. The schedules didn’t work and the only way to utilize what was plugged into the plug was to manually use the app to turn on the plug while I was in that room, but as soon as I left the room, the plug turned off.Support suggested factory reset and start over. Same results. I thought there might be a problem with the wifi signal, so I manually forced connection to the 2.4ghz. Same results. We were about to upgrade our entire wifi network with new hardware to troubleshoot this issue but then…I decided to try the AMAZON SMART PLUG on Prime Day and they have worked absolutely FLAWLESSLY from the moment I swapped out all the Cync plugs. I’ll never look back and never purchase another Cync product. The Amazon Smart Plugs work exactly as the Cync plugs *should” but don’t. What a waste of time and money!

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Cor224 – 19 October 2024

   
   These are so easy to set up and work great with Amazon Alexa. Highly recommend them!

8. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Evan R – 18 July 2024

   
   These work— Matter setup was easy and works well. They are set up directly in the Alexa app!I’m not a huge fan of Cync smart home products, especially their lightbulbs (I prefer Kasa and Philips Hue). But I have a couple older Cync bulbs that are not wifi-enabled (or something?) and don’t play nice with my Alexa. I read that if you add a wifi-enabled Cync product (like these plugs) to your smart home setup, it somehow fixes the issues with the older bulbs and makes them work properly with everything. And lo and behold, once I set up these plugs, my older Cync bulbs were communicating perfectly with Alexa!Those older lightbulbs still had to be set up in the GE Cync app. But I did NOT set up these newer plugs with the Cync app — I set them up using Matter (the instructions walk you through this). For Matter setup, you need a little QR code that’s on a sticker on each plug. In case I ever need to set them up again, I’m trying to hang onto the stickers by leaving them stuck on each plug. But if you lose any of them, the QR code is also printed really small on the back of each plug. The stickers are just more convenient.

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   Rated 3 out of 5

   Lindsey Stephens – 28 October 2024

   
   I purchased this so that I could have my crockpot turn on Friday at 4pm and off Saturday at 2pm. I didn’t think that would be too much to ask from a smart plug.First, google home app didn’t recognize the plug.Then, I installed the CYNC app. It recognized the plug after the 4th try (you’ll need your home wifi password even if your phone is already connected), but there was no easy way to have it turn on on one day and off the next day.I went back to the google home app and now it recognized the plug (I guess since the CYNC app had recognized it first?). It was very convoluted to set up what I wanted. I had to create a special routine, that would turn the plug on Friday. I didn’t bother setting up a second routine to turn it off Saturday because I was fed up by that point.It worked when I was home and my phone was on, but I have no idea if it will still work if I am not home Friday at 4pm or if I have my phone completely powered off.

10. 

    Rated 3 out of 5

    G. Whitehouse – 23 January 2023

    
    I bought these plugs to help manage interior lights (put them on a schedule) and also to charge devices during overnight hours when electricity rates drop but I’m typically asleep. They work for all those purposes, but I have to downgrade the product on overall usability. To manage the schedule you have to use the “Cync” app on your smart phone, and this is where the problems start. The app is beautiful looking but not easy to use, and in general seems over-designed and under-thought. Its arrangement might make sense for a complicated home setup with multiple smart lights and other similar devices, maybe integrate them with an Alexa, but all I want is to put plugs on a timer. To do this, I had to choose names and for some reason images for each plug and each room the plugs were in. More than half of the setup seems completely unnecessary.Only when all this was completed was I allowed to program a schedule (alternatively you can program a “scene,” though it isn’t ever explained what “scenes” are for or why you’d want to use one). Once you’ve done that, the plug name and the room name each have an unlabeled slider button – one of them (I think) arms the schedule – or perhaps the scene – and one of them (I think) turns the plug on/off manually. After 3 days of using them I’m still uncertain of their function. Probably if I was using this every day I’d eventually figure it out and retain that information, but I’d prefer to set it up once and then not think about it. Labeling the slider buttons (e.g. “Manual On/Off,” “Arm/Disarm Schedule”) would have solved that problem, but perhaps wouldn’t be as aesthetically pleasing? I can’t explain why they don’t label their controls, it’s baffling. Each plug comes with a small set of instructions which is not detailed enough to answer questions; there’s a toll-free support number, but I feel I shouldn’t have to talk to customer support just to put an outlet on a timer – the analog timers I can get at any hardware store are intuitive and easy to use. I almost always have things I’d rather do than spend 20 minutes talking to tech support. Bottom line, the app looks great but is hard to figure out; it’s frustrating to see overly clever user interface design get in the way of using a product for a simple purpose.The app prompts me to turn on Bluetooth and WiFi on my phone whenever I open the app, but once the plugs are programmed, there appears to be no reason to need either one (Bluetooth or WiFi). Maybe I’m misunderstanding the point of enabling Bluetooth and WiFi, but here again those features aren’t explained in the instructions and I’m not going to call tech support to find out. Since initially programming the plugs and entering the WiFi network info into the app, I can now use the app to turn plugs on & off manually, or adjust their schedules, all without having either Bluetooth or WiFi on. That’s handy, but it tells me that the app uses cellular data to communicate with an external host of some kind that then communicates with the plugs via the Internet and my home WiFi. This seems more complicated and prone to privacy/security problems than it needs to be. I’d prefer to have to use Bluetooth or WiFi to communicate with the plugs directly from my phone, and cut out the middleman and any security risk that entails, but my guess is these devices are intended to gather data about their users so there is no ability to use them without connecting them to the Internet.Something I liked about the app was its ability to reference a program schedule to sunrise and/or sunset. This allows you to turn lights off based on sunrise, or turn them on based on sunset. My analog timers won’t do that. On/off times can be adjusted from sunrise/sunset by minutes or hours, which is nice.