In-depth guides to help you choose the right smart home, cleaning, and networking gear.
Manufacturers genuinely disagree, so check yours. But the electrical rating is the smaller question. The one that matters is whether a heater should ever switch on while nobody is in the room.
Yes, always. A smart plug has to stay awake to hear the command to switch on, and that costs a trickle of power around the clock. Here is how much, and when it is worth caring about.
Sometimes, and it depends almost entirely on how you heat your home now. If your timer is already well set and you turn the heating down when you go out, expect very little.
Yes, for the part that matters. The schedule runs on the thermostat itself, so your heating keeps working when the internet drops. What you lose is the app, geofencing and voice control.
The cheapest way into a smart home, and the easiest to waste money on. What a smart plug can genuinely automate, what it can't, and the safety limits that matter.
The one smart device where compatibility is genuinely hard. What kind of heating you have decides what you can fit, and it varies enormously by country.