Amazon is offering the Kasa HS300 Smart Plug Power Strip with Energy Monitoring for only $39.99. That's a hefty 50% price drop from its $20 MSRP. This power strip is chock full of practical features that you rarely find in other power strips, even in this price range. This is a really practical device during the holiday season for automating all of your Christmas lights and monitoring your power consumption. Electricity ain't cheap.
Kasa HS300 Smart Plug Power Strip with Energy Monitoring for $39.99
As its most basic function, the Kasa HS300 is a power strip with 6 AC outlets and 3 USB ports. There are individual switches on each AC outlet so you can manually switch on/off your device. However, the HS300 goes even further by supporting 802.11n WiFi support. Connect to the Kasa app on your smartphone and you can create schedules so that your devices automatically switch on/off at certain times of the day.
The Kasa HS300 power strip also supports energy monitoring on each outlet. You can see how much power each of your plugged in devices are comsuming and even track its power consumption over time. If you've the small single-outlet Kasa smart plugs before, you should be familiar with the interface.
What's great about these Kasa smart plugs is that they're Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant compatible. You can remotely power on/off each individual device via voice commands. For example during the holiday season you can have Alexa turn on and off several sets of Christmas lights automatically so that you won't be burning through your Tier 1 energy quota when no one's home. Getting a bunch of "dumb" electronics and hooking them up to a smart plug like this is far more economical than buying several smart devices.
