IKEA smartplugs: No thanks

Published by Kostas Stergiou on

Smart plugs are very useful for the smart home and the smart home cinema. They control several appliances. There are several smart plug brands out there.

IKEA also produces a smart plug at an affordable price. However, they seem to be defective. During the last three or so years I have bought 7 of them. Six of them stopped working after one to two years. They started to produce the characteristic ‘clicking’ sound.

 

 

 

 

I am expecting my seventh IKEA plug that controls the light of my aquarium to start clicking soon. Let’s see.

Sure, IKEA replaces the defective ones provided that you have the receipt.

But until this issue is fixed keep away from IKEA smart plugs. Clicking can be dangerous. My TV started turning on and off until the IKEA plug was unplugged.

 

 

 

 

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Kostas Stergiou

Kostas Stergiou is a Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was the former Director of the Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters of HCMR (2013-2021).He has research interests on fish and fisheries ecology, modeling and forecasting, ecosystem management, and bibliometrics. He has contributed more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several other publications (see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k8hb4pIAAAAJ).Since 2008 and 2015 he developed the home cinema and smart home hobbies and has installed different home cinema setups in two different houses which have lately been transformed to smart ones.

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