SPC, Sirius 1050 and Clever Plug SmartHome Product Review

SPC has bet very strongly on the «Smart Home», marry like this with your motto Smart generation, offering products that today are under brutal demand thanks to voice assistant services such as the Alexa Echo range and the current Google Home, which is why they have decided to bet on different products for the home such as robot vacuum cleaners that we have already analyzed here.

We have in our hands two of the most basic products with which we can enter the world of the smart home for the first time, Discover with us the SPC Sirius 1050 smart bulb and its companion the Clever Plug, compatible with Alexa and much more.

As always, we have a lot to say about both devices but we are going to dedicate different sections for each of them so that you can weigh your purchase both together and separately. We will carefully analyze sections such as materials, compatibility with third-party applications and of course the price, one of the most determining points when it comes to getting this device or another from the competition. Let's go there, take note because these may be two of the products that make you debut in the world of the smart home.

SPC Sirius 1050

We find a classic light bulb, it is very similar to others that we have already analyzed here and they are part of the cast of smart and simple lighting. The key is precisely that they actually look like normal light bulbs, in fact they feature the classic E7 socket medium in size that will allow you to put it in almost any traditional lamp, be it desk, floor or ceiling. Without a doubt you will not have to change your lighting equipment to be able to enjoy smart lighting and that is something that SPC has taken into account like many other brands.

We find a light bulb that is made of plastic at its base, but that is also composed of a plastic material in its outermost layer, and that is When enjoying LED lighting we have the possibility of including shock resistant materials because it will not produce any type of heating excessive to endanger these types of materials. This plastic carrycot has a diameter of 70 millimeters in total and a length of the bulb of 133 millimeters from the connector to the end of the lighting area.

It should be noted that it weighs relatively little if we compare it with bulbs from other firms, and that the installation is extremely simple. The packaging may not be as premium as we can hope for, but SPC is more focused on democratizing these types of products. A thin cardboard box the size of a lightbulb that reminds us of classic lightbulb boxes, and inside it includes both the small instruction book to configure the light bulb and the product itself, nothing else in this product, and we are not really going to need it, that is very clear to us.

Finally we find a luminous flux of 1050 lumens to spare an average room like a room or an office, consumes 10W which gives it an A + energy class although it gives the equivalent power of a 75W bulb. Despite the fact that the package warns of a color temperature of W2700K, we remember that we have the possibility to choose the color we want from hundreds of millions of possibilities through the application that we will talk about later, as well as different powers of lighting between 1% and 100%, as well as the shade of white that we want to choose for our room, We can do all of this through our own application for iOS and Android, or we can choose Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant or IFTTT. You can buy it on Amazon from 26,15 euros, or on your page websites.

SPC Clever Plug

The plugs are the second product by autonomy with which to enter the world of the smart home, and it is thanks to them that we will be able to program products that are not compatible with the different applications such as heating, thermos and even any other appliance. That is to say, We only have to plug in the SPC Clever Plug to the current, and the product that we want to make "intelligent" to the SPC Clever Plug, in this way we will take full control on the chosen product and we will decide when, how and why it turns on. In addition, this product is also compatible with Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, IFTTT and of course SPC's own application.

We have a plug that comes in a box quite similar to that of the aforementioned bulb, made entirely of white plastic. On the back we have the traditional male plug, and on the front the female plug so that we can connect the product we want. We have two indicator lights on this front, one that surrounds the button that will allow us to manually interact with the product (in case we are out of a WiFi connection) and another indicator of its operation. As for the measurements we have 54 mm x 74 mm x 103 mm.

It has the capacity to withstand and emit 16 amps, has a 230 W power supply and will emit a maximum power of 3680 W in total. The plug is compatible with the standard network and it will not pose any type of problem widespread when using it. Thanks to it and its application (as well as the compatibility with Alexa) we will be able to become intelligent from a lamp to a heater, we can turn on the connected product both through its physical connection and through the different digital means that SPC Proposes. You can get this product on Amazon from 22,90 euros on Amazon or on your own page websites.

Editor's opinion and compatibility

As we mentioned above, SPC has made these devices compatible with the main smart home and programming services:

• Google Assitant
• Amazon Alexa
• SPC IoT App
• IFTTT

It is essential to use the application SPC IoT available for Android and to iOS In order to configure the device with your own WiFI network and of course to link them directly with your Alexa or Google Home services, which is quite simple, we simply register, choose the product and follow the steps that are indicated in the screen, it has no loss or complexity, except that in the case of Amazon Alexa we will have to add the Skill that the SPC itself indicates to us.

In my opinion we are faced with ideal products to enter the world of the smart home, with a fairly good construction and almost absolute compatibility. However, it should be noted that perhaps the price is not so "democratizing" for what can be expected from SPC and that we have been able to appreciate the brand on other occasions, since we found products of similar price by Ikea or Koogeek. However, the great advantage of SPC is that we can find it in places like Worten, Carrefour or MediaMarkt with its distribution advantages and guarantees.