Welcome to my unboxing of the Belulin
Wimo, which is not related to the Wii at
all. Spelled differently even. And the new Wii is the Wii U, not the Wimo. Uh,
okay. Sorry. Sorry. Enough of that. This is actually really cool. So the whole
like um like wireless home control thing
like we've been talking about this for years now you know you're on your way
home so you want to like preheat your oven so you you know turn on your oven
or whatever like like network controlled devices you know we've got smart TVs now
this is a way of taking dumb devices or
well devices that don't have any built-in logic and controlling them
using your iPhone. So they're calling it the iPhone home remote and you can set
things up. Evidently, we're going to be doing a full NCX tech tips about this.
So, you know, stay stay tuned, right? So, it's great for controlling things
like your Okay, I can't imagine why you'd need to control like
an like an iron. You're going to iron shirts. You turn your iron on with a
with a remote. Okay, whatever. Uh hair curler. Okay, heater. There we go.
Heaters and fans. This this I believe because you know on those summer nights
you can't fall asleep first because it's too hot and then because the fan is loud
so you can like tinker with it you know from bed with your with your iPhone
whatever else. You can set schedules which is kind of neat. So you can do
that with the software as well. Uh with multiple Weimo switches you control as
much or as little of your home as you'd like. Weo runs on your iPhone and your
Wi-Fi network is all easy to set up and use. So, it works on anything from an
iPhone 3G, I believe, up to Yeah. iPod
Touch third generation, iPhone 3GS and later, and any iPad generation of
products. So, let's go ahead and Okay, apparently I missed two of the half a
dozen or so stickers on the back of the box here. So, we can go ahead and check
it out. I'm not expecting to find anything sort of revolutionary in terms
of the hardware in here, but I'm really excited to check out the software app.
So, there's your quick install guide. Plug the thing in the thing. Download
and install Weimo app from the app store. Settings and so connect to your
Wi-Fi network. Oh. Oh. Select Wi-Fi. Connect to Weimo network. Launch the
Weimo app to complete the Oh, okay. So, you'll be able to complete the setup once you're in there. Oh, okay. That's
kind of cool. So, this is fairly straightforward. You've got a three-pronged plug. Although, if you're
in a different territory, it's likely that the PL plug plug plong the plong
the plug will look different. Uh, we've got one switch. This is disappointing. I
would have really liked to see two switches with some kind of a with with
two like two passroughs with two full sets of logic inside and one wireless
chipset. I think that way we could have gotten more functionality out of this
device without actually adding necessarily that much to the cost of it.
Although what do I know about what they cost? Uh there's a power button here.
There's a wireless indicator. There's a restore button
which use indoors only. Restore factory settings. Ah okay. So to restore factory
settings for whatever reason you wanted to do
that. I don't know what else to say about this. So let's move on to the next
one. This is the Wimo Switch Plus motion. So not only do you have this
software wireless switchness going on, you've also got a motion sensor. So you
can turn it on, turn it off, and you can activate it with motion. And you can
control all of that. See, look. I want my stuff to turn on, then off. Turn off
or on. Turn on slash off if motion. So,
that's pretty neat. Let's just kind of open this up
and find out how much different it is. So, it's basically another one of these.
Okay. And then one of these, which is
Oh, okay. So, this is two completely separate like dooddads.
No, this is this is similar. Oh, neat. Okay, so once you Okay, so basically
once you synchronize and and get all of
your all of your Weimo devices set up within the app, you should be able to
kind of tinker around with it on a pretty granular level. So, we're really looking forward to checking this out.
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