With the development of intelligent hardware and the vigorous promotion of various electrical appliances, more and more intelligent patch boards and smart sockets have entered people's lives, allowing people to better and more directly experience the convenience, so that people can remotely control the power switch, and operate electrical equipment more freely. The once imagined things such as one click boiling water and one click cooking have also become reality.

Kitten Smart Housekeeper (MaoHa-M1) It is the first intelligent product of the company's Moha Smart. Compared with similar products on the market, its advantages lie in its more complete and practical functions. In addition to charging the device, the USB interface provided also has certain scalability, which can support a variety of functional expansion plug-ins, such as temperature and humidity plug-ins, radio frequency remote control plug-ins, security plug-ins, door magnetic plug-ins, etc. It can also realize remote control, remote monitoring and other functions through the corresponding APP.   

The product package mainly includes a kitten intelligent butler (hereinafter referred to as the butler), a quick start guide and a warranty card. The appearance of the hardware is matched with the cartoon design, which looks cute. The fuselage is made of V0 grade safety flame-retardant PC material. The black material on the top of the front is somewhat like acrylic panel, and no screws can be seen on the fuselage. The upper, lower, left and right front surfaces are smooth and smooth to the touch, but the back is made of frosted material.

There is a USB interface (5V-1A) on the top of the butler, which can be used to charge the device, and can also be used with other accessories. It is extensible and can support multiple function expansion plug-ins.

There are two indicators below the MaoHa font in the middle of the acrylic panel. Different colors and indicators represent different functions and states; The two black cat's eyes also have different functions. The left one is a light sensor, and the right one is a body sensor; The lower part is the standard five position design of the patch panel, and the contact copper is phosphor copper, which is polished and nickel plated.

The bottom is a small night light for night use. However, in terms of the position of the night light design, I don't know why it is not a front and bottom section design. In this way, the lighting area is front and the area will be larger.

There is a switch button on the right side of the body, which can be used to control the switch of the socket, switch the network configuration mode and restore the factory settings (long press for 4 seconds in the power on mode). The butler uses the national standard three hole plug (type O), and does not use a packable design.

Summarize the main modules and their functions.

The above is an overall introduction to the product, and the following is the actual experience stage.

Next, the butler will cooperate with ASUS Zenfone ZOOM (V5.0), APP (V1.3.10), NVIDIA drive free camera, TV, air conditioner, speaker, laptop, etc. for in-depth functional experience. The housekeeper can be used on the patch board or the jack on the wall. Does anyone want to say something like "Alas, the volume is too large, which blocks the two holes above, seriously affecting normal use"? This is a fake demand, won't you take it off?

The mobile terminal directly downloads and installs the APP. You can first configure the network, and then search the device. In this way, you can quickly and successfully connect according to the operating tips.

The network configuration is divided into two modes: one key configuration and direct connection configuration. The one key configuration mode is preferred. The direct connection mode is only used when the one key configuration fails to connect successfully. The butler only supports 2.4GHz, 802.11bgn networks, and does not support 5GHz.

With MERCURY, ASUS 520GL， The router, KISSLINK and newifi were tested, and there was no problem with the connection.

The search is fast. If it is found normally, it will be automatically configured successfully and can be used normally.

The current version of APP is V1.3.10, and the intuitive difference from the previous version is the change of WiFi function name.

Firmware upgrade is the same as APP upgrade. There will be a push prompt for version update. You can also go directly to the device settings page to check and update manually. However, in V1.3.10, there is a problem that the "Detect Upgrade" button is always on, which makes people mistakenly think that there is a prompt for a new version.

After the download is completed, it will be upgraded automatically. However, it should be noted that the power supply is turned off by default in the socket mode, and it needs to be turned on manually after power on or firmware update.

Some related settings in actual use are socket control and night light. The socket control can be used to set the timing switch task, real-time power and electricity statistics, which is convenient for the management and control of specific electrical equipment. It is also easy to cook water and rice on a regular basis. No matter whether the home network is abnormal or not, the housekeeper can normally execute the on or off instructions according to the set time.

The socket is powered off by default and can be modified according to your usage habits. The automatic power-off function also needs to be started manually. The function can be set by itself, but the maximum power is only 2200W.

For the setting of night light, it is recommended to use the intelligent night light mode in real life. Because if it is used at night, the automatic night light will be continuously lit in the dark environment. By default, the intelligent night light will stay on for 180 seconds after its brightness is lower than the level 1 mode. It takes a long time. You can modify the ambient brightness and duration. It is simple to operate. In this way, the LED night light can automatically turn on or off as the light changes. The light will turn on when people come at night, and turn off when people go away.

In the actual test, the housekeeper is very sensitive in detecting the surrounding environment, whether there is light or dark installation, and can correctly sense and automatically record, and will also send the notification information to the APP. The official sensing range of the equipment is about 4.5m, and the surrounding area within 2.5m in the actual test can be detected normally. The three white beads are very bright.

As an important and practical function, infrared remote control has stronger linkage and can be used with other infrared receiving devices, such as air conditioners, televisions, set-top boxes, stereos, fans, etc. As a rigid indicator, the ability of self-learning is indispensable. The butler does not have a prefabricated or cloud based infrared database. Before using the remote control function, you need to manually adjust the keys, which is slightly troublesome. It is suggested to establish a cloud based infrared database to integrate the data of common household appliances remote controls in the market. Users can directly select the product infrared data to download and use, and support users to upload data. It is probably because manual learning is required. In the actual remote control operation experience, the housekeeper has high performance and command execution accuracy in the use of home audio, air conditioner, TV and set-top box.

The built-in 300MB WiFi trunk greatly expands the coverage and makes the network smoother. The test was conducted with the mobile game "National Supergod", which is highly dependent on the network. At the same location and in the same time period (7:30-9:00 at the same time), the delay changed from 283ms and 601ms before the relay to 41ms and 71ms after the relay.

The advertisement filtering function is effective. Take the most abnormal website as an example. After opening the advertisement filtering function, we found that this is a forum, as shown on the right below. Most downloaded websites, such as software and BT downloads, can be effectively filtered out.

For video websites, take iQIYI as an example, the blocking effect is obvious, and the must see ads at the beginning can be effectively removed.

From some websites that I often try to browse, such as software download websites and video download websites, the filtering effect of web ads and video ads is relatively satisfactory, and the viewing effect is good.

Visitors can enjoy the two functions of WiFi and connection management exclusively, which enables users to manage the connected devices well. Visitors can enjoy WiFi exclusively, which is similar to the Guest mode of other brands of routers. They can open a new set of WiFi hotspots with only their opinions, which does not conflict with the original WiFi. They can set passwords separately to avoid the disclosure of common passwords or private passwords. Another good thing is that the visible mode of WiFi hotspot is similar to that of Bluetooth pairing. The SSID is automatically hidden after 120 seconds by default.

The connection management will not be refreshed in real time. When a new device is connected and joined, you need to exit the management page first and then enter to see the newly added device. In addition, there is no white list management, and you can only manually disable the device networking. If the function of blacklist and whitelist can be added, the practicability will be greatly improved.

For USB interface, iPhone, Android phone, tablet and other electronic devices can be charged normally through actual test. At the same time, the plug and play cameras used on several PC terminals at hand can be recognized on the housekeeper normally, while the cameras that need to be separately installed with special drivers cannot be recognized normally. After recognition, you can set the frame rate, image quality and email alerts for monitoring photos on the APP. When walking is detected, it will automatically capture and send to the set mailbox. However, after viewing the captured photos, the preview screen will not change in real time and stay in the fixed screen.

After the actual test, the housekeeper can automatically send the email successfully, but there is still some obvious delay compared with the reminder time on the mobile phone and the time of receiving the email.

The function of intelligent control is relatively creative. It executes a series of commands by setting conditions. At present, the conditions and execution actions that can be triggered are limited. Later, with the increase of other hardware, there should be a lot of scenes to choose from.

The recognition rate of the voice function is average, and individual phrases cannot be recognized normally, which may also be related to the level of Putonghua, but the steward can correct and correctly execute commands. However, it is recommended to add the function of manually entering commands and identifying the execution.

Although the product meets its own use requirements in terms of function and use, several suggestions should be made

one       It is recommended to provide cloud based infrared database for users to download and select, some common brand household appliances on the market, and allow users to upload automatically

two       It is recommended to design the position of the socket night light at the tangent between the front and the bottom, rather than the bottom or the front, so that the lighting range is more effective and larger

three       It is suggested that the USB charging interface can provide 2A current output by providing 1A to 2A interfaces, or by providing a design that can automatically detect equipment and automatically adjust current.

As a comprehensive smart socket, the MAOHA smart socket is not only equipped with similar sockets for power on and power off WiFi In addition to similar functions such as amplification, electricity statistics, night light and remote control, its more practical and personalized functions such as human body sensing, intelligent linkage, voice control, scalability, video monitoring, and advertising shielding are also more attractive. In particular, the USB interface with scalability can be combined with other functional expansion plug-ins to make this product more competitive.