Drayton Wiser Smart Plug & Smart Heating System Range Extender – Works with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, IFTTT

Price: £42.00
(as of Jul 06,2024 11:55:24 UTC –

Easy to add to existing Wiser systems and takes seconds. Add up to 10 plugs per system and control alongside your heating via the Wiser Heat App (IOS and Android).
Features a built-in range extender to boost signal to all your Wiser devices. Ideal for larger houses or houses with thick walls where smart radiator thermostat’s may be situated further away from Heat Hub. Typical range of the hub is 25-40ft but dependent on wall thickness.
Set schedules 7 days a week with up to 8 events per day allowing full automation. Full integration with Wiser app and will sync with Wiser’s Away Mode.
Use voice commands to check the status and make changes to individual plugs. Fully compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant and IFTTT.
Ability to switch devices on and off via the Wiser app no matter where you are.
This plug will only work with existing Wiser Smart Heating Systems.
Rated 13A; 3KW. Radio Equipment Directive (RED) 2014/53/EU, RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU.

Reviewer: I McGregor
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Too many Range Extenders required
Review: The Wiser system when working is great and has saved me £hundreds. Recovered the cost within the first year or so. The biggest issue I have found with the system is the thermostats don’t seem to have much range as such for a house of any reasonable size you need a few of these Range Extenders. My system has 16 radiators in a large floorpan bungalow. Originally started with two of these units and had drop out issues. Added a third and it improved but still some drop out. Now added a fourth and no drop outs and the system is steady. Positioning the extenders is a bit of guess work.They are easy to set up and as a controlled switch work well. Its just unfortunate you need so many of them.

Reviewer: Karl Kelly
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: perfect to extend wiser wifi reach and smart plug in one
Review: Wish i’d gotten this sooner, was getting very frustrated with my wiser thermostat losing connection with the base station and so finally lost patience and picked this up. As I said, should really have done it sooner.Have been using it for about 3 months now and have had zero connections issues in this time. Also the smart plug functionality is really useful. Highly recommend

Reviewer: DuncanF
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great range extenders for more remote radiators, but very expensive as a smart plug.
Review: There’s really only one reason to pay £45 for a Wiser smart plug … as a range extender if some of your Drayton Wiser devices are struggling with a weak signal to your heating hub. They work very well in that regard and cure the connectivity issues very well. (After installation, you might need to briefly remove the batteries from your radiator thermostats to coax them into using the improved connection).The plugs are fully integrated into the Wiser app and can automatically power off with your Away Mode, if you so choose. Alexa automatically finds and links them too. Power consumption monitoring is useful, but most other smart plugs costing £8 or £9 would have that too.In short – works brilliantly well, but horrendously expensive!

Reviewer: Maniac
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Bought as a workaround, but impressed.
Review: I bought this as a trial solution to tie-in my MVHR system into the rest of Drayton’s Wiser heating system, if it didn’t work, I’m sure I could have found a use for it controlling a lamp or something.It’s a bit annoying that with Heat Recovery systems becoming more popular, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of options for linking them in to work with everything else.Dedicated 3rd party controllers are unneccesarily expensive and few (if any) offer Smart support, often they’re just a timer and ‘boost’ control, so not much better than a cheap boiler thermostat…disappointing.You’re effectively left with the options of either buying a controller and programming it to roughly work around Wiser’s heating schedules, or leaving the MVHR on continuously on a low setting and living with it indirectly kicking the heating on and off a bit more often than you’d like.I hope that Drayton comes out with something for this problem in the future. They already have underfloor heating controllers so it would be a nice addition to help stop the MVHR fighting against the heating system.Anyway, I decided to try this out, to simply switch the power on/off to the MVHR unit according to the heating schedules I’d already set so that it doesn’t run continuously (and annoyingly) throughout the night. Setup was effortless and problem-free, I was that impressed that I’m thinking of leaving it as it is now as it pretty much does exactly what I needed it to do…even if it is a little ad-hoc.The included power-monitoring function is also quite handy, in this case, I can see when my air filters may need cleaning when it starts drawing a few more watts than normal. Brilliant!

Reviewer: DJ DEMON
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great smartplugs. Limited by app functionality
Review: They work well as on/off smartplugs. They also do a good job of increasing the frequency range from the heating hub to wireless rad thermostats. Our property is long (and old, with very thick walls) and required 2. 1 every 10m down the building. I wish the app would allow plug functionality with the thermostats on the radiators. I have them connected to oil radiators. For those to switch on and off when the radiator in the same room calls for heat, would be a very welcome feature. Or even to allow them to operate with a wiser room stat. The radiator in 2 of our rooms is not sufficient by itself.

Reviewer: Martin Paterson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Smart plug
Review: Was a good price when purchased, Drayton wiser plug does what you expect. Easy to install and use with the Drayton wiser app.

Reviewer: Phillip Smith
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: First one failed – second one was a winner!
Review: This was the first extender I purchased mainly because my house is large and some of the TRVs were unable to connected to the controller. Once installed and configured the remaining TRVs connected and all was good – until it wasn’t. I started to have random failures of the unit which took a little to track down. In the end it failed completely. It has since been replaced.The replacement unit has given me no trouble at all and I’m very pleased with it.

Reviewer: Az
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: simple and cost effective system
Review: We have had this now for 4 months. While we had a few teething problems its working pretty well.I have been pretty surprised at how good the RF wireless range is (we only needed one range extender in a large older house with several internal stone walls – for comparison we need 3 access points to cover the same area for WiFi) .We did have a few signal drop outs in the early days but this has improved over time as firmware updates have come through and we re-positioned the extender. NB we did install the hub in the middle of the house rather than next to the boiler with a length of 5 core cable – absolutely worth a little effort in the installation process for larger/older houses with thicker walls.We also had a few issues with the radiator valves as some of our radiators existing TRVs were installed at the top entry point on the radiator (rather than at the bottom) which lead to inaccurate heating. A fun afternoon swapping the valves to the bottom sorted it out completely.My only complaint is that you cant see signal strenth on the app or devices. You need to ring tech support which takes a lot of unnecessary time.

Easy to add to existing Wiser systems and takes seconds. Add up to 10 plugs per system and control alongside your heating via the Wiser Heat App (IOS and Android).
Features a built-in range extender to boost signal to all your Wiser devices. Ideal for larger houses or houses with thick walls where smart radiator thermostat’s may be situated further away from Heat Hub. Typical range of the hub is 25-40ft but dependent on wall thickness.
Set schedules 7 days a week with up to 8 events per day allowing full automation. Full integration with Wiser app and will sync with Wiser’s Away Mode.
Use voice commands to check the status and make changes to individual plugs. Fully compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant and IFTTT.
Ability to switch devices on and off via the Wiser app no matter where you are.
This plug will only work with existing Wiser Smart Heating Systems.
Rated 13A; 3KW. Radio Equipment Directive (RED) 2014/53/EU, RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU.