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Meross is, among other things, a company producing smart home products, of which we received three sets. We also tested the temperature, 2 smart sockets and their humidity meter and the opening sensor, and they passed the test with flying colours. Although the products work by themselves, they are really effective when they are strung together in a complete scenario, that is, when they operate as part of a complete smart home. Fortunately, most gadgets support the Matter protocol, which allows a kind of cross-platform use.

We have already written to you several times about Welock's products, because the company is present on the market with exciting solutions. Now we finally managed to get our hands on one of their products to test how useful it is in everyday life. We already received the copy with the more innovative fingerprint reader for testing, but there is also a push-button version with 10 numbers and 2 special characters. You can now save 20 percent off the price of the new model if you use the coupon code get20, so you can already bag the smart device for HUF 57.

I think that alarm clocks are not very important these days, since almost everyone uses their mobile phone as an alarm clock. However, there are those who stick to traditional things, and this is the audience Qingping aims to target. They have already succeeded once, CGD1 turned out to be quite a good piece, so a continuation was expected. Our test subject was named CGC1, which is completely different from the previous model's appearance, and the list of functions has also changed, but is this gadget worth HUF 11?

In addition to Xiaomi, BlitzWolf also has a large number of smart home gadgets. Last year, we made two tests of their products called the BlitzWolf smart home test and the BlitzWolf smart home stuff test. Now "only" one smart gadget has reached us, named BW-RC02, which is an infrared controller. With its help, you can make a bunch of dumb devices smarter, and you can even automate them, and you don't have to dig deep into your pocket for all this, since you only have to pay HUF 04136 for it with the coupon code BGc4000.

Another Govee LED solution to brighten up your home, but this time the box is not a simple, programmable strip, but a modular system. Of course, this can also be controlled from an application, its quality is excellent, and it can be freely varied and combined along the segments. Those who like shapes will love it, it can be shaped into L, V, W or any other shape you like. For the Govee set, they ask HUF 26 with the RKB300Glide coupon code, it can be purchased from an EU warehouse, so it is VAT-free and comes with free shipping.

Several of my colleagues have already tested Govee products and they all liked them. One of the iterations of the previous TV light is the current LED strip, only now the lights do not follow the color change of the screen, but react to sound. They can flash in a bunch of ways, but they also manage the Google and Alexa voice assistants, so you don't even have to get up from the couch. Not just because the thing can be controlled from an application. Govee's set costs HUF 13. It can be purchased from an EU warehouse, so it is VAT-free and comes with free shipping.

We received a very interesting partnership request from a company called Govee. In rural terms, I would define them as a "home appliance brand", i.e. a brand that distributes home accessories and household/entertainment electronic aids. Last time we tested their TV backlight, and this time we tested their well-deserved WiFi thermo-hygrometer. The product can be purchased for HUF 9800 with the coupon code RKB30, from an EU warehouse, VAT-free, and with free shipping from the Govee website.

We received an interesting gadget from Govee, who are new players on the European market of smart home devices, but with their quality products in other parts of the world, e.g. already proven in the USA. Their imaginatively named Immersion TV backlight is a very good competitor to the popular Philips Ambilight system, which we will now examine. The gadget can be purchased from an EU warehouse for HUF 20 with the coupon code RKB20, with a 23% discount, so without VAT and with free delivery. Let's see if it's worth your money!

This year, I already wrote about the Blitzwolf smart home products, we will now supplement this with an infrared adapter, another smart outlet, and a smart light bulb. None of them cost more than HUF 5000, so they all stay under the amount subject to customs duty. Let's see how the penny stuff fared.

We tested a very simple and at the same time cheap device that can be integrated into a smart home, the Sonoff Micro smart USB switch. All kinds of devices can be timed and switched with it, and it's a penny item, since it only costs HUF 1900. It is also available in larger packages if someone wants to use it in several places at the same time, in which case the price is even more favorable.