Attractively priced, well lit, alarm clock're sorry, but unreliable

Attractively priced, well lit, alarm clock're sorry, but unreliable

Elgato Avea, Dynamic mood lighting - for iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch, Bluetooth Smart, 7W LED, E27 (Accessories)

Customer Review

The bulb is in a milk glass ball in my bedroom, making sufficiently bright white and colored light. The Mood features are nice. Maybe a few other features are still replenished, currently there are:

Evening (reds)
Polar light (green-blue)
Cherry (Pink)
Mountain scent (light blue)
Fire (red with flickering yellow)
Enchanted Forest (Greens)
Provence (lavender)

and 7 solid colors without effect, to the light alarm clock.

The main feature for me is the light alarm clock. Similar to a normal light alarm clock is the idea to shoot not from 0 to 100 in a brutal tone in his ears, the scares a get out of bed, as if someone fires an air pressure Fanfare while you get tipped a bucket of ice water in the step to have, but gently brightening light with a gently rising alarm.

This light alarm also has a couple of times to work and I'm really "cozy" woke up (it really is a difference, I can really recommend, as a light alarm clock!) And in the few times where I thought I had made a mistake, it turns out that it's the app:

Sometimes the alarm clock is simply not, which means you should still run as a backup to iOS alarm clock, by which he will then torn rudely from sleep. If you open in this case, the Avea App, the light comes on in leaps and bounds and so it plays only the gong of the built-in alarm tone (there is an alarm here: slowly intensifying birdsong, which ends after a few minutes with a gong).

This seems to be a problem with the background of the app / sleep mode of iOS 8.1.2 (tried on iPhone 6 and iPad Air, stand earlier in January 2015) to be, and I expect that soon will subsequently supply Elgato update.

I have this product, incidentally only bought because it Elgato is - who supported their products (I know because only the EyeTV for the Mac, which I never had myself, but have supportet often) been a bit longer than China junk manufacturer, where after the latest 6 months would be set for a product of this type of support. I hope that I will not be disappointed - there are guaranteeing as a retail client, and this review applies then for me the same as "proof" that the alarm clock was not working properly;) I'm going to give this light shamelessly back when after one year due to lack of app support no longer should work.

You have to say goodbye to them, turn off its light just at the light switch in the wall - then you get the light out of power and you can not turn on my app. But no one can now what.

But in this context it would be great if there were a HomeKit integration of app because unlock Always screen, open app, choose color, switch is a bit annoying when you want to have just going to light in the room. Alternative: If you "finished" with the light games, then put the lamp on neutral white and then turn off the light switch. If one then turns on the light switch, one has normal light again.

The question I have seen the way answered anywhere: The lamp starts in the light mode, in which it was switched off. So once you have cherry blossom light and turns off the light switch, you then again cherry light.

TL; DR:

The light from the lamp is bright and varied, the service but a bit cumbersome and the light alarm clock in the App works unreliable, which is crying out for an update of the app.

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