Amazon.com: Customer reviews: SwitchBot Thermometer Hygrometer Alexa iPhone - Android Wireless Temperature Humidity Sensor with Alerts, Add SwitchBot Hub Compatible with Alexa, Google Home, IFTTT

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Perfect for a cigar humidor / coolidor

July 19, 2019

It’s perfect for use in a cigar humidor. I have a 60 quart cooler I fill with cigars and let it age. Now I can wireless check the humidity without having to constantly open the lid and let all the humidity out. I use 65 percent hygrometer beads so I know my humidor is always at that percentage. As seen in my picture my current hygrometer is showing 65% and the switchbot version is off by -2%. Good part is you can adjust and compensate for the difference within the app. Now I set alarms when the humidity dips below a certain percentage (i also have the switchbot HUB) so I can go and add some more water. Just set it and forget it

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Useless without hub (at extra charge)

July 15, 2019

This device works through bluetooth so if you want to know the temperature from afar with wifi, you need to buy a hub. I wish I had known this prior to buying. Don't make the same mistake.

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Useless without hub (at extra charge)

July 15, 2019

Color: MeterVerified Purchase

This device works through bluetooth so if you want to know the temperature from afar with wifi, you need to buy a hub. I wish I had known this prior to buying. Don't make the same mistake.

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Seizure

Perfect for a cigar humidor / coolidor

July 19, 2019

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Not exactly a stunning product...

October 13, 2019

Color: MeterVerified Purchase

First of all, the product description is misleading. It purports to be a temperature and humidity monitor, that you can use to monitor the temperature in your home via the free app for your smartphone. There are few details in this product's description, but after you get it, you find that in order for it to work with the app OUTSIDE your home, you need to purchase a hub. I'm not sure what value the app would have to monitor the temp INSIDE your home, as you could just look at any thermometer and see what the temp is.

So you get the hub (another $50) and the documentation for setting up the hub and the meter are almost useless. And the app DOES NOT act like the documentation says it does.

Once you set up the hub, getting the meter to work with it is not easy, nor intuitive. On the first time through setup, I thought it was done (although it also just looked like it stopped), but there was no meter defined to the app. Trying setup again, I noticed a "checkmark" at the top of the screen, that needed to be pressed. It is in a place I would not have looked for... I was expecting a button that says "Done" or "OK", like the previous screens had ("Continue").

There are all kinds of things that are confusing, like what does "inverse" mean, as it applies to the settings? It's below "Temperature" and above a slider for the temperature range. There is a setting for Celcius/Fahrenheit in "Preferences", but that does not affect the meter... just the display of data on the app. I discovered that the button on the back of the meter adjusted from "C" to "F", but that's not anywhere in the documentation.

Then there's the data itself. After playing with it a while, getting it to work (no, it's not just a few minutes, unless you designed this thing), I wanted to clear the temperature and humidity data. There's button on the "Meter History" page, labeled "Clear Data", but it's not a functioning button... I have no idea how to clear the data out. Maybe it rolls off after the memory is full?? But, then, maybe the device just stops recording when the memory is full... I don't know and don't see how one finds out... until the memory fills up. Oh, yeah... how much memory is in this little device? It's supposed to poll the temp and humidity every 4 seconds, but I can't imagine it takes much memory to story that data.

There's a neat little graph on that page, with dates and times, but it doesn't have a scale on the graph, so you have to look at the avg, max, and Min to see where the temp has been.

I looked at the "Scenes" functionality. I expected it to give me an option to have an alert sent to my phone if the temp went out of range. Interestingly enough, the temperature conditions SHOW "higher than" and "lower than" and a temperature, BUT I can't get it to switch to "lower than". And the "actions" block has nothing I can choose. I suspect that's because I only have the hub and this meter. Maybe, if I had more devices, it would allow me to do something with one of them, as a result of the temperature going "higher than".

Overall, I'm unimpressed, regardless of the hype the manufacturer puts out about how this is the best home automation product available, etc. I'm going to use it for a couple weeks and see if my opinion changes. Otherwise, this is looking like an Amazon return for me.

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Fabrizio Maistrello

Is functioning alone, but for the full functionality you need the switchbot Hub.

July 6, 2019

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Tu device is very slick and simple. I like the minimal design with the big number. There are no functions but displaying temperature ad humidity, which is all you need for the aim of the device. There is one sticker provided to possibly attach the small cube to the wall or somewhere else. Generally a good product.

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photoj

Celsius only..

October 8, 2019

Color: MeterVerified Purchase

Brilliant. They are made for UK. Living in the US everything is Fahrenheit except for this thermometer

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Yennie

Gave my stupid AC a higher IQ

August 15, 2019

Color: MeterVerified Purchase

I live top floor of a second story old apartment complex. This summer temperatures exceeded 100 degrees inside my apartment. I was dying and looking for a solution. I did some research and discovered this brand. The thermostat was very straightforward and easy to install. I even purchased the smart hub that works with it to control my infrared controlled AC. This AC unit is soo old it doesn't even have temperature controls other than low, med, high. I pair the hub with this thermostat and use the IFTTT app to help regulate the temperature of my apartment before coming back to work. I highly recommend this item, as the iphone app helps me track how hot it is in my apartment and lets me control the range for the temperature using IFTTT.

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radio reviewer

Wireless but not wifi / it’s Bluetooth. Limited range

September 25, 2019

Color: MeterVerified Purchase

Bought this thinking it was WiFi connected and I could see my both my children’s room temps. But due to it being Bluetooth and not WiFi range is to far and doesn’t work well unless move closer to rooms. Something to think about when buying. Accuracy seems a little off as bought two and when in same room took a good 2 hrs to give accurate reading that was same on both. Otherwise about 1.5 degrees off from actual temperature. Again something to think about. They work fine for my use at the price range so I am generally happy. Much more accurate than the baby cameras temp reading which is way off. App Is decent does give Farenghieght if you set in preferences. Saw a few reviews that said it didn’t. Have 3 stars for limited range due to Bluetooth but otherwise good for the price and my needs.

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Ryan

SwitchBot Thermometer

July 9, 2019

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So far product is great. Definitely like the magnetic mounting and the app works great.

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Nice device, but minor app issues with data history.

July 17, 2019

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It's a nice device to know temps and humidity percentage. Found issues loading data history for the 30 day stored data. Couldn't get it to load the trend history. Would like that to work to know trends, but otherwise a nice device and seemingly accurate.

Would give 5 stars if there weren't the issues with the trend history on the app.

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Ragz

Does its job

December 12, 2019

Color: MeterVerified Purchase

It comes with a sticky magnet for attaching to any wall which i love. Blue tooth range for viewing temp from phone is limited but it does work. I wish i could pair it with my Alexa to ask her waht the temperature is of the device but doesnt seem to be a feature. App interface is a little clunky but it does work and is accurate.

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