LaMetric Time (37X8) - Reviews

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9.3.2017

I've thought hard about whether to do a review for the LaMetric because of its very high price, but at the same time I think it's not nearly well selling as it deserves to be and I don't want to make that worse by giving it less than 5 stars.Elephant in the room first: it's _expensive_. Stupidly expensive for a clock, even a wifi one. I *would* be giving it four stars if I'd have had the slightest issue with it. It should be two thirds of that price at very most.Setup was easy for me, although your mileage may vary. You will need a free Android or iOS app for this, and strangely enough Android on tablet "isn't compatible", although it will work if you sideload it from a phone.I had no issues with wifi compatibility, but remember it isn't 5G.The LaMetric has a minimalist, retro, attractive look: it's a little chunk of matt obsidian with colourful, very noticable pixels (only the icon square to left of the device has coloured ones). The LEDs are vivid without flicker. The automatic brightness function works perfectly for however your room is currently lit, meaning you will still see it in bright sunshine; as does the "screensaver" option which dims the display to minimum when it's dark, so you won't get annoyed if you use it as a bedroom alarm clock. You can also switch that off and go with whatever brightness you prefer and time (or switch off) the screensaver instead.You can customise the function and appearance of the clock app, adding a coloured icon and time/date etc. if you wish. The alarm function is a little basic but functional (one alarm, with a snooze, or radio function). Radio is excellent and can play any internet radio channel with no switch-on delay, although not every station out there is built in to the app and you may need to add them manually. As a bluetooth speaker the clock isn't at all bad, but simply doesn't have the juice to be a party piece. It's good as a desktop radio and to attract your notice with notification chimes, not to replace your hifi system.I love the weather app as not only is it handy it looks pretty too. It'll tell you current weather, temperature, wind speed, humidity etc with colourful icons, but also today's (if it is before noon) and a forecast of tomorrow's.The app on display can be set to cycled in any order and with delays if this is what you need, but unless it is done as an office clock I'd find that distracting. I use it as a desk clock right next to me so prefer a fixed display and make heavy use of the buttons to cycle through apps, especially weather, radio and news.The functions I use it for most:- Clock (obviously), with time and date and day marker- Changing my LIFX lighting theme with a button press (IFTTT app)- Notifying me if it starts to snow or if the wind goes above 40 mph (IFTT app)- Notifying me and showing incoming gmails (gmail app)- Notifying me of any met office weather warnings (via RSS app)- Reading the news, traffic and met office weather feeds (via RSS app)There are plenty more apps that I don't use, including Twitter messaging (visit the website for full current list), and it has integral support for Amazon Alexa and NetAtmo. You can also make your own with a website-based builder; if you run a webserver at home then it'll be a sinch, if not then you probably won't be able to. What you can do is make your own icons (animated or otherwise) using the webpage designer, which is considerably easier; although there is already a very good selection.I haven't had any problems with the LaMetric and love it. Not only that, it's become a very handy tool for me and I don't regret spending so much on it at all. For that, I'm going to give it five stars purely to keep it from sliding into an undeserved obscurity - but if you're reading this it's just four if you factor in the price. Just keep it between you and me. ;)

15.2.2018

Unbelievable. Not only is the most attractive and stylish clock ever, but it's also the most easy-to-use, intelligent, alert/notification display device ever.So obviously this thing is expensive when you consider it a clock. I ended up buying it just out of desperation of wanting something decent and not finding anything close to the design or functionality of this thing. But I really think this should be about half the price it is (currently more than £150).So what is it.It's a beautiful and stylish pixel-design clock. It is extremely bright, but also has a fantastic built in app that they call a screensaver, that effectively dims the clock to a much more tolerable level at night and prevents any animations or alerts during that time.You can set this screensaver by time, but much more brilliantly you can set it based on the level of light in that room. So if you turn out your bedroom lights, this will with dim and stop animating too.It's also a very clever internet-based device that has many many apps, that allow you to display information, or send button pressed, so various web services, and devices. Just a few examples that I use out of hundreds:* Wemo, I can either press a button to turn off/on a wemo insight plug connected device. Or I can receive an alert when a wemo connected device turns on/off.. I use this with my washing machine to know when the washing has completed.* RSS, I added multiple rss 'apps' that links to various news feeds, so if some important breaking news occurs, the clock will scroll that news.* TFL Status: I receive updates on the tfl london underground. I can view this information upon request.* Bus stop: I added the local bus stop id number to the app and now I can summon the realtime upcoming bus times for the bus stop near my house.Some other examples you cna do that I currently don't: email notifications, incoming phone notifications, sms, blahblahblah - there's hundreds of possibilities check the lametric site.IFTTT: This turns lametric into a device that can do hundreds of thousands of tasks, instead of the 100s with the inbuilt apps. Now you can use IFTTT.com and create triggers, recipes, events to do anything you can dream of. I can press a button on my lametric to turn on and off the smart lights of my home. I can convert smart device actions into visual alerts but hundreds of things up to and including...Alexa/Google Home. Yup. You can have lametric display anything you trigger on alexa/google home. You can have timers, todolists, music playlists, door sensors, smart locks.. anything show up on your lametric. It's no longer a clock, it's a damn control centre!I would buy this thing for everyone I know if it didn't cost so much. But I have zero regrets in buying it for myself.

25.12.2015

I bought the stationary alarm clock as the portable alarm clock wasn't really useful for personal use, plus it has only 6 hours battery life which isn't very useful. BUT getting the stationary version however, this is probably the best bit of tech i've had for a while!The clock came in a decent well packaged box, inside with the clock covered in protective film and adapters for European, UK plugs & USB. Also comes with instructions which is easy to read and different languages are available. Setting up it's just plug in into the mains or computer, download the app and follow the instructions either on the paper or your phone and presto it's all up and running!The app is simple and responsive with no problems,

9.11.2016

I recently purchased my first LeMetric device to integrate into my existing home automation setup. In its basic format it might at first appear as an expecive clock radio. However because it already has native IFTTT support there are many things that you can supliment the basic functions with. For me the real bonus is that the support team are continuously adding native support for other products. For example they have just released support for the Netatmo weather station in its entirety including rain, wind and additional modules. This now provides the information even quicker than cobling something together via IFTTT. If you look at the roadmap you will notice that integration with Smarthings is a current work in progress,

5.11.2016

18-1-17-I bought this item in 2015 and I am really pleased lametric are updating it all the time and now have it so it links into your lifx and hue bulbs and are adding more all the time. I have today added the UK alexa skill which I find another great feature to enhance your smart home. I would recommend this product and it ever packed up I would buy anther.I love this item, only one thing for me as I use as an alarm clock, is they should allow you to set multi alarms and be able to select days you want it to go off. currently one one alarm can be set and you cannot choose days. I emailed company but not interested in adding this feature.

3.12.2015

Just arrived and I've had a whole evening to play with it.Firstly, it looks nice, not too big, not to small.The LEDs look great too, they have a diffuse glow to each of them.The speaker sounds good - not terrific, but good enough for a clock radio.Surprisingly light.Fairly straightforward to set up - if you can setup a GoPro with an iOS or Android device - you can do this.The IFTTT integration is nice, and I'm getting to grips with that now, as a complete geek this is a really interesting area.Really pleased with my purchase so far!

20.4.2017

Fantastic WiFi clock. Yes it is expensive but it's also very configurable with apps and so on. I'd disregard some of the early reviews as functionality has been improved and whilst I can understand why there are so many Amazon Returns (Warehouse Deals) because I think people seem to think this clock will also wash the dishes. So if you are honestly are happy spending £160 on a wifi clock then you will love this, otherwise stick to a good old wind up clock for less than £10.