I Wish More Smart Home Sensors had E-Ink Displays...

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Welcome back to Stu’s Reviews! Today I take a look at a 'smart' home sensor that has sparked a conversation here at the Country Club, the INKBIRD IAM- T1... using this smart home sensor has made us that maybe more smart home sensors should use e-ink displays? There are a tonne of benefits for using them in devices like a smart home sensor... what do you think?
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Комментарии : 51

@JanSzafranski Год назад

I've had a poster with e-ink to display the weather for several years now and fell in love with the tech straight away. It's a shame I live in the UK though as it never changes

@StusReviewsUK Год назад

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@big-ted4065 Год назад

For that price I'd expect them to publish details of the Bluetooth comms to enable it to work with Home Assistant like Switchbot does with all their Bluetooth devices, without Home Assistant support I won't be purchasing it

@StusReviewsUK Год назад

Fingers crossed they read this 👆👆

@pauldavidson1866 Год назад

I'm not particularly fussed about an air quality monitor but I would love to have an e-ink smart calendar that could show all the family's appointments etc in one place and that could be updated from our phones.

@jarongebhardt Год назад

build a home assistant dashboard with an e ink display. or just use an old tablet

@pauldavidson1866 Год назад

@@jarongebhardt unfortunately my inherent laziness and lack of technical skills fails me!

@pjohnson21211 Год назад

there are 2 instructables to build a smart calendars with eink. One with a raspberry pi, another with esp32. I applied the info from the raspberry pi one to build a smart display for weather info.

@pjohnson21211 Год назад

@@pauldavidson1866 OK disregard my previous response, no simple off the shelf options.

@raducristiandumitrescu1806 Год назад

LIDL just started a month ago to use large and small sink displays for board prices in their shops and looks just fine :)

@StusReviewsUK Год назад

Thats cool! I've not been in a lidl for a while, my local is an aldi! I'll take a look next time im driving past one!

@dankelley9361 Год назад

No back lighting, no ability to run or trigger automation, blue tooth only and $170.00!! A non starter for sure!

@garethjones5068 Год назад

Completely agree with your views on the secondary phone display concept 2:51

@Barot8 Год назад

I wish Switchbot's Hub 2 went this pathway. Totally in agreement with you on this idea. Thank you Stu.

@davidw717 Год назад

I had the Pebble watch when it launched, it was a game changer! Then fitbit bought them and e-ink died slowly and hardly any devices since have it, they are few and far between.

@RenePolster Год назад

E-Ink Displays are great at Daylight but you cant see anything at Night. I have 2 of these Xiaomi Temperature and Humidity Sensors and they are great as long its not Dark!!!!!!!!

@robinkesterlives Год назад

I use an EVE air monitor here at home with a simple eink display and i like it OK. It lasts for months on a charge which is nice but it doesn't always get very accurate info. So Im looking at new sensors, preferable a pair that can work in tandem outside and inside together to form better info.

@robinkesterlives Год назад

The Amazon sensor is $70USD and you are stuck in the amazon world with it. The EVE was $100USD, so not cheap for how small and simple it is.

@neli5p Год назад

Its £159 .... of course it looks great! That's like saying a Maclaren is gorgeous.

@LittleTrader968 Год назад

Its £159.99, hmmmm a bit pricey for me 🙂

@StusReviewsUK Год назад

Indeed - it surprised me for sure!

@BadgerBob Год назад

I have integrated an Inkbird Bluetooth temp/humidity sensor into Apple Home using Homebridge (running on a Pi4 with BT). However, not sure if this device supports this, but there is also a ‘gateway’ hub available that allows their BT devices to connect via that to WiFi, so I think HomeAssistant support is possible, technically anyway. All that said mind, I’m extremely sceptical about how accurate and useful these cheap air quality monitors actually are.

@StusReviewsUK Год назад

Without scientific equipment it’s hard to measure accuracy for CO2 levels, although what I can say is that it does measure increases and decreases when I have windows open/closed.

@BadgerBob Год назад

@@StusReviewsUK Yeah, I saw a RU-vid video that tested a few. All ‘worked’, but the results were wildly different. Anyway I agree with the idea of using e ink more. I guess it’s cost, but yes so many devices from the likes of Aqara would seriously be benefit from it.

@jonfesmith7993 Год назад

E-ink displays and devices that work without connecting to a company with ,proprietary, servers around the world, especially not in dictatorships......

@BillsCountrysideAdventures Год назад

£160 they are taking the mickey! You can get zigbee for £10 each do same thing and HA compatible

@StusReviewsUK Год назад

Definitely seems expensive. When I went to check the price, there’s currently 40% off which makes it slightly more reasonable… and certainly cheaper than competitors with e ink displays.

@KORNdog1986 Год назад

I would have expected something a bit higher resolution for the screen tbh. Like a cheap-o kindle can produce smoother characters than that...maybe it's just a software issue.

@Nite-owl Год назад

Leans toward OUCH on the price front IMO. Not something I'd be looking to buy.

@HiltonT69 Год назад

At the price, with no Smarthome functionality, yeah nah!

@neverman3398 Год назад

£160 and cannot be used for automation? That’s a hard pass from me. I’d rather look at the Aqara Tvoc sensor

@StusReviewsUK Год назад

Agreed, like I said, I was disappointed too. Fingers crossed for some update or central hub eventually!

@neverman3398 Год назад

@@StusReviewsUK great in-depth review but the price tag 🏷️ just doesn’t seem to be justified by any means. I see as a £20 product with Bluetooth so pushing it to £25. Aqara’s Tvoc system is around £35-£40 and can be used for automation. I do agree about little white boxes being everywhere can be very boring.

@bbradleyjoness Год назад

Stewies Reviewies ♡

@saeedahmed_40 Год назад

No matter support therefore not ideal

@StusReviewsUK Год назад

Yeah I agree. 😢 fingers crossed they bring out some smart implementation in the near future for it.

@saeedahmed_40 Год назад

@@StusReviewsUK matter support would definitely fix a lot of the issues they have. I've noticed that there's no thread based matter supported temperature sensors on the market at the moment, which for cyber security if you want to have a more secure smart home with less point of entry, it's ideal to have it because of thread's security benefits.