Customers enjoy the product's features but have concerns about its voice control. While some customers find the voice recognition to be unreliable, others appreciate the convenience it offers.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good product if you get it on sale
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Ivee is easy enough to setup if you follow the difections. Ivee works well with my WeMo devices. The wife and I occasionally watch movies/TV at night and a couple times the audio has triggered Ivee. I would have liked to have seen a mobile app to help connect Ivee to the over devices and to set the time and alarms. You have to talk to Ivee and set your alarms, this is not convenient if my wife is already asleep and I don't want to wake her. I can't recommend the product at full price, its worth it at half the original.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Great idea, execution could use a lot of work
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Its a great concept and now has lots of competition. Many of the contenders offer a greater feature set but the Ivee is pretty good! the only problem is the hardware is not the best at picking up sounds and voice and is consistently incorrect in execution of commands. It actually plays very nicely with WEMO, HUE and Smartthings and i've been using it with them for a while now but the Ivee has a hard time understanding words that are similar like "Dining Room" and Living Room Right" for some reason it always mixes those two up. The response is unpredictable i ask it to turn on the dining room light and it will turn on the hue lights and set the scene. Its soft of like rolling the dice and letting it decide which device will turn on, so i made sure all the critical devices were removed from the Ivee control so i didn't turn them on or off by accident.,
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Works adequately / some missing systems
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This product is noted to work or will work in the future with a number of other smart home devices. It's a matter of ignoring the adverts and concentrate on recent news and comments.
Functions in communicating with other devices about 85% of the time, combining a failure to understand commands, to having to get commands exact and at a learn-able speed (moderatespeed speech seems best) before acknowledging the command. Many commands simply do not work such as "turn on radio to ##.#" with a consistent error response.
No battery backup for function, only internal memory store for setup so its not removed when unplugging device to move it closer to Wi_Fi when Ivee drops signal connection. So a short time allowed before item needs resetting of wi-fi settings and clock. Don't unplug it for too long -- and keep it close to the Wi-Fi for what appears to be a weak (short distance) connecting signal.
Has some nice sleep sounds and creative alarms which would be great to add more. Simple sleek design and adequate physical function, though the plastic buttons are frail to the touch with awkward feel not knowing if it "clicks" or not. Can assume they may fail within a couple of years.
From experience and comments, customer support is evasive, and with apparent issues from lack of support and updates to connecting to previous and future designed smarthome products including FitBit which is presently not supported though referenced that it is (including commands) in the adverts. Other products seeming in the same boat.
Beneficial with Iris in executing most (again 85%) of commands without having to go to the Iris app.
For most uses it comes across feeling like a glorified alarm clark, while at times functioning as needed and giving a welcomed comfort to not having to go searching an app to make other products work.
One pet peeve is having to say "Hello Ivee" before EVERY command, rather than a 3 second delay between it's resetting so that you can perhaps give a chain of commands before it resets.
Rated it good if you eventually forget about cost, that it serves a minimal function, but seems "first generation" in home command smart-ware and I look forward to seeing something else come up the pipeline.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
DON'T BUY!!!!
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Setup was not hard but voice recognition is hit and miss. You find yourself feeling like a fool. When if did recognize it did control my home automation, but when asking for weather or inside temperature it replied with foolish phrases like ..I'm sorry my brain is fried...I contacted tech supt 5 days ago and only recerived auto reply and nothing addressing my problem
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
This is a good clock but not perfect.
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I liked this clock a lot but found it didn't always detect my voice correctly and accurately. It is a neat clock but I don't think I would buy another, until they get the voice activated functions to be more accurate.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good concept needs updating
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Works well so far but is very limited in functions. I think it has a future potential.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
great product
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great product is very useful for someone with limited motor skills
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
great as a clock
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G9od clock voice command could use work doesn't always get the right time or command
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Works with Smartthings
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Great product. Works great. Voice recognition is ok. Works with Smartthings, TCP Connected lightbulbs and the NEST thermostat. Its pretty awesome to be able to turn the fan on and off with my voice.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
good but you need patience.
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When I'm on the phone Ivee will think I'm talking to her. It also won't find my Phillips hue bulbs. Hopefully software updates will help. Otherwise I really like it.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Love my IVEE
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IVEE is a must if you use WEMO, Hue and Nest wifi home automation gadgets.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Cool Concept
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Would not recommend, company advertises features that are not available
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Wish it worked!
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Great idea if it would work. Bought to control my Wemo and Hue. just didn't work. Kept saying Hello Ivee over and over with no response. talked to customer service, which is great, took back and received a second one with no change and returned.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Flaws and disappointing
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This device is a great idea but needs lots of work. The voice recognition is spotty and doesn't always work and the quality of the unit itself is so-so!
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Impressed in less than 24 hours
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I usually wait a bit before reviewing a product, but this product has proved its worth quickly. I is missing one or two features that would really improve it, pandora for the alarms and airplay would be great features to add. So lets talk about what it does, first it can tell you the weather - stocks - time, but who cares that isn't why you buy it you buy it to control the thermostat and the lights in your home, and it does it well. I have a nest thermostat and Ivee can control it with ease, I have a smartthings home automation hub and again Ivee is a star at controlling it, I have some hue bulbs and Ivee has some limitations directly controlling the hue bulbs when directly controlling them which smartthings does anyway so the limitations aren't a problem. Ivee is much smaller and much better built than I expected, it feels good in your hands and it is obvious it is well made, the screen is clear and bright, might be nice to be able to change the color of the time but I can live without that feature. Not sure why it actually has an fm radio in it but it does. Some other integration with IFTTT and adding calendar items to ical or google would also be nice and of course having Ivee announce these items would also be nice. All that being said I made the purchase with only one task in mind "hello Ivee turn on the kitchen lights" and it does and does it every time, worth every penny. I will be buying 2 more Ivee's one for each bedroom so that from every room Ivee can take care of my needs.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Complete waste of $200 - No support under warranty
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I purchased this device less than a year ago. I would have given it three starts for performance until December when they upgraded the speech recognition software. Since then, it only responds with "I'm sorry, I didn't understand my server's response". I contacted warranty support (very difficult to do) and requested support for the non-functional unit. After two months of weekly inquiries, I gave up as their only response is that they are very busy and they are still working on it...
The management and developers of this product seem to have given up as they haven't answered any inquiries on their support website or blogs and stopped posting any information about anything other than they attended CES.
They got their Kickstarter money and my $200. Don't let them get yours.
Best Buy, please stop selling this product to your loyal customers. All other vendors have stopped.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
worthless
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Complete trash, 90% of its response are times of places I don't care or even know.
Tried using with a hue starter kit... worthless