LaMetric Time Wi-Fi Clock for Smart Home, LM 37X8, Black

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. ;)

Very cool But a bit pricey. Decided to buy this for myself for Xmas, coz my wife was going to get me wallpaper as a Xmas gift. The apps for it are very good and the level of customisation is very good. The wifi is only 802.11n, so if it can't detect wifi, you'll need something on the 2.4GHz range. Going to the URL(once connected to the lametric) to download the iOS/android app is the only way I could find to download the program. There were no links to it on their website and [...] didn't work for me either. After checking this device using nmap, it seems as though port 22 and port 9001 are open. Port 22 I know what that is for, but I can't get access to the device (and their support team said they won't hand out credentials due to some BS security issue - it's my device, i want access to it!! Why the backdoor?!). TBH, it shouldn't be open in the first place!!! Why would you need it there? Port 9001 is a bit more insidious. From a quick google, port 9001 is for Tor traffic. Now why would that be open on a lametric device? I fortunately don't have any crap consumer router (I built my own linux firewall), but I suspect if I did it might use something like uPNP to open a port and forward traffic to the lametric to act as a Tor exit node. I am still awaiting a proper response from Smart Atoms customer service as to why that is open.... * Network wise, it pings developer.lametric.com (2 ICMP packets) every 10 seconds - not sure why though - this is fine though. * For NTP, it goes went to random servers, which I found odd. I would expect it to use pool.ntp.org, rather than a static address, but I didn't see a DNS lookup for pool.ntp.org (used tcpdump) - I think this is odd * It sends keepalive type data via MQTT to port 1883, so this is probably running an esp8266 with LUA so it's probably registering itself with their network to say "hey - i'm alive here's some data" - I think this is fine. * It also scans the local network (239.255.255.250 port 1900 for SSDP) - again - why does it do this?! This is uPNP/SSDP, but it seems as though port 5000 is not open on the lametric device, at least not during my nmap of it Port 9001 and scanning the local network scans are really dodgy on this sort of device.... why would you do that? I will update this review when I get more interesting info... ==================== UPDATE 2015-12-24 - smart atom customer support replied with this info: 1. Port 22 – SSH. We left that backdoor for support engineers to be able to help or find the problem in really difficult situations (via TeamViewer or similar software). But as we see our recovery mechanisms we have are sufficient and we will remove SSH access from our future firmwares. 2. Port 443 – HTTPS. Is used by a Web server on LaMetric that talks with LaMetric mobile clients (Android and iOS) over HTTPS. We also use client certificates, so no one except our clients can talk to LaMetric in the network. 3. Port 6001 – actually this is a default port for MPD (music player daemon). It is responsible for playing internet radio media streams. Actually this port is left open by mistake and will be closed in the next firmware versions. Thank you for finding that. 4. Port 9001. This is not TOR :). This port is used for communication between lighttpd (Web server) and fastcgi (interface between Web server and our software on the device). We should have been done this via linux socket, but we had troubles with that approach. And the funny thing is that the port had been chosen randomly :). In next versions we will try again to move to linux socket way of communication and close the port. 5. As for pings – this way LaMetric knows that there is no internet and can handle this case in more user friendly way by showing "no internet" messages. ==================== UPDATE 2016-01-03 They got back to me regarding SSDP: We use SSDP to find LaMetric devices on the network. In order to do that our client app sends (broadcasts) discovery packet to the network and LaMetric devices respond with some additional information, like IP address and device name. ==================== UPDATE 2016-10-25 They are on v 1.6.2 of the firmware, nmap shows the following ports open: 22/tcp open ssh 80/tcp open http 443/tcp open https 4343/tcp open unicall 8080/tcp open http-proxy 9001/tcp open tor-orport 9002/tcp open dynamid traffic seems to be a lot less 'chatty' and more inline with what i'd expect.

Bonjour à tous, Alors tout d'abord j'ai vu cette horloge sur plusieurs tests vidéos YouTube et je me suis laisser convaincre. Et je ne suis pas déçu! Un affichage LED qui s'adapte à la luminosité ambiante, des applications dédiés à de nombreux usages... Personnellement j'ai trouvé mes favoris avec la fonction qui permets de les faires tourner en boucle : • Heure • Météo (Température / Conditions / Humidité / Vitesse du vent) • Compteur Facebook & Instagram (instantanée!) • Compte à rebours (pour mon mariage! :D) Évidemment toutes les autres fonctions basiques sont très agréables, le réveil, le minuteur, le chronomètre ou encore la radio (avec un son avec l'enceinte intégrée très raisonnable). Mais l'avantage pour moi ce sont les applications supplémentaires, comme les temps d'arrivées de Bus et métros avec la RATP ou encore le temps entre 2 portes sur le périphérique parisien avec Sytadin. Juste hyper personnalisable! Je vais en prendre plusieurs autres pour mes boutiques physiques du coup! ;)

Ehrlich gesagt hab ich schon länger dieses schöne Stück im Einkaufswagen liegen gehabt, doch mich hatte immer der Preis von ca 200 Euro etwas abgeschreckt ;-) Egal! Gönn dir Digga hab ich mir gesagt und schwups da steht sie nun (siehe Video). Diese Wlan-Uhr ist der Hingucker schlecht hin! Verarbeitung: Aus überwiegend Plastik, sehr leicht. Erscheinungsbild ist Schwarz/MATT. Funktion: Per App kann man diese Smart-Uhr individuell auf sich einstellen, so habe ich z.b. ein Youtube-Abo-Counter installiert, so kann ich jederzeit live sehen ob ich deabonniert werde ;) Es gibt unzählige Apps! Für jeden etwas dabei und falls nicht, dann kann man selbst welche machen! Ihr könnt auch die lustigen Bildchen selbst erstellen oder Nachrichten auf die Uhr schicken ^^ Sie Benachrichtigt mich sogar wer gerade auf meinem Handy anruft und vieles mehr! Sie zeigt mir das Wetter von Heute und Morgen an und ich kann mein Philips-Hue-System mit ihr Steuern. Außerdem Tag/Datum, Luftfeuchtigkeit, Instagram-Subscriber, Twitch-Follower und alles was ihr quasi möchtet :-) Bei meiner habe ich auch eingestellt mir die Views, Daumen-hoch/runter und Kommentare vom letzten Video anzuzeigen! Also für Twitcher/Youtuber ist das die Perfekte Smart-Uhr! Ich bin begeistert! Nebenbei ist es einfach nur ein Hingucker, die kleinen lustigen Pixel-Figuren tanzen oder blinken sehr schön! Steuerung/Hardwarefeatures: Installation per App, sie Updatet sich dann erstmal und nun können wir alles installieren und konfigurieren wie es uns beliebt, z .b. wechsel zwischen den Angezeigten Apps, oder sie kann auch nur eine App immer anzeigen, alles was ihr möchtet! [Oben] befinden sich 3 Knöpfe; Links|Bestätigung|Rechts , so könnt ihr leicht hin und her switchen von App zu App. [Links] an der Seite befindet sich der kleine Lautsprecher mit den Knöpfen Laut/Leiser. Erwartet von dem kleinen Lautsprecher aber nicht High-Tech Sounds aber er tut eben seinen Job! [Hinten] Und wer mehr Sound möchte der kann ein Aux-Kabel nehmen und hinten in die vorhandene Buchse stecken und zum PC oder Anlage oder was auch immer connecten :-) Strom bekommt die Uhr per Micro-USB-Anschluss. [Rechts] befindet sich ein weiterer Lautsprecher und der Ein/Aus-Schalter. Fazit: Nach einer etwas zögerlichen Installation in meinem Wlan, punktete die Uhr durch ihre vielen vielen Möglichkeiten! Ich bin rund um zufrieden, sie sieht einfach klasse aus und wer das Geld übrig hat und die vielen Funktionen für sich auch nutzen kann, dem Empfehle ich sie gerne! :-) Ein kleines Stück Plastik welches mein Herz schmelzen lässt ;) Gruss Olli aka LP-Schmiede

Il prezzo sicuramente può spaventare (preso a 149€), ma vista l'assenza di concorrenza e quello che offre è considerato un oggetto di culto nella comunità "geek". Definirlo un orologio smart è MOLTO limitante, si tratta in realtà di un display (l'effetto pixel art è davvero accattivante e i primi 64 pixel -8x8- sulla sinistra sono a colori) su cui è possibile visualizzare una miriade di applicazioni personalizzate (scaricabili gratuitamente dall'app store di LaMetric). Si collega alla rete wi-fi di casa ed è controllabile in questo modo anche da una intuitivissima app per ios/android. Oltre al classico orologio (altamente personalizzabile, è infatti possibile mostrare anche il giorno della settimana, la data e soprattutto... applicare una simpatica icona 8x8, anche animata, scaricabile fra centinaia a disposizione sull'app e addirittura crearne una da 0, animazione compresa), il timer e il cronometro sono presenti applicazioni per conoscere il tempo/umidità/precipitazioni/pressione/vento/visibilità o previsioni (da ilmeteo.it), avere push notification per le ultime notizie o per le ultime gmail ricevute, collegarlo ai vari RSS feed, integrarlo con innumerevoli app social ed infine tramite l'integrazione con IFTTT si potrà eseguire virtualmente un'infinità di azioni. E' possibile anche streamare qualsiasi dispositivo bluetooth, sono presenti due piccole casse di qualità medio-bassa. Durante le feste natalizie è piaciuto a tutta la famiglia ^_^

Within 20 months, almost half of the leds have stopped working

Top ! A mi-chemin entre le gadget et l’indispensable horloge de salon, LaMetric Time propose bien plus qu’une simple horloge, ludique, à la fois régressive (Pixel) et moderne, des app perso et bien pensées et un support réactif et qui tient ses promesses.