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. ;)

This is the kind of things that are very much not needed. It displays all sorts of stats, counters and calendar events. The quality is fair but a bit expensive though. This is the only quality provider for such a product and it works as expected hence the 4 stars. The app / connection should be improved, something it's hard to link to each other.

If you have several smart home gadgets this is a excellent piece of technology to keep track of all the notifications. As other reviewers have said it is a expensive gadget made of plastic and with a retro look, but If you can buy it while on offer well worth the spend. When I bought it I thought: A- Why did I spent so much on a desk clock and B- this is going to be one of those things that sounds good in paper but then disappoint once you start using them. Well... I was wrong, I do actually like it very much and don’t regret buying it! I use it every single day without even realising that I’m using it! It is so easy to look at it and get the information you need at glance (specially notifications!). I use mine to keep track of different smart devices around home. I enabled different apps and automatically change between them to display the following: - Time and date (obviously!) - Weather (you can customise what information you want the clock to display) - Temperature and humidity at home (from Nest thermostat). Also notifies if the temperature is too high or too low - name of the song and artist of the song currently playing in my Sonos system (Which automatically displays it as soon as a new track starts) - Exchange Rate - RSS News (which I’ve configured to notify and give me the 5 headlines very hour) - Mirror the notifications on my phone (I really like this feature as I can see and read text or WhatsApp messages and email subject lines without having to pick up my phone) - Notifies and shows who is calling (again, this is great so you don’t need to grab the phone to see who is calling) - Notifies me when someone is at the front door (Ring Doorbell integration via IFTTT). - Set date and time reminders (I.e.: Put the bins out Tuesday evening! - You can even choose different wheelie bin icons!) I have the LaMetric time for over a year and only had a couple of issues with it so far. Both times an installed app was causing the device to freeze and just displaying a black screen. The technical support is great. Both times I had the issues I contacted support and sent them the logs. The display is quite bright and you can enable auto brightness so it changes based on the light in the room. You can configure a ‘Do Not disturb’ (they call it screensaver) so the screen turns off (or displays a dimmed clock) during the specified time period. I enabled this at night to stop notifications coming through. It has 3 large buttons at the top which they allow you to manually scroll between the enabled apps and make selections. The button on the right side turns off the device and on the left side there are two small buttons to increase or decrease the volume. If you are thinking to purchase this to listen to the music, don’t! You can play the radio or Spotify on it but the sound quality is terrible. To summarise, if you are looking for a smart display to keep track of notifications and other gadgets around the house, go for it - you won’t regret it.

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, easy to navigate. Easy to customise your clock with it's tutorials on the start of the app, and browsing the store of apps it comes with is fantastic! All free so you don't have to worry about anything once you buy this. Easily customizable, automatic brightness to lower it during night if you so wish to have it on. Also the radio is superb! I know German and you can have access to any radio station in the world and been listening to German pod casts as well! I couldn't find Heart or Kiss which worked but it will come eventually! The only con with it is that when you plug the cable into the adapter its in the front, which means you can't fit it behind any tight spaces. You need at least about 15cm from the plug socket outlet to make it fit. But, that doesn't flaw the product itself. This alarm clock with all of these apps is brilliant. I recommend it and it comes with a 1 year warranty if you sign it up on the site and ALSO you can create apps on their site which is completely free and help contribute your creations to the community! In the end, brilliant product. Get it!

This is insanely overpriced for what it is and the display is really blurry, it has some kind of filter on it or something, it makes my eyes go weird sometimes when I look at it (500mm away on desk). I have played around with it a bit and it has some cool widgets for it, like Pikachu next to the time but I don't think it's very useful for the average person, I saw a few streamers use these on twitch so wishlisted it and was always tempted to buy it so decided to for xmas. I'll keep it for now but after looking into it these suffer from dead pixels after a while so will have to see. This should be £75 max, there's nothing special about it and as others have said you could get a cheap android tablet for this money and use that as a widget clock instead.

Simply put its a nice "smart" clock with limited functions, easy to set up and then as most wifi connected devices does tend to have a mind of its own if it wants to connect or not. They get a four star for this part of the review. As others have stated it is expensive for what it is and it gathers dust way to easily and here is the main kicker, I bough one of their website I waited almost 3 months to have it shipped to me HOWEVER when I received a notification from LA Metric that it was now in stock and my order will soon be with me I went on Amazon to have a quick look and of course it was in stock on Amazon Prime for you guessed it £25 cheaper. I though I would give it a try no way an order placed 3 months ago would take longer to arrive than an order placed today but you guessed it my clock from Amazon came the next day and the clock from La Metric came a whole week and a half later. Sure its pretty bad practice when you pre order something and it not only costs more but also takes longer to arrive. BUT here is the kicker, two weeks later I get a letter from TNT asking me to pay £60 !!!! import tax and of course an admin charge, so the moral here is the clock is fine but for £159 is too expensive as other people have mentioned get a cheap tablet it will do a much better job than this for less with much more potential and finally La Metric I hope you read this its such poor practice when a customer buys a product DIRECTLY from you they almost get an automatic slap in the face that costs them an extra £80. Amazon as usual perfect.

When I first got this clock on an Amazon Flash Sale, I didn’t understand what all the fuss was about. I set it up and thought it was way too expensive for a glamourised clock. I wanted to send it back for a refund. I got lazy for a few days and then it grew on me... It does look amazing, but the feel is a bit cheap, especially considering the overinflated ridiculous price. However, I can’t live without it now and it’s a valid part of my household. I linked it to my Ring doorbell, Hue lights, iPhone X (texts, calls, WhatsApp, etc.) and Google Home Mini. There’s so much flexibility with this device, especially with the IFTTT protocol - the functionality is endless. It reminds me of my Apple Watch - you just glance at it. I can see what the weather is like, who’s calling, when the next train is, time/date/temp, countdowns, social media info, tube status, news flashes and so much more. It may be too expensive for what it is, but there’s no denying that it’s an astonishing product. Just don’t physically pick it up, because that ruins the magic with its cheap build quality. The screen is very vivid and the colours are excellent. The scrolling text is really clear and easy to read. Also the buttons have a nice click to them. I was actually surprised with the audio.. this obviously isn’t a speaker, but the sound is good for what it is. The alert sounds have a certain pleasurable ambience to them. I wish reviewers would stop comparing it to Bluetooth speakers - that’s simply not fair, because that’s not it’s purpose. This is no boom box and it doesn’t try to be. It’s primarily a notification device and a great one at that. I must say that this is the best of its kind on the market and really stands out with retro/modern style. I currently have Link from Zelda on my clockface, I swapped out Mario because he’s had enough time in my front room. You need the free iOS/Android app to manage the device and it’s simple enough. There’s a lot of functionality, especially when enabling IFTTT. There are a few bugs, but nothing that ruins the experience. I’m waiting for that next firmware update. If you have lots of smart devices, this is definitely worth getting, but if you don’t - think about it and whether it fits in your lifestyle. It is a cool device and will impress your visitors.

I've held off buying this device for several years due to its higher-than-expected price, but I decided it would be a great addition to my home automation setup. I mainly wanted the device to display notifications and "relevant" information on its beautiful screen. I have mine showing information regarding the music and videos I'm streaming via my Apple TV. It also shows my album and track information while streaming music via Volumio. Whilst this functionality is unavailable out of the box, it is possible with some technical knowledge, as LaMetric has an excellent app ecosystem. I believe the device represents a fair price for somebody like me, but I understand this might not be the case for everyone. It's a beautiful connected display that has excellent integration and extensibility.