Hello and this is a very quick look at the Vobot Smart Alarm Clock, this is a
little bedside alarm clock that has Alexa built-in and that means you can
use the same commands on this as you would on an Alexa device. Around the back
you've got the controls volume up/down, aux out, it's powered by the included USB
cable. Setup was very simple, simply plug it in it will power up and then you can
either use the dedicated app or go to the website, It'll tell you the website
as you can see: myvobot.com, and the website just looks like the app so
either way you get the same kind of functionality. It will scan and get your
Vobot set up on your Wi-Fi network, you can then use the app to adjust
various settings, you need to sign in to Alexa, confirm your time zone, and once
you're up and running it's ready to go it will give you a few suggestions on
what to try. Who are you? V: "I'm Alexa and I've designed around your voice. I can
provide information, news, weather and more." You can't activate Vobot by
voice you have to hit the right spot and from time to time I found it quite
difficult to tap the correct area but once you do you can use Alexa commands.
Turn off the bedroom light.
Turn on the bedroom light.
The screens just the right
level of brightness at night, it didn't wake me up, and you've got lots of
options around what's displayed. So you can see this has been looping through
different bits of information, so date, time, things like that. If you want to you
can customize that to show different things so you could show the date, the
time, or you can have that turned off. Battery status: so let's set that to never show
and so you've got an awful lot of options you could have a little play with.
As you'd expect from an alarm clock it has an alarm feature it will give you
a countdown and then it will gradually increase its alarm noise to wake you up,
it has motion sensors onboard so you don't have to tap that little button on
top, you can shake it to stop it or flip it over to give you a bit of snooze time.
[ALARM SOUNDS]
The obvious thing to compare the Vobot to is the Amazon Dot, this is also a tiny
little device with Alexa built-in. There are some pros and cons of both, I like
this because the Dot has the voice activation, the Vobot doesn't so you
can't just talk to it at the same way you can with this one however as you can
see the Vobot has a battery built-in which means you can unplug it and taking
outside if you want to. One of the disadvantages of this, aside from not
being able to just say "Vobot do something" in the same way you can with the
Alexa hardware, is Spotify it isn't currently supported. Play me a song from
Spotify. V: "Spotify music is not supported on this device" And that's a shame, but it
will still work with TuneIn or Amazon music. Play me a Christmas carol from
Amazon music. V: "Here's a station for Christmas Carol music." I really like the
display on this it's not so bright that it wakes you up at night it's just right
that if you do wake up and you're not sure what the time is you can just
glance over and it shows you everything you need to know. They've also done, in a
recent update, quite a cool thing where if you hold down the volume down button
on the back for 7 seconds, then let it go, you get to have a little game of
breakout and this has little motion sensors in so you can rock it backwards
and forwards and move the paddle and have a little game. So it's a great
little device if you don't mind tapping on the top it offers the same kind of
functionality but it is a bit limited at the moment. The app does allow you to make
a lot of adjustments so if your adjust what's on the screen you can also set
daily activities as well so it will automatically do certain things,
alarms things like that, and it has the option of working with Alexa connected
equipment such as the bulb I showed you earlier. I hope you find the short review
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