Customer Ratings & Reviews

The uHoo Smart Indoor Air Quality Monitor is one of those gizmos that you don’t know that you need until you get one. The unit is designed to detect allergens and toxins in the air. I suffer from allergies year-round, I have dogs, and I have children. There is a lot of stuff in our air so I was curious as to what this would measure. The unit was easy to set up. You take it out of the box, plug it in, download the app from your favorite app store, and off you go. You follow the prompts in the app to set up. You will need to let the unit run for about three days before you start to see accurate results. This thing monitors stuff I didn’t realize were things. What’s a TVOC? PM2.5? I’m not sure, but the uHoo monitors it. I have CO2 monitors in the home and have never had one go off. However, the uHoo alerted me via push notification that my CO2 levels were higher than recommended. The next day, I had the windows open for a while and the level went down. What became annoying, though, was a stream of constant alerts. It told me that the humidity was high and that I should turn my thermostat down. I did so. Then it alerted me that my home was colder than usual and to turn my thermostat up. Huh? This went back and forth until I finally shut off the push notifications. It was too much. Seems to me it is a little too sensitive, maybe? It also defeats some of the purpose if I have to turn off the notifications because there are too many of them. It’s the app that cried wolf. Now, how will I know if I’m in a danger zone? For that reason, I took off one star. It’s a really interesting item to have, but it might need a bit of tweaking to be really helpful.

This is a neat little device that monitors the air quality of the room that it's in. It's aesthetically pleasing and does not stick out like a sore thumb. The smart app that is used in combination with this device makes monitoring and checking on the air quality statistics very easy. One of the best part about this device is how easy the setup was. All that was needed was to follow the step-by-step guide provided by the application and you are up and running within 5 minutes. The application itself has a helpful guide that shows you what every statistic means. It is up to you, the user, which statistic matters to you. Personally, I was most interested in the amount of particles in the air. While the application is great in many aspects, it is also disappointing in some. Once such case is that there is no way to set alerts when measurements hit a certain level. You can only turn on or off alerts that doesn't tell you when it will alert you. The help page is also a little wonky, in that some of the bars do not display correctly so you do not get the full picture. I also wish you could customize the graphs a bit more, like being able to set a time period for the charts instead of being limited to hour, day, and month. Since this device is so heavily dependent on the application, they should put more usable features on it. Overall, the device itself is great but the application is a little lacking.

Overall the uHoo device is an interesting mix of sensors for monitoring air quality in a room, what I'm unsure with the device is the calibration of the sensors. For things like particles in the air or even CO2, I don't have anything else to compare it with, so the measurements it provides me I take with a grain of salt only because I can't verify the readings. That was my biggest problem, I just don't know off hand how accurate within a reasonable range they. I didn't see anything so out of whack that I doubt it, I just wonder how best to verify the data. That said let's get onto setup with the uHoo. That was very well done. I was using the Android version, but unlike a lot of other IoT devices this walked you through setup and it was easy without an issue and the device came online first try no needing to figure out how to reset it and try again. It just worked, that was very nice. Once that is done, you just leave the device in whatever room you want to monitor. I'd recommend at least for the first week you turn off the alerts in the app since a few of the sensors took a few days to calibrate according to the app, like the volatile compounds. Once its dialed in you can adjust the alert thresholds and monitor the air quality. I do appreciate the app allows me to set alert levels, since you can customize your thresholds. Now the app does take this information from all the sensors and gives you a score from 1-10 on the ability of viruses to live in that area. Interesting information and that is all it is. Nothing something that will prevent them. Just gives you an idea of what you might want to adjust. The overall sensor package is small, and looks ok and can fit anywhere where it can get power and Wi-Fi. This can be handy to monitor spaces for dust or should I open a window, or what the temperature is. The graphs in the apps are nice and a handy way to track trends for the month. Overall if you are looking for a sensor package to monitor the diverse things this covers from CO/CO2/Volatile Compounds/Temperature/Humidity/Air Pressure/Dust/Ozone/NO2 this might be something you can use.