Customer Ratings & Reviews

The uHoo is a "smart" indoor air quality monitoring sensor. It covers 9 different things (temperature, humidity, air pressure, CO, CO2, Ozone, NO2, VOCs, and PM2.5). That last one is essentially just dust and about the only questionable measurement it gives. What makes it smart is that there's an app that goes along with it which can give you alerts for different types of scenarios using a combination of measurements of those nine quantities. In the context of COVID-19 and recent fires in the area, this kind of device can be useful but the ecosystem around turning that data into useful action is not really there. The uHoo package is pretty simple. The monitor, usb cable, and power adapter. You set up the device in one room, I'd recommend a family room or other main room in the house that gets decent usage, download the app and use it to configure the uHoo (pairing it to your wifi), and then you're off to the races checking out air quality and getting alerts. You get a colored (red, yellow, green) view of the quality of the 9 different monitors but you can also look at the actual numeric level that was measured. Some measurements aren't truly ready immediately, so plan on having this sit for a couple days before relying on all the monitors. I'm not sure what that means if you take it traveling - does it need another 2 days of warm up or is it just a first time thing? I don't have a good way to verify the numeric values reported by the uHoo. Qualitatively, I can verify a few monitors did change in response to environmental conditions. We've had fires in the area, about 3-4 hours away but waves of smoke which blanket the city. Enough that it's become a regular thing to come out in the morning to a car coated in a fine mist of ash. The uHoo definitely saw the change in CO and CO2 and NO2 emissions. On a day where the city was issuing ozone warnings, the uHoo did have it's ozone monitor go into the yellow at home. The PM2.5 has always been in the green - I suspeect it would work but the uHoo is designed as an indoor sensor and my own response, based on what I can see and smell is to close my windows when there's obviously poor air quality. So, while the uHoo does report things and seemingly it is responsive and likely accurate, on it's own, at the level that I'd notice the poor air quality myself, there's no beenfit over having yet another notification telling me something I either already know or would know from the radio, digital billboards, or other announcements in my normal day. So, it seems the big utility for this is in its integration wiht other services, IFTTT, Google assistant, and Alexa to name a few. If there was a recommended action that I could take with this in conjunction with my HVAC or some other device, perhaps an air purifier. However, aside from acting as another temperature sensor input to the HVAC, I don't really see this as a useful data source for my home automation. And my other devices already bundle environmental data from other sources in the area that I'm not sure I get much benefit from having the uHoo locally. I can see this being more usefull if there was a system in place to automatically close windows, purify air and take some action to combat bad air quality but at best, it seems it can serve as a warning that something is wrong when you're away from home for an extended period of time. The uHoo does a good job of monitoring and reports measurements in an easy to understand interface. But that's where things currently end. Without a way to make good use of this information, it's at the level of a home weather station - just duplicates information you likely already see when you glance at your phone or smart thermostat.

Easy to setup, not so easy to get connected to to Google Home. I tried a few times but it just didn't work. It gives good amounts of data, but to what end? Most of the problems it detects there is nothing I can do about....Above avg CO2??? Guess I should just stop exhaling? They recommend I open a window, but the other alerts are that my higher room temperature of 76'F is causing higher humidity which would not be helped at all by an open window in North Carolina. Overall I think it's interesting data, but nothing highly actionable. I think this would be far more useful in a business than here in my home. I wouldn't recommend the purchase at this price point. Someone will do this cheaper at some point.

Bought it to monitor indoor air quality. Not fully satisfied. Leaves a lot to be desired. Has a few bugs that need to be fixed.