Everything you want to know first thing, basically. You can have it cycle through the weather forecast, details of your Google Calendar schedule that day, and the headlines. When it is time to get up, the Smart Clock will play your choice of six wake-up alarms, before launching into a customisable morning routine. You’ll need to give the brightness icon a second tap in the settings to enable it – probably the first thing you should do, or you’ll find the clock’s glow problematic when you’re trying to sleep. I should say though that the auto-brightness feature isn’t turned on by default.
It works in reverse at night, and you can have the clock play sleepy ambient sounds as you slowly drift off. The Smart Clock’s screen will also get progressively brighter before it pulls you from the land of nod. There’s a built-in gentle wake-up routine, which when activated can tell your smart lights to begin gradually brightening 30 minutes before your alarm goes off. The Smart Clock’s primary function is to remove you from your sweet dreams with as little aggro as possible. It’s more than adequate for a bit of soul-destroying Brexit-based morning radio.īut seemingly everything can do all the stuff mentioned above these days. The Smart Clock can link up to a Spotify account, but if you’re of the Apple Music persuasion, music defaults to YouTube Music.Īlthough you’d obviously be absolutely bonkers to use it as a stand-in for an actual speaker, I’ve been quite surprised by how loud the max volume is. Just like a Google Home product, you can ask Assistant questions, control your other smart home gadgets, stream to Chromecast devices and listen to podcasts. The Smart Clock is as good a listener as it is a time-teller. The UI is clean and uncluttered you can manually swipe between clock faces, weather and alarms, or just use your voice. Not sure what's up, but have seen it discussed online.While the Smart Clock is definitely an alarm clock first and foremost, it might be the cleverest smart clock you’ve ever had (no, smartphones don’t count). One other note: I have noticed that the microphone in the Google Home Hub doesn’t appear to pick up voices as well as the Google Home Mini = you have to be much closer in distance to the Hub, than you did with the Mini (where you could be a lot further away in distance).
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So perhaps the music launcher software has an intermittent problem (and might be the cause of the music alarm issue too?)? Just speculation of course. So I repeated the request, and the 2nd time it confirmed it (like the previous time), and the 2nd time it did actually play the music. I said “Play disco music” (lol), and it said it would (confirmed), but it did not start playing (never launched the music/player). One side note: when I tried to just play some music on the Hub (not an alarm, but just play the music), the 1st time it did not work. At the alarm time, it lights up the Hub, as if it is about to turn the music on, but never triggers the music, so there is NO sound whatsoever, which of course is a big problem for a wake-up alarm. The REGULAR (non-music) alarm now appears to be working regularly again on the Hub, and it also appears to be turning on at the preset volume, which is nice, and not defaulting to the arbitrary (overly loud) 40% anymore, which is good.īut the MUSIC alarm still does not work at all on the Hub, when set WELL ahead of time (night before). Well, the MUSIC alarm works great on the Google Home Mini, but not the Hub.
It's loud, too: At less than half volume, the speakers were more than enough to fill a bedroom. Inside the Air are 20-watt stereo speakers with a passive radiator that delivered clear vocals and full, punchy bass. Other helpful features include a USB charging port on the back, a programmable button and Spotify integration. Put a phone on top of the Air to charge your phone using its Qi charger, and the LEDs turn amber and then green when your phone is fully charged. The Air also has custom alarms, so you don't have to rely on Alexa to wake you up.įive LEDs on top change color based on what the Air is doing if Alexa is listening, they glow different shades of blue. The Air's display shows the time in a stroke of brilliance, the Air's app lets you schedule times for when the display should brighten, dim or even turn off. If you don't mind its trapezoidal design and high price, this wood- and leather-wrapped Alexa-enabled alarm clock is loaded with features and sounds amazing, too.
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