LaMetric TIME Wi-Fi Clock for Smart Home – Social Media Counter – Cinema Lightbox – Digital Alarm Clock with Weather – Retro Pixel Art Bluetooth Speaker with 37×8 LED Display

TL;DR: Great IOT clock despite the price, buy it.
I’ll start by saying that I’ve tried many IOT (internet of things) products and they have for the most part, been unmitigated disasters. The Ring Doorbell and Ecobee smart thermostat were both absolute garbage. The first generation August Smart lock falls into this category too, although I’ve heard that they have actually attempted to improve things in more current hardware but I am unwilling to try again and give them more money.Enter Lametric. I was given one as a gift for my desk in my home office. Setup was easy and fast. I have to say I kind of fell in love with it during the set up process. There are some neat little app things that work on the Lametric that make it both useful and personal.As an example, My clock displays the American flag (you can pick from a ton of images if you’d rather..) then I have weather, radio, news, and the last thing is an utterly useless but whimsical “Why not Zoidberg? app thing that has no use but is a lot of fun.In short, yes the price is high, but it frequently goes on sale and it’s a quality product. I haven’t had a single issue and even bought another one to have in my bedroom as my night clock/alarm. You won’t be disappointed.

UPDATE: Unit failed after less than 2 years. Poor build quality.
UPDATE 9/2018 – My LaMetric Time is dead and there’s nothing I can do about it. After just less than 2 years with this product it started to constantly reboot. I attempted to isolate the issue by changing the power brick, USB cord, and updating the firmware. Nothing helped. Since I am somewhat handy with electronics I pulled the unit apart and to my surprise pieces of the PCB components started to fall out. It was clear that something had come desoldered or fried on the PCB board itself. I was disappointed with the internal build quality and soldering job I saw and it pretty much confirms the reason for failure – poor internal build quality and construction. Having seen what I’ve seen and know now I cannot recommend this product. In a last-ditch effort I contacted support who took almost 2 weeks to get back to me. Once they did they said since my unit was out of its one year warrantee, there was nothing they could do but offer me a discount on another unit.To be clear as to why I’m giving this 2 stars now. This thing IS NOT CHEAP. As a matter of fact for what it does it’s very expensive. I thought the high price was just because I was an early adopter, but it has not come down. For this price the internal build quality and QC from the factory needs to be much higher. It is a cool and unique product, but honestly from everything I’ve seen and know about this unit I would value it at around $35-50 USD. I’m sad to see it go, as I really enjoyed the unit while it worked, but I will definitely not be spending another $200 to replace it after less than 2 years.—Original Review—Finally someone released the desk clock I’ve been waiting for. For years I’ve searched around for a smart home style clock that would not only keep time, but allow me to customize what time zones I want to see, run timers, add apps, etc. In my opinion, LaMetic really hit this one on the head.Now full disclosure I already have a lot of WiFi connected devices in my home such as Philips Hue lights and the Netatmo weather station. Having these kinds of products will greatly increase your enjoyment of this device as it increases the versatility of things you can do.I think the best way to describe how useful this gadget is, is to describe how I’m currently using it. So, as of right now I have the local time displayed for about 30 seconds. I also have a little animated Christmas tree (this the season) that displays on the left hand side of the time. After about 30 seconds the time sweeps away to reveal the date and day of the week. After that data from my Netatmo station is displayed, the order is indoor temp, indoor CO2 levels, indoor sound level in DB, outdoor temp, and outdoor humidity. Next it sweeps away to reveal news headlines, and finally, a countdown to Christmas.Now for the really cool part – I have the LaMetric synced to multiple Twitter accounts such as CNN Breaking News, local area news, NWS weather alerts and a few others. These are set up not to constantly display, but to play a little alert sound, and scroll across the screen as they are posted. I can’t emphasize how cool this is to me. I can be sitting there watching TV, hear a bunch of sirens out the window, and moments later see the news scrolling across the LaMetric from my local Twitter news feed. It is very cool.On top of all this, nearly all facets of these settings are customizable, so you can adjust how long you want things to be seen, how loud the alert tone is and what kind of tone to play, etc. LaMetric did a very good job with designing these tools and it really shows. I’ve also noticed LaMetric releases a lot of firmware updates (sometimes 2 per week), so they are very active with addressing user needs and bugs. Impressive.Aesthetically this thing looks great. The LED’s are soft and not too harsh so it can be displayed next to a TV or computer monitor and not be too distracting. The sounds and volume for alerts are fully customizable and can be muted if you don’t want the audible alert. The little icons on the left hand side really add a fun touch to the information it displays. I can’t comment on the Bluetooth speakers as I use this in a room with a HiFi stereo so have no need for them. Overall product build is solid and feels nice with the exterior coated in a soft-touch rubber/plastic.Over all I am really happy with this thing. Sure it’s a bit pricey, but after a few weeks with it that sting goes away and you’re left with a really cool gadget.My only recommendation is for LaMetric to implement a way to mute the alert sounds during different times of the day, such as ‘mute alerts from 11PM – 8AM. I like the alerts when I’m up, but not so much when I’m trying to sleep.Other than that, home run LaMetric. Awesome product.

Increíble gadget, me gusta mucho, llama la atención, la información que proporciona es muy útil y muy sencillo para configurar.

Buen producto. Tienes un montón de app que puedes configurar. Tiene radio y no suena tan mal. Se conecta por WI-FI. En mi caso, lo tengo añadido como dispositivo a un controlador domótico z-wave y puedo enviar todo tipo de notificaciones a LaMetric. Es un producto que quizás debería de pulirse un poco más. Por ejemplo, la velocidad de los leds o la forma de presentarlo, pero bueno, con el tiempo, seguro que lo mejoran. Compra 100×100 recomendadoEdito para afirmar mi compra. He tenido la oportunidad de utilizar atención a cliente y un 10