App Profile: Pion Smart Charger

iphone user 838652

Rating: 2/5

This app is barely functional. It seems to be able to connect to the charger, but that’s about it. It’s unable to set a network for the device to connect to and the device takes several minutes to setup the ad hoc network. The app also disallows any password with a space in it, which means if your wifi password has a space, it won’t even accept the config (however, it doesn’t seem to work with a basic ssid/password combo anyway) There doesn’t appear to be any way to factory reset the device either, so once it’s in a bad state, there’s no fixing it. Support isn’t very helpful either - they just reply with links to the manual which has simple instructions but no troubleshooting steps for when one of the steps doesn’t go as planned.