XCH 2023

I received the Xtreme Connected Home Snapshot Battery Doorbell from someone else. The product and app system worked for a grand total of two minutes. I advise you to save your money and time look by looking into other doorbell cameras! Setup was easy, the camera was on and detected movement, the app sent push notifications to my phone. Then the wifi connection failed as I moved towards the door. I tried re-adding the device multiple times, to no avail. The 7th or 8th try somehow worked. I added the device again, saw my face in the footage, received motion detection notifications on my phone. A minute later, the wifi connection dropped again. I just put everything away and deleted my account.

2 issues. Integration with Siri and the Apple home automation not easy to do so I did without. Just not very clear instructions provided. The second issue is automation. I had one of the plugs utilized for a space heater for the benefit of my pets when the temperature dropped suddenly due to spring season while I was away. I deleted the “Scene” for the outlet but I would still find it turned on in the afternoon long after deleting the automation cycle. The door/window sensor cannot be used to trigger anything in conjunction of the other products and essentially acts as an alarm. But despite those issues and limitations the app is easy to navigate for everything else. Granted my area is a small apartment but the ecosystem is affordable for my needs.

I really like this app for my bulbs! I like how it works with my echo dot and how easy it is to use. A couple things I don't like is that it vibrates every time you change the color of the light, it'd be nice if there was at least an option to turn this off. Another thing is that I wish you could set presets for lights, for example, I have a few lights in my room and it would be cool to make each bulb a different color and save that setting so I can resume that setting later, there's just no way to save your own colors, they give you a couple of presets but it's not quite enough. But other than that it's still 5 stars for how these bulbs are such a good value.