Amazon Smart Air Quality Monitor with Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen, 2021 release) - Glacier White

Good things:- Pretty quiet to operate considering there's a built-in fan- Easy to set up through Alexa app, you just scan the bar code on the bottom of device with an app- Works with Echo speakers/devices so if you have one - you can just ask about things like indoor temperature or air quality using your voiceBad things:- The measurement range for things like humidity and temperature is too low. Yes, I had days when humidity was over 90% in the living room and the temperature was over 104F. No, this monitor cannot measure such high values.- The CO sensor is practically useless. It's useless as CO alarm (it's not even certified to be used as such), you should have a dedicated CO alarm detector anyway which we already have on each floor. CO2 sensor would've been much more useful since I've seen situations when CO2 going significantly up in rooms with poor ventilation, causing issues like headache and fatigue, with CO staying in safe ranges. Many other air quality detectors have CO2 sensors for this reason.- There is no standalone app to use specifically for this monitor, you must use Amazon Alexa app if you want to see visual representation of the data, and Alexa app has a lot of useless features and asks for too many permissions and I don't like using it for anything. The Alexa app doesn't even have a widget specifically for this monitor, not even a tiny 1x1 widget. And yes, I do like using widgets on my Android phone.- There is an initial calibration which takes few minutes each time you disconnect the monitor from power supply. It's pretty annoying to wait that much each time you want to move it to different location. There is no battery of any kind inside to compensate for things like brief power loss or to be used as a portable detector.- The power connector on device is microUSB, so you can't reuse any of your existing power cables with USB-C if you will ever need to use longer cable or if the included cable will go bad, you will have to buy extra cable with microUSB connector.Edit: forgot to add most important part. Right now (as of the day of this review) the Amazon Echo devices cannot notify you with voice about changes in air quality in a meaningful way when paired to this monitor. Same goes for Amazon Alexa app. For example, I have another air quality monitor by different brand (I won't tell which one, it doesn't matter), and it has an app which displays instant notification on my Android phone, for example "The VOCs are increasing", with specific level of VOCs, then when VOCs decrease to safe level - it displays another notification about that, with detailed numerical values. Current version of Amazon Alexa app cannot display such notifications for this monitor. Amazon Echo devices also do not notify you through voice with a warning like "Your level of VOCs are increasing" or "Your level of PM has reached unsafe levels". I can't believe Amazon didn't bother to add such simple things before releasing this monitor.

This new Amazon Air Quality Monitor is a great device to keep track of the air quality in your house, and at $69.99 it is currently less expensive than many similar devices on the market today.The five aspects of air quality that this device tracks are:-Particulate matter (PM 2.5)-Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)-Carbon monoxide (CO)-Humidity-TemperatureYou can access the data from any Alexa/Echo device, or from the Alexa app on your phone. We check the information on our Echo Show often. Since there is a temperature sensor, you can also use it to trigger routines based on indoor temperature; like turning up your smart thermostat or smart ceiling fans, for example.So far this device has been working well, and I even tested it next to other more expensive Air Quality Monitors, and they produced almost identical results (although the humidity registered as slightly higher on this device). We also tested opening windows in the house, and watched as the sensor data changed.I will be ordering more of these for other rooms in the house, and I will update this review with more information if I notice some issues over time. So far though, I love being able to monitor the air quality through Alexa!

I tried to post this to the question section but it seems like it might be hidden. I am wondering why FLBeachComber is answering most of the questions on this product and not Amazon? Why would Amazon release a product that is not a certified CO monitor/detector? That is a huge liability and very dangerous to millions of people.

The media could not be loaded.  Honestly, Micro USB ports are 2000-era. This should be using USB-C... to charge itself....oh wait, you need to have this always plugged in... not battery-powered at all. This is almost 2022. Why are all (well 99%) Amazon products still plug-in only?!Also. The User Interface is hideous. I own another Air Quality Monitor, a Wavey Air Tiny kind and it came out a whole year before this thing. Why is it so ugly? What's up with that grill? Darth Vader asked for his mask back. So did the cylons.Oh, and it's way too hard to plug this thing in.Otherwise it comes with a standard mounting screw female end with could be cool if you wanted to make it stand out more I guess.Honestly, design and functionality need to start coming to the forefront of these devices from now on. I'm pretty much all-in on Alexa ecosystem, so I am sort of stuck now.Lastly, there is no true Alexa integration, I can't talk to my Alexa and ask her for most information on the device. She can't even find it, enjoys telling me about my city's Air Quality or asking if I want to purchase something usually or wiki.A lot of "That's not supported yet". VOCs does work if you get it just right. Following the prompts listed in "Learn more" sections just aren't working.On a plus, it does have CO level monitoring. But does not have an internal alarm sadly.

It seems to be doing well to measure AQ, but otherwise I am not impressed so far -- From my Echo Show, can only get a summary, like "Good". No history display.- From the Alex app, I have not been able to add the device as a Favorite, and it's not on the home screen of the app. I therefore need multiple key presses to get to the device.- The temp and humidity history are shown graphically on a scale that is too compressed to be useful. Visually it looks flat after two days, but if I press and hold one of the bars in the chart I get a reading. The temp varied between 63F and 70F in my history so would have expected the scale to auto-adjust.- After two full days, it's still calibrating.Almost all these issues can be addressed in the UX rather than the device itself. No impressed so far.