iHome iAVS16 Bedside Speaker with Alexa Built In, Bluetooth, and USB Charging, Now Supports Spotify by Voice

The app is severely outdated and company has not provided an update for almost 5 yrs. Therefore, most functions do not work. Randomly works. Poor connections. Lights ‘stick’ and machine needs reset often. Replaced once per Amazon customer service but replacement unit also has same issues. Unfixable and should be pulled. All customers should be refunded promptly.

Great alarm clock! The light slowly illuminates to slowly wake you up prior to your alarm so you are not suddenly woken up by the sound of the alarm

Bonito y práctico.

It appears that while designing this product, the company prioritized the "smart" aspect, and overlooked the base functionality. In order to use this alarm clock, you need two different applications that don't work well together. The music options are limited beyond what is expected, and a number of features don't work:The snooze button is suppose to be on a 9 minute timer, however my unit seems to be faulty in this regard. When the snooze button is used, the actual timer has varied from 30 second to 9 minutes. I have had the alarm go off a 30 seconds, 6 minutes, 2 minutes, 9 minutes, 1 minute, etc. This is very frustrating in the morning.Music options are not as advertised. The reoccurring alarm needs to be set through the Alexa application, however it cannot use Alexa music selections as an alarm. The music selection requires the Ihome application and is limited to iheart radio (with a reduced selection from the available iheart stations) or spotify premium (requiring ANOTHER application plus a monthly subscription). I'm in Canada and a number of my local stations are on iHeart radio, however these stations are not available on the iHome selection list. For music that is selected, there is no option that I can find to have the songs switch when the alarm is snoozed, so you continue to be woken up to the same song again and again, or manually switch.Overall, I am extremely disappointed in this product. It does sync up to Alexa, however, it is at the expense of the prime functionality of an alarm clock.

I am writing this review because I have learned that iHome has decided to scrap their plans to integrate IFTTT capabilities for the smart buttons. It has been a bullet point on this page for a long time as one of the features, and it said that it would be “coming soon” via a firmware upgrade. It was one of the major selling points to me, but now that they don’t want to keep their promise on that, I feel that it is false advertisement. The smart buttons have some potential to be really useful, by turning on lights or controlling other devices, but they only work with iHome plugs. By integrating IFTTT in to them, you would have way more options. The other gripes I have with this device now that I have been using it for a few weeks is that you can’t set the alarm on the device itself, you have to ask Alexa to set an alarm or use the Alexa app, you can’t even set the alarm in the app made for this device! I also don’t like the dimming settings, it either seems to be too bright or too dark. It only has one USB port on the back. You can only choose from 4 different tones to wake up to which you have to choose on the iHome app, you can’t choose an Alexa tone which are better and more of them, even though you’re setting the alarm through Alexa. To choose music as an alarm or to even play music through Spotify is clunky and not intuitive at all. The best parts of the clock are the Alexa integration, loud speakers, and the weather display. This is an expensive clock that falls short in some major areas. I have a few smart devices in my home and this is the dumbest of them all.