iHome iAVS16 Alexa Bedside Speaker System with Far Field Voice, Bluetooth, and USB Charging

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.

This works awesome. I was thinking about getting an Alexa for the bedroom and I we needed a new alarm clock too. This takes the place of both and it works great. I've not had any of the problems that other users have had and it's been the best alarm clock I've owned. I also think the sound quality is better than the generation 1 and generation 2 echo. It has a little more depth to the sound.It took less than 5 minutes to connect to the internet. I installed the iHome app on my phone and then told it I wanted to setup the Alarm Clock. It walked me through the setup and was connected very quickly. After that, I use the iHome app to setup the alarm style and to customize some other features. You can setup the alarm with voice commands but you need to further customize alarms in the Alexa app.Alexa works great. I love the fact that I can listen to audiobooks and music just like with Alexa. Most of the Alexa things work great like news and weather. I can still control my smart hub and devices with Alexa.Not everything worlks. Spotify doesn't allow spotify to work with third part Alexa apps. You can use spotify premium through the iHome app or you can use any Spotify with Bluetooth. I hear you can't make Alexa calls with this, but to be honest I don't really get the feature for the regular Alexa too. It just doesn't make sense to me so I'm not going to miss it.The alarm clock part works great too. I hear someone else complaining that saying "Alexa Alarm off" turns off the alarm. Basically they're complaining that the alarm goes off when you turn it off... Just say "Alexa snooze" and it snoozes through voice command! Of course, you can hit the snooze button too, but I prefer voice commands. There are only 4 alarm sounds but you can also wake to iHeart radio or Spotify.If power is out when an alarm is set to go off, there is no backup battery. But when power comes back, it will reconnect to the internet and get all your settings back. I'm not sure if a previous alarm will then go off or not--I need to test it some to see. The alarm settings are stored on the device, so alarms will go off if wifi disconnects but power stays. You can't change the alarm settings if wifi or internet are down.There are some disconnects between iHome and Alexa. For instance, you can set the physical sleep button on the alarm to turn off your iHome smart switches through the iHome app, but you can't set the physical button to interact with Alexa. If my bedroom lamp is plugged into an iHome smart witch I can turn it off with a button, but if my bedroom lamp is plugged into a belkin smart switch I can't turn it off with a physical button. You can still say "Alexa turn off bedroom lamp" with either the iHome switch or the Belkin switch (if they're connected to Alexa). Another oddity is that if you connect with bluetooth to this device and use Alexa, you have to hit the bluetooth button to switch back to bluetooth. I don't really use bluetooth nor do I want to use physical buttons to turn off my lights. So neither of these matter to me.I do love the display. I like seeing the time, weather, and next alarm on the face of this. My wife things the color bar is pretty cool. You can change the color or colors of the bottom bar, but not the clock face. We have the bottom bar set to a rainbow of colors.Overall this has worked awesome. It's like the next generation of clock radio. It's not cheap, but it has a lot of features. I prefer this over an echo in the bedroom and I think it sounds better. I completely suggest this! It's really cool!

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.

Algunas de las funciones como Información del Clima, despertador y música por Wi-Fi, no funciona correctamente para México y no estoy seguro si pasa lo mismo en otros paises.