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For the past five months, the Xiaomi Smart Air Purifier 4 Compact has been running in my office. It s a smaller room, and the 4 Compact has proven to be a perfect fit so much so that it has become my benchmark for compact air purifiers. However, one device is often compared to the…
When I was working out which air purifiers to buy for our house earlier this year, a few brand names kept coming up, and Levoit was one I couldn t get away from. They re everywhere in this space. Ask for a purifier recommendation (especially in the low-mid budget range) on Reddit and someone will suggest a…
Welcome to the long-awaited IKEA Alpstuga review. And I do mean long-awaited, so before anything else, an apology for how long this article s taken. Just finding an Alpstuga to test turned into a bit of a saga and I ended up wandering through IKEAs in four different countries hoping one would be sitting on a…
Not too long ago, I reviewed the Sensereo MS-1, the first Matter-over-Thread smoke alarm on the market and a device I d been quietly waiting for someone to build (for quite a while, I must admit). Smoke alarms have lagged behind the rest of the smart home, so any meaningful step forward in that category was…
Update: I ve revised this review since it first went live. After re-running my clearance tests several times, I recorded noticeably better and more consistent figures than my initial round, so the performance verdict here is more positive than the one I first published. In the same period, Provirtec shared a third-party DOE test report, revised…
Smart home gadgets have crept into pretty much every corner of the house (at least they have in mine!), but, until recently, smoke alarms have remained stuck in the past. Most are still standalone devices that beep far too early in the morning with no way to silence them from your phone and no link…
After buying the Mijia Smart Air Purifier 6 and the Xiaomi Smart Air Purifier 4 Lite, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole with Xiaomi s air purifier lineup. Both devices impressed me, but they were covering our living area and bedroom respectively, which left my office without anything. Coincidentally, my office is also…
I ve been reviewing air quality monitors on this site for a few years now, and one thing that still frustrates me is how most mainstream publications (and even smaller scale sites) cover them. The typical review treats an air quality monitor the way you d treat a pair of wireless earbuds: unbox it, connect it to…
Many of us who follow carbon dioxide monitoring have long wondered when sensors will be small enough to fit into a smartphone or smartwatch. That day might still be a while off, but sensor technology has come a long way over the past few years, and the results have been impressive. Sensors like the Sensirion…
For quite a few years now, I’ve wanted to try the AirVisual Outdoor air quality monitor from IQAir. Unfortunately, it has never been particularly easy to get my hands on, as between regional availability and pricing differences, the monitor has always been just out of reach for me. Because of that, it remained one of…