“If Elgato’s HomeKit kit products aren’t an homage to the movie Wall-E, I’ll eat my hat,” Jon L. Jacobi writes for TechHive. “It would be a baseball hat, and my least favorite, but I don’t think I have to worry.”
“If you don’t know what the heck I’m talking about, Elgato’s environmental and door/window sensors and its remote on/off switch are styled much like EVE, the robotic love interest in the animated Pixar movie; they’re clean and gloss white with just a hint of green,” Jacobi writes. “Okay, there’s blue in the movie as well and the green flashes, but…. Then of course there’s the name. It’s all-caps in the movie, but those are about the only things that aren’t note-for-note. I’m dishing out compliments here. They look nice. And unobtrusive in my largely white-walled rooms and hallways.”
“Elgato sent me all four devices pictured [below]: The $50 Eve Energy, a smart power receptacle; The $40 Eve Door & Window, which is a door/window sensor; the $80 Eve Room, which tells you the temperature, humidity, and air quality of any space; and the $50 Eve Weather, which does largely the same thing outdoors (with the exception of barometric readings replacing the air-quality function),” Jacobi writes. “Missing from Elgato’s connected-home collection: A motion sensor (the company does offer a smart LED light bulb, which is not part of this review).”
Read more in the full review here.
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