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Review on Eve Extend - Apple HomeKit Smart Home Range Extender for 8 Eve Accessories, Boosts Bluetooth Reach by Eric Fish

Revainrating 3 out of 5

This worked to add my Eve Aqua to my home wifi. I want the Eve ecosystem to function without him.

It worked. No problem. My only issue is that it is REQUIRED for the Eve Aqua feature to work "well". Example. Today is Saturday at 6:45 am. Terrible unrecorded thunderstorm. I want Aqua to skip today's schedule. I pick up my iPhone and it's "not connected". In order to skip the watering schedule for the day, I have to get up, go to the kitchen, stand over the sink and HOPE the Aqua connects to the homemade bib installed under our kitchen window. With the Eve Extend I can turn on my iPhone or ask Siri anything and it works. He works upstairs, in the living room, at work, etc. NOW he works! I understand that Eve's default connection protocol, Bluetooth, is low-power and battery-efficient, but Bluetooth makes using Eve products a chore. Any connection over three meters is unstable. Even with a direct line of sight, a connection to Aqua through an outside wall is almost impossible. I'm hoping that new technology on the horizon will make the Eve Extend less necessary (and less expensive).

Pros
  • Amazing
Cons
  • There are nuances

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May 31, 2023
Bought two, like so much I’m buying a third