Live Air: Global Air Quality Отзывы пользователей

We are living in 5G and they are still stuck to 2.4G. Even after changing the network settings not available

App is very hard to read on a phone. I’m sure it looks great on your development device but the text is too small on a phone. My device is always shown as “currently unreachable” in the Live Air app. This leaves me without the ability to move the device to a new wifi network without a complete reset and loss of data.

Fonts are MUCH too small and colors of text have much too little contrast. And axis minimums are poorly chosen with y range so large that you can’t even see variations in temperature and other parameters. So graphs are useless. App have been updated since 2019.

App cannot read existing home from apple home app. it seems like developer abandoned the app.

Kaiterra can only add once to configure, can’t even connect with in the same wifi after reconnect. So stupid. The Only way to connect again is delete the device and add back in again.

其它的app都連不上，只有這個可以。

Tried everything. Restarting. Factory reset. Uninstalling and reinstalling the app. Nothing work. This is straight useless atm. Hire a swift coder to update this hot piece of garbage. Hmu for a job. I’ll fix this.

设备经常死机，能不能在软件端添加个（定时）自动重启功能

When will you support iOS widget? I would like to view the air quality directly from my home screen or zero page

Dear developers, a good start but... 1⃣ the Egg device makes no noise, no audible alarms, ever? Really?? 2⃣The app does allow ONE alarm/notification per sensor but why just one?? I'd like to be told when any of several thresholds are crossed. That's not hard to implement. 3⃣Why the miniscule fonts? 4⃣Auto-brightness/dimming on the Egg display PLEASE 🙏 5⃣This is a data-driven app where timeliness of the data is a huge factor. So, for the love of god, show the last updated time PROMINENTLY right next to where a measurement is shown! The first question to answer for users: "Is this data FRESH?" Thank you.

It’s difficult to review the app without also reviewing the Laser Egg, and vice versa. Strengths Simple setup and pairing with Laser Egg Straightforward navigation between AQI, PM2.5, and TVOC readings Weaknesses Not much value in HomeKit integration for Air Quality (which displays only a reading such as “fair” rather than an actual sensor reading) AQI algorithms on device are different from AQI standards in the app (e.g. the app offers “Australia “ but this isn’t available on the Laser Egg itself) Main app screen shows the highest of either AQI or TVOC. You can’t choose what it shows by default Historical data for Minutes only goes back three hours Historical data for Hours only goes back 24 hours Historical data for Months only available for 30 days No ability to see individual values of any readings TVOC sensor may not be reliable. Sometimes gives wildly improbable high readings that sometimes magically go away after rebooting Laser Egg. It is theoretically calibrated to the GB50325-2010 - China’s national standard for civil engineering indoor environmental pollution control. There’s no way of changing the TVOC calibration scale On the bright side: Support is responsive and detail-oriented! My TVOC was spiking periodically. This problem went away after contacting them, although they were a little opaque as to what actually needed to be fixed (or how it was fixed). At the very minimum, I appreciate the PM2.5 readings, which seem to correspond to other AQI sensors in my neighborhood. I live in an area with occasionally-heavy wildfire smoke. Knowing whether my house air is clean is reassuring.

The app is ok, needs an iPad version.

After many restarts, might connect, but forgets everything after a few days.

Cannot add a device. Blames icloud and ask to restart my phone, which does not solves the problem. Update: was able to make it work after reinstalling the HomeKit app and enabling icloud.

The app doesn’t tell you what ranges are good-moderate-bad. And it does not seem to agree with the device ever. I’ll never understand why so many companies have bad apps. Do they just not care?

Data for your device should automatically update — I have to switch views and switch back for it to show the latest data. A widget would be killer.

For an app that is supposed to work with a connected device, this leaves a lot to be desired. The data logging feature is completely broken and non functional. You can see the readings of your device while you are on the same wifi network, but not when you are away. It barely does anything and a lot is broken or missing. Zero stars.

“Live air” has to be the most ridiculous name for an app ever. Keep Kaiterra in the app name

This works exactly as intended. I always check my homes air quality throughout the day and use it as a reminder to open my windows or turn on my air purifier.

This update breaks the historical data views for the Kaiterra Egg.

Update: alerts working again. Thanks! Looks like after I went to reset all iPhone settings (not Erase, just Reset All Settings), the app forgot to ask to send notifications again so I don’t have notifications unless I delete and reinstall the app.

Had trouble trying to pair and update my PM2.5 Laser Egg on the iPhone. Worked great using the Android app.

I have a Laser Egg, and the graphs in this app are often missing the latest few hours of data. If I force-kill the app and start it again, the data appears.

Apple please remove this app as it doesn’t meet the basic App Store requirements. It is also filled with bugs. 1. Doesn’t natively support the 500 million iPads that exist. 2. Doesn’t support landscape mode that most iPads are used in (due to keyboards and cases). 3. Doesn’t support iOS 13 features such as Dark Mode. #Failure

Sensor hardware: seems good. (Hard to tell.) Charge cord: Micro USB?! 2007 called. Why does a $200 device shipping in 2020 pick a charging standard from two decades ago, so you are guaranteed to need legacy cables to power this specific device the coming USB C decade? Please ship next year’s devices with current plug-any-orientation-you-like USB C. App and device display information design: a train wreck of confusion, iconography hiding instead of conveying meaning, mystery meat navigation style, presenting some data (just what temperature and humidity it reads) with clarity, and everything else without units or affordances telling what is what, nor hints to help interpret neither momentary values nor how they relate to historical data charts. The on-device egg screens share this problem. To start off: this app has no dark mode! It really needs one; the bright mode only uses contrast and clarity for what temperature & humidity it presents. All other figures are either Really Light Gray on White (near zero contrast), or the odd mystery number in the circle with a colored circle segment gauge. (My mystery number & colour in the circle are 70 yellow! Now 69 yellow! Bingo! 70!) Next below, let’s talk about the Pollutants display. You get two labels, a coloured horizontal stripe, and a number for each. For my chemicals-aware device, the labels are PM25 and TVOC, respectively. The numbers are still readable, but in the context of other info in the history graph below, which DOES NOT MATCH CURRENT READOUTS, even if set to the time scale of one data point per minute, STILL INSCRUTABLE. Take the current TVOC reading, 399 yellow. What does it mean? No info in the app. And does its history graph show how that 399 is varying over time? No! It presents a scale in which values show as 0.399. So, kind of, but only once you account for a scale factor. The PM2.5 reading actually matches its graph(!). Let’s talk about the Historical data chart. A+ for good idea. And hey, you can pick a time resolution of ”MINS”, ”HOURS”, or ”DAYS”. (Maybe other units once you have months of data, as they massacred ”MINUTES”, despite having space for the full word in the legend?) The active time scale almost is bold / black enough to present with clarity, but not if you squint, so any visual impediment, and you’ll be unable to tell what you are looking at. 🙁 The y axis marks are in a thin ultra light gray on white, so nobody can read those without a concerted effort. (And no, you can’t pinch to zoom.) The rightmost data reading or two will randomly be missing in the MINS chart (and often HOURS and DAYS will miss the rightmost value), and it turns out to actually be displayed under the graph why, again in thin ultralight gray on white: because those / that reading hasn’t been added yet; there is a text legend spelling out a ”Last Updated” time and date. An immense amount of intuitiveness and clarity of presentation would have been won if it instead had back-filled the current value from the momentary values shown above, or sampled the moment you rendered the view, perhaps ghosted with an under text noting that the last ghosted values are momentary and subject to final update. Suddenly there is less confusion about how figures map. At least if the Y scale agrees with everywhere else such data is presented, in-app / in-egg. The egg’s many displays also give no context for what is what, especially in terms of telling what are on-device readings, and stats from some server about your area, which the app talks about but doesn’t present in any UI. It feels like this thing is still in beta, though it sadly doesn’t seem to consider itself such. I hope it is still maintained and takes attempts at constructive (if exasperated) criticism into future design iterations, so it improves over time.

This is very infuriating, I have a permanent notification on my HomeKit app and I can’t get rid of it keeps asking for firmware update but none is available. Kaiterra: Please fix this and ill make it a five star review.

Next to a professional calibrated CO2 meter your Egg CO2 is on average +70ppm regardless of the actual measurement. I suggest you look at the conversion equation you are using to bring this closer to actual or w/in +/- 50ppm.

Still, after many updates, my My Air page (the home page) neither shows my devices nor the AQI for my city. Been broken a long time, along with other things...

Downloaded the app prior to traveling to China in order to keep an eye on pollution levels. App was able to geolocate the nearest air quality station and give me the latest hourly readings. Super convenient and love the design! Now considering getting their Laser Egg to measure the air quality in my home.

Really enjoying the new firmware update! I definitely recommend connecting your Laser Egg to the app for added functionality. The home screen shows a direct comparison of my indoor and outdoor air quality, so I know if my air purifier is working. Integrates well with Apple HomeKit. Can get readings for air quality, temperature, and humidity. Overall, easy to use and helpful for quick AQI readings!

I just received my laser egg 2 in the mail today and it will not connect to my iPhone. I have restarted both and rebooted both. I have tried to enter the device after connecting to a WiFi source and still will not connect. Please help guys.

Beautifully designed app and nice to use.

One star is 5 stars too high

I realise this is still a work in progress, but is there any chance the old App can make an apprearance so those of us with older laser eggs can still have App functionality? It worked just fine before this new App. Now, nothing works. Bring back the old App please.

TL;DR: critical bugs remain even in this updated app. Still can't add a 'Home'. iPhone SE 64GB I wrote the review below for the previous version but it still holds true now. Enjoy. I used this app before it became Kaiterra, back when it was Origins China. Let's start with the improvements: The interface looks slick. There are now a few hours of history for aqi data. Now the regressions: I can't add my original laser egg. This is because in order to do that, I need to create a 'Home' first. Ok fine. Except when I give my new Home a name, it doesn't get created. There's no indication there was an error, just no new Home. I can't create a 'room' either. So basically this app is only good for displaying the AQI from city data. In that regard, it's far inferior to other apps available.

To be honest, I'm not impressed by this update and the fact that so much of the usefulness is lost: can't add old eggs, exports, and just noticed that the app doesn't display pm 2.5 and only AQI. This is a pretty poor "upgrade." It looks nicer but frankly does less of what I need. I would have much preferred having the old app while you released a new one for new folks, developed it and reached minimal feature parity. Overall, lousy update. I've gone from being a fan of the Laser Egg to looking at other options and no longer recommending to others.

My iOS devices updated "BreatheSpace" to this problematic "Kaiterra", which failed to connect them with my Laser egg. The Origins technology did not notice it when they released a new app, which made me and others annoyed. Even worse is that I am unable to get the previous version back!

With this update you will not be able to use your 1st generation Laser Egg. After complaining on WeChat to the company they said sorry wait until June 5 for compatibility. What? Why would a company that creates an app not maintain compatibility with previous generations of devices, or if they compatibility was an issue why not write something to the thousands of users who might be affected? Poor service from app developers. I did alert the developers before writing the review, gave them a week just in case they might have this resolved, but no. Wait before upgrading as you cannot downgrade the app.

So in what reality does it make sense to release an app that is not backwards compatible? I bought my Laser Egg LAST WEEK, this week it's outdated and will not connect to the new app! Terrible, horrible, I do not recommend!

This new update is not working with my old egg. Can't connect the egg and the app keeps shutting down. Do not download this version if you are using older eggs than the 2nd generation.

The app updated automatically and the update won't connect to the original Laser Egg. Just bought this too. Don't update unless hive got a new one.

I know they released a new device. But what the point to update app without backward compatibility? But I lost access to my AQI data. It's annoying because some devices were hidden at the back of furnitures. No matter how good the laser egg was designed and how accurate data it delivers. I will remain this one star rating as a reminder of this unprofessional and naive move. Please don't do this again.

It's worthless. It usually displays nothing unless I redo the whole setup each time (It strangely does show something sometimes if I tap around a lot, but I've yet to predictably reproduce it), and it gives me long-outdated notifications when my iPod is completely offline. I've kept it on my device just waiting for an update after being told by the company that they were working on fixing it. I think there's been one update since then, but it's still broken. The Laser Egg cost enough that I would expect better. (What follows is my original review from June 2016): It works nicely until you leave the app. Then you get nothing upon return--blank information for the city and device and often "Load failed" for the articles in the left swipe screen. Going through setup again gets it working again ... until you leave the app again. Then it's start-over time once more. Seems like it will be a nice app once the bugs are ironed out, but for now it's not of much use.

This app looks so weird on my phone because it seems not fit with iPhone plus series.Would the developer like to fix this issue soon and update? That will be so great.

If app is turned off, when you turn app back on it forgets name of device connected to, forcing one to go to settings to refresh this info.

The application crashes when I try to add my New Delhi location to the list of cities.

In use, the app in conjunction with one laser egg was quick to configure and has since been logging and helping to visualize data. Proactivity and knowledge are powerful allies in modern China vis a vis our suffocating sky. Notifications and icon badges are malfunctioning in this version on an iphone 6+.