Lenovo Smart Clock / Smart Clock Essential

I'd imagine it's worth the extra tenner to get the regular one over the essential one. Just bought, thanks OP. Looks good and reviews are decent too. Came to €38.62 with the shipping charge.

Cheers... This will be handy as a little display for the nest hello I picked up

Really don't need this but ordered anyway!

Any difference between this and the echo show 5 at all?

I have this since last year in the bedroom.i find it great.use the alarm clock (set by my voice).ask for radio on the mornings that I'm off work.some spotify when taking a shower in the ensuite.good sound.it has a plus and minus button on top to adjust the volume.(I find voice control for volume poor enough across google and amazon devices).
It also looks very well,not as in your face like an echo show.
Bought for my missus,she loves it too

shovel wrote: »

I have this since last year in the bedroom.i find it great.use the alarm clock (set by my voice).ask for radio on the mornings that I'm off work.some spotify when taking a shower in the ensuite.good sound.it has a plus and minus button on top to adjust the volume.(I find voice control for volume poor enough across google and amazon devices).
It also looks very well,not as in your face like an echo show.
Bought for my missus,she loves it too

Does the grey colour look nice? Or would all black be better?

Hi,

If you ask it to play the radio, does it begin with a 10 (or thereabouts) ad first? Find it so annoying, especially if you're just turning radio on for a minute or so.
This happens with my Echo Dot, would love if you could disable this, would even pay to for it.

Cheers,
Pa.

I didn't need one, but there's one on the way! Thanks, OP, great looking bargain!

JDxtra wrote: »

Today FM inject their own pre-roll ads into streams, having the ad-free version of TuneIn actually won't help in this instance.

Yes Newstalk the same. Probably a Communicorp thing, I don't think it happens with RTE or BBC, albeit nearly sure have heard it on some other UK stations too.

Picked up the "Essential" version of this, wanted something that was simple and liked the idea of the clock only version. I've enough smart tech, one more small thing won't harm!

Don't need one. Bought one. Cheers OP

Thinking of buying one for a person that doesnt have any google home or any google devices. THey dont have a smart phone - Im talking prehistoric here.

Would you need a google device already working on the wifi (they do have internet) or would it be a useless object to have?

Thanks

shovel wrote: »

No flicker on the screen. I bought the grey. I have black speakers on a surround system and they really show any speck of dust.

I replaced a clock radio with this and found it ideal.
we have echo dots and one echo show in other rooms in the house and this is the best for a bedroom.

Can you set a Mon to Friday alarm, (ie does not go off at weekends)

feet of flame wrote: »

Would you really want a device thats constantly listening and recording what it hears in your bedroom????

It only sends the audio of the command after the keyword is spoken (Hey Google or OK Google).

k123456 wrote: »

Can you set a Mon to Friday alarm, (ie does not go off at weekends)

Yes, or separate one(s) for whichever day you like, to reoccur weekly.

drogon. wrote: »

Anyone know if this can be set to turn off the display at 10pm and turn back on at say 6am ?

Would hate to have it on all the time, even if was at a low brightness.

Not possible from what I am reading, the display just dims when the room gets dark as it has a light sensor built-in.

You can however ask Google to turn off the display at night and turn it on in the morning.

JDxtra wrote: »

On the Google hub, it can be configured to turn off the display during low light or 5 minutes after activity. This may have similar options.

The only thing I could find online was from a verge article
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/3/18647606/lenovo-smart-clock-review-specs-price-features

It also does an excellent job of automatically adjusting the brightness 
of the screen for the available light in the room, so it doesn’t become blinding 
or distractingly bright in the middle of the night when you’re trying to sleep.

I would hate having something that can't be turned off automatically, hence went with the essential clock

Deleted User wrote: »

From a quick Google it seems you can have the screen turn completely off automatically in low light.

https://old.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/gz7ru8/can_you_turn_off_the_screen_of_the_lenovo_smart/

Having had the Smart Clock for a year... this I did not know; yes, that setting is there. When it's dark I have it set to go to the dimmest setting, and the "mono" clockface (white numbers on black) automatically appears. This is very, very dim and doesn't bother me at night at all, yet the time remains legible.

I kinda don't see the point of a bedside alarm clock that turns off showing the time at night, but that's just me

The price for either of these is very good value. I thought the full-fat Smart Clock was an excellent buy at twice the price.

nephster wrote: »

I kinda don't see the point of a bedside alarm clock that turns off showing the time at night, but that's just me

Bare in mind, this is a IPS panel. So even if you have a dark watch face there is going to be white light bleeding from the backlight.

Can you view your Ring Door bell on the screen?

garyfleming7 wrote: »

Can you view your Ring Door bell on the screen?

Ring is owned by Amazon, so most likely No.