We bought this the way you would: at retail, with our own money, and with no idea whether it was any good.
Price is the least interesting question right up until it is the only question. Something can be worth every penny and still be the wrong purchase, if the cheaper thing would have done.
Filed under LTD Reviews, which on this site means we care about the boring parts: whether it holds a connection, whether the app is still maintained a year from now, and whether anybody answers the phone when it breaks. The question is never whether a thing works in the shop. It is whether it still works in six months, on your network, alongside your other devices, without you having to think about it.
The full breakdown, including the parts that did not go well, is what the rest of this piece is for.
Tomas L.
Jan 12, 2026 07:00Thank you for saying the price out loud. Half the reviews of this thing never mention what it costs.
Owen S.
Jan 14, 2026 12:00Bought this on your recommendation two months ago and I would say the same. The app is the best part, which is a strange thing to say about hardware this expensive.
Tomas L.
Jan 16, 2026 03:00Been waiting for somebody to actually test this rather than unbox it. Bookmarked.
GreyMatter
Jan 15, 2026 20:00Does it work at all offline, or is it a brick without the cloud service?