Tzumi Smart Home 4+

I live in an irregularly designed apartment and I was leery of the probability of success of this device. At first I had to pick up things like a three year old child was living in my house. Cords, shoes with laces splayed, etc. The smart vac model I got was the lower end so I expected hardly any AI type of learned behavior. The very first time I turned it lose on my house, it did a fantastic job covering of vacuuming 100% of the house. However, when the battery dropped to 10% and it powered down to dock, it took forever to find the docking station. Almost to the point of running the battery down to 0%. The docking time did improve though after it vacuumed the house a couple different times in the proceeding weeks. Overall I’m happy with the performance of the device. It has definitely made my life easier. I’m a lazy person when it comes to housework so this fits very well here!

Without a doubt the absolute best investment of $150 I have ever made in my life. This little vacuum is cleaning a huge house every single night with no muss or fuss. It is stone cold reliable, needs very little intervention, programming and set up was easier than programming your coffee maker. I don’t know what other products this company makes but I will be keeping my eye out for their name in the future. Outstanding product at an absolute incredible value. You will not regret it.

This app has a lot of nice functionality but can be very confusing to set up due to the variety of places settings for devices/networks/groups live in the app. I’m going to focus this “review” on Alexa integration tips for lights as this seems to be a common issue and many people complain that it appears to not work at all (but does with the right setup).

First, I’m using this app with an “Aurora” branded light bar, light strip, and bulb. It appears there are many generic brands that are the same and use Tzumi Smarthome.

After adding the devices and linking to Alexa through the Tzumi Smarthome Alexa “Skill”, the light bar and strip are not controllable through Alexa commands without further work. To make these functional, in the Smarthome app you need to add custom scenes for individual lights or light groups. Then you need to set up automation.

From the automation tab, click “add schedule” then “Lauch Tap Tap To Run”. Add task “control single device”. Pick the device or group and action or scene. Now give that scene a name - for example “Nightlight”. This scene will be added to Alexa. Now you can say “Alexa turn on Nightlight”. If you add another scene for “All Off” you would say “Alexa turn on All Off”. So for every command you want to be able to say to Alexa you need to set up an individual “tap to run automation”. Note that these automations can also be added to Siri and as shortcut buttons on your phone.