HoMedics SS-5010 Soundspa Premier, Grey
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Customer Reviews of HoMedics SS-5010 Soundspa Premier, Grey
Customer Review: An unfortunate product!
Summary: 1 Stars
I really wanted to like this projection clock. It looks great and has several very nice features. Unfortunately it looks much better than it works.
I have had two of these in the last week. The first one that I brought home wouldn't receive FM transmissions very well, the tuning wheel is not marked, so tuning is by guess and by golly. I managed to tune it by using a portable radio and getting matching stations. Once tuned, the display became a fascinating presentation of seemingly random numbers. The numbers are not the numbers of the tuned station and vary from 71.0 to 102.6. After a bit the numbers stabilize and the display returns to the time (which is accurate).
The second one seemed to be OK for tuning, that is the numbers were stable even though not the numbers to which it was tuned...today it began the random number generation that the first one had from the beginning. The FM signal fades in and out as you walk around the room.
The clock face is quite bright, but I tamed it with some widow tinting film. The projection of time and temperature is very bright and the light around its edges lights up the room like the full moon. It is bright enough to cast shadows. I tried various means to control the excess light (paper towel tubes, more window film, etc.) but nothing works. I really need a dark room when trying to sleep.
The unit is very light, and pushing any of the buttons on the front require that you hold it still; by doing this, you press one or more of the many buttons on the back which causes some interesting but unintended actions.
The sending and or receiving of the outside temperature is sporadic. Some times is will be off for a few hours and then redisplay; some times I must bring the sending unit into the house to get the display back (the sender is less than 20 feet away with only one wall between it and the base).
I really wanted to like this unit, it looks real nice and has many of the functions that I want...unfortunately it doesn't work very well...it goes back to Bed Bath and Beyond tomorrow...my search for the ideal projection clock continues.
Customer Review: Oh, how I hate you
Summary: 1 Stars
My wife got one of these by saving up gym reward points.
It has two settings for brightness which are "half the room is illuminated" and "the entire room is illuminated" - I have to put a book in front of the thing some nights to sleep.
I played a game one month called "why didn't I wake up today" in which this clock was primary and my old free bank clock I've had for 20 years was secondary. Some highlights were:
Although the volume was up, something must have touched the knob because it was somehow off but touching it made it work.
No idea - alarm was set, showed set, was awake and watched as the time went right on through and the alarm never went off.
The alarm just turned itself off one night.
The projection time and temp do not rotate 180 degrees - this means that if you have the clock at the head of your bed facing you, and you for some reason want the info projected to your ceiling, well, it's going to be off.
The remote sensor sort of works... if the temperature is between 50 and 72 out you've got a good chance of it being right on. Outside of that range and you're screwed... woke up one day and it said it was 54, it was snowing. I put my hand where the sensor was outside and it was 20's at most. I looked at the sensor and it said somewhere around 30, the clock said 54, yeah, useful.
If the remote sensor is more than 8 feet away the thing will stop working in about a day
The sounds that this thing has are short-sequence loops, meaning you can predict exactly what the next sound will be after listening to it for a minute. This may not annoy you as much as it does me, but I need some randomness to my white noise, not repeating computer generated patterns.
The ideas here are good, but it's made cheaply, it doesn't properly function as an alarm clock (we have our phones set now all the time to wake us) that's about it. If you're considering purchasing one, I'd advise you didn't, but if you still want one contact me I'd love to see this thing go but the wife does not want it chucked.
Customer Review: Looks good, but comes up short
Summary: 3 Stars
i am a picky sleeper and i can't have any green lights or red lights on a clock so i am obviously very pick when it comes clocks, but anyway blue lights seem to be okay and i usually need a light to see where i'm going to turn off my alarm (i put it across the room so i will get up) so a blue projection clock like this seemed perfect. My last clock you could change anything that was part of the clock especially the snooze time. honestly where do you come up with 9 mins of a snooze?(even if you set it to nap the shortest time is 15 mins) i've been looking up for days how to change the snooze time on this clock, but it just can't be done.
Also in order for me to show my projection clock where i like it on the ceiling i have to turn the clock around so the LED screen is facing the wall) which is very inconveinient for me.
When pressing the buttons their are too "chic" that sometimes i'll reach for one and press another. my clock is against a wall and when i go to press the buttons in the back i often press the wrong ones.
Also most of the sounds are unrealistic. i put the thunder storm on while there was an actual thunderstorm going on outside and they didn't sound the same... at all..., but people are entitled to their opinions, but i don't like the sounds very much and was disapointed.
The radio is good though, other than the extra effort to get to the actual station you're looking for. my stations match up perfectly after i get to the number though.
The beeping sound (for the alarm) is often to loud and startles me when i wake, where as the sounds don't wake me and the radio's just plain annying in the morning.
So i suggest trying out the radio before buying it just to see if its for you, were as it is deffinately not for some people.
This clock looks nice, but falls short of its advertisement. this clock is "conceited" in thinking its everything when its not. it just has a projector that makes it different from other clocks
Customer Review: Great Unit, Bad Radio
Summary: 2 Stars
This SS-5010 has everything I wanted all in one place. I was so excited to finally find something like this at an affordable cost.
That being said... I have gone through two units, both with the same problem. The radio is a thumb wheel with no numbering and the digital display changes twice a second. If the digital display were to stop changing, it would go back to the clock display but it never stops. It doesn't just change to digital numbers around the station you have set it to... it changes all over the place. The only way I was able to find the station I wanted was to use a different radio.
I gave it two stars because I like the temp readout for indoor and outdoor. Also, I don't think the display is too bright at all. In fact, it was alot better than the SS-5000. The black background with the white letters makes it easy to see night and day. The projection can be rotated and focused and is a light blue so it isn't intrusive at night.
I called Homedics and talked with the customer service center. They said it was a brand new unit so they haven't had any feedback yet for defects. She said it may be that it was just a bad lot and advised me to return it and purchace elsewhere. However, I am finding these reviews at multiple sites for the same defect.
I like this unit enough to keep looking for one that works properly. There has to be one out there.
Customer Review: Expectation
Summary: 3 Stars
Honestly if I have read all the negative reviews here ahead, I certainly would not buy one. Now that I bought one locally and I actually decide to keep it. Not that I disagree with all those reviews. Yes, the display shines like a full moon. The radio frequency is dancing up and down. Buttons are stiff and all around the clock. Which means in order to press a desire button, you will likely press others in the mean time because you have to hold the clock steady.
Well the bottom line is; however, it works. I like the function of wireless outdoor temperature most. The indoor one is off a couple degrees which I believe it is due to the heat generated by the clock itself. I happen to have some tinted window film around. Put two layers over the display. Bight display problem solved! Radio, I don't care too much. Alarm, I get too used to my cell phone and no plan to change habit. Hence I don't need to access those stupid buttons often. All I need is the time and indoor outdoor temps and this relatively inexpensive device servers these purposes well.
A keeper!