Awair Glow Air Quality Monitor

Product Description

Features

• Tracks Toxins and Chemicals, CO2, Humidity and Temperature
• Turns on your appliances the moment your air quality deteriorates
• Provides actionable insights and personalized tips
• Has an elegant night light that activates by motion, touch, or through the app
• Works with iPhone iOS (8 or later), Android (Jelly Bean 4.3 or later), 2.4 GHz WiFi

Top Reviews

Dissapointed
by Derek (2 out of 5 stars)
June 21, 2018

I own a fleet of the traditional Awairs which I love; they're accurate, provide great feedback, and are aesthetically pleasing. I had high hopes for the Awair Glow and figured they'd make great additions to my already decently sized collection of air monitoring products. Unfortunately, this line is inaccurate across all metrics leaving them useless for home monitoring or automation. I ordered three and had the following problems:
1) One device's CO2 measurements were roughly double the present CO2 numbers.
2) All devices' humidity measurements were off by 5-10%.
3) All devices' chemical measurements were off by 100-200 ppb.
4) All devices' temperature measurements were high by around 2-4 °F.

To test this, I plugged all three into outlets that were no more than 3ft apart from each other and let them run undisturbed for a few days. Additionally, I had three traditional Awairs, one Ecobee 3, and one Ecobee sensor right next to them as control units. As expected, the control units were all within a reasonable margin of error from each other. Unfortunately, none of the Awair Glows were close. To be certain, I hard reset each device and reran the test. I got the same results.

I'm dissapointed these didn't work out because they really are attractive units with a solid build quality. Hopefully Awair brings things back around with their next iteration.
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Very disappointed...so I "simply" returned it to get my money back
by Joseph Aseo (1 out of 5 stars)
November 20, 2018

The monitor comes with a very brief "quick start" that leads you to believe that you download the iPhone app then follow simple directions.

What they don't share is that their product only supports a very limited set of WiiFi networks that made me spend several hours trying to actually connect the device before I could attempt to set itup from the iPhone app.
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Simple and demonstrably useful
by carneyofsteel (5 out of 5 stars)
June 27, 2017

I am very pleased with my purchase of the Glow. It is very reassuring to have a better picture of what's in the air we breathe. The set up was simple and use is seamless. I would prefer more available data on the VOCs themselves that are detected, but that probably is too much to ask of an air monitor. I am trying to determine is mycotoxins are considered VOCs or if the Glow recognizes them at all. Regardless, Without the Glow, I wouldn't have known about a CO2 problem in our house and therefore I am able to take steps to amend that. Thanks!
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Works well, but occassional spikes make us question the accurary of the data
by Ryan H (4 out of 5 stars)
October 30, 2017

Everything is working as expected. We have had no issues with the Awair Glow. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is that we will occasionally see spikes or drops in the numbers when nothing in the environment appears to have changed, which has made us question the accuracy. We'll watch it over time and see if we can identify any patterns causing the spikes (in which case I will change this to 5 stars).
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Great revolutionary product
by Bharat Raj Agrawal (5 out of 5 stars)
November 14, 2017

As soon as I heard, I loved the idea because I've been really unhappy with my indoor environment for a very long time. I could almost figure out my requirement in humidity by myself but CO2 and then chemicals! A change in each single parameter impact all others, take for example the change in relative humidity with temperature. So no way that I could judge all those things in my environment while they consistently change and also impact one another. Awair takes away all my worries and very frequent guessing and adjustments to my environment.

I see a great philosophy in the core concept of this product and its overall design. This, its future models and the app will definitely make the central controller of my indoor environment related appliances. It looks great and modern to be placed anywhere needed. Not just it doesn't take away a power port in a crucial space, it provides a great remote on/off button too.

The motion sensor works perfectly seamlessly to provide me sufficient night light. I've almost forgotten the art of finding things in the dark like my glasses, light switch, my water bottle and the list goes on.
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So far, it's ok...
by Rick B. (3 out of 5 stars)
July 15, 2018

I love the idea, I like the design and appearance but it too sure on execution or accuracy. Temps sensor seems fine but everything seems very sensitive to where exactly it's placed in the room. Had this by our bed and had high readings even when we weren't in the room.

It was getting huge swings in Co2 and VOCs. Moved this away to another wall in the same bedroom and now things stabilized but still getting swings. However, I'm having the same issues others have expressed where Co2 seems to flat line at 400ppm. Spec states the sensor reads down to zero, but the app shows 400 at the lowest and just sticks there until Co2 starts to climb. The auto on and off function based on parameters seems to work fine which is the whole point to this, so yay! I've ordered a 2nd so that I can compare the two to see if they're at least consistent.

The first major issue is that the glow doesn't natively integrate with Nest like the larger Awair does. I wish it did, even though this smaller unit doesn't have the dust sensor.

Finally, as of right now I cant get the glow to work with the alexa skill or IFTTT. I keep getting an error when asked to enter my login info with both IFTTT and alexa. Not sure where the bug is but someone needs to sort it out and ASAP! If this isn't fixed by the time the return window is closed, I'm returning them. Deal breaker.
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Very informative product
by Shane R. (5 out of 5 stars)
August 21, 2017

Love these, installed two, one at each end of our single story ranch house. great information. Only con is unable to export data and review in Excel or other for historical reference. The one week of data is informative but I'd like to see long term trends.
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USELESS if controlling a heater is your goal
by Armani Barboncino (1 out of 5 stars)
October 24, 2018

I went ahead and purchased a Glow on Amazon. Four days later I was returning it after fruitless negotiations and empty promises from their tech support.

The only reason I decided to get it was to control the temperature in the bathroom using a heater plugged into it. It didn't fulfill the promise.

The temperature it shows is at least 6 degrees higher the real temperature in the room.

No calibration is available

The highest temp setting I can select is 71 which would be really nice. However, due the 6 degree offset, the trigger would only kick off when the room's temp got below 65 degrees.

All this makes using the temperature trigger for a heater is impossible and turns Glow into a very expensive night light.

P.S. Tech support doesn't know their own product - see the photo.
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Cheap. Poorly designed.
by B (1 out of 5 stars)
October 24, 2018

Annoying subtle beep - constant; no clear directions on how to turn off. Sending this thing back - stay away; if you place it in a bedroom.
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highly inaccurate readings when compared to real testing
by Jules Verne (1 out of 5 stars)
July 14, 2019

This is a review for all Awair products, including the Glow and the 2nd Gen machine. Overall I think the Awair user interface is good (only reason for one star), but everything else is junk - and I have the data to prove it.

I'm an admitted helicopter parent, and stressing things like air quality is a necessary habit of mine. I've had air monitors in my son's room since it was newly remodeled and consistently the Awairs all measured high VOCs. Worse, every now and then they would spike (around 900 VOCs, which I assume is Benjamin Moore level) but then stay up there - as a parent this was my worst nightmare. So I bought competing products - uHoo and Foobot - and while they would also spike here and there, they always returned back to the normal baseline. But the Awairs all, over time, would spike up and ended up staying at the 900 level. To settle this discrepancy (and calm my nerves), I paid $$ to get a professional air quality test and guess what? VOC levels normal, which is what the uHoo and Footbot read on a more consistent basis than the Awair.

I called up Awair support and they acknowledged there might be an issue with readings and attributed it to the software baseline - which is crazy if you think about it. This software issue indicated that I was operating a paint store in my kid's room, which caused me to buy more products and pay for a test. I think it's telling that nowhere in their literature does it say how their VOCs are measured or the accuracy statistics. My guess is that it does a good job of measuring events (e.g., something that causes a VOC to go up) but the actual readings are wholly unreliable.

If you're thinking of getting an air quality monitor, do yourself a favor and look elsewhere - some independent research online (Berkley did a study, for example). Maybe check out the Foobot or the uHoo too - testing and my experience both indicated more reliable performance.

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