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Welcome to our latest tech unboxing where we reveal the Nobito 2CO10 Air Quality Detector straight from AliExpress! We’re excited to take you through a detailed unboxing and rigorous testing of this device’s capabilities. 📦🔍
We’ve noticed chatter about a potential flaw: the LCD screen might heat up, affecting the temperature readings. We’re here to test this claim and evaluate how it performs under various conditions.
👀 Inside this video:
- Unboxing Experience: We unveil the Nobito 2CO10, fresh from AliExpress, and share our first impressions on its build and features.
- Feature Walkthrough: From CO2 levels to particulate matter concentration, we explore how each function operates and the ease of use with the Tuya APP.
- The Heat Test: Does the screen really heat up? More importantly, does this impact the temperature readings? We conduct multiple tests to find out.
- Comprehensive Review: We’ll conclude with our honest thoughts on whether the Nobito 2CO10 is a smart buy for those looking to monitor their environment.
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Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLnOcl0Vrsk
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Hey what’s up — today I’ll be looking at this air quality detector I got from AliExpress. Let’s get to unboxing it.
Nothing really holding it in. It is Tuya smart, so you can use Smart Life or Tuya to see this on your phone. Here’s the device, packed in pretty gently. Very simple. Oh, it’s got a little screen protector too — we can just peel that off. Very nice.
Can we turn it on right away? Is it dead? Does it need a charge? Definitely needs a charge. I’ll come back after I give it some juice.
I’ve plugged it into USB-C. Let’s boot it — where’s the power button? There it is. Maybe I wasn’t holding it long enough to begin with. It’s on now and doing its thing, but it needs to be paired to Smart Life. It’s blinking — I guess that means it’s charging. Overall, seems all right. Let’s pair it and take a look.
It took me a minute to figure out, but I read the instructions (like a normal person) and apparently you’re supposed to press the power button five times after it boots to put it into pairing mode. We’re in the Smart Life app. I hit retry — it’s found the device. Add. That’s my Wi-Fi information, which I’ve carefully blocked out. Hit done. There we have it — the current levels. It hasn’t collected a lot of data yet, so we’ll let it run for a bit. I’ll see if I can find some source of carbon monoxide — maybe take it down into the car park. It probably shouldn’t read zero; I feel like it should be at least one. I’m not that well versed in carbon monoxide, so maybe zero is correct. I’ll have to do some reading.
My initial impression: I’m a little concerned by the temperature readings. They’re increasing over time, and the gap between this temperature sensor and my reference one is quite a bit. I think it’s because the screen is always on, and it’s also charging, so the device warms itself up — which isn’t what you want from a thermometer. You don’t want a self-heating thermometer; it makes the readings inaccurate. I assume the other sensors are fine, but I really don’t know. And of course humidity is going to be impacted by the relative temperature, so that kind of gets thrown out the window too.
I thought I’d check how hot the device actually is. My little IR sensor reads the room at 26°, but point it at this and it’s 41° — 36° at the top. So this thing is definitely radiating heat. Again, you don’t want your thermometer radiating heat.
I let it sit for days, and it’s always warmer than ambient. It is logging, it is working, it does its thing — but the screen generates heat, and it doesn’t run very long on a battery, so it basically needs to be plugged in and charged. It’s not great, but it does do its job. Carbon monoxide should be zero; I went to the car park and it didn’t trip down there, so I guess that’s good, but I really don’t know if it’s working because I don’t have a way to dose my room with CO without making myself unwell. Assuming it’s real, zero is a good reading.
Everything else responded to the environment — the CO2 jumped up to 600 in the basement, and HCHO and TVOC went up as well. So it does seem to respond to its environment.
Overall, a neat little thing. Would I pay full price for it? Absolutely not. The inaccuracy of the humidity and temperature sensors makes it kind of useless for those metrics. It’s a neat toy, but in reality it’s not very practical.
One more thing: these do not show up in Google Home, so you’ll need some other home automation solution to use it in tandem with devices from, say, TP-Link. I don’t even know if it can be used for automation inside the Smart Life app. So there’s that. Bye.