![]() You can also swipe left or right to make Astro swivel, and slide the periscope up or down to gain a different perspective. Then the periscope cam peeks out of its housing and gives you a live view of the house.įrom the app, you can navigate the space in a variety of ways, either pressing the forward or back buttons, tapping spots on the feed for Astro to move or selecting rooms for Astro to zoom toward. ![]() When you pull up the live feed on the app, Astro chimes to let people in the house know they're about to be on camera. Perhaps the most obvious use case for Astro is as a home security bot, a camera on wheels that you can manually drive around your house while you're gone, or that you can set to patrol, in conjunction with your Ring and Alexa Guard home security apparatus.Īs a remote-controlled camera, Astro won me over. So we covered the windows and railing with cardboard to dim the light and create a more clear, wall-like boundary for Astro, set it to mapping the floor, and achieved success. You can hear more about the process in our first impressions video, but essentially Astro failed to map the house because floors were too shiny, the windows near the charging station were too bright, or the exposed staircase descending from the entryway and surrounded by a railing might be throwing off the mapping process (the Amazon representative couldn't be certain while troubleshooting by phone). The whole process could have gone fairly quickly, but I ran into some issues right away.Īstro took much longer to map the CNET Smart Home, where I spent the bulk of my time testing the device, than the 30 minutes touted by the app. Like many of Amazon's smart home devices, Astro has a super streamlined setup process, which prompts you through the steps with on-screen directions. Here's a breakdown of each of the basic categories of use, and how Amazon's little robot actually performed them. Astro accomplishes an incredible number of tasks, with widely varying performance. ![]()
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