Eve Extend - Bluetooth Range Extender for Apple HomeKit-Enabled Eve Accessories

Product arrived on time and without problems. It installed easily and connected to my accessories eve weather and eve energy giving them a new lease of life. The accessories were some 30/40 metres away from my house so had difficulty connecting to them via an old iPad which was in my office ( same distance from house ) but didn’t always connect via the eve app or Homekit. Now with eve extend it connects easily every time and works beautifully. Excellent product but you still need the iPad for Wi-Fi connectivity but that works fine as well.

THe problem with Eve Homekit devices has always been the bluetooth only connection. You have to have an Apple TV or iPad as a standby hub nearby for them to work.This appears to fix this issue, at least for me. The response of the Eve energy is super quick.A pain to pair - I had to reboot my Apple TV, then reset the device by removing the power cord, holding in the button for 10 seconds. After resetting the Eve Home eventually the app found it and the rest of the setup was automated. Didn't even have to amend my scenes.All in all, for the price can't really grumble. The bluetooth range isn't great - I have an Eve Degree the just 2 meters from it (separated by a brick wall) and it only gets one bar of reception but this does seem to be enough for it to work pretty well.

Thought this would drop out all the time, had it running for about 6 months and it’s works perfect. Really happy

Compared to other Eve Home products, in terms of trying to pair this device it failed miserably. The Extend was detected by the Eve app om my iPhone and I proceeded to pair the device. However, it failed to pair after many minutes. I performed a factory reset of the Extend and tried again. However, the iPhone I used could not even see the Extend the second time round. I tried to add the Extend on my iPad which strangely could see the Extend but that failed to pair as well. And again after that failure could not see the Extend after did a factory reset again. I reached out to Eve technical support. However, after investigating my home network set up (subnets, wifi bridge modes, bonjour network multicast) no resolution could be found. Given that I returned the Extend. I note that on the US Amzon site, other people have had issues trying to pair the device as well. It is a pity as Eve Homes other products were very straightforward to add.

Eve products such as the Eve Energy remote plug have bluetooth but not wifi, so their range may be inadequate for your home. This Eve Extend is designed to fix that. It connects to your wifi, and connects to up to 8 Eve products via bluetooth. So basically it adds wifi to Eve products. I do wonder why I have to spend more to fix the range of Eve products that surely should have been designed with good range to start with?Anyway, I paid the extra for the Eve Extend ... but I have not been able to get it to work so far. I guess the simple setup will work for many people, but if it fails, there is no easy solution.My feeling is that if you have a small home and the limited range of bluetooth is good enough, you will be happy with the Eve system. But if your home is larger, and you have to start messing about with Eve Extend range extenders, maybe the hassle is more trouble that it is worth?

Extremely easy to set up and move divices to, unless the device was previously allocated to a different Extend, then a little irksome

If you have Bluetooth range issues this works great for Eve products. Would definitely recommend

I have rewritten this review as I have now managed to get this working. The product once functioning is great but it can require a little tinkering to get it to this state. But once working it works as described and now my Eve Aqua is able to be reached by my HomePod.To get this to work first of all ensure your iOS devices (home hub, phone etc) are up to date. Adding the device can take a while (nearly 30 seconds) and you may need to reset it a couple of times (hold reset button for 10 seconds). You will need to be very close (in the case of Eve Aqua the other side of the wall) to the device you are trying to assign to it and the instructions on this process are a bit limited. Note the extend itself will not show up in the HomeApp (it will in the Eve app). It took all-in about 30 minutes once I had everything set to get it fully working but that could be because BT routers can be a tad awkward with their IP assignment and MAC authentication.Support staff were helpful in resolving the issue so all-in a good product just fiddly to get working.HEY SIRI WATER MY PLANTS ;)

J’ai acheté ce produit d’occasion afin de pouvoir avoir la température et l’humidité dans une serre au fond du jardin, sur un ancien Eve Weather de 2016 sans écran. Installé très en hauteur, dans le grenier. Ça fonctionne !J’ai l’habitude des produits Eve et pourtant ça me surprend toujours. Je m’attendais à devoir fournir le code de mon wifi. Même pas. Juste un scan de l’appareil avec l’app Eve, et c’est tout. Même pas 5 minutes.Produit bien emballé et intacte, alors que c’est en seconde main.

Fa quello che dice, anche se fino ad un certo punto ero sempre riuscito ad utilizzare determinate prese intelligenti ad esempio a determinate distanze senza l’ausilio di questo accessorio ma sfruttando soltanto APPLE TV anche fuori casa. A pensar male, hanno fatto in modo di renderlo necessario, visto che riuscivo a farne a meno, in ogni caso il suo lavoro lo fa e bene. Rimango dell’idea che abbiano nerfato, con aggiornamento software, le capacità di trasmissione di alcuni dispositivi, in ogni caso con questo prodotto non c’è più bisogno di mettere al limite delle loro possibilità i vari accessori Eve (io ne ho collegati 5), perché ci pensa mamma hub Eve a gestirli perfettamente, così ora posso posizionare anche alcuni sensori ancora più distante di prima, quindi per me un acquisto doppiamente valido perché anche se le distanze in gioco non sono siderali, il segnale è più stabile e affidabile.

Fecha de compra: octubre de 2019.Tengo instalados, por su compatibilidad Homekit, de Apple, distintos aparatos de esta marca Eve, como enchufe Eve Energy, sensor Eve Door & Window, medidor exterior de temperatura y humedad Eve Weather, medidor interior de temperatura y humedad Eve Degree, detector de movimiento Eve Motion y programador de riego Eve Aqua, y en mis reseñas sobre todos ellos hacía siempre el comentario de que el resultado de la conexión por Bluetooth en vez de por Wifi “es razonable, aunque en un espacio grande, o con más de una planta, la conexión falla. Deberían de fabricar y vender algo similar a un repetidor o amplificador de señal”.Pues, por fin, ese repetidor-amplificador ha llegado y, curiosamente, hace uso de ambas tecnologías. Usa, en primer lugar una conexión WiFi (ya sea a 2,4 o a 5 GHz) con tu central, (recordar aquí que para controlar los accesorios de forma remota, desde fuera de casa, se necesita un HomePod, un Apple TV, o un iPad dedicado) y, hecho eso, ya permite que se conecten a él, vía Bluetooth, hasta 8 dispositivos Eve de aquellos que, por su lejanía, era imposible enlazar o que presentaban en ocasiones el mensaje de “Sin respuesta” y, por tanto, sin posibilidad de poder interactuar con él.El dispositivo extensor, que necesita estar conectado de forma permanente a la red eléctrica, se añade a través de la app Casa (Home) de Apple y se termina de configurar -en cuanto a los dispositivos que a él se conectarán- en la app de Eve.Tengo que decir, que, en mi caso, éste dispositivo me ha supuesto un alivio permitiéndome colocar un dispositivo donde antes no era posible por lejanía y reconectar a él tres dispositivos que, con cierta asiduidad, daban fallos de conexión.Lamentablemente, el precio a pagar por ello es alto.Sí quiero manifestar que, en los inicios, éste dispositivo presentaba errores de conexión, dejando fuera de actividad y de acceso a aquellos dispositivos a él conectados, pero en una actualización de firmware el problema se ha corregido bastante, sucediendo solo de una forma muy esporádica.Como resumen, un dispositivo muy útil y espero que esta mi reseña te sea a ti igual de útil.

Ich betreibe Eve Extend mit Firmware Version 1.1 - das Gerät war mit Hilfe der Eve App einfach zu installieren und läuft stabil.Gefreut hat mich, dass sich hinter der Marketing Bezeichnung "Bluetooth Range Extender" eine HomeKit-Bridge für bis zu 8 Eve Geräte verbirgt. Die bis zu 8 mit Eve Extend verbundenen Eve Geräte werden nach Konfiguration über die Eve App vom Apple HomeKit als "bridged devices" über die Eve Extend Bridge angesprochen. Dadurch sind auch entfernte Eve Geräte gut und stabil erreichbar wenn: 1. Eve Extend an einem Ort mit stabilem WiFi Netzempfang aufgestellt wird und 2. die Eve Geräte im Bluetooth Range von Exe Extend liegen (das zeigt die Eve App bei der Konfiguration von Eve Extend sehr schön an).Insgesamt bin ich von diesem Produkt begeistert: Endlich kann ich meine Eve Geräte über eine stabile Bridge und WiFi in das SmartHome einbinden.Die einzige Einschränkung, die mir aufgefallen ist: Zwei ältere Eve Modelle Eve Thermo (2015) und Eve Room (2015) - beide ohne Display - werden aus technischen Gründen von Eve Extend nicht unterstützt. Nur die neueren Modelle dieser zwei Produkte lassen sich in Eve Extend einbinden.

Installed and added my outdoor Eve Degree that was always difficult to reach. Now always accessible.One thing to note though is that you will loose your history of temperature readings when you set this up with the connected devices.