I recently received the Brid Air Purifier. I thought I'd share my thoughts about it.

I just bought the standard Brid Air Purifier with the carbon monoxide guardian module for $ 499. Currently it is listed for $ 599.00. I purchased my from the Atellani website in December 2018 and received it in April 2019, two months later than their original shipping estimate. It ships from Europe and costs another $ 60 to be shipped to the United States. So not cheap.

Also I do not suffer from any respiratory problems, but I certainly believe that everyone can benefit from clean air.

** Set it: **

- The Brid, the instruction manual, the NWF filter and a threaded rod are packed in a bag that comes out of the box. There is a small cardboard box containing the gingerbread filter. The rod is inserted through the bottom of the unit and is intended to attach all of the attached modules to the Brid base.
- The instructions are pretty clear, but are full of errors. For example: 1. The instructions instruct you to remove Brid from the bag, but you did it already to get the instructions out. 2. The instructions seem to indicate that the honeycomb filter is preinstalled, but it does not.
- Pairing with HomeKit worked perfectly and every time after many (and I mean many) factory resets and re-pairings. I noticed that when Brid is added to HomeKit, HomeKit Control will not work until you manually turn on the power and then off at Brid. So it works perfectly in HomeKit.

** HomeKit Accessories Provided: **

- Air Purifier with On / Off capacity.
- Air quality sensor. HomeKit provides 4 levels of air quality (refer to the HAP protocol for more).
- Temperature meter
- Humidity sensor
- Carbon monoxide sensor

**Operation:**

- The Brid has four modes: Smart, Boost, Auto, Night. You switch between them by pushing and releasing the button at the top. To turn off, hold down the button for 2 seconds. I prefer that you can turn off the appliance after cycling through the settings. Perhaps the developers could turn this into a user-configurable option in future app / firmware updates. I do not know the difference between smart and auto modes.
- You can control Brid through the Brid app or HomeKit.
- The Brid app allows you to set the operating mode, update firmware, view sensor data and view trends / graphs. The exercises / graphs suck. It provides historical data, but I do not know where the data is stored and I can never see more than a few days left. I don't really understand.
- In HomeKit there is only On / Off functionality, but this is in contradiction with the 4 modes offered by the Brid app and the button on the top of the device. There is also a & # 39; Auto & # 39; HomeKit On / Off Button (separated from & # 39; Power & # 39; On / Off Switch). I assume this will enable Brid & # 39; s automatic mode, but there is no way to know.
- When Brid & # 39; s working in Smart / Auto / Boost mode, it actually emits a bit of white light at the top. In the night mode, the light shines, but I guess it will reduce the air purification ability. Also, fan speed is lowered in night mode to make less noise. During Auto / Smart mode, Brid provides an acceptable amount of noise. In Boost mode, it is high enough where I will not be in the same room as that. I automatically set to enable & # 39; Boost & # 39; mode when I leave the house and turn it off again when I return.

**Problems:**

- The temperature sensor is consistently around 2.8 degrees F. Too high. I have managed to integrate Brid with HomeAssistant (/ r / HomeAssistant) and can dig the Brid temperature sensor along with my Ecobee temperature sensor, which is 2 meters away. The graphs are in line with each other, but Brid is a solid 2.8 degrees higher at each reading.

- Recently, the carbon monoxide sensor has begun to generate a lot of alarms in HomeKit. The speed of warnings has accelerated and becomes more frequent, but they appear to be "blips" because the CO levels jump back to normal levels as soon as they jumped up initially. I have two Nest Protects in my house (although it's not in the same room as Brid), but I've never had either a CO alarm. I'm planning to move one to my bedroom to see if it's burning, but I'm questionable after reviewing potential sources of CO in my home.

- The air quality sensor does not provide a reading when Brid is off. It must be in order to report this. This seems silly to me, because it eliminates the ability to run automations to turn on Brid's when air quality drops. This brings me to my next point.

- The air quality almost always reads as "Excellent". Occasionally, it will give a brief measurement of "Good", only for a second before returning to "Excellent".

- The overall finish of the machine is not great. There are thin plastic rings that separate the layers and they do not fit properly with the layer above or below. It's not terribly noticeable or frustrating, but it's clear.

**Does it work?**

I have no freaking idea. Clearly, the sensor data cannot be trusted, so I have no idea that air quality is improving. I don't have another humidity sensor for use as a reference, so I can't speak for one, but the others seem broken. I hope a future firmware update will solve the issues I have encountered with Brid. I would like to get another air quality sensor to see if I can correlate any improvement in actual air quality with the use of Brid but I hesitate because I hate spending more money to figure this out but I feel Like the lack of quality / accuracy in other sensors almost mandates it.

Overall, I feel less than happy with Brid's award. I would love to understand better if it actually cleans the air in my home, but I have so little faith in the sensor data to trust it. I would not recommend Brid Air Purifier.

If Atellani sees this review and if Atellani is behind his product, please consider sending me a DM. I would like to update an existing review.

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