Zebronics Zeb Smart Bot evaluate: Unique Smart Speaker that may management your TV, AC and extra

The marketplace for good audio system remains to be comparatively small however rising rapidly. However, it’s largely monopolised by units from massive gamers like Amazon and its Echo audio system or the Apple Homepods. Hence we have been excited to check out the brand new Zebronics Smart Bot, a sensible dwelling speaker by homegrown audio model Zebronics that packs a few helpful options together with the power to regulate all of your IR-based units at dwelling. 
Here’s our full evaluate of the Zebronics Smart Bot.
Design, Build
A tough plastic physique includes a lot of the Zeb Smart Bot physique. The mesh design manages to look funky however not in a really spectacular method. Not all people will likely be a fan of this design. On the highest are 4 microphones that catch your voice instructions and 4 motion buttons which can be used to manually management quantity, mute the microphone and to set off Alexa. You additionally get these functionalities by way of the Zebronics companion app.
Near the highest fringe of the speaker, you’ve gotten what is maybe essentially the most fascinating little bit of this speaker, a 360-degree IR belt that may talk with units in all instructions. This helps you to use the speaker as an IR blaster for all IR-based units you’ve gotten in your room. These might embody a TV, an AC and different home equipment.
Features
The IR blaster of the Zeb Smart Bot can be utilized to first hook up with all of the units you’ve gotten within the room. The pairing course of is identical tedious, trial-and-error-based one as you might need witnessed on any IR-based smartphone or common distant management. Thankfully, it’s a one-time course of organising your units.
Once that’s carried out, you may management all of your IR units by way of the Zeb Smart Bot. What’s cool about that is that the good bot successfully turns all of your IR-based units into voice-controlled ‘smart’ units even when they’re very primary home equipment, so long as they’re managed by IR and inside vary.
Using Alexa on the Zeb Smart Bot to its most potetial would require you to make use of each the Zeb Smart Home app and the Alexa App. (Image Credit: The Indian Express/ Chetan Nayak)
Placing the Zeb Smart Bot able the place it could actually attain all of your units from one spot could also be a slight problem relying on your own home setup. Unless your AC is ridiculously excessive up, you need to be high-quality inserting the Zeb Smart Bot someplace between 5ft-7ft from the ground.
Other Alexa options additionally work nice right here, together with utilizing the assistant to play music, reply some normal data questions and even inform you the climate forecast. While the microphone detection is pretty good from all instructions, you may miss a set off or two when music is enjoying at excessive volumes.
Note that the Zeb Smart Bot would require you to make use of each the Zeb Smart Home app in addition to the Amazon Alexa app for optimum performance. The Smart Bot can even require your Wi-Fi to be set to 2.4GHz because it doesn’t assist the 5GHz band but.
Audio efficiency
The Zeb Smart Bot provides a 5W sound output that’s pretty common however not excellent at decrease frequencies. However, the constraints of a typical 5W sound output apply right here as increased volumes will typically distort crisp vocals and bass drops don’t have fairly the thump to them. However, that is akin to different good audio system within the section.

Verdict: Should you purchase the Zeb Smart Bot?
The Zeb Smart Bot shouldn’t be the one good speaker on the market, however its IR-based feature-set makes it a really distinctive proposition on the worth of Rs 3,699. Yes, it isn’t one of the best sounding speaker on the market, however the distinction in audio high quality between this and an Amazon Echo machine of the identical worth level shouldn’t be sufficient to make this a deal-breaker.
On the opposite hand, the Zeb Smart Bot could be a magical machine in your room you probably have IR-based home equipment like a TV, an AC, a set-top-box, a DVD participant or related units.