Skylight Calendar Product Impressions and Review

Today I'm taking a look at the new Skylight Calendar for personal/family organization, courtesy of a review unit from Best Buy. It has a 15-inch touch-screen and displays any calendars you'd like to combine, and filter down to which you'd like to see. How does this little smart-screen work? How easy is it to set up and use? Is it worth it? Let's find out...
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[@boundeffigy]

As someone in IT, thanks for the great and honest review. I was comparing it to Hearth but this looks better. Wish it was bigger.

[@mariajuanesta3319]

Same. I like hearth for size but this looks better

[@pooptommy123]

They just started taking preorders for a bigger 27 inch version

[@brettdoerr4077]

Man the subscription for photos makes this a dealbreaker for us. Thanks for the review

[@zargosh1]

great review, thanks. I wish every reviewer would walk through all of the features the way you did. The photo subscription is ridiculous, but otherwise looks like a nice piece of gear.

[@bjelln]

I guess I don't see the problem with the photos. It's a cloud storage service so someone has to pay for it. No different that icloud or any of those other storage services that charge fees...The fact that they give you an option to just not do it is nice.

[@ProductImpressions]

I believe the pictures are just coming through the linked Google account, so from that perspective, it's no different than pulling the calendar through.

[@bjelln]

@@ProductImpressions It says they are backed up in their cloud portal.

[@brandyc6025]

I like skylight we have but I hate the chore chart. You can only set it up through the app and on the device itself. For some this isn’t a big deal but when you have a medium to large family like I do It’s tedious. It’s not impossible to do it just reminds me of T9 texting. I wish they would allow us to set up the chore chart through the website what is the very least had some premade options

[@thewildeguys]

Thank you so much for the review. Can all actions be controlled by a mouse or do you have to do it thru touching screen? Also it needs a constant power connection to outlet?

[@ProductImpressions]

Yes, it needs constant power. The device itself is just touch-screen, but you can set up an account that you control through your computer if you'd rather use a mouse.

[@thewildeguys]

@@ProductImpressions And that account is free? But the photo service costs money? Thanks again!

[@ProductImpressions]

@@thewildeguys you are correct. Setting up the account is free, but it is a subscription to have it show pictures.

[@jdkessler7902]

How do you get the orientation from "landscape" to "portrait"?

[@ProductImpressions]

I'm not aware of that capability, and don't see anything about it in the settings.

[@vladimirdemorcy446]

This is also my problem, I recently purchased the 15" an it doesn't do portrait (even though when you first boot the thing it actually IS in portrait mode when you select the Wi-Fi network to use )

[@psichijr]

Does your calendar make a phantom click/noise about 4 seconds after to perform an item on the device? For example, you select the + to add an event and then exit/cancel out of it. Wait for 4 seconds, does it make a click noise?

[@ProductImpressions]

Yes, I hadn't noticed that before, but it seems that any interaction with the calendar screen gets a little click sound a few seconds after touching it.

[@psichijr]

@@ProductImpressions Mine does that too which is super annoying. Looks like a design/software flaw. Support hasn’t been able to resolve the issue for me. I wonder if everyone has this issue with the calendar.

[@kristiburton3834]

How many people can you set up chores for? Is this something that could increase with an update in the future?

[@ProductImpressions]

I don't know that there's a limit to the number of accounts that you can link to the device. If you put everyone in as different colors on the same account, it's 11 different colors that Google allows.

[@ebaake]

How do you think this would compare to using a pixel tablet with google calendar?

[@ProductImpressions]

Well, the tablet is definitely going to be more versatile but smaller. There is some added functionality of a chore chart that you can edit through the Skylight website (but not on the device itself, apparently) which might initially be lacking on the tablet, but I'm sure there's an app for that. So basically, smaller and more versatile, or larger and simpler.

[@ebaake]

@@ProductImpressions great comparison. I think the wife would lean more towards simplicity. She wants the 27 inch too 😬