SmartHalo - Bike smarter.
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navigation | Free | Solutions CycleLabs Inc, Les | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
FIND YOUR WAY AROUND
Get turn-by-turn navigation straight on your handlebars, through an intuitive halo of light. Let SmartHalo guide you towards the quickest and safest routes. When only the destination matters, compass mode only points you towards your destination; how you get there is up to you.
NIGHT LIGHTING DONE RIGHT
At night, it’s good to see and be seen. As soon as the sun sets, SmartHalo's light turns on automatically. When your ride is finished, it shuts down on its own. Magic.
KEEP YOUR BIKE SAFE FROM THIEVES
SmartHalo’s internal motion sensor makes sure that any persistent meddling with your sacred two-wheeler triggers a loud alarm.
SET GOALS. GET FIT. BIKE HARD
Feel like surpassing yourself? You can set fitness goals in the app and SmartHalo will display your progress in real time, right on your handlebars. Now with Apple Health app integration.
CALL AND SMS NOTIFICATIONS
Cyclists often miss important calls because of street noise and vibration. This is thing of the past with SmartHalo’s personal assistant.
Reviews
Needs a lot of work
AP278
First, it was almost impossible to register. Wouldn't even recognize that I'd set a birth year that wasn't 2006. Then it couldn't find a route -- any route -- from Reagan Airport to my favourite bike co-op, even though I know from experience that myriad routes exist. I don't know what they're basing this tech on, but it's not a very solid foundation.
Best Kickstarter project I’ve ever gotten
Brandon Siegel
The device is fantastic, battery life is awesome- one month between occasional rides and sitting in my garage. The features are good- I like the navigation for running errands, and it’s great that I can import my own GPX routes that I design on my PC for when I want to bike around for exercise. But honestly I feel like the alarm gives me the most piece of mind, it’s great if you live in a high theft area like me where even with a heavy U-lock I’m never quite confident my bike won’t disappear. My only complaint is that the alarm / light features rely on the Bluetooth signal- if you‘re in Bluetooth range, the alarm is disabled and the auto light is enabled. Kind of makes sense, but when I’m in a store I want the alarm on, and when I’m at home and my bike’s sitting in the garage I want the auto light off- regardless of whether I’m nearby or. Maybe they can add geofencing for this? In the meantime I found I can force-quit the app as a signal to disconnect the Bluetooth and tell my SmartHalo to go into “away mode”. Really excited to see what the SmartHalo 2 looks like but unfortunately it’s been pushed back quite a bit. I suppose that’s hat’s to be expected with Kickstarter projects though.
Defects!
Lvchicchich510
If u haven’t purchased it DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!! Give it about another year because a few friends and I purchased 3 and they’re all having problems. We tried communicating with people at smart halo and their excuse was your phone might not be updated make sure u have the up to date software for your phone and your smart halo and now they just flat out don’t answer emails! I have the first smart halo and nevehad amy problems but this one is ridiculous how many issues I’ve had. I tried emailing to get my money back and NOTHING from them?
Possibly dead
daFerg
Natigstion no longer works and there have been no updates from the company in several months. I hope they figure something out because this had potential
Sadly, a complete failure.
Ken in Arlington
I so badly wanted this to work. I helped fund their start up - both Smarthalo one and Smarthalo two. The hardware is extremely unreliable - while I have gotten it to work in the past, it has failed 100% of the time in the past three weeks. Switching between the old and new devices is cumbersome, and often just does not work. One of the lights at the 10 o’clock position remains on 100% of the time. The website says to plug it into a USB connection to reset it, which I do after every ride - however it fails again within 15 minutes. The device is unresponsive to touch. Navigation software tends to route you onto a six lane highways even when there is a protected bike path nearby. Why is SmartHalo trying to kill me? I’m so frustrated with this product. I wish one could leave zero stars.
Stay Away!
100munkis
This app doesn’t work on my iPhone which has a fully updated operating system. I contacted the company by email 4 days ago and haven’t heard anything, either. Without the navigation app, the device hardware makes a good hickey puck.
Great device, company collapsed
Matayoman
Sadly the company collapsed. During covid they could not stay afloat even though my smarthalo2 is actually super awesome and I love it. Kinda crazy, great design and worked well for me. Yet now, they are gone. Hopefully this app stays alive. Best of luck to everyone, looks like this died. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Unfortunately the app
bghfffdddko
Unfortunately the app for the smart halo just didn’t work. I followed you directions to download the app which we did but it seem to get stuck once we try to connect a smart halo to our phone tried numerous timesThe terms and conditions on the app we’re just not go any farther so we couldn’t download or connect the smart halo to the I phone… unfortunately lost interest in this product. We will return and get our money back and find something else
Can’t create account anymore
jliew1975
Does this app still works? The support page goes to a dns conflict page. Trying to create account but the app stuck term of use page ands not loading the term to move forward.
So much potential, so close
Bseebaugh
I’ll come back to this and update it periodically, but here are my quick takes on using the SmartHalo app* over the past 6 months of daily urban commuting: PROS: - recent update to choose between several filtered route options CONS: - inability to track past routes - no apple watch integration or siri integration (that i can find) - health tracking algorithm seems incorrect; vastly under reports calories compared with other apps - if i stay connected to app while at home, the headlight on the device turns on while it’s parked in my living room * only commenting on app, not the SmartHalo hardware, which is completely amazing, 9.5/10, highly recommend
