Seneye is it worth being used as just par meter.

[Devaji]

I am thinking it would be a nice toy to have. but I use a mac and dont want to spend the $$ for the wifi box do you know if there is a work around?

have you played with it yet? thoughts so far?

 

[hart24601]

I have a windows laptop so it was a no brainer for me to pick up the seneye. Before BRS tested it I had assumed it was junk, but after the only reason I can think of to not buy it for a light meter is if you didn't have a windows laptop. If they could make it plug into various phones it would be even better.

I can't speak to any work arounds for a mac, sorry, but for a light meter that you can also see the spectrum and PUR % plus monitor pH and other parameters if so desired I don't see why one would get anything else if you had a windows laptop that is. The cosine correction on the far edges isn't a problem for my tank, although I have played around with having one light on the far side, I just angled the seneye to the light. Wasn't hard, you don't need to keep it flat all the time.

 

[Bmasculine]

I am thinking it would be a nice toy to have. but I use a mac and dont want to spend the $$ for the wifi box do you know if there is a work around?

have you played with it yet? thoughts so far?

As stated above I also have windows on my laptop. After the software install threw it in the tank and boom par, pur, and spectrum readings on nice color charts. Even my wife thought it was cool. Super easy to use happy with the purchase.

 

[Bmasculine]

I did just see a used dell tablet on eBay for $50 running windows 10. I didn’t look to see if it had a USB port but that is an option, could possibly use it more like a handheld. I may need to look more into this.

 

[Mariner00]

If anyone has this I’d really appreciate some feed back. If I bought this it would be only to use as a par meter. What has me wondering is at the price point is it even an accurate device? Just regular par meters go for twice as much. If it does work why are other par meters so freaking expensive. I’m tired of guessing what my light might be putting out.

It also monitors your tank temperature. Which was really very handy for me because this summer has been a very warm one in my area. And of course the winter on the flipside.

 

[Devaji]

OK so I posted on the seneye sponsor forum...and they conformed for mac users you have to run parallel or a windows tables with USB.
dang the expense goes way up for just wanting to know.
guess I will look in to a cheapish tablet and see...man a app would solve this and be really cool.

 

[Reefltx]

If you search, there’s a few using a windows tablet with it. I think it was winbook, used for around $40-80