Walabot DIY

I have an older Walabot and got a new IPhone 15 I downloaded the Walabot app. When I open the app and connect the Walabot it show a screen if you have one of these devices contact tech support. I did and their response was well send you a $50.00 coupon on the purchase of a new Walabot. So why can’t the tech team write an app for the older devices.

We wanted to hang a flatscreen on a particular wall where I knew there was plumbing. Want taking any chances and bought the Walabot. Works as advertised! Stud finder may be only $20 but a plumber/electrician isn’t. Well worth the dollars! I don’t love that it doesn’t stay calibrated longer but that’s my own doing! Pre-task planning is my friend 😉

The constant logging in makes this difficult to use on a regular basis

I’m not a DIY maven by any means… but I love my tech toys and gadgets ;) To hang a big art piece, I needed to know where the struts are. It took just minutesto set it up, and using it is child’s play (I’m sure the pros will love it too). Thumbs up!

It usually takes about 3 tries to connect to it. Then it wants to calibrate every single time. I hold it up to the dry wall and can’t usually get through a single circle of calibration before it disconnects. After doing this for 45 minutes it finally calibrated! Then no matter where on the drywall it was moved to it just displays a centered “wood stud”. Can’t believe I wasted $250 bucks on this device. Total garbage.

It seems to get lost every once in a while. I am following a wire and all of a sudden, I lose it. I, also, confuse my phone with my Walabot. My problem. Nothing to do with Walabot

I ordered Walabot DIY 2 version a year ago and really enjoy using it for any project around my home to find what behind the wall. Much better and more accurate than any scanner out there. Excellent product. For service, recently I received an email from Walabot follow up on how was the product after one year. I was surprised no company I bought product from ever followed up this long after purchasing with customer like Walabot. Only waiting for me to have issue and contact them. Luckily I was having what I thought was my first issue after one year with battery not charging issue. Walabot responded quickly and provided troubleshooting steps and found me the solution quickly. What an excellent follow up and service. I gave them a 5 stars. Wish there were 10 stars, I would give their perfect 10. Thanks Walabot.

Every time you set the device down for more than a few minutes, it disconnects from the app on your phone, then you have to reconnect it AND recalibrate it… literally every time you want to use it again. Furthermore, the image isn’t even on the device, it’s on the phone app, (which you the reviewer must know by now, unless you are one of the rare few who thoroughly research something before purchase), so the visuals aren’t displayed in alignment with the physical object being measured, making the device irrelevantly distinct from a regular, non-visualized stud finder. Moreover, bluetooth reconnection takes significantly longer than an average Bluetooth device (every time you need to reconnect), and calibration takes like 10 seconds… every single time you pick up the device to use it during a job. Why on earth would anyone ever use this device? Why did someone invent it? It it’s like it was made by someone who has never actually used a stud finder. As though the creator was an alien, who merely theorized about why a human might use a stud finder, and then crafted a device exclusively on the assumption that the only criterium that matters to the human user is to divine the knowledge that a stud exists behind the drywall, and that this knowledge would be greatly enhanced if confirmed by an arbitrary visual representation of that knowledge in a mobile application, since humans use those for everything these days. Why? Why did you make this device and its accompanying app? This question is like the mystery of Atlantis. What happened? Did an alien make this product or was it the result of an early-stage attempt to replace human UX designers with under-developed AI robots? I literally threw this device in the garbage after the first time I used it because of how insufferable it is to use it. A regular stud finder can be picked up and used immediately and gives me the exact same data. The impossibly slowly rendered visual representation on my phone adds no value. I am unsure how this device/app has even one good rating.

Useless app unless you buy the expensive gadget that goes with it.

Boo hoo