Is The Levoit Vital 200S The Best Air Purifier 2024? | Full Setup

If you're looking for an air purifier, you probably came across the brand Lavoie and that's because

they're one of the most popular air purifier brands out there and this is going to be the 200S

So in this video, I'm going to do a quick unboxing, quick setup and give my first impressions of this

So the first thing out of the box is going to go ahead and be the user manual. We have the booklet

and there's also going to be this one sheet of paper that's going to be a quick start guide and

also shows up what app to go ahead and download. And on the right side, we're going to have this

small box. This is going to contain the power adapter and finally the air purifier itself

Now as far as weight goes the Vital 200S is only going to be 13.2 pounds so it's going to be fairly

lightweight. It's also going to be 19.8 inches in height, 15.6 inches in depth and 8.25 inches in

width. And so now taking a look at the bottom there's not going to be much except the feet

which are going to be rubberized just to prevent it from sliding in place when you have it on the

floor. And there's also going to be some screw covers if you ever want to go ahead and take it

part which I won't be doing. Now taking a look at the back side there's only going to be one thing

in the center and that's going to be this label. It just goes over a little bit more of the

specifications of the Levoit Vital 200s with the smart true HEPA air purifier and here we can see

the model number, the power supply, the rated power and a bunch of other stuff. Now taking a look

on the left side there's going to be nothing here. The only thing we're going to see is this space in

between the cover and the filter itself. And now taking a look at the other end we're going to have

one thing which is going to be this dust cover. So to open it up we just have to put our thumb here

and pull out and here the inlet and outlet can go ahead and be cleaned every two months. And then

right here shows a little bit more information. Clean dust sensor. Use a moistened cotton swab

to clean air inlet. Outlet and sensor lens. Repeat with a dry swab to finish. Clean the dust sensor

every two months to maintain efficiency. And now taking a look at the front side we're going to

have the logo Levoit and a bunch of different holes and this is so the air can be filtered in

and purified and this part in the front is actually going to be the cover so here our hands can

actually go through it and you can kind of see my fingers through the holes same thing on the other

side and to actually remove this it's really simple all you have to do is just with both hands

just pull outwards and it comes right off and I can pull it downwards and here you could see there's

going to be these two clips that it's really easy you just pull it right off and there it is that's

the cover and now comes time for the three layers of filtration and here we can go ahead and see in

this image. The first one in the front is going to be the pre-filter. And this also is going to

be washable, which is good. And so to go ahead and take this off, two fingers on the tabs

pushed inwards, and then this can be pulled right out. And there it is. And this is basically going

to go ahead and stop large debris dust. And once it's time to clean, again, this can be washed and

also vacuumed on each of these individual nine squares to make sure that it's going to be as

efficient as possible. And now what we're seeing are going to be the remaining two filters. So to

take this off the bag can just be pulled out just like so and what we're seeing right now is going

to be the front and this is going to be the h13 true hepa filter now this is going to trap at least

99.97 percent of airborne particles 0.3 microns in size it's going to filter out smart particles

like fine dust smoke particles and allergens like pollen and in my case a lot of pet dander for my

cat and the second portion of the filter is going to be on the back which is going to be attached to

And here we could see a little bit more instructions about this third layer

And this is going to be the activated carbon filter. And this high efficiency activated carbon filter is going to physically absorb smoke, odors, and fumes

It's going to filter out compounds like formaldehyde, benzene, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and volatile organic compounds

And in the center, we can see the fan itself. So now the filter can be installed back in here

And now the pre-filter screen can be put back in place and pushed in. And then same thing with the cover

starting from the bottom until you hear a click up top. Before I go over how to use the V-Sync app for the air purifier

I want to go over the buttons up top real quick So for starters these are going to be capacitive touch and the one in the center is going to turn everything on and depending on what color light it is it going to indicate what the air quality is so blue means very good green means good orange means moderate and red means bad so

right now as we can see it's currently very good which is very good now on the left side this is

going to put this in auto mode so depending on what the air quality currently is at it'll change

the fan speed so in my case since it's blue since it's very good the fan speed is going to be set to

sleep mode if it were green the fan speed would be low if it were orange medium red high but if

you want to go ahead and manually put that we can just press this button here so that puts us at low

speed indicated by the one light and pressing it again will put us in medium and then high and then

finally turbo and as you can hear it's pretty loud so it's sucking a lot of air in and it's

pushing a lot of air out too but I'll go ahead and go back to low and after a few seconds

it'll go ahead and adjust again to low. Now in the center here this is going to be sleep mode

so after six seconds all the lights are going to go ahead and shut off over here

as you see right now and of course pressing anything we'll go ahead and activate the light

again and there but I'll just leave it for the fan speed low for now. Now on the right side we're

going to have a timer for two hours, four hours, eight hours, and then we can go back. And then here

there's going to be two more buttons. For starters, on the right side, this is going to turn off and

on the lights. So if I want the lights off, I can press it. Everything goes off. I press it again

Lights go on. And then finally, it's going to be the lock button. So to activate this, it just has

to be held for three seconds. And there, we can see it's blue, which means lock mode is on. So

nothing can be changed. If I try to change the fan speed, it blinks. If I try to turn it off

it blinks. If I try to, you know, change the timer, it blinks. If I try to change the light

it blinks. Nothing will work, and the only way for this to work is to shut off the lock mode

by holding this for another three seconds, and then the blue light will go ahead and disappear

and then I can turn it off. Now, a cool thing about this is that it has memory function

So, if I had this in fan speed 2, so in the medium fan speed, and I turn it off

whenever I go ahead and turn it back on, it's going to save the previous setting, and it'll put me in the same fan speed

Now comes time set up for the app so I already had v-sync since I use it for my

text of the smart scale but if you don't have the app go ahead and download it and I can press the plus button click to enable Bluetooth so I'll go ahead and

actually turn Bluetooth on and now here I can search for what I'm looking for so

air quality and then right here for purifier we have the lavoy vital 200 s

right here I click on it and then start set up so it tells me to add device

press and hold the power button for five seconds so I'll go ahead and do that here

until it starts blinking so right here we can see that it's currently blinking and there now took

me to the next step which is currently connecting to the device so let me just see what happens all

right there now it's done and now I have to join my Wi-Fi network so I can click here then put my

password and then click connect and now it's connecting to the network and here we can see

it's blinking on and off constantly and there now it's done so now this can be set up in a certain

room for organization so in this case I'll just leave it for living room and then I'll click next

icon name so i'll give it air purifier click done and then save so third party apps can be connected

so this can be controlled with alexa which unfortunately i don't have alexa right now so

i'll go ahead and just exit that out and here i can go ahead and control it so here on off so if i

press on we could see it automatically turns on and it lets me know what the air quality is which is very good So that very good And now what I want to do is change this to another room to see how the air quality is so i be right back all right so i in my bedroom and the air quality

is still very good here and if we want to go ahead and control the fan speed instead of pressing the

button we of course can go ahead and use the app so here i can set it up to fan speed number two

three or turbo and as you're seeing there it's being adjusted on the purifier itself

oh and a cool thing is the animation also changes so as I go quicker this will go ahead and speed up

so here we can see when I put it to three it speeds up a lot when I go to one it slows down

a lot and then up top we can see a little bit more information pollen low medium and now the

only way to put this in pet mode is going to be with the app and then right here we could see

pet mode is all the way to the right so when I press it it's just pet mode. I'll go ahead and

leave it back to one since right now the fan's running really loud. Now taking a look at the

bottom there's going to be two other buttons. For starters there's going to be schedule and we can

go ahead and add a schedule whenever we want this to go ahead and turn on or turn off and so right

here I could set the time so if I want it for let me put it for 1 p.m. 1 p.m. I want this to repeat

I can do it weekly and I can adjust okay that's cool I can set the days I can just have it do it

once in this case I'll just do it for like weekdays Monday through Friday I'll have it turn on the

device and then what mode do I want to put it out so I'll put it at I can either put it auto manual

sleep or pet, I'll go ahead and put it for pet mode, okay, that's cool, I can decide if I want

to display on or off, so if I turn it off, yeah, that should go ahead and turn off once it's set

and I can click okay, and that's done, and I can also add another schedule, so if I want to turn it

off after an hour, 2 p.m. weekly, again, Monday through Friday, turn the device off, and then set

okay, and there, so now Monday through Fridays at 1 p.m. it'll turn off, and after an hour, we'll go

ahead and turn it off and I'll go back and one thing to note about the icon for

schedule is that it's currently blue just to indicate that we do have a schedule currently on now going to the right side there's gonna be a timer up

to 23 hours and 59 minutes the timer can be set and if I press it for one hour I

could either turn off the device or on or in this case the device will turn off and if I want I can press stop or I can go back to hit ok and then when I go oh

this time it's 30 minutes since I didn't adjust it but now when I go back

here we can see that icon is also currently blue letting us know that there's a timer set and that's

cool the small detail is it lets us know how long the timer is which is 30 minutes and now this can

also be scrolled upwards and it'll reveal a lot more information so for starters we can turn off

or on the display and right now as you see it's blue it's currently on and i can switch it off

switch it back on and it's pretty instantaneous too now as far as light detection goes it says

that the display will automatically turn off in low light and the air purifier will operate more

quietly in auto mode. So let me turn off the lights in this room and see if it's true and

these lights turn off too. Yep, after a few seconds it went ahead and turned off as you see

so let me turn the lights back on and lights turn on over here as well too. Now scrolling down we

have display lock. You can only control the air purifier through v-sync when display lock is on

So again, same thing I said before, to turn it on we can just go ahead and hold this button

and I can go ahead and unlock it manually as well too so after three seconds

yep that goes and turns off and display lock oh it didn't turn off here but I still

yeah I still can go ahead and control it oh display lock is off now okay and now we also

have auto mode settings which is set to default auto mode will automatically control the fan speed

according to air quality or quiet the air purifier will keep noise levels low by never using the

highest fan speed or efficient select the size of the area you want to purify and the air purifier will use the highest fan speed to clean air in the area once the area is clean it will change to a lower fan speed okay so that pretty cool you can go ahead and customize it in this case i leave it for

default and there's also sleep mode settings so default is sleep mode will only use the lowest

fan speed to keep your room quiet or i can customize it as well too for a quick clean white noise

sleep or daytime. And now smart scenes and there's going to be two different scenes

purifier auto start purifier auto stop. So for the auto start this says your air purifier will

turn on automatically when air purifier is bad. So this makes sense that the air purifier is bad

make the air purifier air quality good and then v-sync will turn on the air purifier into auto

mode and I can go ahead and add that and this is going to cycle through the whole day so we can see

from 12 a.m to 11 59 p.m and I can turn that off as well too and for purifier auto stop

if the air quality is good v-sync will turn off the air purifier and I can also add that and you

can also manually add scenes so right here is the if and then here's the then so the trigger can be

a manual trigger on the air purifier itself schedule leave or arrive at a certain location

So that's cool. So it'll go on the map and then the action can be to run a manual setting to turn on or off to set a reminder to delay a start and the effective period can be anytime you want it. So in this case, it's set to all day. So that's about it for all the settings here. Now pushing this up, we are going to have one more icon up top. And it gives us a little bit more information, some device name. So I previously named it air purifier. But of course, can go ahead and adjust it to whatever I want. The icon can also be changed. I can check out the user manual

so if you ever lose the user manual you can just go ahead and check it out on the app

There's also going to be voice commands and again this has to be connected to Alexa which

unfortunately I don't currently have so I do have to get Alexa to be able to just use it so I don't

have to always use my phone for it. And here are going to be some of the commands it has. Alexa

turn on the air purifier, Alexa turn off the air purifier, the fan speed can be adjusted. You can

just say to increase it and decrease it, to change the mode, to turn on or off the display, and to ask

any sort of questions like what's the fan speed at, what's the mode, is the display on or off, and so

on and so forth. And also for Google Assist, same things. And then we have the device info. Oh that's

pretty cool. It also shows us the filter life. So right now it's currently at of course 100% and

there's going to be a direct link to buy a filter or join filter subscriptions. We can also change

the units or give ourselves a pre-filter cleaning reminder and it says v-sync will regularly remind

you to clean the outside of the pre-filter to improve your air purifiers efficiency and extend

the life of your filter. For more information please check the user manual and the pre-filter

cleaning reminder frequency will be every four weeks or we can adjust it to sooner from three

or two weeks. Air quality notification, wi-fi settings, shared device and help and feedback

Now as far as maintenance goes the pre-filter screen will have to be cleaned out and we can do

this by turning this off and then again just pulling it upwards pushing these tabs in and

this can be cleaned with some water this can also be vacuumed out and once it's cleaned once it's

wet this has to be air dried before being put back in place and now the filter itself does have a

lifespan of about 12 months depending on how much it's used this can't be cleaned this just has to

be replaced and once it is replaced we can go back to the app and press done replacing filter

So overall the Lavoie Vital 200S seems like a solid air purifier especially if you're out of

the house a lot because if you want to go ahead and control it with your phone with the app it's

just a lot easier to go ahead and do so rather than always manually pressing it over here. Now as far

as build quality goes it feels pretty solid but one thing to note is at the bottom over here this

can be kind of bent inwards so I can push it in. So if you do kick it, maybe there'll be a flex on it