As the title suggests, I have some questions about tire monitors.

I have done a fair amount of searching and almost every thread I have seen that mentions tire pressure monitors also mentions FOBO. I have done some searching around the interwebz and found several other systems, most of them are considerably more affordable.

Some of these "other" systems include a display to monitor pressure real-time. Some of them have alarms, others don't. Some of them (including FOBO) require an app, which means pulling out the "phone" (it's actually a belt-worn computer) to check pressures, which mean there are no alerts while riding. Yeah, I'm probably one of three or four left in the world that does not use my "phone" for e-mails, navigation and many other things that others use their computers for.

Reviews are not too bad on most of these systems, with adequate notes provided on the ones that are pretty much garbage, so the question remains:
Is the FOBO really worth the extra money?

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