LED Smart Light Bulb 60W Equivalent

[Size: 1 Pack]
Bunisimo

These bulbs are just fantastic. Zero issues with quality, setup or performance. They're plenty bright considering the 60w equivalency. LAN control and lack of a hub requirement makes them quite responsive - perfect for ambient lighting for movies or gaming. Mine are tied into Razer Synergy 3 and Alexa and perform as expected. You can use commands like "Alexa, turn lights on" and "Alexa, set lights to magenta at 75%" with ease. I'd recommend these over the (way overpriced) Philips Hue bulbs any day of the week (which was my original plan). I got my first Yeelight bulb (as a test) and liked it so much I immediately bought a second one and some cheap cylindrical desk lamps to place on opposite sides of my monitor. RGB bliss ensued. Unlike some Cree bulbs I have elsewhere, these produce zero heat and remain cool to the touch.

Connects for a few hours then goes missing. I think this bulb is bad. The app is very ooor as well. The Alexa integration may work if the bulb would stay connected to my all ubiquiti network. AC-Pros.

As a home automation hobbyist, I both love and dislike this bulb. On one hand, the bulb works great when controlled my the mobile app. Sometimes the bulb drops off my network and I have to flick the light switch off then on again, but otherwise it works great. The bulb has the warmest warms, and the coldest colds. The bulb doesnt get as bright as I'd like it to, but he color settings are great for mood lighting.However, as someone who uses Home Assistant for my home automation, I find this bulb next to impossible to get working. When I had it working (developer mode on, LAN access on, YeeLight integration set up), it worked for a couple hours then kept showing as unavailable when the app could access it just fine. I was able to get it working with the HomeKit integration for a while, but after changing my HASS installation over to another device, it stopped working altogether.I would buy more of these wonderful bulbs if the compatibility with Home Assistant was addressed by Xiomi.

Great smartight. Had a different, cheaper, light before and this one has a bit more features. Deffenetly worth the upgrade. The details are what made the difference. For example when changing to one color to the other, it fades into the new color instead of instantly just changing. The app is also very handy being able to change the default mode Everytime you turn it on. And of course love how it's Alexa controlled. One last pretty good detail is the music mode, where the light will change cors depending on what either your phone is playing or what the microphone on your phone is hearing.

TL;DR: It's cheaper than most alternatives for RGB bulbs with a very robust set of functionality but has questionable reliability. After about a year, 2 out of 4 have issues.I jumped on the IoT train late 2018 (when I bought these bulbs) after hanging out with a colleague and experiencing his neat-o Philips Hue set up. Unfortunately the Hue ecosystem is not cheap and I wasn't willing to front the money so I bought some YEELIGHTs instead. Cheaper and no hub needed. Excellent.For those who are unaware, YEELIGHT is a sub-brand of Xiaomi (the popular phone maker known for making cheap yet decent quality products--at least hardware wise). Because of this, unsurprisingly, the build quality is great.Cost wise the bulb is cheap for what it is: this bulb has RGB, integration with Google Assistant and Alexa, LAN support (works with Home Assistant [Hass.io]), shines with 800 lumens. What else could you want from a smart bulb--aside from better brightness? The Philips HUE equivalent currently is about $46 at the time of writing this review and requires a HUB, this bulb is $26 at this point in time and works on WiFi. That's nearly half the cost--ignore the absurdity at the idea of dropping $50 on a light bulb. If you're on the fence on getting an RGB vs just a cool/warm traditional LED bulb, I recommend that you save your money and skip RGB. It was cool to play with colors during the first few months, then I never used the functionality again.The bulbs work with two apps YEELight and MI Home. Both apps have similar levels of functionality, however MI Home requires you to connect to servers in China (or Asia) to work--yikes. YEELight doesn't appear to have the same requirement (my account was registered on US servers). The only real benefit to using MI Home over YEELight is that if you have non-lighting devices from Xiaomi (such as a Robot Vacuum like myself), you can use one app alone to control your devices. You can use Google Assistant with a MI Home account or YEELight account to control your devices. MI Home--since the servers are in Asia, have noticeably more latency when making commands. The apps are also not perfect, you may experience hitches and when setting up your devices (i.e. not detecting the bulb, bulb not connecting to your WiFi network etc.) Firmware updates are particularly buggy and don't always detect when the update is complete.You can theoretically avoid Xiaomi's servers by configuring the bulbs to allow LAN Control, using your network devices to prevent the bulbs from connecting to the internet and control them purely using Home Assisstant. However if you want to still use voice commands, there a few more hurdles such as using IFTTT with Google Assistant (or Alexa) as the trigger and configuring a Webhook as the action. The action is an event you configure your Home Assistant to perform when called such as turning off a specific light, all the lights etc. However this method is time consuming because you have to manually configure the trigger phrases (word for word) and resulting actions (have to script action's using IFTTT's syntax).If you're wearing an imaginary tin-foil hat like me, it also doesn't help that IoT devices are innately insecure because they weren't designed with security in mind. This issue compounds with the concern that Xiaomi is owned by a Chinese company.Reliability wise, two out of my four bulbs experienced issues in about a year of ownership. The first bulb's blue channel stopped working so it had a warmer appearance for all colors displayed in contrast to the others. Commanding or setting the light to blue would be equivalent to turning the bulb off. The second bulb has intermittent issues, it will not turn on until unscrewing and rescrewing (or flipping the physical power switch on the lamp).

WHEN IT COMES TO USING MODERN-DAY ELECTRONICS I'M A MORON..I USED THIS FOR ALEXA AT FIRST I HAD SOME PROBLEMS TRYING SYNC TO ALEXA BUT I WENT ON YOU TUBE AND THERE IS A SLEW OF VIDEOS TO HELP YOU OUT FOR THE SET UP OF IT..ITS A VERY BRIGHT LIGHT THAT HAS MULTICOLORS,SO FAR I USE THEM IN MY KIDS COMPUTER ROOM,TV ROOM. AND PORCH LIGHTS OUT SIDE.. I AM EXTREMELY NEW TO SMART HOMES AND THIS WAS A GOOD CALL TO BUY....