Smart Light Bulb Starter Kit, Smart Bulbs that Work with Alexa, Google Home, Color Changing Light Bulb, Alexa Light Bulbs, A19 E26 Dimmable Bulbs 800LM, 8.6W (60W Equivalent), 2 Pack with Hub

I'm extremely pleased with these bulbs. I intend to purchase color capable bulbs at some point, but for now I was just looking to replace bulbs in the pendent lights over my kitchen island and I only wanted white dimmable lights (we rent and therefore cannot rewire this brand new kitchen and the only switch for these lights is located rather far from the work area in the kitchen). These bulbs take things one step further by allowing you to not only dim the lights, but also to change the temperature of the light from cool to warm and it works very well. I haven’t really used the app, as I have my Amazon Echo Dots set up to operate them, so I can’t speak to it’s worth. My Sengled bums are connected/setup via the Samsung hub I already had. Operating these bulbs through Amazon’s Echo products, once setup through the proper chain (as there are numerous ways to achieve your objective here), is very easy. I've attached a video showing the use of the lights with my Amazon Echo device and it is just a small sample of how you can ask the Echo to operate your lights. Please note that when the brightness changes during the video, as the surrounding environment is dark, it takes a moment for my iPhone camera to adjust to the temp/brightness change and it is not a delay in the actual light. So, as demonstrated in the video, you can use percentages to change the setting of the bulbs (e.g. "Alexa set the kitchen lights to 10%"), descriptive terms (such as "Alexa set the kitchen lights to..." "daylight" or "warm"), and I know there are numerous other ways to change the settings. In truth, I read nothing before attempting to operate the lights through the Echo, so that certainly speaks to how intuitive they are to use in this fashion. They look good in an exposed application like a pendant light (you wouldn’t notice they were smart bulbs simply glancing at the light), they are a better value than the Philips hue bulbs and I liked that I have the ability to control the temperature of the light along with dimming. I plan to buy more of these, along with some Philips Hue Color bulbs, and I will use the Sengled bulbs for any application that only requires a white bulb. So, I highly recommend these bulbs, especially in the multipack.

Directions are impossible! Once l finally received correct instructions, the bulb works perfectly until l went to use it. Then it was just a dumb bulb, not a smart one! I said "Alexa Discover." It was discovered easily as the Alexa app could not find it & the Sengled app was useless & unnecessary. Uninstall the Sengled app to free up some memory. It took 8 calls & many hours, l finally learned from a knowledgeable USA rep to simply just say "Alexa discover". It worked. 😳 Cust serv. had me going in circles for 6 hours & 7 phone calls. All with wrong info outside the USA. I was going to give my final 8th phone try & finally found a guy in USA who got me thru it. It's simple. Do not install the sengled app and Alexa app can't find it with their app. Tried 20+ times! Update when l went to utilize a new bulb when it was time, l tried with a lamp that was working as a smart bulb for 2 years. I tried to use my bulb when l added a new lamp. It refuses to pair. Would not flash to pair. Will Unable to use with Alexa. Change rating to 1. When Amazon Alexa specialist told me to contact sengled directly, they tried to con me into paying for tech support. Do not buy this bulb. Bottom line is that of 4 bulbs, only 2 were functional. Total junk made in China. You get what you pay for. Too late to replace! What a disappointment. I am so angry! 95% of the Alexa trainers know nothing! All time wasters! Just turn it on & say "Alexa discover" takes five minutes if bulb is functional. I had spent hours with wrong info given to me. Jeeze! The service people had no clue till l finally found a great guy in America! My gosh! So much wasting of my time!

tldr; a great bulb to provide color lighting without adding yet another hub. Over the last few months I have been looking for a way to bring smart home color lighting into my household. I have a SmartThings Hub, and I wanted to add any lighting that I brought into the house to that hub. I have a strong tech background, so I did a lot of research into solutions that required little work, and some that were hacking together different smart home products and services. Philips Hue bulbs were expensive, and required a proprietary hubs for the best quality. Sylvania bulbs appeared to have a 50-50 shot of being good, or total garbage. I was about to give up and buy into the Philips bulbs, until I saw that Sengled finally released color bulbs. I had already bought several light bulbs from Sengled, and found that they were all of good quality. I usually don't buy things with many reviews, but I decided to give this one a chance. I purchased one bulb to test. I purchased another bold because the first one looked great. I imagine that I will be buying many more in the coming months. The color quality is good, the brightness is excellent, and the setup was quick and painless. I have single bulb fixtures in my hallway that I wanted to be able to turn them daylight white during the day, a soft white at night, and gradually bring them to a dim red in the late night. These have fit that role perfectly, and bring just as strong of light to the hallway as the old standard bulbs did. My only complaint about these is that their integration with Alexa through SmartThings is not exactly perfect when it comes to choosing some colors (e.g., "Alexa, hallway lights to red" gives me pink). Don't let that scare you away, though-- the colors adjust correctly through SmartThings, displaying a great range of colors, and I have been able to program them into scenes perfectly. If it were not for the price, I would quickly order several of these and replace many of the white and soft light smart bulbs that I have in the house with these. For now, I'm happy to occasionally bring a new one into the house--which reminds me to go ahead and buy another one now. Another great product from Sengled. Keep up the good work, guys.

These are great lights. Good colors, good brightness, to a color-blind man these lights are equal to Hue bulbs. And they're far cheaper--I bought these colored bulbs to use as white bulbs because on Amazon Prime day they were cheaper in full color than the Hue White Ambiance bulbs. Now to the challenging part... Hue's system is well-developed and exceptionally versatile. It just works. You need the Hue Bridge, and you know that from the outset. With the bridge, lots can be done. Without the bridge, Hue bulbs are fairly crippled. Sengled Element bulbs run on the Zigbee protocol. Which means that you can use other hubs than the Sengled hub to control them. I own a Samsung Smartthings hub, and I was able to connect these bulbs to the Samsung hub, but the connection seemed wonky--taking time to work and not transferring fully to Google Home because, though Google Home works with Smartthings and Sengled bulbs, to work directly with Sengled Bulbs in Google Home you have to import the bulbs through a Sengled account which requires that the bulbs be registered with Sengled through their app, and that app only works when your Sengled bulbs are attached to a Sengled hub. So, after many attempts to get the Sengled Bulbs working with sunlight/sunset timers and color adjusters and as part of a group in Google Home, I gave up and bought a Sengled Hub in order to be able to register the bulbs with Sengled so I could import them directly into Google Home. To my surprise, however, it was no easier getting Google Home to work with Sengled bulbs registered to Sengled and attached to a Sengled hub. So, in the end, I decided to simply run the bulbs on a sunset to 12:30 AM schedule through the Sengled Home App, foregoing Google Home and Smartthings altogether, only to learn that the Sengled Home App doesn't include sunset and sunrise triggers. Crud. But, with further investigation, it became apparent that the Sengled app and hub do work with IFTTT, and IFTTT contains sunset and sunrise routines based on your GPS position for use with Sengled. It's a kludge. If you want to do more than very simple on-off routines, you won't find it easy to make Sengled bulbs work the way you want without trial and error and jury-rigging. But, work at it and you will probably get them to do what you desire if you're willing to forego integration into Smartthings or Google Home. The bulbs work well and you don't have to have the Sengled hub to get them under control if you want to work in Smartthings. But even with the Sengled hub, integration with Google Home can be a challenge.

First, i see a few one-star raters mention these aren't Zigbee routers. One person even got it completely wrong, presuming any Zigbee device MUST act as a repeater (router) to be operating to spec -- which is a false claim. These lightbulbs are simple Zigbee endpoint devices, and for those of you using a traditional light switch to cut power to your light bulbs, an endpoint bulb is precisely what you want for a stable Zigbee mesh network. Granted, that means you need other devices in your Zigbee network to act as routers; I purchased a multitude of the Innr 10A plugs along with a decent stack of the Sengled 15A power metering plugs (oh man, don't buy the Innr 15A metering plugs ,they're BAD) to facilitate all the routing and repeating needed for my Zigbee network. So why do you want Sengled bulbs acting as endpoints rather than routers? Because when you turn the bulb off with a switch, your entire Zigbee network needs to re-converge itself after one or more routers just fell out of the mesh. This results in an unstable network, dropping messages, sometimes dropping entire devices. I have nearly 100 Sengled LED bulbs in my house now -- most of them are these A19's, along with probably 10 BR30's and two dozen of the little candleabra bulbs. I had only one of the A19's act flakey on me, which Sengled promptly replaced for me by submitting an online warranty request. The tunable white is nice for lots of reasons, the crazy colors were a lot of fun over the October to January holidays, the kids love the silly colors in their bedrooms and their shared bathroom. I'm happy with price of the bulbs, the fun colors, how stable they allow my Zigbee network to be, with Sengled's response to my one warranty claim, and I'm happy with how well they integrate with Home Assistant. I wish the colors could be a little brighter and in some cases a little more saturated, and I wish the Zigbee bulbs had a 100W tunable white-only option like the BT ones do.

This was my first foray into "smart" anything, and I wasn't 100% certain what I was getting into. I've got a Home Assistant installation running, so I bought a ConBee II stick and a 4-pack of these bulbs as my starter set. After ordering, I discovered some warnings that I may not have picked the best combo... However, after a brief search, I got the ConBee II connected to my HA installation then I put one of these bulbs into the fixture in my office where the stick is located. It took about 5 seconds to locate the bulb & registered it in Home Assistant. Having seen some notes that distance between the receiver & the bulb could cause recognition issues, I moved into the kitchen where they are now installed, and the rest were recognized there with no problem at all. The bulbs are very heavy in comparison to the "dumb" LED bulbs they replaced, but that doesn't seem to be an issue for the fixture I've got them in. They're also quite large and the one that lives under a globe was a bit of a squeeze to get in there. They're not the prettiest looking bulbs, so if they're exposed, you may not quite like the look of them, but they're bright (see below) so you probably won't be staring at them too often. They are incredibly bright, and on full cool temperature, they're a bit too blue for my tastes, so I won't send them all the way to the cool end of the spectrum. It's nice to know that it's there, though. They dim smoothly all the way down to 1%, and they go all the way to a nice warm color, as well. So long as these last longer than the el-cheapo bulbs I've purchased before, I'll be quite satisfied with them and will be buying more for other places in the house.

I have over 50 of these bulbs and they've worked great for years, but not anymore. We have Alexa's in every room and have become accustomed to controlling the bulbs with our voice. In many cases, we don't even know which switch does what. However, in June and July things stopped working. In June, the app didn't work, but was eventually fixed. In July, the Alexa skill stopped working. They still work from the app, but do not work from the Alexa skill. If I'd know that some random server somewhere would cause my lights to literally stop working as expected, I never would have purchased these bulbs. At this point, my family has given up on controlling the lights with anything but switches, which turns them into nothing but REALLY expensive soft-white LED bulbs. Don't buy these! Get a different brand. I'm looking at spending hundreds of dollars to replace the ones I have. I've reached out to support and gotten no reply at all. Ever.

I gave these 3/5 because they’re good lights, just not HomeKit compatible. For my particular case, they’re a 1/5, but I know I’m in the minority of people who have a HomePod instead of Alexa. If you use Alexa or Google, these are 10/10. The lights are responsive and decently bright, the setup is SUPER easy, and they’re great value. If you use Siri/HomeKit for your home automations and controls though... well, keep reading. I’m really not a fan of these lights. I knew they weren’t HomeKit compatible when I bought them, but given the popularity of these lights I assumed they would at least be able to be controlled with the Apple Shortcuts app. Nope. The only way to control these lights if you don’t use Alexa or Google is by pulling out your phone and opening the app any time you want to turn the lights on. This is very annoying, because I typically control lights through my Apple Watch, which has all of my Apple shortcuts that I use to control my other LIFX bulbs (LIFX HomeKit compatibility exists, but just barely, which is why I use Shortcuts). Another annoyance I had was that the lights can’t be set to update their own color without turning on/off. With LIFX, I have my lights set to change color at sunset/sunrise, but not to turn on. This is so that when I leave a room, I can turn off the lights and they’ll STAY off, especially since I’m typically in the kitchen as the sun’s setting. With Sengled, the lights have to have a set time to turn on, and a set time to turn off. What if you want them to turn on when you get home from work, then change color at sunset to help you wind down? Nope, can’t do it. What if you normally get up at 7, but you decide to sleep in? The lights will still cut on at 7 and wake you up. Conclusion: If they update their app with the iOS-friendly features I’m looking for, I’ll definitely buy these again. But for right now, I’m gonna return these and get some LIFX bulbs instead.