Works great independently or w/Alexa, great price-point!
These work perfectly. The app did not require extensive set-up and was easy to figure out. These are my first Smart home device, other than Alexa. I discovered that the 4 bulbs show up on the app with their own name "blub4ef5" or whatever (not a typo on my part, I think they meant 'bulb'). I renamed each bulb according to location. Two are main lights in the ceiling fan in my master bedroom ("Main 1" and "Main 2") and then on either side of my bed ("My Bedside" and "Guest Bedside"). They're easy to adjust. I quickly figured out how to set my own scenes. A few tips: 1) Do some Google searches, and quick screenshots for the images of the lighting setups you'll want to keep. They have a few, but I'm extremely visually oriented, and I wanted my own. It was easy to select the screenshot for the image and use accordingly. 2) Do a long-press on a scene to edit it. You can edit their pre-made ones, or make your own. I made a few, including having only one overhead bulb on at 10% called "nightlight", etc. My favorite, and the main reason I purchased these, is for my wakeup routine. I've been wanting a sunrise alarm clock for several years. Unfortunately, the ones I've tried are just not right. (I feel like the princess and the pea!) I can't stand the brightness of most clock faces, or any lights in my bedroom while sleeping. However, I often wake and need to see the time on a clock, so that I'm not forced to check the time on my phone. Then, many sunset alarm clocks have a really long "sunrise". It was orcing me to wake up like 20 minutes before my alarm! Yet, setting my alarm forward 20 minutes could very well result in a bad/late morning. And, with my long COVID, I really need to protect my sleep. I seriously only need like a 2-minute graduation of lighting, which these handle very nicely (5 second, to many minutes increments are available). I've now set up Alexa to start a special light scene just for my wakeup, with a 2 minute graduation on only my bedside lamps. Then, she wakes me up nicely. She tells me some good news, turns the lights up all the way, and plays some music. It was terrific this morning! I had to set up several routines for Alexa to turn on and off my lights, and several specific lighting scenes, but it's all done. I'm happy. No more getting up mid-virtual meeting to turn on lights in these darker months. No more annoyingness in turning my "guest side" lamps on/off across the king-sized bed. If I was out of town, super easy to create the illusion I'm home. Because my office is in my master bedroom, I'm going to experiment with timed lighting setups to go with my pomodoro sessions, with the hope of visual reminders that I'm supposed to be focusing. ( 😜 Mega-spaz, here). The app could use a few tweaks to functionality, like copying a scene, to perform minor changes and re-name. But seriously, for the price, these are terrific. Longevity has not been tested yet. 🤞 Read more




















