Sengled Zigbee Smart Light Bulbs, Smart Hub Required, Works with SmartThings and Echo with built-in Hub, Voice Control with Alexa and Google Home, Soft White 60W Eqv. A19 Alexa Light Bulb, 8 Pack

The lights have great brightness. The major con I have is they are frequently loosing connection. These are the only wireless devices I have in my house that must be reset often. By often, I mean some lights need reset every few days. Gets quite old at the un realiability of them. Giving 4 stars is being very generous I feel. Will not buy again.

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.

I've had these 4-pack lights since 2019 and another pack 4-pack since 2020. Some hic-ups but in general they have worked perfectly all this time. All of a sudden all 8 lights are unresponsive to Alexa. Resetting the bulbs, Alexa, network does not work. Seems like Amazon now requires manufacturers to create their own app and link to Alexa. That also did not work. SengIed's own app can't find the bulb. I have other brands in the house like Philips hue (that went buggy a week early and started going on and off on it's own and now in storage) and LIFX (replacing the Philips) which works fine. Totally frustrating when you have to go back to flipping the light switch after paying a premium for these bulbs.

MAKE SURE TO BUY A HUB ALONG WITH THIS!It was a little unclear by the description of the product and I thought I could use my Google home mini as a hub but no.When I got the hub these worked great with the Google home, colors are awesome, but they could be a little brighter. I prefer dimmer lighting so it's fine for me.Overall good color bulb, would recommend.

Soon after receiving them, I had all 8 Sengled lamps deployed, replacing a non-uniform variety of older lamps. Setup was trivially easy thru an Amazon Echo _Plus_ (which apparently has a Zigbee hub built into it), and using the Amazon Alexa app on my iPhone to assign more convenient labels for each lamp. I very much like the ability to group multiple lamps and use a single voice command to set a uniform dimming level, e.g., "Alexa, Main Lights 5%." It's neat to see 8 lamps all respond together to one simple voice command. Now we leave the various light switches ON always, and use voice commands to control the lamps individually or in groups. Having coordinated dimming of multiple lamps is a pleasing new capability! And now, to stop an irritating reflection off the TV or computer screen, I can switch off a faraway lamp without having to get off the recliner.There is a bit of a learning curve for providing Alexa with clear comprehensible unambiguous voice commands. I think it helps to have multi-syllable labels for each device and group, so Alexa can more easily resolve uncertainties in the presence of ambient noise. There is probably a hint guide somewhere about effective communication with Alexa, but I haven't stumbled upon it yet. Right now, with only a few days of Alexa experience, we are occasionally having to repeat or rephrase commands until we get the desired response.I chose the warm white 2700K lamps for my living space. Seven of the lamps are in one large living/dining room, and all look very uniform, no color nor brightness non-uniformities. I hope they all last a long time together. Operating them mostly at cooler dimmed settings ought to extend the life, I hope. (In my experience, LED lamps don't last nearly as long as the manufacturers claim. Overheating is the main killer of LED lamps. Six of the old LED lamps that I replaced had cracked plastic shells after only a few years use, in upward-open sconces.)There is not much difference in lamp intensity between 90 and 100%, or between 1% and 2%. I find myself using only a few favorite dimming levels: 1%, 7%, 22%, 44%, and 99%.

I use these lights in my streaming studio for background color effects. They are great looking lights and the best buy for the price, The Hub is easy to install and configure. The only reason for not giving that 5th star has to do with integration limitations that the average user would not experience. Would be nice of these integrated with more third party hubs or if Sengled issued an SDK so these could be integrated with other apps and software. For the average user these lights could be a 5 Star.

Works great with Alexa, nice and bright dimmable down to 1% - need to download singled app first before setting up with Alexa. EZ setup - only works with 2.4 ghz wifi so you may need to change router settings or add a 2.4 access point.