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.
Excellent Zigbee full color bulb. Works with Smartthings & ActionTiles perfectly. Zigbee range is excellent, I've got one of these a very long distance from my hub without any Zigbee repeaters between it - and it connects and operates perfectly. I wasn't sure it would, but I'm pleasantly surprised.
Colors are good,bright and vivid. At full brightness the colors are less vivid, but as bright was is reduced the color really comes out. When needed for general white lighting, these are very bright.
Our entrance lights are these, so if our alarm system goes off (smoke, CO, Burglar) they turn red letting us know not to enter the house - even if we didn't see the notifications on our phones (my daughter doesn't always check her phone). We also have one in the light post next to our driveway and on the large bay window facing the road. The alarm system can turn those on and flash them either Blue or Red so that Police, Ambulance or Fire Dept can easily identify the house if they're ever called.
Scenes: These are a lot of fun. You can make scenes to enhance your home theater, dim with a redish tint to add ambiance for an action film. An eerie blue glow for a creepy movie. Whatever you like.
I have one in the furnace room that lets me know the humidity. When I turn the light on, the first 15 seconds will be Green (for humidity below 55%) or Blue (if humidity is more than 55%). It then goes to a white light. A separate humidity sensor provides the humidity reading to Smartthings, and Smartthings tells the bulb what to do.
Lots of stuff you can do, the bulbs work great and I'm very happy with them. If they were lower cost, I'd have them all over my house.
Competition:
I had a Yeelight color bulb too. It worked well also, but got so extremely hot while it was on I was concerned about a fire hazard. I got rid of that. Perhaps that one was bad, I only had the one.
I tried another Zigbee color bulb too but it seemed like it had a split personality. It would remember what color it was set to when turned on and off, but would change it's brightness. How annoying. It was awful, and it returned it to Amazon. I forget the brand of that bulb, so no names.
So, the Sengled Color - these are awesome, get them. My only gripe is the cost, and that's why the 4 stars. They're still more affordable than Philips Hue though.
These are super cool bulbs! Paired perfectly & natively with SmartThings. My kids love being able to set the color. I have one for our movie/play room for a non-distracting but usable light while watching movies, and also so they can put it into party mode (used some custom webCORE code). The other is great for warning notifications (e.g. turn red when garage door is open, flashed red/blue when the alarm is going off, etc). They're a hair more than other connected bulbs, but worth it!
I love the simplicity of this brand and was able to totally kit out our home with smart lights for an affordable price. However, although this listing states that it works with the Wink hub, it is only supported as a white bulb, no color. Had it been more truthful, I wouldnt have purchased this for the 300% increase in price for white light.
Update 08/24/2018: While the Wink Hub 2 doesn't support the color modes of these bulbs, I got a 3-bulb kit that comes with a little Sendled hub/bridge. I was able to pair my solo bulb with the other three, add the Sendled Home account to both Google Home and Alexa Skills, and can now control them through voice.
It's still a pain that I can't include them in Wink shortcuts and "robots", but assistants enable their function. I'm raising the review 2 stars because the bulbs themselves work. Sendled just needs to push and cooperate to get their bulbs to work with major hub manufacturers.
Feature Product
- Smart Lighting: Get started by connecting the included Sengled Smart Hub to a 2.4 GHz wi-fi network. Turn the lights on and off, dim or brighten and set schedules using the Sengled Home app (iOS/Android).
- Voice Control: Connect your Smart LED Starter Kit to Alexa or Google Assistant and control your lights via voice commands.
- Set the Mood: Choose from over 16 million colors or whites (candlelight to daylight / 2000K - 6500K). Lights will automatically turn to the last setting used when turned back on.
- Create Scenes and Schedules: Set scenes, change colors or put your lights on a routine, whether at home or away.
- Expand Your Smart Lighting: The included Sengled Smart Hub supports up to 64 Sengled Smart LEDs, including Multicolor and White A19 bulbs, sold separately.
Description
Do more with your lighting. Use the Sengled Smart LED Multicolor Starter kit to transform your space with a single tap in Sengled Home app (iOS/Android) or a simple voice command. Compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant, it's simple to add smart lighting in any room. Create scenes, change colors, set schedules, dim or brighten, and more with the app. With over 16 million colors and tunable whites to pick from, your lights can set the mood for everything from cozy movie nights to party vibes.
I hooked this thing up to my smartthings hub and pretty seamlessly just added it to my room. I have it connected to my Google Home so I can just tell it a color to change to and we're in business. I got this because it's pretty affordable and wanted to try having a color bulb to play with. My other Sengled bulbs have been pretty reliable and I expect the same from this one. I access the controls through smartthings, so if there's like a party mode or anything else special, I don't know about it. I set the color manually. But it does have normal "whites" colors for the standard bulbs range for the everyday settings.
Overall, pretty happy with it, it's been fun to mess with making my room bathed in a color for no reason and this is an easy, affordable way to do so
The bulbs were great as they didn't require the Sengled hub given I already had Samsung Smartthings hub. Color integration with Alexa works well also...however, the Alexa integration has preset colors only instead of a color wheel or ability to choose/set a particular RGB. This is minor given I can use SmartThings to choose colors, but a RGB ability may be a nice advanced feature. Very good look though for the function provided.
OK. For everyone saying the app is terrible and doesn't work etc... I don't believe them. The app has given me 0 issues. Do I think the app needs work? Yes, but it does everything it is supposed to do.
Pros:
-CHEAP! I mean I have experience with Phillip Hues and this is so much cheaper.
-App is easy to use and came pre-paired so all I had to do was plug in and setup.
-feels more durable than most eco friendly bulbs.
Cons:
Needs HUB. I mean I understand why but using a hub seems counter intuitive in 2018. Should be able to be used differently.
Seems adding lights may be a pain in the butt.
Been using this now since Friday and very happy. I'm going to see how the automatic timer works tomorrow.
PROS: Brightness and Color luminescence on par with Philips Hue
CONS: USB Power Plug was defective in my order
Potential limited integration with other bulbs from competitors
I have several HUE bulbs and while I do prefer those for integration features with other apps to control multicolored scenes. If the Sengled bulbs can do the same, I have yet to figure out how. I am using a Hue hub for the Hue bulbs and a Sengled Hub for the Sengled RGB bulbs. so maybe a 3rd party hub can more tightly integrate the bulbs. If keeping all lights from sengled in a specific room this should not be an issue, save the quick ability to set a scene with say 4 bulbs with 4 different complementary colors, right now can only set all bulbs to same color in a room quickly.
Setup of the Sengled hub was troublesome, figured out the power adapter I received was defective (would not supply required voltage to power hub). I was able to solve this easily by plugging the USB power cable into a USB port on my router. I could have also used another USB power adapter for a phone/tablet tho. Once that was done setup was straight forward.
Alexa was able to control the bulbs without issue and is the main way I use these bulbs. I will be buying more of these based on their cost and equal brightness/luminescence to the more expensive Philips bulbs for specific rooms. In other areas of my house where I wish more control over the scenes and use with other phone/tablet apps, I will still be getting the Philips brand.
These bulbs are already giving me problems, and they've only been used for two days. Three out of the four bulbs are fine but there is one that doesn't change color with the others. When we check Alexa it shows that bulb 4 isn't connected. It seems like it will be an everyday problem with that one since the past two days we've had to reconnect it. Seems easier to just use the light switch and keep it in one color. If that is the case then we overpaid for "regular type" of light bulbs.
Uodate (01/24/19): My fiance contacted them and they mailed us a new one that works great.
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