Smart Light Bulbs 4Pack with Remote, A19 E26 800LM LED Color Changing Light Bulb, WiFi & Bluetooth 5.0, Warm to Cool White, Dimmable, RGB Smart Home Lighting Work with Alexa Google Assistant

PROs:Very bright - claims to be as bright as 80W incandescent, and I agreeWonderful array of effects - this is far more than just setting a colorWiFi, Bluetooth, AND Remote controls - but each has drawbacks...VERY good app (Surplife)True dedicated white LEDs - and temperature control over whiteCONs:Base gets hot at full brightnessConnectivity has some big limitationsBlue color is questionable. Lots of LEDs struggle with blue, and therefore your blue may not match my blue...Vanance is yet another company that has Smart Bulbs. More well known are GE. Feit, and Philips. Vanance are quite a bit cheaper. Do they last as long? Who knows...The other vendors have the fewest choices for connectivity. Some are WiFi only. Some offer Bluetooth as well. Only Vanance includes a hand held remote.So let's go over the connectivity options:HAND HELD REMOTEIf you don't have Wifi or Bluetooth or don't want to use them, you can always use the remote. This is a very cool thing about Vanance. Now, using the remote gives you VERY FEW available functions. You can set a limited number of colors, set a timer, set a few canned functions like auto color changes, and set white temperature. That's about it. When you turn the light off and back on, it remembers the last thing you did on the remote and returns to it. For most folks, that is plenty enough. But if you want to change the color of your light, you need to use the remote. And the range is around 20 ft, so ALL bulbs in that range change color. That may not be something you want... I think the app allows you to pair specific lights to specific remotes...if you really want to have several identical remotes in your house.Setting up WiFi or BluetoothWhen the app first discovers a bulb, you set it up as EITHER WiFi or Bluetooth. You cannot switch between them once you set it up. To change it you need to reset the bulb via the app and rediscover it. Setup is really a breeze. You then give the bulb a name and you are done. Setup takes maybe 2-3 min per bulb.BLUETOOTHThis is in my opinion the ONLY mode to use. Bluetooth has almost all the features of WiFi with none of the downsides. You do NOT get the ability to change the colors synchronized with music, voice control, group synchronized lights, and some of the pre-canned "scenes". You do get millions of colors and customizations (heartbeat, strobe, flames, etc). Once programmed to a color or customization, the light can be turned off and on and it will resume the same function or color - whether Bluetooth is present or not. So unless you are actively trying to change the function or color of a light using the app, you don't need Bluetooth. Think of it as a greatly enhanced version of the hand-held remote. That being said, when you select a light to change, your app needs to connect with THAT light. That takes a second. Because of the rather short range of Bluetooth, you will not be able to turn off a light from several rooms away. Nor can you see the status of a light across the house from your app; you can only see status of lights in Bluetooth range. Probably the biggest bummer of this mode is that you cannot, say, turn off all of the Smart Lights in the living room at once using the app; you would need to turn them off one by one. You would be able to do that with WiFi.WIFISo why not use WiFi? Because the drawbacks far outweigh the few benefits...Once your bulbs are added to WiFi, you can group them (i.e. Living Room), and do operations on them as a group or individually. Through the app you will have access to millions of colors. You will also have access to some great canned "mood" effects, like heartbeat, color pulsing, color "breathing", strobing, twinkling, etc. You can also create your own customized effects. You can easily switch between any special effects and your normal mode. You can set up timers for effects to happen. You can synchronize the lights in a room to have the same effect. You can set lights to change TO MUSIC. The lights don't listen to the music; the app does, and it tells the lights how to respond.. I am using them outdoors for my Halloween display - strobes for synchronized lightning, pulsing lights on skeletons, And if you turn the power off, the special effect will resume when the light is turned on.Sounds amazing, right?Well, there is one MIGHTY BIG downside - if you lose WiFi connectivity, your lights will respond...in different ways. If the lights are on and you lose WiFi, you can program your light to handle it. By default, it keeps doing what it was doing. You can also program it to turn white. If your light is OFF and you lose connectivity, when you turn it on, it MAY stay off. It MAY turn and be white. It MAY turn on to the last programmed color. If you programmed a special effect, it will probably just stay off. When powered up, the lights just sit there until they find WiFi to tell them what the hell to do... So the lights never turn on instantly - and sometimes not all at the same time. This limitation is not limited to Vanance - ALL of the manufacturers use the same basic controller, so they all do this.Since the app can turn your lights on and off, you may decide to leave the light switch ON all the time and use the app to do everything,. That's fine and dandy until your WiFi goes out and every single device on the app turns gray... So if your lights are in the ON position and you used the app to turn them off - and then WiFi goes out - you need to get up and turn the light switch off, then on - and then pray the lights actually turn on.Honestly, if you have crappy WiFi, I recommend you still get the bulbs - just use Bluetooth.WIFI ADDS NOTHING BUT FRUSTRATION.Hell, even you have the best WiFi in the land, use Bluetooth mode...The GE SmartBulbs ONLY support WiFi. No remote and no Bluetooth. God help anyone who buys them...

The media could not be loaded. This Smart lightbulb connects to your phone (with the free Magic Home app) and can be set to any fixed color, produce on/off and varied intensity patterns, be set to look like a flickering candle, and respond to any sound from your phone microphone, music you are playing, videos, or camera. I can imagine a room of these at a party producing dancing colors in sync with the music adding another level of intensity to the event. Or, you can set this to candle mode for a soft flickering light to set the mood down low. There are also simple settings like warm and cool white that are easily set and the brightness is controllable for all modes. When you turn it off and back on, it remembers the last mode it was set to. And there are user presets where you can save your own custom modes. Plus it has a settable timer with varied brightness mode so your light will come on gradually as the sun goes down or when you are coming home at night.Linking to the bulb is easy using the app, though you have to choose one of your wireless networks that is on 2.4GHz to communicate to the bulb. If your network automatically switches between 2.4 and 5GHz modes, the bulb won’t be controllable when on 5 GHz, so best to choose a fixed WLAN 2.4GHz mode.Since this is an LED lightbulb with multiple independent Red, Green, and Blue colored LEDs and also Warm and Cool White LEDs that are mixed to produce any color, it is very energy efficient as compared to an equivalent light output filament bulb (Edison bulb). That said, the lower portion near the base of the bulb where the controller is does get pretty warm when the bulb is set to full brightness. BUT, this temperature is nowhere near the temperature of the old filament type bulbs, so is perfectly safe. With a room temperature of 73F, the Bulb base was a maximum of 160F (can’t touch for too long) and the bulb glass was a maximum of 113F (you can touch and remove without concern). This was with the bulb set to maximum power draw (warm white), all other settings are a bit cooler. This was my only initial concern with this lightbulb but it is so much more energy efficient than filament bulbs, it’s really a non-issue. But being curious, I took some power consumption data.Data taken on the power drawn:Mode Brightness Watts Volt-Amps Power Factor AmpsCool White 100 8.7W 13.9VA 0.63 0.11AWarm White 100 8.8 14.1 0.61 0.11Red (255,0,0) 100 2.8 5.5 0.54 0.04Green (0,255,0) 100 2.8 5.4 0.54 0.04Blue (0,0,255) 100 2.8 5.4 0.54 0.04Violet (255,0,255) 100 5.1 9.1 0.58 0.07BlueGreen(0,255,255) 100 5.0 8.7 0.58 0.07YellowOrange(255,76,0) 100 3.5 6.0 0.56 0.05Candle (set to High) 100 2.0-2.8 4.3-5.3 0.49-0.55 0.03-0.04Music Controlled by Music 1.5-4.0 4.1-6.4 0.43-0.55 0.01-0.05Microphone talking into Phone 1.6-3.9 2.8-5.9 0.54-0.49 0.02-0.0560W LED Bulb (for comparison) 8.5 12.2 0.69 0.10100W LED Bulb (for comparison) 14.0 23.3 0.60 0.19As you can see the maximum power draw is just under 9 watts. For those technical folks, you will notice the power factor is down around 0.5, so this raises the true volt-amp (VA) power consumption to just under 15VA maximum. This might be something the designers could look into improving but the power drawn is so low it doesn’t really matter much to your electric bill.The bulb is pretty bright in cool and warm white. Compared to 60W and 100W equivalent LED bulbs I also tested (see data above), my ‘calibrated eye’ does put it between the 2 for brightness, though closer to the 60W brightness, so I would say the claimed 80W of equivalent light is a little on the high side, it is closer to the 60W bulb. Also, the power draw of this smart bulb is closer to the 60W equivalent LED bulb I tested than the 100W equivalent LED bulb. Note that the power factor of those standard LED bulbs is also on the low side (the power factor scale has a maximum of 1.0 for a purely resistive load). For the other color modes and with music, etc., the light output is lower of course.I attached some photos and video of the bulb responding to music. Only 1 video was allowed so I used one with music but the candle mode is very nice too. We’ve enjoyed this bulb and it’s not that much more expensive than some standard LED bulbs. It’s fun to play with and has a lot of potential uses. And it can behave like a standard cool or warm while bulb also if you just want to read a book. The dimmable feature is also very nice if you wanted to turn it down really low as a night light. 5 Stars from me.

Everything is hunky dory, BUT RED IS NOT RED, I have tried Everything but I only can get a dark dark orange m, it's upsetting cause I have strip lights that are red and it looks odd, I don't want to return them cause I love everything else, I'm stuck as I bought 2 four packs- WHT WHY???? I want REAl red. I am and I.T guy, trust me I tried everything, hiss hiss