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Amazon has
2-Pack Philips Hue 1100 Lumens 75W A19 Smart LED Bulb (Soft Warm White Light) for $19.99 - 15% off when you 'clip' the coupon on product page =
$16.99.
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About this item:
- Soft warm white 75W-equivalent A19 smart light bulbs
- Dimmable allows you to easily set the right mood for any occasion
- Add a Hue Bridge to enjoy automations, control from anywhere in the world, and a secure, stable connection that won't drain your Wi-Fi. Use Matter to connect your smart home devices to your Hue smart lighting system.
- Set up voice control in the Hue app and use simple voice commands to control your lights with Alexa or Google Assistant
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They are the most stable and reliable smart lights imo.
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The dimmers had been controlling the lights via the hub flawlessly the whole time.
Good:
Hue
Lightingside (nicely inexpensive, too, but still on full wifi and not a hub which can bog down the wifi)
Bad:
Wiz (loses the wifi like crazy)
Feit (frequently can't find the wifi in the first place.)
On one hand, the hue bulbs are really nice. They are well made, the dimming is good, the light quality is good.
But IMHO, bulbs are consumables (even LEDs fail) and it seems silly to have your smart home control pieces be tied to consumables rather than permanent fixtures or switches. Especially since it makes it easier to operate for guests, for power/internet issues etc to still have physical switches.
But hue won't integrate with other physical hardware. They only work with their own little non-switches…
For what it's worth, 30 or so bulbs collected since ~2009. Haven't had a single bulb die yet.
Which brand of smart bulb has a better options set?
Arriving September 8 - September 20 - WTH Amazon!?
Yes, they're expensive, especially the color bulbs which are just stupidly expensive. But they're pretty much the only ones my wife will allow in the house.
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For what it's worth, 30 or so bulbs collected since ~2009. Haven't had a single bulb die yet.
My problem with permanent fixtures (e.g. fixtures that have their own LEDs built in, but also fixtures that use bulbs that Hue doesn't make an option for) is that there's no simple way to tie them in with a hue system.
In my previous rental, there were a couple of fixtures like this, including one I *REALLY* wanted smart control over...trivial to swap in a smart dimmer switch, but then you couldn't use it within the hue ecosystem. Easy to do a switch swap in a rental, not so easy to swap light fixtures (especially if they have different footprints and you don't have any matching wall paint).
In theory there are some zigbee switches or relays out there that can sort of work with Hue, but information is scarce and they are hard to source.
Hue could EASILY solve this by making (or licensing) a compatible smart switch and/or a smart plug, but they won't do it because they know someone would buy a single switch for a room full of ceiling cans rather than buying 8 individual hue bulbs.
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