meross Smart RGBWW WiFi LED Bulbs, Apple HomeKit Compatible, 60W Equivalent, 900 Lumens, Multicolor, 4 Pack

Love these Smart Bulbs
These are the best smart bulbs I’ve come across. Started with Philips Hue which were very expensive and finicky. Sometimes they work, sometimes not. Then got Sengled bulbs but unable to get them to pair with my WiFi. These Meross bulbs worked perfectly ‘out of the box’ and were very easy to set up. So far they have been working perfectly, both with my Apple HomeKit setup (and also with Alexa.) They also work with Google (I haven’t tried that.) Highly recommended!

Work great but they are a bit finicky
Depending on the product you put them in they can be a bit buggy. I’ve a side lamp in my room and it always works almost perfect but the ceiling light can connect sometimes .The app and the way it works with apple home is great and they are fairly easy to program otherwise .There’s a wide range of color and you can adjust the intensity by shouting out a percentage of power to Siri as a command as well as manually on your phone.Definitely worth a purchase despite of some of the connection issues, I’ll be buying again .

Glitchy/Defective Products, Terrible Customer Service
UPDATE 4/26/24Another message from Meross “customer service” asking me to try even more to continue to troubleshoot the issues I’ve outlined below, and after trying for HOURS to resolve the situation, I’m finally giving up. Meross is obviously going to do everything possible to avoid replacing the faulty product or providing a refund, opting instead to try to exhaust customers into just giving up altogether and considering their situations a loss. So be it, I can do this, but I firmly believe potential customers need to be aware of the fact that should they experience similar issues as mine, this is how the manufacturer/seller is going to handle their situation. My advice? Keep your packaging so that you can exercise the Amazon A to Z guarantee and hope your issues manifest within that 30 day return window – it is the only possible resolution you will get.UPDATE 4/23/24I was contacted by a representative of Meross to attempt to troubleshoot the issues I’m experiencing with these bulbs. I took all steps suggested to try, and nothing resolved the symptoms. A couple of days later, I was offered a refund for my purchase of these bulbs. I accepted the offer, and the very next night (I’m assuming like many companies, customer service is located overseas so replies don’t come until the middle of the night if you’re in the USA), now I’m being asked to troubleshoot even more – meaning the offer to refund for the faulty products is no longer on the table. Shady. I’ve had everything from wifi issues suspected by their customer service (despite literally just replacing my entire home network equipment with Mesh 6 devices by Deco a week ago) to resetting bulbs (which doesn’t work and is time consuming) to blaming Apple Home, even though the Meross app itself is even buggier and has more glitches than Home could ever dream of.Overall, I am very disappointed with this situation and how it has played out from the start. Should something positive eventually come out of this scenario, I will update again, but as of now, I’m assuming there’s going to be no successful resolution to the problem at hand and I’m still going to have to find another viable – RELIABLE – alternative. Original review follows.ORIGINAL REVIEWI decided to change my home over to Apple Home Kit versus previous all-Alexa after Alexa continued to experience issue after issue after issue. This meant EVERYTHING in my home needed to change – light bulbs, lamps, smart plugs, cameras, literally everything. (Alexa REALLY made me mad when things would continue to go offline, stop responding, alerts would lock up hubs and devices, etc., so the expense and time was/is justified to me.)I found these highly-rated Meross smart bulbs and thought, “Here we go, something that is Apple Home compatible, so this should be easy and straightforward.” I was right about that – I initially ordered 20 of these, then on the same day ordered even more. (I have a LOT of lights in my house.)The first few days were great, except that Home keeps changing light color and intensity in the app. For some reason it can’t seem to remember settings in automations, and I’m not sure if that’s an issue with Home or Meross. But that’s not even the worst part. The worst part is that a few more days into it, and for some reason the WiFi chips in these bulbs seem to just stop working. You will get a notification in Home that the device has stopped responding, and removing it from Home and the Meross app itself and trying to re-add it doesn’t resolve the problem. The bulbs still get power just fine, but they absolutely will not connect to the network.After experiencing this with 8 (yes, EIGHT) of the bulbs I bought a few days ago, I have to consider this is a design flaw, which is not only inconvenient, but EXPENSIVE. I thought that in order to get the Home Kit certification you had to provide a better product than this, but apparently QC measures aren’t adhered to once certification is obtained.Now I will have to go back to the drawing board and find a better option, especially if my attempts at reaching out to Meross and this candid review illicit no offer to replace my defective items.