Sengled Smart Light Bulbs, Zigbee Hub Required, Works with Alexa and SmartThings, Voice Control with Google Home and Echo with built-in Hub, Soft White 60W Equivalent A19 Dimmable Smart Bulbs, 4-Pack

A Bright Addition to the Smart Home!
I recently had the pleasure of trying out the Sengled Zigbee Smart Light Bulbs, and I’m thrilled to share mypositive experience! As a fan and user of Home Assistant, I was excited to see if these bulbs would integrate seamlessly with my smart home setup. Here’s what I found:*Why I love it:*1. **Easy Installation**: The bulbs were easy to install and paired quickly with my existing Zigbee hub.2. **Smooth Integration**: Zigbee and Home Assistant integration worked flawlessly, allowing me to controlmy lights remotely or automate them based on schedules and routines.3. **Color and Brightness Control**: I appreciated the ability to adjust color temperatures and brightness levels to suit my mood or environment. I can’t wait to use these during the Christmas holidays.4. **Energy Efficiency**: As a eco-conscious consumer, I’m pleased that these bulbs use significantly less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs and you can monitor the usage through HOME Assistant.*Real-world applications:* + Smart home automation: Use Sengled/Zigbee bulbs with Home Assistant to create custom scenes, schedules, and routines for your lights. + Remote control: Access and control your lights from anywhere using Home Assistant. + Energy efficiency: Replace traditional bulbs with energy-efficient options like these Smart Light Bulbs. I’m thoroughly impressed with the Sengled Zigbee Smart Light Bulbs. Their seamless integrationwith Home Assistant, ease of use, and energy efficiency make them a great addition to my smart home setup.

Great lights, less terrific software controls…
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.

I was skeptical at first but I was surprised how well it worked. It’s easy to configure and to use. It took me five minutes for 4 bulbs. I use them with Homekit and it works perfectly. One thing that I enjoy the most is how you can adjust the luminosity for your needs.I have 10 of them and I plan to get more. I recommend Sengled products for those who wants a simple and convenient way for autonomous lighting.

Two out if the 6 had a bit of the issue pairing to my system. One i had the throw away