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Review on ๐Ÿก Sengled Zigbee: The SmartThings Control Essential for a Fully Connected Home by Doug Booth

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Not bright enough - when using deCONZ as ZigBee handler

Bought BR-30 bulbs, colors are fairly subtle but brightness is clearly not enough. We tried different temperatures, from white, warm to cool, at full brightness, but the room still looked like the lights needed to be turned on. I need to do something else with these lights because they don't work in the room I wanted to use them in. Setup was easy, running a ZigBee network through Home Assistant with DECONZ found that they immediately grouped the bulbs and could easily control color, brightness and status for everyone as a group. But these bulbs, listed as 75W equivalent, put out less light than some of the 40W bulbs we have. quite bright as some LEDs are designed for white areas and we are not activated by the DECONZ handler. Switching to ZHA or Zigbee2mqtt solves the problem. These lamps now look great and are fully customizable across the entire white light spectrum. The colors are good, the color saturation is not very deep, but offers a good balance between light and color.

Pros
  • Great design
Cons
  • Crumpled packaging