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Review on πŸ”Œ Sengled Changing Assistant: The Essential Industrial Electrical Equivalent by Ryan Gilliam

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great flashlights with one caveat

These lamps are really great and very easy to use. Just download the Sengled Home app (which allows you to connect lamps to your WiFi). From there you can then add them to Google Home, SmartThings and more even if you uninstall the app. The app has some pretty cool features like a Halloween mode where it changes between orange colors. It has random color modes and a few other great things. I usually prefer to uninstall apps that I don't particularly need, but I've decided to keep them because of one amazing feature that I think I'll be using all the time now: Sunset and Sunrise. Set the time and the light will begin to dim to 0.0% for sunset or 50% for sunrise for the desired time period (5, 10 and 15 minutes). Not sure why the sunrise only hits 50% (I only used it this morning) but I like it and it's not too hard on your eyes in the morning. I also really like how short the delay is between the Sengled Home app and the lights. I usually use SmartThings, but when I use the real app and change the color or brightness, the lighting changes almost instantly. Most smart lights take a second to update, so that's pretty cool. They have a decent color palette and display colors quite vividly. That said, if you want bright colored lights this is perfect, but if you want a somber mood and want to set a dark purple light or something, then forget it. You can't even do dark purple with these lights, it's more of a purple white. The crimson is great and the navy is quite light (but quite dark, so good job). Most RGB lights have trouble getting a good deep purple, so I won't be shooting stars for that. The attached photo shows a dark purple at 100% brightness. The ONLY problem I've had is that, oddly enough, some of the indicators light up randomly. I made sure there weren't any scenes or automations asking him to turn on. This morning at 2:14am one of my flashlights accidentally went on at full brightness. I hope this is a bug that gets fixed or just a very rare issue. This also happened yesterday morning so I'm not sure what's going on here. It only happened twice so I can't say it bothers me but it woke me up in the middle of the night and made me think I should have gotten up. In any case I am very happy with this product but please fix it. !

Pros
  • Hands-free operation
Cons
  • Very expensive