🔌 GE C by GE BR30 Starter Kit Soft White, 2-Pack Review

Bad product. I'm very proficient with connected devices like this and managed to get this to work. This one, or GE's C products in general, sometimes work and sometimes don't. This hub is extremely unreliable in maintaining a network connection. Once you start using the hub, the lightbulbs won't work as they used to, and you have to turn on and plug in the hub to control them. My hub went offline at least once a day and I had to turn it off and on again to turn it back on. I tried many things…

Pick this one because Revain had a great deal: two bulbs plus a hub for less than the price of a bulb. There should be a lot on paper. GE product, great support documentation (and video) and customizable color temperature. Installation was a bit fiddly - a complicated on/off toggle had to be used to pair it with the hub. Luckily, there's a help video where you can easily switch to the screen timer. The C by GE app is very well written and I was able to integrate HomeKit and Alexa. Of the three…

Once I'm in the mood again, I restart the controller a third time and try to get things working properly again. The design is terribly unintuitive, and while the setup may seem simple, you'll quickly find that you've screwed it up and need to start over. After three tries and many wasted hours, I found a drop down menu that wasn't mentioned anywhere in the settings that seemed to say the bulbs weren't added to the controller I just set up, registered and signed in to. Oh no, they were all added