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๐Ÿ’ก SYLVANIA SmartThings Compatible Dimmable LED Bulb Review

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Description of ๐Ÿ’ก SYLVANIA SmartThings Compatible Dimmable LED Bulb

Hub required for set up: A compatible ZigBee hub is required to control this light bulbs. Pair your smart bulb to a compatible ZigBee hub such as SmartThings, Wink, or Amazon Echo Plus. Smart Home Lighting: Integrate voice control by pairing an Amazon Echo or Google Home smart speaker to your compatible ZigBee hub. Enjoy the benefits of hands free lighting control by asking to turn the lights on and off, dim, change the color and more. ZigBee Light Bulbs: Whether you forgot to turn a light off or want to turn your lights on before you come home from work, you can monitor your lights right from your smartphone and create schedules and automations to fit your daily routines. Individual light atmosphere - RGBW LED: Choose from over 16 million available colors and adjustable white color temperature ranging from soft white to daylight (2700K-6500K). Energy saving bulb: Long lasting 10W LED (60-Watt equivalent incandescent) with standard shape A19. The OSRAM LIGHTIFY Gateway is not required when using a different compatible ZigBee hub. ZigBee smart lights will not pair directly to voice control devices such as an Amazon Echo Dot or Google Home. Please be advised of our new name and packaging design. The product packaging you receive may vary and you may receive a product labeled as either LIGHTIFY or SMART+. Does not ship to California.

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Revainrating 3 out of 5

They work, but know what you're getting yourself into before you buy them.

First off it's VERY cheap for what you get. You get 4 full color bulbs half the price of 4 shades of white. For four full shades of BR30 you will spend about $200. SAY - don't buy them without knowing what you're doing. Sylvania/Osram's Lightify system will stop working offline in about a year. This means that if you buy a hub specifically for those bulbs, if a year later they flip the breaker and their servers go down, you're SOL - your Google Home/Alexa can't communicate with those bulbs atโ€ฆ

Pros
  • GOLS certified
Cons
  • Only available in black

Revainrating 5 out of 5

3/5 - Quality control is BAD. Great product (when it works)

GOOD: Price is a steal compared to my Hue system. Of course, I don't have any issues with QC (see below) with Hue, but still. Features: You can set the normal mode for these bulbs (white) with adjustable color temperature (2700K-6500K). This lamp is worth its price for that alone. However, if you just want that feature, there's another non-RGB version that lets you get that for about $5 less per bulb. RGB is why you should buy this. The ability to create very nice atmospheric lighting for yourโ€ฆ

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  • Decent performance
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Revainrating 4 out of 5

Very good lamp for the price. And even better with a little ingenuity

EDIT (11/29/2018): It looks like Revain's stock issue has been solved with these bulbs, at least for now. I also learned that if you're willing to tinker around with setting up a custom device handler for these bulbs in Smartthings, you can get a vastly improved range of warmer levels for white settings. Osram/Sylvania RGBW (73693) bulbs are rated for up to 1800K (candlelight), although for some reason Smartthings default stops at 2700K and the Lightify hub currently stops at 2000K (although Iโ€ฆ

Pros
  • One year trial period
Cons
  • Available in white only