Ever for the reason that Philips Hue LED($199.Ninety nine at Verizon) lighting kit hit the digital dwelling market, there has been a gentle uptick in competing smart bulb EcoLight products like the LIFX LED Light Bulb( at Amazon) and the Linked by TCP Smart Lighting System as well as recent product bulletins from electronics giants LG and Samsung. Add the Lumen TL800 from Tabu to that list. Priced at $69.99 per bulb (but accessible online for EcoLight round $50), the TL800 makes use of Bluetooth wireless know-how to communicate with your smartphone via a neat little app that lets you flip lights on and off, choose colours, and have the lights behave a certain method when you will have an incoming cellphone name. Not like the Philips and TCP bulbs the TL800 would not require a bridge, but it surely does not connect with the Web either, which suggests you can't control it when you're away from house or have it interact with other residence automation gadgets. With a vented steel casing separating the spherical glass dome from the Edison screw base, the TL800 seems to be like it can be proper at house in an Apollo spacecraft.

The bulb measures 4.Seventy five inches in length and places out solely 400 lumens, which is equal to a 40 watt incandescent bulb. That's not very brilliant when in comparison with the LIFX (1,017 lumens), TCP (800 lumens), and Philips (600 lumens) bulbs. As with the Philips and LIFX bulbs, it could possibly show 16 million colours, but since it doesn't connect to the Web you can't control it with residence automation hubs from firms akin to Revolv( at Amazon) and SmartThings($149.99 at Amazon). Nor can you utilize the favored IFTTT (If This Then That) internet service to have it turn on and off or change colours primarily based on issues like Fb requests, Foursquare notifications, and ESPN sports scores. You aren't getting a lot in the best way of directions with the TL800, but there's not much to explain. I screwed it right into a lamp in my workplace, downloaded the app onto my iOS smartphone, made positive Bluetooth was enabled on my gadget, EcoLight products and opened the app.

The Lumen app is uncomplicated and easy to make use of and allows you to control up to ten bulbs at a time. You may management each bulb individually or management a gaggle of bulbs. The house page lists all installed bulbs and exhibits you what color they're at present set to. Pressing a bulb icon takes you to a page the place you'll be able to select colour or heat white settings and EcoLight switch the bulb on or off. When you choose the warm white setting you're offered with a monochrome wheel that lets you manually alter brightness, or you can select one of four brightness presets (90, 70, 50, or 30 percent). Under the wheel is a Name Alert icon that takes you to a web page where you'll be able to configure the light to flash a particular color when your telephone has an incoming call. There's additionally a Wake-Up timer that will flip the light on using a dim heat white setting that steadily gets brighter to create a sunrise impact, and a Proximity option that may have a gentle activate to a preset shade and brightness when your cellphone comes into range (about 30 toes).

In color mode you get a wheel that lets you choose a colour for every bulb and assign a colour brightness setting. For deep, strong colours you set the brightness degree to the darkest setting

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