We have reviewed a number of good light bulbs here at PCMag, and whereas we've yet to find one which does all of it, the Yeelight Good LED Bulb comes fairly darn close. It's dimmable, provides sixteen million colours, and connects to your house community wirelessly, with out the need for a hub or bridge. It supports Apple HomeKit, IFTTT, and Alexa, Google, and Siri voice commands, and it's relatively reasonably priced at $25.99. It additionally affords a user-pleasant app that permits you to configure lighting effects and create lighting schedules. All this earns it our Editors' Choice for affordable smart bulbs. The Yeelight bulb is a dimmable bulb with a 16-million colour palette, a 1700K to 6500K white shade temperature range, EcoLight dimmable and EcoLight energy an 800-lumen brightness rating equivalent to a 60-watt bulb. It has an E26 base and will fit any normal lamp socket. The bulb is 4.6 inches in size and 2.2 inches extensive, and has an anticipated lifespan of 22 years (primarily based on three hours of use per day).
Inside is a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi radio that is used to attach the bulb to your private home community and mobile app. The cellular app for Android and iOS is straightforward to make use of and presents some neat lighting effect options. It opens to a Machine screen with tabs for your entire Yeelight bulbs that contain their title, standing (on-line, offline), and an On/Off button. Tapping any tab takes you to a display screen the place you can customize the bulb by choosing a coloration from the colour palette, choosing a white shade temperature, EcoLight energy setting the bulb's brightness stage, and deciding on Move Mode, which runs the shade gamut between yellow and blue. Move Mode settings allow you to management the circulate velocity for fast or gradual shifts from coloration to colour and alter the brightness stage whereas in this specific mode. The app additionally presents preset color scenes resembling Sunrise (reddish), Night time Mode (dim and heat), Movie (blue), Romance (a gradual shift from dark blue to crimson), and Candle Flicker (mimics a candle), and there is a Music Circulate setting that adjustments colours primarily based on music and different sounds using your phone's microphone.
Extra settings allow you to create lighting schedules and set timers to have the bulb mechanically flip off after a set time period. Back on the Gadget page, there are three buttons at the bottom of the display. Tap the Scene button to create a one-contact icon to have the bulb activate or off and alter colour states. Tapping the Room button enables you to create rooms and control multiple bulbs in a group, and the Machine button takes you again to the System screen. The Yeelight works with Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant voice commands, and you can also make it part of your HomeKit house automation system and embrace it in HomeKit Scenes