Philips Hue White 4-Pack A19 LED Smart
Bulb, Bluetooth & Zigbee compatible
Simple
to get started; Control your Philips Hue Smart Lights all with just the touch
of a button on your mobile device or your favorite voice assistant. Add up to
10 Hue Bluetooth/ZigBee smart bulbs with the (free) Hue Bluetooth app. When
ready to connect a voice assistant, just go to Settings > Add voice
assistant in the Hue App.
Lifetime:
22 years or 25,000 lifetime hours (based on industry average usage), Energy
Star Certified
Previous
Hue Customers; This smart light, while Bluetooth compatible, will continue to
work with your Hue Hub and can be seamlessly integrated into your current Hue
Ecosystem. With the Hue Hub, you can control up to 50 smart lights throughout
your home (even outdoor). Create timers and routines to automate your entire
smart home lighting setup. Control your lights while away from home or add
accessories such as motion sensors and smart switches to further enhance your
experience.
Certified
for humans: Struggle-free, tinker-free, stress-free. No patience needed—they’re simple.
Control
lights with your voice: Easily connect your Philips Hue Bluetooth smart
lighting directly with your voice using Alexa or Google Assistant. Works with
all Echo smart speakers/displays and Google Test devices, (Hue Hub required for
Echo (1st Gen) And Echo Dot (1st Gen)). For the full Hue, experience purchases
the Philips Hue Hub (sold separately).
REVIEW:
So
first, let's start off with the light and not the technology. It's great
wonderful colors that you can get on these bulbs and that's the best part about
it. Going down to probably what is 2200 k That's a warm orange color
that allows you to really feel relaxed especially when dimming down. And then you
can scale that up to somewhere around 4,000 k or something a little more
stimulating or if you really need some kind of bright color turn to 6500 k. I love that aspect of these bulbs and that's the best thing
about them.
Now
it's dive into why this only gets three stars. First, I almost want to give this
1 and 1/2 stars for false advertising. This does not work with the Google
Assistant, which is stated in this Amazon listing and printed on the box.
It does not work with the Google Assistant. It only works with Google home. The only way that this works with the Google Assistant is to get the Philips hub.
Anyone that's buying the Bluetooth is buying it because I don't want the hub.
So if I could give this two-and-a-half stars I would because I don't like false
advertising and I bought these because I wanted it to work with my Google
Assistant and not have to get the hub.
Second
multiple user setup is very complicated even for someone like me running my tech company setting up advanced networks. There's conflicting information out
there and I had to call Phillips to figure this out because even he
had to ask an advanced tech because they had conflicting information in the
office.
To summarize, this is a subpar beta product that should never have been released to the public. Don't advertise that it works with something when it doesn't. and for the price of these bulbs, it better work with the Google Assistant and has a much more seamless setup. That said, everything is in context and then in the smart light world there isn't anything great yet so I bumped it up to three stars and because I really do like the color and the lighting and that's where Phillip's really comes through.
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