Smart Bulb, Alexa Light Bulbs B22, Colour Changing Light
Smart Bulb, Alexa Light Bulbs B22, Colour Changing Light Bulb, WiFi LED Lights, RGBCW, 7.5W 800LM, Works with Alexa and Google Assistant, No Hub Required(2.4Ghz Only) [Energy Class A]
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sync to Music | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Fitting | Strips | B22 | B22 | B22 | E14 | GU10 |
| Wattage | 7.5W | 7.5W | 7.5W | 4W | 5W | |
| Wattage Equivalent | 60W | 60W | 60W | 30W | 30W | |
| Colour Output | RGB | RGBCW | Warm to Cool White | Warm to Cool White | RGBCW | RGBCW |
| Colour Temperature | 2700k-6500k | 2700k-6500k | 2700k-6500k | 2700k-6500k | 2700k-6500k | |
| Lumen Output | 800lm | 800lm | 800lm | 400lm | 400lm | |
| Work with Alexa/google home | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Weight: | 90 g |
| Dimensions: | 6.2 x 6.2 x 12.5 cm; 90 Grams |
| Brand: | LUMIMAN |
| Part: | 530-B22 |
| Colour: | Multicolour |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | LUMIMAN |
| Dimensions: | 6.2 x 6.2 x 12.5 cm; 90 Grams |
| Quantity: | 1 |
| Reference: | 530-B22 |
I bought this early January and installed it. It’s been up and running for almost a month now prior to me writing this review, so the review is based on on perceptions gained over usage, rather than unboxing and thinking “oh that’s pretty” and then writing a review that has no practical experience behind it.
Here’s what’s good.
1. Fairly easy to install using the PlusMinus app.
2. Connects with both Alexa and Google. We have Alexa in most of the house but Google Home in my bedroom as it came as a freebie with a Pixel phone a couple of years ago. We had no issues getting the bulb to work with both digital assistants.
3. And this one is relevant. It does not disconnect and require reinstalling. That has been a pain in the backside with a different bulb installed in another room.
4. On pure white it has a really decent level of brightness and lights up a decent sized bedroom nicely.
5. All the voice commands work and can even be abbreviated. If you’re in the living room and fancy it dimming down you don’t need a lengthy command which has the rooms individual name in. A simple Alexa, dim the light to 50% works fine. “Hey google – Light on orange” will similarly turn the light on and auto change it to orange.
In summary, it works perfectly.
I bought this bulb for my living room, as we’ve lots of children and they often hold sleepovers etc and set up camp there. It’s safe to say it was a hit! They’ve made a whole bunch of preset light shows for dancing too, and it’s been fab for Halloween as you can see the bright orange light from outside through the windows.
The set up was easy, although I will mention it only lets you control the app from one account. My husband set up his own account on his phone and it kept kicking me off when I tried to control the light. This was easily fixed by setting the bulb up with my main account, which is linked to my Alexa, and just getting him and the kids to setup the app with my account details.
The range of colours is amazing, and if you just want a big standard light ‘colour’ it has those too. I generally just ask Alexa to turn the light to ‘warm white’ and that does the trick.
When you turn the light off, and back on again it remembers the last colour it was set too which is handy.
All in all, great little bulb! Fun, easy to use and not a bad price either!
With an amazon echo dot this bulb is fantastic as you can see in the video I uploaded you can tell it to change whatever colour you want, adjust the brightness and turn the light on and off by using a voice command. I have a bulb in my dining room and bedroom and i can tell Alexander to turn the light off in the dining room from the echo dot in my bedroom which helps me when going upstairs at night as its pitch-black on the stairs and my young daughters sleep with their door slightly ajar and turning the landing light on wakes them up ( Another solution would be to put another bulb on the landing and set it to nightlight on the app or tell Alexa to turn the brightness down to 1 or 2% which is fantastic when I’m on my xbox in the dining room.
Setting up the bulb to the app was extremely easy all i did was follow the instructions.
Setting the bulb up to an echo dot was a bit more effort but there are loads of YouTube videos available to make it easier.
All in all I think these bulbs are brilliant and I’m slowly trying to convince my non tech savvy wife to let me put one in every room.
Despite having been promoted by Amazon as an Alex accessory, Luminan are not one of the compatible brands listed within the Alexa App. That’s surprisingly irritating but, after a few (well, quite a lot) minutes faffing around, we eventually managed to integrate them with our Alexa. As with most things Alexa, they don’t work straight out of the box, but it’s worth persevering.
Another super feature is that you can tailor the exact shade of white you prefer – be it a starkly brilliant electric white or something in-between. After the novelty wears off, choosing the shade of white will probably be the feature we most value.
During boring COVID19 lockdown, this is just the sort of frivolous gadget that will keep a family amused for ages. A quick word with Alexa now has us luxuriating in a red light district. Cool!
Amazing value, particularly as no other hardware is required.
Had to go on my broadband website, set up a 2.4g signal and connect the bulb to that.
All home devices lost WiFi signal and had to be reconnected.
Took around 45 minutes to connect the bulb and Alexa.
Didn’t use the app that the manual suggested, used SmartLife.
Once installed the bulb is great. Various options, colours, reading light, work light, night light, pulsing colours, set colours. All controlled within the smartlife app.
The bulb also can be set to react to music and change to the beat.
If you have the patience to set it up, would definitely buy again.
Recommended.
So, with all those steps already taken care of, installing the bulbs and hooking them up to Alexa was a piece of cake.
The bulbs, at full whack, easily put out far more light than a 60 watt incandescent bulb…but you can tone them down, and make the colour as “warm” as you like, through the dedicated app OR just ask Alexa to do it for you. Of course, the app lets you be fully more creative, and exacting, with the colours, allowing infinite customisation and the option to set “cycles”. (I dunno, maybe you’d like for passers-by to think there’s a raging inferno in your house? Maybe you’d like to make it feel like there’s a police-car parked outside? You can do all of that…and probably more.)
The true glory, though, is when you realise you can tie the colour, the brightness AND some music from your Echo into the one instruction…dim the lights, give it a pink shade, get some Barry White on…sexy times await.
It works very well, she’s extremely pleased. It has a good range of colours, communicates well with Alexa and is easy to install. Very bright too! Would definitely recommend as a cheaper alternative to the Phillips Hue systems.
Also can schedule times to come on/off, good feature when on holiday. Also no need for a task light. That can be used elsewhere. Durbility an issue, dont know. Who knows how long they last, but value is brilliant. Savings on being left on needlessly, can switch off downstairs. Saving on not having ti buy a dimmer, and hassle of fitting it too. I have 5 of these lights now…brilliant. If I can get 5 years out of them I will be thrilled. I am 5 months in and had no problems, other than a new app I must have.
Most Wi-Fi routers are dual band and operate on both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. Your phone/device and router decide which band you connect to depending on strength and distance. You will need to log on to your router’s homepage and check which band your device is connected to. If it’s 5Ghz you will need to turn this band off and your device will automatically reconnect to the 2.4 band and allow you to connect your bulb via the app. You can then turn 5Ghz band back on and your bulb will work fine thereafter.
Connecting Amazon Alexa is straight forward too, find and enable the PlusMinus skill – just don’t forget to tell Alexa to search for new devices before you start asking her to do things with the bulb!
Thank you