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We've reviewed loads of smart light bulbs right here at PCMag, and while we have yet to seek out one that does it all, the Yeelight Smart LED Bulb comes fairly darn shut. It is dimmable, affords sixteen million colors, and EcoLight reviews connects to your own home network wirelessly, without the necessity for a hub or bridge. It helps Apple HomeKit, IFTTT, and Alexa, Google, and Siri voice commands, and it is relatively affordable at $25.99. It also gives a person-pleasant app that permits you to configure lighting results and create lighting schedules. All this earns it our Editors' Choice for inexpensive sensible bulbs. The Yeelight bulb is a dimmable bulb with a 16-million shade palette, a 1700K to 6500K white color temperature range, and an 800-lumen brightness rating equal to a 60-watt bulb. It has an E26 base and will fit any commonplace lamp socket. The bulb is 4.6 inches in size and 2.2 inches broad, and has an expected lifespan of 22 years (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 house community and cell app. The cellular app for Android and iOS is easy to make use of and affords some neat lighting effect options. It opens to a Gadget display with tabs for all your Yeelight bulbs that comprise their identify, status (on-line, offline), and an On/Off button. Tapping any tab takes you to a screen the place you may customise the bulb by deciding on a colour from the shade palette, selecting a white coloration temperature, EcoLight setting the bulb's brightness level, and selecting Circulation Mode, which runs the colour gamut between yellow and blue. Movement Mode settings allow you to management the move speed for speedy or gradual shifts from shade to color and modify the brightness degree while in this specific mode. The app also gives preset color scenes comparable to Sunrise (reddish), Night Mode (dim and warm), Movie (blue), Romance (a gradual shift from darkish blue to purple), and Candle Flicker (mimics a candle), and there's a Music Flow setting that adjustments colours primarily based on music and other sounds using your telephone's microphone.

Extra settings will let you create lighting schedules and set timers to have the bulb mechanically flip off after a set time period. Back at the Gadget web page, there are three buttons at the underside of the screen. Faucet the Scene button to create a one-touch icon to have the bulb activate or off and change color states. Tapping the Room button allows you to create rooms and control multiple bulbs in a gaggle, and the Device 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 home automation system and embrace it in HomeKit Scenes; it also works with SmartThings. It isn't fairly as versatile as Philips Hue bulbs, which work with a variety of smart dwelling platforms together with Logitech, Vivint, Wink, and Xfinity Home. That said, you possibly can create IFTTT applets to have the Yeelight combine with other IFTTT-enabled sensible house devices akin to cameras, doorbells, and plugs.

Setting up the Yeelight is easy. I downloaded the app, created an account, and verified it by way of e-mail. I tapped the Machine button at the bottom of the screen, tapped Add System, and selected the LED Bulb (Coloration) from the checklist. Following the app instructions, I screwed the bulb into a lamp socket, tapped Subsequent Step, chosen my Wi-Fi SSID, and entered my Wi-Fi password. I then went to my cellphone's Wi-Fi settings, related to the Yeelight SSID, waited round 12 seconds for the bulb to be added to the System record, and the set up was complete. The Yeelight delivered rich colours and a wide range of cool blue to heat yellow shades of white gentle in our exams. It responded quickly to app commands to turn on and off, change colors, and dim brightness ranges, and the Move Mode, Schedules, Timer, and Music Stream features worked completely. The bulb had no trouble responding to Alexa and EcoLight Siri commands to activate and off or change colors, and HomeKit scenes worked without subject.