We often travel so I was wanting a system that would turn the lights on and off throughout the day and night while we were not home. I bought one Homebrite Smart LED Bulb to try it out. When it worked as advertised I was so impressed I went out and purchased two more. I had lights scheduled to come on and go off at many intervals in 3 different rooms. We went out of town and my neighbor told me that my lights worked great. I was a happy customer, but then decided I needed to change the schedule on a couple of the lamps. I don't know what happened but something happened to the mesh and now all my bulbs are undiscoverable. I have deleted and re-installed the app hoping that would solve my problem. It has not. My lights will not come on and go off with my phone or on a schedule. What I'm going to do when I go out of town is just turn them all on at the switch and let them burn 24 hours a day while I'm gone hoping that they will eventually burn out. I don't feel bad throwing out a light bulb that has burnt out. I can't bring myself to throw away an expensive lightbulb that still lights. Oh well, at least I only bought 3 and they worked for a couple of weeks.
I like the other reviewers, I have gotten this app and the bulbs to work just fine. It takes some figuring out but once you figure it out, it works great. If you have trouble, reset the bulbs and app and start over. I just wish there was a way to incorporate sunrise and sunset times into this to turn the bulbs on at sunset and off at sunrise without having to manually go in and change it.
I found these bulbs at Home Depot for only $12. I was skeptical thinking that this product was too good to be true at this price point. I bought three to test them out on my exterior lights. I had them set up and installed within 5 to 10 minutes. Everything worked exactly as described. I was able to turn bulbs off and on from my phone, dim the lights from my phone, and set up a schedule. My only complaint is that the app is a little bit less than intuitive when setting up groups. So far so good I'm going to go get more.
I saw this at the store and purchased. If I had read the reviews on the app first, I probably never would have bought it. But since I did, I gave it a try anyway to see for myself. It works great. Either I got lucky or people must be turning off their light switches making the app unable to operate the bulb. App installation was fast. It immediately located the bulb. You can set different bulbs up in groups to operate on the same schedule. Literally within a minute or so I was operating the lift and had a schedule saved. I was very reluctant to buy it thinking this was going to be another gadget that didn't work good. I can turn the light on and off or dim from my phone. Yes expensive but not really when you consider the features. I only got one to test. Now I am going to get a few more. Works great for table lamps. I don't normally give long reviews but I thought it was necessary here. Seeing so many bad reviews, I was thinking the few good reviews were probably not true. I am very pleased.
I bought the lightbulb and I was excited to have Bt control of that bulb. I downloaded the app and the app worked and I was able to use it. When I opened the app again I got a message "searching for mesh" and then "Sorry, mesh not found". I contacted the developer on tweeter and I got a response. But when I opened the app again, it worked. It ONLY works if there are light bulbs on. The app gets confused if it opens and the bulbs are not on. It needs some more work.
I bought two of the bulbs for this system to replace some normal bulbs in my bedroom. I was thinking of using the scheduling feature to supplement my alarm clock by having it turn on the lights when the alarm was supposed to go off. However, once installed, one of the two bulbs I bought just wouldn't turn off (when turned off through the app the bulb would flicker off for a second then come on full again). I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app, resetting the app through the settings menu, hard resetting the bulbs together, hard resetting the bulbs separately, connecting the bulbs separately after hard resetting the bulbs, and a few other method of attempting to get the second bulb to work. Spoilers... it never worked and I will be returning the one bulb and exchanging it for another one to see if it was just a bad bulb. But, judging by the sheer volume of negative comments it might be a firmware/app problem. Either that or they have such horrible quality control that one in every three or so bulbs is faulty... just a thought. Buy theses bulbs with extreme caution as they will probably not work as you are expecting them to...
The product itself is terrible. Bought it and came home to find only one smart device can connect to a single bulb. (It was printed VERY tiny on the BOTTOM of the box). This was disappointing because my boyfriend and I were wanting the ability to be able to both control the bulb from our own phones. Also, not sure how they got "HomeBrite" trademarked because there's another company with the same name totally separate from this one and it's actually a legitimate company probably getting a bad rep from this specific line of products. Overall, terrible app (could never find the bulb) and terrible product. Would NOT suggest buying.
I don't know if it's the new update or my iPhone 7 which I just upgraded to but for whatever reason I cannot pair my bulbs to my iPhone for the life of me. It's extremely frustrating because it was working beautifully before and support isn't at all helpful. All you get is an automated generic reply of solutions that any human being with basic problem solving skills would've obviously attempted. And it's even more frustrating and insulting that for the price of each bulb you'd think they'd have an actual human being attempt at resolving your problem. Very disappointed since I literally changed all 9 of my lights to these Bluetooth bulbs which aren't worth anything now. WOMP WOMP, I would recommend buying a bulb from a company that has an actual support team to resolve at the very least foreseeable issues.
I was very excited to set this up in my room for dimming the lights, automatic shut off, controlling the bulb myself, etc. HOWEVER, from the very beginning I've had issues with pairing the bulb to my iPhone, and despite getting a different phone over the course of time (and keeping up with updates), this bulb still won't cooperate. Now it won't pair at all and is basically a super expensive regular light bulb. I'm very disappointed and won't be buying this type of smart bulb in the future; my money and time will be invested in other brands. The user interface of the app could have had more options and customization choices and I would have liked to have seen more updates released, but other than that, I do not have any major problems with the app. It's simple enough for most age groups to use (a pro or a con, depending on how you look at it), but that makes me wonder if the pairing issue is with the bulbs themselves or the app/pairing firmware. Regardless, I strongly advise future buyers to consider reviews from here and elsewhere before making any large investments in this brand of smart bulb.
Running iOS 10.2 on iPhone 6. Can install latest version and control bulbs. Was able to restore/sync config with iPhone 5 also running iOS 10.2 and control the same set of bulbs. (It does have the limit that more than 1 bulb to have multiple phones controlling same set.) Maybe folks having issues are running an older version of iOS? I have also encountered situations where a bad bulb can also cause the app to fail to “find the mesh.” In that case, I found the bad actor by turning them off one at a time then I just returned the bad bulb to the store for exchange.
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