Enshine Bayonet Smart Bulb, 15W(100W) WiFi Light Bulbs B22, Colour Changing and Tunable White, Compatible with Alexa and Google Home, 1500 Lumens, Remote Control by APP, No Hub Required (Pack of 1)

Very easy to set up, Smart Life app is simple to use, great white light output
Having experienced some disappointment using the Philips Hue bulbs and finding the constraints of not using a hub, I went back to Enshine. The setup is very straightforward and the Smart Life app is very pleasant to use with dimming the bulb or with automating it to turn on with or at a set interval around sunset along with setting it to turn off automatically at a certain time at night in case you forget to turn it off.Integrating the bulb with Google Home works almost seamlessly. When naming my bulbs in the Smart Life app, Home recognises each bulb and turns them all off or on or does so individually based on voice commands.Additionally, if you use Samsung’s SmartThings, you can connect Smart Life so you can then control the bulb through that platform too. In a noisy room where Google Home’s voice recognition can be impeded, you can configure a Smart Tag to turn on and off the bulb or brighten/dim it gradually.You can use warm and cool white outputs and choose a big range in between. If I had to name a specific disadvantage against Philips Hue, it’s Enshine’s colour brightness. Hue’s colour brightness is practical for use for the whole room while Enshine’s RGB brightness is so dim that it is just a cute novelty.I’m very happy with a much lower cost alternative to Hue, especially with the strong white light output, the ease of set up and the brilliant integration with Google Home. If you have a specific requirement to use the bulbs in RGB colours, these might not be the best option because of the low colour brightness not offering much flexibility.UPDATE: About 11 months after purchase, this bulb has become faulty. Within 5-20 minutes of powering it on, it the bulb loses connectivity and shows as offline in the Smart Life app and it can’t be accessed through SmartThings or Google Home. Since it is offline, the schedule to turn the bulb on or off at a given time no longer functions either so it becomes little more than an expensive LED bulb until you turn the light switch off and back on the old-fashioned way, after which it will become online and rejoin your network before repeating the process after 5-20 minutes.I got in touch with the support team and their response was excellent. I followed the troubleshooting tips they gave and when it was confirmed that resetting the bulb didn’t resolve the problem, they sent a replacement quickly.

Amazing
Very good lighting and easy to set up.

Inconsistently works at best, doesn’t work at all at worst. Infuriating!
Difficult to setup. I work in IT, software development and networking, and it is near impossible to get these lights to work. Instructions are poor and conflicting. Instructions for setting up on WIFI, have WIFI enabled. Instructions for setting up Bluetooth, disable WIFI, turn on Bluetooth, turn on WIFI and connect with WIFI, Bluetooth is not available…The strength or connectivity of these bulbs to your WIFI or Bluetooth is near non existent. My router is about 9-10 feet, direct line of sight to the bulb, and the bulb can barely get connected, even then, not consistently. It drops connection, it can be found in a search for the bulb to reinstall, but not for long enough to actually install/setup, the process time-out and you have to start again.Is the bulb not working on your app? You need to remove the bulb from the app and set it up all over again! That also means you have to factory reset the bulb so it doesn’t remember the networks.Actually using the bulbs, don’t give yourself grief!! I have a physical light switch(as you do in houses) if you turn the bulb off at the switch, when you turn the switch on again, the bulb may not connect to your wifi again until…..you have to install it all over again. I’ve spent more time in 2 weeks setting the bulbs up, than with lights on in my rooms. I actually went yesterday to a store and bought non-dimmable bulbs just not to be annoyed by these ones.Do you have dimmer switches in your house? Forget these bulbs entirely. When I had the switch turned up to full brightness the bulk kinda worked, with all issues listed up til now. But dimming the bulb with the switch, flickering like a seizure inducing disco. The bulbs can be controlled with the app, or the switch, but not a combination of both.For reference, I had my house rewired, full certified by electricians 3 years ago, everything brand new, not a single wire or socket was not replaced. I have a N-series router (that means all standards of WIFI are compatible for the last 20+ years) which can connect my devices 75ft away in the house. Cant get these bulbs to work day to day or connect in short distances inside the house, not even the same room as the router. Forget about putting a bulb upstairs, it just wont connect.So frustrating. I would have been happier if I never bought these bulbs, even if I got a refund, I’d still have wasted so much time and effort on these it just wouldn’t be worth it. Couldn’t pay me to try using them.

A good smart bulb but has questionable longevity
I found this smart bulb worked well and had easy to use software if you don;t mind yet another app. It only lasted a year before it broke. l would expect a light bulb to last longer.

The smart bulb is not as bright as I’d hoped and the non-white colours are especially dim. If you treat it as a smart bulb without colour changing capabilities, it will do an excellent job.

Installation facile, l’ampoule paraissait bien, belle luminosité et puis apres 35 minutes seulement d’utilisation, un ‘clic’ et plus rien. Pas solide la LED !!