Tapo L510B (2-Pack) B22 Smart Bulb, Alexa Light Bulb, WiFi Smart Light Bulb, Dimmable, 8.3W (60W), Schedule & Timer, Away Mode, Energy Saving, Preset for Convenience, Voice Control with Alexa & Google

Reliable and simple smart lighting gets the job done
I bought the Tapo L510B Smart Bulbs while renovating a property that’s currently unoccupied. My goal was to have lighting come on at night at random intervals to give the appearance that someone’s home, and these bulbs have done the job well for the past month.Setup was quick and straightforward. The bulbs were well-packaged, the instructions were clear, and the Tapo app paired with them easily. You do need an internet connection for the schedules to run, but once connected, everything worked reliably.The bulbs are slightly heavier than regular ones and made of plastic rather than glass, but this doesn’t impact their look or function. They blend into the home nicely, with only the slightly longer white casing setting them apart.In terms of performance, the brightness is good, and Alexa integration was seamless and responsive. I liked the sunrise/sunset scheduling feature, though I found it a bit clunky that I had to set separate actions to turn each bulb on and off.I can’t comment on energy savings due to lack of prior usage data at the property, but given the low wattage, I expect them to be efficient. The Tapo app is easy to navigate and generally stable, with minor room for improvement in automation setup.Overall, these bulbs are great value for money from a brand I trust for smart home products. They do exactly what they promise, and for that, I’m giving them five stars.

Most reliable system I have used
Smart bulbs and buttons are great but having used them for 10 years now, they come with a lot of issues.Firstly they lose connection all the time. The reason things like your Ring cameras and Lifx bulbs lose connection is that they’re cheap and the WiFi bands that they support are limited. When your router or Mesh Wifi rotates it’s bands/frequencies in order to ensure your Wifi is not colliding with nextdoors, if it moves to a band that is unsupported then everything goes offline!!!Secondly the backends of these system just go down or are unreliable. I have found especially with Lifx they just randomly go down, usually when you need them most!Thirdly the reality of smart kit is that you need some way for everyone to be able to use them. For example, are you going to ask your parents in law to download the app, give them admin permissions and to use the app to switch the bathroom light on? No!!!Now I have persevered for years with Lifx and Flic buttons and, the flic buttons run out of power all the time, disconnect and also they’re not very robust. Add the crappy Lifx bulbs into the equation and you have a system thats just unreliable.So I recently took advantage of the black frinday deal and replaced everything with Tapo. So far it has been night and day better.Tapo kit is way cheaper than anything else on the market. It has an ever evolving app thats easy to use and intuitive to me and the smart buttons work brilliantly.I have not had 1 outage or issue in 2 months now, where I used to get at least 1 bulb go funky per month for no reason at all!!!!So the bulbs are basic, however they have a very nice temperature to them. The Lifx ones were better in that respect but I almost got all of my bulbs replaced for the price of just 1 Lifx one, so I don’t miss the price!!!I have even got a camera hooked up to the little smart hub and I have had literally no hiccups at all.Compared to anything else I have used these are so much better. I am so impressed.

J’adore ces ampoules. Elles sont supposées tenir très longtemps mais sur la dizaine que j’ai achetées, une n’a pas tenu la semaine. J’espère que ça va durer dans le temps !