We have reviewed quite a lot of smart light bulbs here at PCMag, and whereas we've yet to search out one which does all of it, the Yeelight Good LED Bulb comes fairly darn shut. It is dimmable, presents sixteen million colors, and connects to your house community 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 inexpensive at $25.99. It also affords a user-friendly app that allows you to configure lighting results and create lighting schedules. All this earns it our Editors' Choice for inexpensive smart bulbs. The Yeelight bulb is a dimmable bulb with a 16-million shade palette, a 1700K to 6500K white color temperature range, EcoLight and an 800-lumen brightness rating equal to a 60-watt bulb. It has an E26 base and EcoLight will fit any customary lamp socket. The bulb is 4.6 inches in length and 2.2 inches huge, and has an anticipated lifespan of twenty-two years (based mostly on three hours of use per day).

Inside is a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi radio that's used to attach the bulb to your house network and cell app. The cell app for Android and iOS is straightforward to use and provides some neat lighting effect options. It opens to a System display screen with tabs for your entire Yeelight bulbs that include their identify, status (online, offline), and an On/Off button. Tapping any tab takes you to a display screen where you'll be able to customize the bulb by selecting a shade from the shade palette, selecting a white coloration temperature, setting the bulb's brightness stage, and choosing Flow Mode, which runs the color gamut between yellow and blue. Movement Mode settings allow you to control the stream velocity for speedy or gradual shifts from shade to color EcoLight and modify the brightness level whereas in this particular mode. The app also affords preset coloration scenes akin to Sunrise (reddish), Night time Mode (dim and warm), Film (blue), Romance (a gradual shift from dark blue to crimson), EcoLight and Candle Flicker (mimics a candle), and there is a Music Move setting that adjustments colours primarily based on music and other sounds using your telephone's microphone.

Additional settings allow you to create lighting schedules and set timers to have the bulb routinely flip off after a set period of time. Back on the Machine page, there are three buttons at the underside of the screen. Tap the Scene button to create a one-contact icon to have the bulb turn on or off and EcoLight change colour states. Tapping the Room button allows you to create rooms and management a number of bulbs in a gaggle, and the Device button takes you again to the Gadget screen. The Yeelight works with Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant voice commands, and you can make it a part of your HomeKit residence automation system and embrace it in HomeKit Scenes; it additionally works with SmartThings. It isn't fairly as versatile as Philips Hue bulbs, which work with quite a lot of smart house platforms including Logitech, Vivint, Wink, and Xfinity Dwelling. That stated, you can create IFTTT applets to have the Yeelight combine with other IFTTT-enabled good residence gadgets akin to cameras, doorbells, and plugs.

Establishing the Yeelight is easy. I downloaded the app, created an account, and verified it via e-mail. I tapped the System button at the underside of the display, tapped Add System, and chosen the LED Bulb (Shade) from the list. Following the app instructions, I screwed the bulb into a lamp socket, tapped Subsequent Step, selected my Wi-Fi SSID, and entered my Wi-Fi password. I then went to my phone's Wi-Fi settings, linked to the Yeelight SSID, waited round 12 seconds for the bulb to be added to the Machine list, and the set up was full. The Yeelight delivered rich colors and a variety of cool blue to warm yellow shades of white gentle in our assessments. It responded quickly to app commands to activate and off, change colors, and dim brightness ranges, and the Move Mode, Schedules, Timer, and Music Stream options labored completely. The bulb had no bother responding to Alexa and Siri commands to turn on and off or change colours, and HomeKit scenes labored with out subject.