We have reviewed a variety of smart light bulbs here at PCMag, and while we've but to search out one which does all of it, the Yeelight Smart LED Bulb comes fairly darn close. It is dimmable, provides sixteen million colours, and connects to your private home community wirelessly, without the need for a hub or bridge. It supports Apple HomeKit, IFTTT, and Alexa, Google, and Siri voice commands, and it's relatively inexpensive at $25.99. It additionally affords a person-pleasant app that lets you configure lighting results and create lighting schedules. All this earns it our Editors' Choice for reasonably priced smart bulbs. The Yeelight bulb is a dimmable bulb with a 16-million coloration palette, a 1700K to 6500K white colour temperature vary, and an 800-lumen brightness ranking equivalent to a 60-watt bulb. It has an E26 base and can match any standard lamp socket. The bulb is 4.6 inches in length and 2.2 inches vast, and has an expected lifespan of 22 years (primarily based on three hours of use per day).

Inside is a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi radio that's used to attach the bulb to your home community and cellular app. The cellular app for Android and iOS is easy to make use of and provides some neat lighting effect features. It opens to a System display with tabs for all of your Yeelight bulbs that comprise their name, standing (on-line, offline), and an On/Off button. Tapping any tab takes you to a display where you possibly can customize the bulb by selecting a color from the coloration palette, choosing a white color temperature, setting the bulb's brightness degree, and deciding on Stream Mode, which runs the shade gamut between yellow and blue. Movement Mode settings allow you to management the stream speed for fast or gradual shifts from shade to coloration and adjust the brightness level while on this particular mode. The app additionally gives preset color scenes akin to Sunrise (reddish), Night time 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 Movement setting that changes colors based on music and different sounds utilizing your telephone's microphone.

Extra settings assist you to create lighting schedules and set timers to have the bulb mechanically flip off after a set time frame. Again at the Device web page, there are three buttons at the underside of the display. Tap the Scene button to create a one-touch icon to have the bulb activate or off and change coloration states. Tapping the Room button helps 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 part of your HomeKit home automation system and embrace it in HomeKit Scenes