Good price for Xiaomi's Yeelight RGB light bulbs. They can be controlled with Xiaomi's Mi Home app which allows you to turn them on/off, change the colour and adjust the brightness. I've decked out all my lamps with them.
Apply the coupon YeeRGB at checkout to get it for $16.99 US
Quick Specs
- App Control
- WiFi Enabled
- 16 Million RGB Colours
- 1700 - 6500K Colour Temperature Adjustment
- Adjustable Brightness
- Group Control
- IFTTT & Open API
- 11 Year Lifetime
- E27 Lightbulb
- 9W / 600LM
Really? I've set this up exactly how you've described and it works awesome!
Happy to share a screenshot of the setup via PM.
Thanks heaps. I can't seem to update mine. No chance of it working over ngiht on the android app, and with the desktop installer/updater, it was left over night but stuck on 99.9%.
It has been horrible.
Any tips?
contact lifx support they should look after you. Mine work perfectly as described above, they recently updated the app too so give that a try.
Yeah I had the exact same problem. Once you get past that hurdle it's awesome. Try turning it off at the switch for about 10 minutes. Then try and try again on the desktop app. It will eventually go through.
If it's failing because of a bad wifi signal, you can try moving it to another lamp, closer to the router and doing the update from there
I bought 12 of these and have had to return no less than 6 over the last 6 months. Thankfully they replace them all free of charge, and even upgraded to the latest Gen 3 for free, but boy it's annoying that there were a lot of faulty batches. Since replacing them all, they have become 100% fine.
They sure can. The Mi Home app is pretty average though (constantly logging me out) and the Yeelight app is way better but the Yeelight app is a total battery hog (uses as much % as Android system) so you need to fire close the app every time you are fine with it. I've got my wake-up happening via IFTTT (along with a few other things like turning on when I'm getting close to home).
It's got IFTTT integration, like the Lifx uses, so it should be about the same
Any lamps on sale? Ive only got downlights.
I got Xiaomi Mijia Smart LED Desk Lamp last week. It looks, and works great
it works with IFTTT, and as I understand they got Alexa integration coming soon.
Ah does look stylish, cant see myself spending $60 on a stick with power. Might check out kmart
on a practical level isnt this a waste once the light blows?
dont they have one thats just a base that sits in the socket between the lightblub?
It's an LED bulb, it'll usually be a long, long time before it dies.
It contains (from memory, don't have the parts in front of me) 7 white LEDs, and 3-5 of the coloured LEDs (varies per colour I think). If they are wired in such a way that one LED dying doesn't make them all stop functioning, you should at least get progressive degradation rather than immediate total failure (of the LEDs anyway).
I feel similarly to you about it, but I think part of the reasoning is that the LEDs generate the heat, and the heatsink is the biggest heaviest part. The controller etc are actually housed within the big metal part that functions as the heat sink. In these globes, the LEDs are on a thin layer on top of a metal disc, and that disc is coated on the underside with thermal paste and thus attached to the heat sink.
In short, I think trying to make it modular to reduce waste would be greatly hampered by dealing with thermal transfer.
But it still kind of sucks.
Is there a party mode where it pulses colours?
there is, changes colour about every second.
any recommendation on minimalist e27 holder to go with this?
I'd check out Kmart. Plenty of minimalist lamps for dirt cheap.
Have been using the white ones, gotta try RGB now 😊
Real fun to make the lights smarters with these cheap smart bulbs
Does the iOS app work well ?
Also this is 600 Lumens compared to 1100 Lumens on the Lifx
Haven't tested the iOS app myself.
This is less than half the price. Can't expect the same as LIFX.
E27 ,.. GAH
I am apparently the only person in the world who has only lived in B22 houses
That is all.
My home is B22 as well :( That's why I've stuck them in lamps.
I bought a bunch of super-cheap E27-B22 adapters on ebay and they work fine.
I have four of these, and one failed within 45 days (started showing random colours etc). Gearbest refunded me and didn't require me to return the light because it was within the refund window.
The app is pretty terrible, mainly just the connectivity is a bit poor. Having said that, if you enable the 'developer' mode then you can just send really simple (and completely insecure) commands to the lights over TCP and they're pretty quick to respond (sub-100ms typically). I built my daughter a little control panel with a dial for colour, a dial for brightness, and a button to switch between 'white' and 'colour' more.
For those who are interested: the device is based on a Marvell 88MW300 SoC (512kb RAM, ARM Cortex-M4F) but to get access to it you'd need to saw the top off, desolder five junctions in a very annoying position, scrape out some thermal paste, peel back a bunch of protective wrapping, dig out a plastic filler and possibly saw the metal heat sink in half (I haven't tried that part yet).
All that said, if you're a dev who likes sending TCP packets for fun, grab one :)
This sort of thing would be fun to play with and write an app for I reckon!
I've heard that if you turn the light off using a switch instead of the xiaomi app, you'd have to wait for it to reconnect to your phone or even have to pair the two devices again
This seems quite troublesome but was posted quite some time ago, anyone know if this info is outdated or if it occurs with the LIFX or Philips HUE bulbs?
Info definitely outdated. If you turn them off with a switch then you'll have to wait the 30sec before it reconnects with your WIFI so that you can use them as smart lights again. That's it. By default if you've stuffed up the colour, turning off the power will reset the light back to the original full brightness white.
This is as good as it gets with the entire eco-system being highly affordable with rechargeable batteries (with the exception of the waste of money door/window sensor). My only wish would be for the lights to be brighter, not a real issue as 2 lights are good enough for most rooms. If not enough eg. Study room, I bought a 60c adapter that allows me to have 3 lights and 1800lumens is bright enough for me.
Can this gradually wake you up, and get brighter over a period of say, 10 minutes, in the morning?
I purchased a Lifx Bulb and the UI and support is more than horrible. Biggest regret.