A great price for decent smart bulbs at Woolworths this week:
9w LED equivalent to 90w incandescent. What tf you lighting bruv?
Using 2X14w now still too dark for reading!.
2X14w now still too dark for reading!.
Check lumens not watt
I had the same issue until I snagged myself one of these from Bunnings. They are massive bulbs though so be sure ot check measurements before buying.
https://www.bunnings.com.au/philips-a80-b22-led-2300lm-dayli…
@[Deactivated]: Thanks for the link, I have the same issue too.
Bunnings near me doesn't stock those so I got them from here https://reductionrevolution.com.au/products/bright-e27-light-bulb?variant=39542803562598 40% off too
Ahahaha (profanity) no they're not.
Umm, It's really not.
A 60w incandescent is ~840 lumens. A 9w LED bulb is also ~840 lumens.
800 lumens OK for small room
Should look at lumens not watt
BTW the deal link gave me difference things
800 lumen is okay. I find it a bit too dim. The 1050 lumen arlec are significantly brighter in my experience. $25 for 3 RGB is not bad…
Just had a light bulb moment. What if you get two to light up your room? 🤔
hydroponics ?
I use these very same globes (2 of them in a lounge area) and these 9w LED pumps our plenty of LUMENS (all that matters with LED, but everyone is hooked on speaking watts still), anything brighter for the average home would be overkill for these ones IMO.
In fact, I usually dim them with Alexa to 50% brightness when I want to set a more comfy mood.
Did Woolies stop carrying the tuneable white and rgb ones?
Kmart has them still.
My local one still has the RGB at least, but at full price
I should have mentioned , have in stock at discount* it’s not showing on website anymore
They still had them in store yesterday. I suspect they aren't on special (clearance).
I stuck one of those in the socket, and now i have a meerkat on fire :(
Simples! 🐿️
Never used mirabella before, but is it like the kasa bulbs where you can turn them on and off remotely from anywhere in the world?
Yep
Yes, via Alexa, Google or directly in the Mirabella app.
had so many probs with these ive resorted to uninstalling the software and just using it as a normal light globe and still it doesn't even do that. Sometimes it won't even power on you have to turn the light switch on and off a few times. Other times it keeps flashing on/off cause it's trying to connect to the app. Not worth it
Interesting. Been using these in reading lamps for 6 months now and no such issues.
I have a mixture of these, arlec, brilliant all running basically the same Tuya software under the hood for about 3 years now.
The only ones I have intermittent issues with are the gu10 leds in the metal tube spotlight fixtures. The issue is that the tube blocks the wifi so the signal is weak even with a mesh node in the same room.
Had mine for two years never a problem. Hardest part was syncing them.
I've a downlight in a metal tube, but I can still keep contact two rooms away.
The way I made it work was going to a Wifi 6 access point, I think the antenna diversity helped.
@whats up skip: Nope, antenna diversity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_diversity
You are more like to a find a multipath that has acceptable signal strength to the bulb. Or you could just try moving the access point till it works. Band steering wouldn't do much for a 2.4Ghz only device.
@sane: I have Asus AX88u and AX58u.
If I take the tubes off I have full signal, the tubes take them down to 1 bar.
This! So frustrating!
indeed strange, i control my ones with google home and android and ios gear no problems…
Agree with this. Syncing them was a nightmare. Double the pain if you have a Telstra modem which apparently is a known issue.
These have poor 2.4 wifi. Put them in a metal fitting and even with an AP in the same room it's still hit and miss.
They do have Bluetooth LE but the range is similarly limited.
Had problems with wifi pairing and dropouts with my Genio bulbs and power adaptors. Turned out to be my low end router unable to cope with then number of devices on my network. Replaced the router with the AX5400 unit. No more dropouts on any of my devices.
I also had similar problems. Gave up on these as a smart light, but as a dumb light it will occasionally turn off for a second and then come back on.
Coles dumped them ages ago. Every store had different prices. The power socket is great and still in use. Lights are crap, unpredictable comparetively dark.
Bunnings is currently dumping the Wix range. Great remote for $15. Bulbs are all singing and dancing with endless modes. One caused a short blowing all fuses in my house!
Anyone what the difference is between the $4.50 & $9 bulbs, looks the same 9W & 800 lumens
The screw type. Look at the bottom of the bulb in the picture on the box for each of them.
both screw types are listed at 4.50 https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/807785/mir…
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/877102/mir…
Its the colour temp/screw type combo.
Cool edison is cheaper than warm edison
Warm bayonet is cheaper than cool bayonet
I can't remember what wattage bulb I had, but I bought one of these mirabellas a while back; was a huge fkn pain to get it to work with homebridge - they may be tuya based, but they had different id numbers for setting things like brightness and colour, so homebridge was only capable of making it something like 60% brightness (the values don't convert properly). It's doable but keep that in mind before you go buying a ton of them.
Do you know if these allows colour changes as well or just dimmable? looks like it's only dimmable.
Just dimmable
Yeah thought so… thanks :)
The $9 ones allow colour change as well as dimmable.
5x ConnectHome 12W CCT for $20 from Harvey still remains to be the deal to beat in this space. I got 5 and ended up with 3 esp8285 based ones which was easily flashed and 2 with the Beken chip. Replaced the modules on those to esp-12f and ended up with 2 beken modules to play with.
This is just single color for $4.5 so-so deal, but if looking for replacement bulbs then not bad to get these over $2 non-wifi bulbs.
Can you link those bulbs i cant find em
This was the deal that I got from: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/650180
It says 10w but actually they are 12w at full brightness.
How many Ozbargainers does it take to change a lightbulb?
I never understood why anyone in the world would buy Cool White. Unless you want your house to look like a cold hospital.
cold white 4000k is good for work space, but not sure what 6500k cold white for.
I use it in my basement. For erm… Stuff.
Cool white lets your create the colours and warmth of your house through colours of the contents, rather than forcing it with the lights.
I pick colours so my house looks and feels great with the windows open and sunlight streaming in. So I go for cool white (or ideally, daylight) colour temps to mimic that at night.
If I used warm white bulbs, it would be light shining yellow light on everything and IMO, look terrible.
Good point, but I still feel the cool whites emit a lot of blues and purples in the hue which doesn't make the surfaces give out natural colours.
Overall, cool white just looks stark and unwelcoming IMO. While warm white feels cozier and create a nicer ambiance in general. Esp 3000K.
Kitchens suit cool white much better than warm, IMO. Bathrooms too but to a lesser extent.
Assuming you have installed 10 of those in your home, and standby power is about 1w each.
it is 87.6kw/year. can this smart feature save 87.6kw/year to green up our environment?
In most case: the indoor-light is e27 - warm ($9) and most of the work-light b22 - white ($9), but there is only b22-warm and e27-white better than half-price :D
ConnectHome 12w CCT bulb Standby state:
BL6523GX Watt Meter
Voltage 239 V
Frequency 50 Hz
Current 0.006 A
Power 0.02 W
Apparent Power 1.55 VA
Reactive Power 1.50 VAr
Power Factor 0.02
Energy Today 0.001 kWh
Energy Yesterday 0.001 kWh
Energy Total 0.049 kWh
Now do the math for an year.
so your meter is showing the standby power consumption is 0.02W with a 2.4g wifi connection, which is cool. :)
2.4g connection but not transmitting anything. The moment you try to access the device it shoots to 0.4-0.5 watts. I hope no one is planning to run a website out of these bulbs :)
@tchcrat: their 2.4g power plug standby power consume 0.7-1w, but the light standby only consume 0.02w. I don't know what makes the difference. I may get the bulbs.
@s12321: @s12321 Make sure that you monitor the power for sometime to capture the actual standby than when it is updating something in background even if the LED's are off.
bought one to test, seems to work well through google home so going back for more..
I bought a few of the $4.5 Cool White ones. 400K is not as cool as I'd like, but workable.
The bulbs were a real pain to connect though. I have some Mirabella Genio RGB bulbs, and string lights, and both worked fine with the auto setup.
Despite the exact same setup, these would only connect once I created a specific new 2.4GHz SSID for them, and paired them in AP mode. Getting them into AP mode took forever, and following the steps to change modes was very inconsistent. The on/off sequence / timing that would work one time, wouldn't work a second time.
They seem ok now once paired. But overall, compared to the other Genio lights I have, these are a disappointment even for $4.50.
Picked one up this afternoon. No issues whatsoever with the setup…
App works fine, Siri commands work as expected, also paired up to Alexa and voice commands are great.
Unless it suddenly starts having stacks of connection issues, I'm pretty happy so far!
Does anyone know how to get the brightness below 10%?
I bought one for the baby's room and find that it is too bright at the lowest which appears as 10% in the Mirabella app.
I bought 6 of these a few weeks ago when they were on special for $9.
They work ok and it's fun using your voice to turn lights on and off, but they are NOT bright bulbs.
Only suitable for reading lamps and very small rooms like toilets.
A word of warning with these bulbs:
Mirabella run 2 different versions of bulb hardware, there is no way to tell which hardware model on the packaging.
The downside to this is that you will have different levels of functionality for different bulbs in the app, or more annoyingly you can get different brightness across bulbs if you're using them in the same room (when all set to 100%).
It would be luck of the draw if you wanted the same bulb hardware say across say a kitchen island.
9w is too weak :(