Sengled Smart Light Bulb, Color Changing Light Bulb, WiFi Light Bulbs No Hub Required, Smart Bulbs that Work with Alexa & Google Home, Smart LED A19 RGB Light Bulbs, 1 Pack

Almost all of our lights in our house are sengled now. They are easy to use with the app, and pair well with alexa. They are super customizable with the colors and have lasted years.

These lights are a game changer! I love the versatility is color and brightness. The quality is great and they are easily controlled in the app or by Alexa. Dimmability is great. They don't put off heat either.

Lights were easy to set up and work well. My son loves changing the colors in his room. Only issue is connectivity seems to go in and out sometimes.

Easy to connect and minimal issues. Been using them for a few years now.

Nice wifi bulb. Have to download app. I have no problems connecting to my wifi. Good price. Will purchase again.

I got these bulbs about a year ago. At the time, they worked pretty well. Pairing to the app was a bit of a pain, but after that, they did what I expected - light levels and colors were simple enough to control from Alexa or the app itself, routines worked, it was good. But then, weird things started happening.It was small things at first - bulbs not firing routines like they should, but still responded to manual changes. App reporting "no internet" on my phone, when I clearly had it. Annoyances sure, but nothing that made them unusable. Over time, some of them were starting to randomly flash off and on, without any apparent pattern or cause. This flashing was often reported by other people, but no apparent fix ever came. Then, some update released a little while before this review, and the most miraculous thing happened! All of my Sengled bulbs - every single one, without fail or exception - stopped working. All of them. Bedrooms, offices, living room, every bulb to the last was now mysteriously and permanently unreachable by the app.I figured at first that it surely had to just be the app itself, since Alexa would be able to change them. But, Alexa doesn't see them either anymore. While they turn on (insofar as I switch on the light and they come on that way), they now apparently lost the ability to communicate with anything, making them essentially useless next to a conventional bulb. One might think it was a networking issue, but extensive testing of the wifi clearly showed it working as expected, with every other device in the house able to reach it without issue. In spite of that, I went through the steps to check the bulbs were paired (they were, at first), that they could do their reset routine, every single step suggested by the manufacturer, and a number of steps that weren't but make sense if you're into networking at all.The only thing I can figure is their most recent firmware update must've fried something. There's a sentence I never thought I'd write in my life - "my lightbulb got busted by a firmware update" - but here we are.So now I have a pile of bulbs that don't work. That wouldn't be enough to merit a review on the topic, except it's clear that the manufacturer seems to give no regard to it, if their app reviews are any indication. Just one canned response after another with zero help. Quite a few people in a similar situation.If you'd asked me 6-8 months ago if these were a good deal, I'd say yes. Right now, I'd suggest you avoid them as hard as you can, unless you want to set up a bulb that will instantly destroy itself the minute it updates its firmware. There are tons of other options here on Amazon, and many of them don't have random failures or hardware setup pains like these seem to.Do yourself a favor. Avoid Sengled. Put them down, don't look back, and get something that actually works.

I have set up both internet and satellite data communications for 52 years. Took me an afternoon to set up this bulb. Despite tons of videos and instructions just try to find instructions specific to this bulb. All the instructions on their app refer to a hub. There is zero instructions about how to this up. The app is not theirs so there is not mention of their specific lightbulb and the general instructions do not even seem to be related to lightbulbs as I never plugged an office lighbulb into a hub which it wants.I did not give up. Read some more online from someone other than the manufacturer. Mentioned to atach to a private network setup buy the manufacturer's app. Thern it says you need a second phone. One with a connection to the internet and the other to the new network for one bulb. I returned wifi speakers that were very expensive because it did the same thing. Worked and then stopped working and would not connect despite three days of trying. Also stopped recognizing my sub woofer which came back to life yesterday, months after it was not found by their software. I am so sick of poorly made devices that require their own network because every time this is the case it is a horror show to set up or in my case return to Amazon. I was setting up a new home A/V studio and bought these lamps to use and now I will probably spend the money to get good ones instead of try too save a few dollars for junk. You are warned so don't complain when you want to pull your hair out following instructions telling you to do things that you cannot do with these bulbs like plug them into your network hub with a wire. All they did in the manuals is give the same instruction no matter what device you buy. They assume that you have something you need to plug into your network hub and go from there.