Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

tldr; a great bulb to provide color lighting without adding yet another hub. Over the last few months I have been looking for a way to bring smart home color lighting into my household. I have a SmartThings Hub, and I wanted to add any lighting that I brought into the house to that hub. I have a strong tech background, so I did a lot of research into solutions that required little work, and some that were hacking together different smart home products and services. Philips Hue bulbs were expensive, and required a proprietary hubs for the best quality. Sylvania bulbs appeared to have a 50-50 shot of being good, or total garbage. I was about to give up and buy into the Philips bulbs, until I saw that Sengled finally released color bulbs. I had already bought several light bulbs from Sengled, and found that they were all of good quality. I usually don't buy things with many reviews, but I decided to give this one a chance. I purchased one bulb to test. I purchased another bold because the first one looked great. I imagine that I will be buying many more in the coming months. The color quality is good, the brightness is excellent, and the setup was quick and painless. I have single bulb fixtures in my hallway that I wanted to be able to turn them daylight white during the day, a soft white at night, and gradually bring them to a dim red in the late night. These have fit that role perfectly, and bring just as strong of light to the hallway as the old standard bulbs did. My only complaint about these is that their integration with Alexa through SmartThings is not exactly perfect when it comes to choosing some colors (e.g., "Alexa, hallway lights to red" gives me pink). Don't let that scare you away, though-- the colors adjust correctly through SmartThings, displaying a great range of colors, and I have been able to program them into scenes perfectly. If it were not for the price, I would quickly order several of these and replace many of the white and soft light smart bulbs that I have in the house with these. For now, I'm happy to occasionally bring a new one into the house--which reminds me to go ahead and buy another one now. Another great product from Sengled. Keep up the good work, guys.