- Hi, I'm Parris
and I've always been interested in light bulbs,
new LED technology,
bluetooth technology
that lets you program the lights
and change colors with your phone
but I've never before seen a light bulb
that actually works as a wi-fi hot spot
like this new bulb from de.Light.
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- Have you got a corner of your house
where the wi-fi just doesn't reach?
We have that corner
and much to Roxanna's chagrin
that's her bedroom.
She complains she can't stream anything in that room
because the wi-fi connection is too poor.
Now, I've tried out different wi-fi boosters
and repeaters
but this de.Light system is an interesting solution
because it doesn't grab the signal via wi-fi.
Instead, it has a piece that plugs into a power outlet
putting the internet signal on your power lines
which the light bulb screws in,
picks up the power from there,
and that's how it picks up the internet signal
that it shares out.
This set which includes everything you need
to get this to work with one bulb is $149
and I'll put a link to it down below this video.
Thanks to the people at XY Connect
for sending me out this de.Light bulb system
to try out.
Roxanna is really going to be happy
if I can get this to work.
Here's what comes in the box,
the instructions,
not a whole lot to them
but you do download an app onto your phone
so you can control the light bulb
with the app on your phone
so I imagine there's more to setting it up than this
but if there's not,
I'll be very pleased.
Here is the light bulb,
LED system,
which has one of the coolest features
in addition to wi-fi that I've ever seen in a bulb.
I'll show you that in a minute.
And it screws into a regular light bulb socket here.
It's fairly heavy
because not only does it have the heat sync
to pull the heat away from the LEDs,
it also has to get rid of the heat
produced by being a wi-fi router.
This is the piece
that plugs into one of the power outlets on your wall
and the reason it has the plug in here
is so you can use it as pass through
so you don't lose that plug in on your wall,
you plug this in
and then you can plug whatever other device into it
and get the power through it
and that won't affect the internet connection at all.
On the bottom of this piece
is where the ethernet cable plugs in,
plugs in here.
You do of course already have to have internet
to your house,
DSL modem, cable modem
and probably you would have that
going to a regular box router
with little antennas on it for wi-fi.
From that you'll run this cable to this device.
Also included in the package is this piece.
No, it's not birth control,
at least not directly,
maybe indirectly.
This is another set of LEDs.
This light bulb opens up
when the LEDs that are in it burn out
or if you want to change the light
from cool white to a warmer natural tone,
you open up the bulb
and you take out an identical piece to this
with the different temperature LEDs
that produce the different kind of light,
you swap this one in
and you have almost a new light bulb.
Have you ever seen an LED bulb that opened up before?
Normally they give you all the warnings
about hey, don't mess around with what's inside.
There we go.
Seven of these though are just inner sugar LEDs.
Okay, I'm just joking.
I can imagine the company in China who sent me this saying,
"Why is he telling them the LEDs are made of sugar?"
I've read through the instructions,
I have not downloaded the app
or looked anywhere else for information.
I'm just gonna follow what it says here,
go and download the app last
and maybe it'll actually work that easily.
Okay, here is the router.
It's a little bit far from the power plug
so I'm actually going to use a different cable
than the one they gave me.
The question is what's available on the back here?
Do I have a spot to plug it in?
Yes, I've got two spots still available.
So it's this cable.
I've plugged it in right there
to an ethernet port on the back of the router
and this router, you may remember,
I reviewed a couple months ago,
it's been working great.
The other end of the cable
is plugged into the bottom of this piece
which is the pass through
to plug into a power outlet.
There we go.
And we should have some lights.
That means it's got power.
That means it's getting a signal from the router here
through the ethernet cable
and I think the last one means
it's working to send a signal out onto the power lines.
I haven't got the light bulb plugged in yet.
This is the light fixture
in the absolute furthest corner of the house
from the router.
So this is where we have the worst wi-fi signal.
Put the light bulb in here.
Seems to fit okay.
Now this will only be on when the light is on.
That's true, I hadn't considered that.
Maybe it'd go better in the hall,
well the hall light's only on at night, hmmm.
I've turned it on and it is working as a light bulb.
I'll download the app next
so I can take control of that
and set it up.
I found the app on the Google Play store.
I'm going to install it.
Let's see what it looks like.
I think it's looking for the light bulb
on its own right now.
Okay, now that's interesting, they do,
let me cover up part of this here.
Okay, on the instruction card,
they gave me a QR code
which I can scan to input the network name and the password
or I can type it in manually.
It's underneath my thumb.
Ironically, in working with this light bulb,
at this point I'm in the dark.
I'm not sure what to tap to do things.
Is this turning the light on and off?
I better go find the bulb to find out.
I was expecting to see a name
because I think this might work with multiple bulbs.
Let me go check the other room.
So I manually went into my phone's wi-fi,
saw the network for the light bulb
and told it to join it
and it joined it but it never asked for the password
even though they included one.
And now I have a number here, the 100
and the on off switch is there
and this is apparently the dimmer for it.
Let me see if at least that part works
because I think the red light here
and the message I got that I have no internet access
via wi-fi at the moment
means something else still needs to be fixed.
Okay, on off.
There we go,
oh, that was quick.
And then I think I just run my thumb around this
to dim it.
It's much dimmer there.
My phone's too big.
I need Donald Trump hands apparently to manage this.
I don't know if you can see this
but 50% is quite a bit brighter
and 100 is full brightness.
Off.
I can also set the light
to come on and off automatically I guess
with sunrise sunset
and I can also set up a timer for it.
Using it this way
and also manually controlling the light,
I could just leave the light,
I could leave power to the light on all the time,
which would keep it working day and night
as a wi-fi router.
However, since I have it in a multi bulb ceiling fan
that I don't want to leave on all the time,
it's a little more complicated.
I think you definitely want to install this bulb
in a single individual fixture
that's just a light fixture.
It says I'm connected to the light bulb wi-fi network
and everything's pretty good.
You can see the speed, the frequency and so forth there
but I still can't get on the internet.
Tried various things here
including going on my laptop connecting to the network
and yeah, it's just not connecting to the router.
So I poked around some in the settings on the app
and didn't change anything,
and all of a sudden it was connected
and I'm able to access the internet on the phone.
So I took my laptop and I joined the de.Light network
and I'm about to run a speed test here.
It's ah 9:15 in the evening,
there may be other people online.
Yeah, I think that's the case.
Got up to just over 40 megabit per second
as a download
and 12 megabit per second upload.
So the de.Light system is working
just like a regular wi-fi router.
I'll have Roxanna try it out with her phone.
That's the one that usually has the problem with streaming
from this corner of the house.
I'm pretty sure that's gonna be resolved now.
So it's a pretty cool system.
You get a light that you can control from your phone,
turning it on and off and the brightness.
You can also schedule it to turn itself on and off
at certain times.
You can swap out the LEDs
to make yourself more or less attractive
and it's the wireless access point
which you can put in a corner of the house
that doesn't get very good wi-fi signal,
in the garage,
even out back,
you can put it on the back porch,
if you're having a party or something,
that way you can be sure you have good wi-fi strength
for everyone in the back yard.
I actually moved the bulb
from out of the ceiling fan fixture in Jimena's room
to a closet where it probably won't get as much use
as a light
but at least it can be powered on all the time,
leave the switch on and have it programmed off
that way the internet stays
in this whole side of the house.
And I didn't need to redo any of the settings.
I just took it out of the one socket,
put it into the other.
Within a couple minutes,
internet was working again fine.
Thanks again to the people at XY Connect
for sending out this de.Light set for us to try out.
It really was a delight
and I'm sure Roxanna is especially appreciative.
You can find out more about this set
at the link down below this video.
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