Gabe Turner: Hey, folks.
This is Gabe at Security Baron.
Today, we're going to be reviewing the eufy [claps] Lumos Smart Bulb.
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Here I am, checking out the eufy Lumos Smart bulb, white and color.
It's those 16 million colors that I'm eager to experience.
In today's review, I'm going to look at its design, feature set, installation experience
before finally checking out the functionality in the EufyHome mobile application to make
sure you have all the information you need to know if this is the right smart bulb for
you.
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Let's kick off today's review of the eufy Lumos Smart Bulb, checking out its design.
Right off the bat, you'll note, it pretty much looks like your standard A19 light bulb.
It is the same size.
It'll fit into any E26 size lamp, so you're not really going to have to change anything
else about your interior décor.
One thing I do want to note is despite the fact that it looks the same, it actually feels
quite different.
It has a very solid base, so pretty weighty.
It definitely is heavier than what you'd be used to with a bulb, so keep that in mind
as you first grab it.
You'll note that it does have the eufy Lumos smart color type face here and a ridged piece
right near where it shifts seamlessly into the actual bulb.
Overall, I'm a fan, but I do want to note one pretty cool thing.
It does only use nine watts of energy.
Why is that?
Instead of it using incandescent light, it uses LED light, but it still gives off the
brightness of a 60-watt bulb.
Overall, I'm a fan of the design for the eufy Lumos Smart Bulb.
Now that we've gone over the design for the eufy Lumos Smart Bulb, let's dive into that
feature set.
It is the eufy Lumos white and color.
It's pretty impressive, because this thing has all the kelvins you could want when it
comes to white and its RGB when it comes to colors.
You're going to be able to really look, change, and make whatever you want to see happen right
here with the smart bulb.
That all happens remotely.
You can control it with the mobile device that you have, be it Android or iPhone.
When it comes to setting up entire scenes, you can do so.
If you have a 2001 Space Odyssey scene that you'd like to have built in, you can set it
up, connecting various eufy Lumos Smart Bulbs around your home.
If you have a reading nook that you like to have and you just want to have a reading scene,
you can tap directly into it, using your mobile device.
When it comes to setting up schedules, you can do so, but you can set up to 10 schedules.
They do limit you in that capacity.
Beyond that, you can share with your friends and family access to the light bulb.
If you want other people to be able to change the lights to their needs, you can just give
them access to the EufyHome mobile application.
Boom, [snaps fingers] they're in there.
The final thing that I'll say regarding the feature set for eufy Lumos has to do with
its smart platform integrations.
It does integrate with both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, so you have voice control
capacity right in your home.
Overall, it's a pretty impressive feature set from eufy Lumos Smart Bulb.
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Now that we've gone over the feature set for the eufy Lumos Smart Bulb, let's talk about
the installation experience, which is pretty straightforward.
Now, you'll take your bulb.
You'll go to your lamp.
You're going to make sure it's off.
Screw it in, which is not unlike any light bulb that you've ever screwed in before, and
you're going to download the EufyHome app.
One thing I'll note is that when you download the app and you're going to launch it, you're
going to make sure you're on your home's WiFi.
You'll turn on your eufy Smart Bulb.
Make sure that it blinks three times.
Go into that app, and hit add device.
The rest of the installation process you'll be walked through right there in the mobile
application.
Overall, it does not take a lot of time at all.
It is a very easy, almost intuitive process.
Let's go ahead and check out the functionality of the eufy Lumos Smart Bulb.
To do so, we're going to look at its mobile application, EufyHome.
People tend to like the EufyHome mobile application.
It gets a 3.5 in the Google Play Store and 4.3 in the Apple App Store.
I'm really excited to go ahead and check it out.
Before I do so, I'm going to move to the couch, so I'm a little bit more comfortable as I
check it out on my iPhone X.
Here I am checking out the Lumos Smart Bulb.
This is the only light that is on in this room.
Right now, I have the white on at 100 percent.
I can make it a whiter white right here at 100 percent, you'll see.
You can have a lot of capabilities just inside of the white element of the app.
You see the various colors of white.
I'm going around.
These are all at 100 percent.
I can go ahead and test out that percentage right here.
I can take it down to 90 percent, 72 percent, 50 percent, 45 percent, 30 percent, all the
way down to 1 percent.
This is the only light you're getting at one percent.
Let's kick it back up to 100 percent, because I want all of you to get to see what's going
on here.
Now, we're at 100 percent.
Let's check out some of those colors.
Here we are with a yellowish orange, and we're at 100 percent.
I can go to the various different colors.
I can go to green, blue.
Even within these, I can change the depth of the color.
You see here, I'm able to change it right in that color part of the app.
I can go over more and make it a different color.
I can go pink.
I can go red or purple.
I can even go yellow and green, so a lot of functionality right here in the app.
There are other elements for color.
You can do something called flow, which is just another way for you to change the various
colors right there in the app.
Or you can even have special scenes that they recommend for you like a fireplace.
Look at that.
Or what they call future fusion, kind of a bluish.
Or even party lights.
Get a lot going on with these built-in scenes.
Of course, you can create your own scenes.
Let's go ahead and check that out.
To make a scene, you just go to colors.
On the right, you'll see a little heart with a plus.
You hit that heart with a plus, and you can make a new favorite.
Let's call this whatever we'd like to.
The red hood, for example.
Let's now hit save.
Now, we have another favorite.
I can go to favorites, and you'll see here I already have one made.
The Incredible Hulk at 67 percent, and that's a green light.
I hit that.
I can turn it to the Incredible Hulk, and it'll turn my light green.
For schedule, I already have a couple set up.
I have the away mode, which is 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
If you look, the away mode basically will have my Lumos color randomly turn on and off
over this set time period.
This is something you can do to have people know or not know if you're home or not home.
Then, of course, I just set a schedule so that 8:00 AM every morning, it actually just
turns off.
That is a pretty easy schedule.
I can make a new one.
Let's say, every time when I get home around 6:00 PM, I want to know what's going on.
I have on, and I can decide on the color.
Let's say I want to come home to a green or let's say a blue home.
Done.
Now, every day at 6:00 PM, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I'll set a schedule
for it to turn on.
Pretty straightforward, pretty easy to use the eufy Lumos in terms of scheduling and
setting up scenes.
Another thing you can do with the eufy Lumos, other than go to your scenes like fireplace
or party lights or cocktail bar, you can actually set it up so that it works with music.
If we tap here, it actually listen to the music that you're playing, and change it with
the beat.
If I go, [beatboxing] it actually works directly with the music.
It listens using the microphone on your mobile device, and it will change the music with
it.
That's a pretty cool element of the eufy Lumos Smart Bulb.
Go back to white color.
Check out those recommended or even go to your own favorites.
Overall, it's a pretty intuitive app to use.
You can add more devices here on this home page.
They give you some other elements for looking at your account in terms of notifications,
making sure your time zone is right.
I'm in the Eastern United States.
I can have my notifications on and off.
Overall, I'm a big fan of the mobile application, finding it pretty intuitive and consistent
for my iPhone X.
One of the great things about the eufy Lumos Smart Bulb is that you can connect it Google
Assistant and Amazon Alexa.
If you'll note, here I am having linked it to my Google account, I can control it.
If I tap here on eufy Lumos Baron Bulb, I can turn it on, and I can tap on, off just
to turn it off.
The great thing is you have the same capacity with Amazon Alexa.
You can do that even with your voice.
We can link it to our Amazon Alexa account by searching skills, then discovering device.
Then boom, we're ready to go, and I can control it like so.
Alexa, turn eufy Lumos Baron Bulb to green.
There you have it.
Now, I was able to give it a direct action, tell it exactly what color I wanted it to
be, and I can go ahead and turn it off with that same voice control capability.
Alexa, turn off eufy Lumos Baron Bulb.
Voila.
We've gone over many of the features of the eufy Lumos Smart Bulb, but you want to know,
"Is it the right smart bulb for me?"
I'll say the following.
It comes in at $34.99, which is about in the middle of the general price range for smart
bulbs of similar capacities.
One thing I do want to note is that this bulb is going to last you about 16 years or so
they claim, which is pretty impressive.
It has that nine watts of energy still giving out that 60 watts of brightness.
One thing to note is that you get to integrate it with Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa.
You get the RGB colors, so you can really just mess around with the colors as you set
up various scenes in your home.
Overall, not a lot of negative things to say about the eufy Lumos Smart Bulb.
I think it could be a solid addition if you're looking to integrate a smart bulb in your
home.
That concludes our review of the eufy Lumos Smart Bulb.
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