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Today's show we look at if you should buy a smart light bulb or go with one of those Wireless bulb kits
Now in this video. We'll be looking at the lifx
Smart bulb and on the other side the Philips hue Wireless dimming kit. Let's do this
So right out of the box you can see that the lifx is just that it is only the bulb nothing fancy nothing
spectacular about their
Box it's kind of nice being a little cylinder, but nothing out of the ordinary
Has the bulb has a little bit of directions?
This bulb is very heavy. It's a nice. Heavy feel that feels like you can throw this and not have to worry about
Shattering it is plastic. So you don't have to worry about that cracking and it is an LED bulb now right now
It is priced at
$54 but you can click in the description below my affiliate links
And it will take you to the most up-to-date pricing as always now the bulb itself is
1,100 lumens which is
Amazing and nice. It's very bright bulb
Going from the dimmest and all the way to a hundred percent and the installation is so simple you literally
Screw it in it's another plug-and-play. You screw it into the light fixture
Download the app sign up for your account with lifx
And once that's all installed, and it finds the light bulb you
Have all the control that you can even think of you can group the bulbs together. You can name where they are or
Specifically that bulb is named for the living room lamp for instance. You can go further and see what?
You're able to do with the colors the brightness
The themes as well as having an ability to schedule it on and off kind of like the old timers for day and night
cycles
so you can control this with your phone the Google home your apple homekit and alexa which is nice because
How many?
Bulbs are out there that you have to use there specific thing this you can
Do anything with it in the app it even shows you other?
apps that it will work with and be able to be used with so it's nice and
All around a very well nice bulb
but
Here's the problem
it's 55 bucks almost for a single bulb so if you've got a
Ceiling fan light in your living room that needs more than one bulb guess what?
You get to spend a whole lot more money and it can easily add up
So it's nice, and it works falsely with Siri in my Google home at my house
but the fact of the matter is is I would need a whole lot of these and
Would go broke before I was able to even light my entire house now on the other side
Let's take a look at the philips. Hue kit this is not a smart bulb
No app is required
No wiring is required you literally
Get a bulb and this smart wireless dim
switch
And you don't need a hub
the nice thing is it comes in at
$35 for the entire kit the bulb and the wireless dimmer ring switch
It's very affordable plus if you want more bulbs. It's just about 15 bucks per bulb
they usually sell it for 30 in a two-pack or you can get them in a 4-pack and you can add as
Many bulbs as you would like up to 10 hue lights for one of these switches
So a whole lot more cheaper when it comes to being able to
Put more LED lights in your house, and that's really where everything is needing to be going
Yeah, you you have your 60 watt old incandescent light bulbs that
Took sixty watts and now they are able to be ran
For the 60 watts is what you used to be
using now, it's using nine to eleven watts and
That's just crazy. How much money you're able to save and so
You're able to do that just with any of these bulbs
so
Going back to the Phillips
This bulb is only of 840 lumens, so it is a little bit
Not as bright as the lifx one, but it is only a white color
So you don't have to worry about is the purple as a green is a bright green
but it's white and you can dim it all the way down for to being nothing to as bright as
840 lumens so
It's nice to be able to have this option, and here's where it would fit really well into
your lamps in your house that you don't want to have to go over and
Use the little rocker switch or the switch on the actual lamp and you have this
Remote that you're able to turn it on and off the other thing is really nice is those older homes that had no
ceiling lights and so you had everything controlled by the outlets around the room and
So with that you'd have to get an electrician to wire in a ceiling fan
Or a ceiling light and with out having to do that and without having to worry about where's your phone?
Telling Alexa to turn on your lamp you can literally just put the bulb in and hit the switch and your light comes on
So obviously both have their pros and cons price and
the
versatility and how much they can do and
the use is really a factor if you're someone that just I mean if you like to have colors if you like to have a
smart home
integration
If you don't have a problem with the price, then yes the lifx bulb is amazing in I enjoy it
But if you at the other end you don't care about color. You don't really
Want to worry about how to turn it on and off other than flipping a switch?
Essentially and you don't want to have to deal with wiring a dimmer switch and to be able to have the dimming ability
The Philips hue wireless dimming kit is perfect for that
both of these companies have
amazing bulbs and so many different kinds of bulbs that they have
The links I put the links down below
to show you all the different kinds of lifx bulbs and the different kinds of
philips hue bulbs that go from there wireless dimming kit all the way to their smart and the hub and
Everything that you can get with their whole package
Now
So with met so many
different
so with so many different companies making so many options out there to make your home smart or
even just easier to manage it's always good to try them out and
to see which one works best for your home and
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