Gabe: Hey folks, this is Gabe at Security Baron and if you have been in any home with
smart lightning, you understand how much it can change the vibe. We want to give you our
favorite smart light bulbs with our best overall and our best for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant,
and Apple HomeKit.
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Gabe: If you are interested in diving deeper into any of these smart light bulbs, please
check out the full written review on our website. You can find the link below.
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Gabe: Let's kick off today's look at our favorite smart bulbs with the best smart bulbs for
Google Assistant. In here, we give the LIFX A19 that award.
LIFX A19 is especially great with the Google because of its Nest integration. Now remember
that Google owns Nest. Google Assistant and Nest integration is really important in terms
of automating elements of your home security system.
For example, if you have the Nest Home Security System and something goes off, your alarm
is triggered, you can actually have your LIFX bulb turn red. You get a visual indication
of what's going on in your home.
This is especially if you happen to have a deaf individual in your home or someone of
hard of hearing. I mention this because that red is going to be at 1,100 lumens, making
it one of the brightest bulbs on our list today. Typically, what we see from smart light
bulbs is about 800 lumens.
On top of that, all of these LIFX bulbs can be used without a hub. There's no hub necessary,
no need to plug anything into your router. You're basically ready to go, right out of
the box with your LIFX bulbs.
You still of course get all what we expect from a smart bulb in terms of setting up schedules
and scenes, sharing access with trusted members of your community or family. Overall, really
impressed with the LIFX and give it the best smart bulb for Google Assistant.
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Gabe: The next category that we want to look at is the best smart light bulb for Amazon
Alexa. To be honest, it was a very difficult category because Amazon Alexa is the most
politic if you will of the smart platforms out there. It is compatible with almost everything
on the market, and it generally works pretty well.
We decided to look at what is the most affordable smart bulb that we really liked that worked
with Amazon Alexa at a deeper level and that goes to the Eufy Lumos Smart Bulb.
The Lumos Smart Bulb does bring all of the color effects that you come to expect from
a color light bulb in terms of the full spectrum of green, red and blue. The ability to change
the brightness at right there at the palm of your hand. It also allows you to set up
routines.
I can set up a routine just using my voice in the Amazon Alexa app to set the room at
the exact temperature I like or to have my lights go off every day at 9:00 PM to remind
me to go to bed. In short, there's a lot of things that you can do within the Amazon Alexa
app to give your Eufy Lumos more utility.
Overall, I am a really big fan of Eufy Lumos and because of its affordability we've given
it our pick for the best smart light bulb for Amazon Alexa.
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Gabe: Hope you are appreciating today's look at our favorite smart bulbs. We kept up to
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All right. Let's get back to the video.
The next category we will jump into is the best smart light bulb for Apple HomeKit. For
that, we are going with one of the original compatible smart light bulbs, Philips Hue.
Philips Hue's A19 bulb works well with Apple HomeKit and I can say that because it was
not always the case. They have made pretty significant strides and are now one of the
most consistent performers with the Apple HomeKit. They even work with the original
companies to come out with that Apple HomeKit QR code right on the box.
In terms of what you can do with your smart bulb, of course you can set your scenes, your
schedules, you can make tons of groups and you can control that all in your iPhone. People
generally seem to be enjoying that experience, because it does have a 4.4 out of 5 stars
in the Apple App Store.
When it comes to Apple HomeKit, we're going to give that to the Philips Hue A19 bulb.
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Gabe: The final category that I want to jump in today is our best overall smart bulb. For
that, we're going with the TP-Link Smart WiFi LED bulb with the color changing hues. What
that means is you get the full 16 blink colors given by the RGB Spectrum and beyond that,
integration to go lower.
You have integration with Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, we even have
it work and automate with your Nest products and IFTTT. Beyond that, it has the most intuitive
mobile application experience with the Casa App. It has a 4.7 in the Google Play Store
and a 4.8 in the Apple App Store.
Overall, it's just a stress-free experience just controlling your app in terms of setting
up schedules, scene presets and grouping devices together, bulbs together. There's a host of
things you can do with the Casa mobile app and overall, we just thoroughly enjoyed our
experience with the TP-Link Smart WiFi LED bulb and it's our number one pick overall.
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Gabe: That concludes our look at our favorite smart light bulbs. If you appreciate today's
video, give us a like and hit that Subscribe button. As always, this is Gabe at Security
Baron. Be secured.
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