Hello tech lovers, if you've been a subscriber for a while
you might be thinking what's this background about it's all funky and new
and that's because I'm currently in the process of doing up a room so I can have
a better recording area. One thing I've struggled with though while doing up the
room has been finding a decent light socket that allows me to fit a couple of
smart bulbs. If you've been a subscriber for a while you know I've reviewed smart
bulbs before and they tend to be the e27 variety but the light fittings I've been
looking for all required a gu10 bulb and today we're going to be taking a look at
the..this is a problem as I don't know how you say it! Lifts, Life X,
don't know, LIFX gu10 smart bulb. The box has information about its energy
rating and when you open it up you'll find the two bulbs and there's also a
little instruction guide although to be honest you don't really need that because you'll
be using the app to set these up. These are the GU10 variety so they're pretty
pricey if you're going to be using these in an area where you've got lots of
spotlights this is going to cost you absolute fortune but I only needed four
of these and I managed to pick these up during a Black Friday sale you tend to
find these and the bulbs in the range are all discounted around seasonal
holiday so if you're not sure hold off and then check out the sale price.
To set these up you'll be using the app, one thing to note though if you use a VPN on
your mobile, I happen to have Nord VPN installed, that can interfere with
the process so make sure you disable that before you go through the setup
procedure. So you can see here I've already installed three bulbs one of
them is an ordinary gu10 LED light the other two are the newer smart bulbs when
I turn this on you'll see there's a slight delay between the standard bulb
and the smart bulb but when they come on they're all very nice and bright
I really like my previous bulb so it was a no-brainer for me to go with this
rather than the Philips Hue because I like the fact that it has the Wi-Fi
built-in there's no need for an additional bridge there's no extra plugs
or anything like that needed near your router
you simply plug these in and the app will connect them to your Wi-Fi network.
Once you've successfully connected the light to your Wi-Fi network you'll be
able to tell it where it is so I already have several set up so I'm going to
select my existing group and I have several rooms with them in so I'm going
to select studio and then you can give it a name. Now because I'm using these in
a room with my PC and there's four of them
I've just been labeling them PC 1, 2, 3, and 4. Once done you are ready to use these
if you haven't already you can set up the Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant
I've already integrated those which gives me voice control over all my lights.
So that's all the lights now installed just to give you a quick demo
I've got the app set up and ready and you'll see it I can turn them on individually
You can turn them off individually. You can also set groups of bulbs so if you have
a room that has, like I have, a collection of these whether they are all the same
type or different products you can set them up into a room and then you can
control them all at once and that's useful when you want to set different
tones or colors because it means they all match so you see I'm cycling around
different palettes and all the bulbs are changing so far you've seen the bulbs in
white mode but we can use a full range of colors, brightness as well, so
just around, see they're all changed at the same time because I'm changing the
group of bulbs rather than the individual bulbs. There is also a number of
preset effects and modes and colorings that you can have so we have a relaxing
mode
peaceful mode or you can select from a color palette so there's an awful lot
you can do with this there's various effects as well so let's have a bit of
candle flickering now this may not collapse you well on the camera
bit there is a very subtle flickering going on. It can be a music visualizer or
if you have a little party you can also strobe it. If you happen to be using
these in your bedroom there's also a dawn to dusk mode and these could be
used in a bedroom to wake you up in the morning you could have these come on
naturally at a certain time wake you up with natural light rather than an alarm clock.
I mentioned before I'd set this up with Alexa and Google Assistant so just
give that a go Alexa turn off PC one.
Alexa, turn off PC 2. Alexa turn on all lights. The reason I wanted these was to
be able to control the light type within the room so when I'm filming I could
create a different type of atmosphere using different lighting I don't know
how successful that will be hit subscribe to your my tech tribe and
you'll find out in future videos. One cool thing I have noted on a recent
video by YouTube is that you can now integrate actions via If Then This That
with your super chat so if I were to give a super chat you might have that
activate that these bulbs change into a different color I really like this
product range I'm going to take a look at also getting the LED strip so you can
bets that I'll be reviewing that at some point in the future if I get that if you
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