Smart Light Bulbs, WiFi & Bluetooth 5.0, Work with Alexa Google Assistant, App Control, Color Changing LED Bulb,E26 800LM Dimmable RGB Lights, Smart Home Lighting, Dimmable, 4Pack with Remote

VERY versatile light, as long as you avoid the dreaded WiFi mode
PROs:Very bright – claims to be as bright as 80W incandescent, and I agreeWonderful array of effects – this is far more than just setting a colorWiFi, Bluetooth, AND Remote controls – but each has drawbacks…VERY good app (Surplife)True dedicated white LEDs – and temperature control over whiteCONs:Base gets hot at full brightnessConnectivity has some big limitationsBlue color is questionable. Lots of LEDs struggle with blue, and therefore your blue may not match my blue…Vanance is yet another company that has Smart Bulbs. More well known are GE. Feit, and Philips. Vanance are quite a bit cheaper. Do they last as long? Who knows…The other vendors have the fewest choices for connectivity. Some are WiFi only. Some offer Bluetooth as well. Only Vanance includes a hand held remote.So let’s go over the connectivity options:HAND HELD REMOTEIf you don’t have Wifi or Bluetooth or don’t want to use them, you can always use the remote. This is a very cool thing about Vanance. Now, using the remote gives you VERY FEW available functions. You can set a limited number of colors, set a timer, set a few canned functions like auto color changes, and set white temperature. That’s about it. When you turn the light off and back on, it remembers the last thing you did on the remote and returns to it. For most folks, that is plenty enough. But if you want to change the color of your light, you need to use the remote. And the range is around 20 ft, so ALL bulbs in that range change color. That may not be something you want… I think the app allows you to pair specific lights to specific remotes…if you really want to have several identical remotes in your house.Setting up WiFi or BluetoothWhen the app first discovers a bulb, you set it up as EITHER WiFi or Bluetooth. You cannot switch between them once you set it up. To change it you need to reset the bulb via the app and rediscover it. Setup is really a breeze. You then give the bulb a name and you are done. Setup takes maybe 2-3 min per bulb.BLUETOOTHThis is in my opinion the ONLY mode to use. Bluetooth has almost all the features of WiFi with none of the downsides. You do NOT get the ability to change the colors synchronized with music, voice control, group synchronized lights, and some of the pre-canned “scenes”. You do get millions of colors and customizations (heartbeat, strobe, flames, etc). Once programmed to a color or customization, the light can be turned off and on and it will resume the same function or color – whether Bluetooth is present or not. So unless you are actively trying to change the function or color of a light using the app, you don’t need Bluetooth. Think of it as a greatly enhanced version of the hand-held remote. That being said, when you select a light to change, your app needs to connect with THAT light. That takes a second. Because of the rather short range of Bluetooth, you will not be able to turn off a light from several rooms away. Nor can you see the status of a light across the house from your app; you can only see status of lights in Bluetooth range. Probably the biggest bummer of this mode is that you cannot, say, turn off all of the Smart Lights in the living room at once using the app; you would need to turn them off one by one. You would be able to do that with WiFi.WIFISo why not use WiFi? Because the drawbacks far outweigh the few benefits…Once your bulbs are added to WiFi, you can group them (i.e. Living Room), and do operations on them as a group or individually. Through the app you will have access to millions of colors. You will also have access to some great canned “mood” effects, like heartbeat, color pulsing, color “breathing”, strobing, twinkling, etc. You can also create your own customized effects. You can easily switch between any special effects and your normal mode. You can set up timers for effects to happen. You can synchronize the lights in a room to have the same effect. You can set lights to change TO MUSIC. The lights don’t listen to the music; the app does, and it tells the lights how to respond.. I am using them outdoors for my Halloween display – strobes for synchronized lightning, pulsing lights on skeletons, And if you turn the power off, the special effect will resume when the light is turned on.Sounds amazing, right?Well, there is one MIGHTY BIG downside – if you lose WiFi connectivity, your lights will respond…in different ways. If the lights are on and you lose WiFi, you can program your light to handle it. By default, it keeps doing what it was doing. You can also program it to turn white. If your light is OFF and you lose connectivity, when you turn it on, it MAY stay off. It MAY turn and be white. It MAY turn on to the last programmed color. If you programmed a special effect, it will probably just stay off. When powered up, the lights just sit there until they find WiFi to tell them what the hell to do… So the lights never turn on instantly – and sometimes not all at the same time. This limitation is not limited to Vanance – ALL of the manufacturers use the same basic controller, so they all do this.Since the app can turn your lights on and off, you may decide to leave the light switch ON all the time and use the app to do everything,. That’s fine and dandy until your WiFi goes out and every single device on the app turns gray… So if your lights are in the ON position and you used the app to turn them off – and then WiFi goes out – you need to get up and turn the light switch off, then on – and then pray the lights actually turn on.Honestly, if you have crappy WiFi, I recommend you still get the bulbs – just use Bluetooth.WIFI ADDS NOTHING BUT FRUSTRATION.Hell, even you have the best WiFi in the land, use Bluetooth mode…The GE SmartBulbs ONLY support WiFi. No remote and no Bluetooth. God help anyone who buys them…

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Love these smart 💡. They were easy to set up & The app is user friendly. Theyre Compatible with my Google Assistant 😁 & the remote is also convenient. (Photo color is set to “Grey”) There are also a variety of colors & settings for brightness ⬆️⬇️ Great value for the price. I would definitely recommend 👌🏽