Yeelight Smart LED Bulb

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Yeelight Smart LED Bulbs are affordable color LED bulbs that you can control with your phone or voice and don’t require a controller. It supports HomeKit, Alexa, Google platforms and works with other smart devices through IFTTT.

We’ve reviewed a ton of smart bulbs, and while we’ve yet to find a bulb that does it all, the Yeelight Smart LED Bulb has come up pretty close. It’s dimmable, offers 16 million colors, and connects wirelessly to your home network without the need for a hub or bridge. It supports Apple HomeKit, IFTTT, and Alexa, Google, and Siri voice commands, and it’s relatively affordable at $25.99. It also offers a user-friendly application that allows you to configure lighting effects and create lighting schedules.

Design and Features

The Yeelight bulb is a dimmable bulb with a 16 million color palette, 1700K to 6500K white temperature range, and an 800-lumen brightness rating equivalent to a 60-watt bulb. It has an E26 base and will fit into any standard light socket. The bulb measures 4.6 inches long and 2.2 inches wide and has an expected lifespan of 22 years (based on three hours of use per day). Inside is a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi radio used to connect the bulb to your home network and mobile apps.

The mobile app for Android and iOS is easy to use and offers some neat lighting effects features. It opens the Devices screen with tabs for all your Yeelight bulbs containing the name, status (online, offline), and an On/Off button. Tapping on any tab will take you to a screen where you can customize the bulb by selecting a color from the palette, choosing the white temperature, setting the bulb brightness level, and selecting Flow Mode, which runs the color gamut between yellow and blue. The Flow Mode setting allows you to control the flow rate quickly or gradually transition from one color to another and adjust the brightness level while in this particular mode.

The app also offers preset color scenes like Dawn (slightly red), Night Mode (dim and warm), Movie (blue), Romance (gradient from dark blue to red), and Flashes (mimic a candle) and has a Music Stream setting that changes color based on music and other sounds using your phone’s microphone. Additional settings allow you to create a lighting schedule and set a timer so that the bulb automatically turns off after a certain amount of time.

Back on the Devices page, there are three buttons at the bottom of the screen. Tap the Scene button to create a one-touch icon to turn the bulb on or off and change the color state. Tapping the Room button lets you create a room and control multiple lights in a group, and the Devices button returns you to the Devices screen.

Yeelight works with Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant voice commands. You can make it part of your HomeKit home automation system and include it in HomeKit Scenes; it also works with SmartThings. It’s not quite as versatile as the Philips Hue bulb, which works with multiple smart home platforms, including Logitech, Vivint, Wink, and Xfinity Home. That said, you can create IFTTT apps to integrate Yeelight with other IFTTT-enabled smart home devices like cameras, doorbells, and plugs.

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Settings and Performance

Setting up Yeelight is very easy. I downloaded the app, created an account, and verified it via email. I tap the Devices button at the bottom of the screen, tap Add Device, and select LED Bulb (Color) from the list.

Following the app’s instructions, I screwed the bulb into the light socket, tapped Next Step, selected the Wi-Fi SSID, and entered my Wi-Fi password. Then I went into my phone’s Wi-Fi settings, connected to Yeelight SSID, waited about 12 seconds for the bulb to be added to the Devices list, and the installation completed.

Yeelight offers a rich variety of colors and a wide range of white light shades from cool blues to warm yellows in our tests. It responds quickly to app commands to turn it on and off, change color and dimming levels, and the Flow Mode, Schedule, Timer, and Music Stream features work flawlessly.

The bulb had no trouble responding to Alexa, and Siri commands to turn it on and off or change color, and HomeKit scenes worked without issue. I made an IFTTT app so that the bulb turns red when the Arlo Pro 2 camera detects motion, and it works every time.

Conclusion

If you’re looking to add colorful smart lighting to your home without having to connect a hub to a router, the Yeelight Smart LED Bulb is one of the smartest bulbs available. However, it doesn’t offer as much interoperability with other smart devices like Philip Hue bulbs. Still, it is more affordable and works with three of the leading voice control platforms and Apple’s HomeKit ( unlike our previous Editorial Pick, Sengled Smart Wi-Fi LED). You can make it interact with other connected devices using IFTTT apps.

Advantages

Good price.

Beautiful light effect.

Works with Apple HomeKit and IFTTT.

Supports Alexa, Google, and Siri voice commands.

Scheduling and timer options.

Defect

Does not support many smart home platforms like Philips Hue.