HomeBrite

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We often travel so I was wanting a system that would turn the lights on and off throughout the day and night while we were not home. I bought one Homebrite Smart LED Bulb to try it out. When it worked as advertised I was so impressed I went out and purchased two more. I had lights scheduled to come on and go off at many intervals in 3 different rooms. We went out of town and my neighbor told me that my lights worked great. I was a happy customer, but then decided I needed to change the schedule on a couple of the lamps. I don't know what happened but something happened to the mesh and now all my bulbs are undiscoverable. I have deleted and re-installed the app hoping that would solve my problem. It has not. My lights will not come on and go off with my phone or on a schedule. What I'm going to do when I go out of town is just turn them all on at the switch and let them burn 24 hours a day while I'm gone hoping that they will eventually burn out. I don't feel bad throwing out a light bulb that has burnt out. I can't bring myself to throw away an expensive lightbulb that still lights. Oh well, at least I only bought 3 and they worked for a couple of weeks.

I saw this at the store and purchased. If I had read the reviews on the app first, I probably never would have bought it. But since I did, I gave it a try anyway to see for myself. It works great. Either I got lucky or people must be turning off their light switches making the app unable to operate the bulb. App installation was fast. It immediately located the bulb. You can set different bulbs up in groups to operate on the same schedule. Literally within a minute or so I was operating the lift and had a schedule saved. I was very reluctant to buy it thinking this was going to be another gadget that didn't work good. I can turn the light on and off or dim from my phone. Yes expensive but not really when you consider the features. I only got one to test. Now I am going to get a few more. Works great for table lamps. I don't normally give long reviews but I thought it was necessary here. Seeing so many bad reviews, I was thinking the few good reviews were probably not true. I am very pleased.

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I bought two of the bulbs for this system to replace some normal bulbs in my bedroom. I was thinking of using the scheduling feature to supplement my alarm clock by having it turn on the lights when the alarm was supposed to go off. However, once installed, one of the two bulbs I bought just wouldn't turn off (when turned off through the app the bulb would flicker off for a second then come on full again). I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app, resetting the app through the settings menu, hard resetting the bulbs together, hard resetting the bulbs separately, connecting the bulbs separately after hard resetting the bulbs, and a few other method of attempting to get the second bulb to work. Spoilers... it never worked and I will be returning the one bulb and exchanging it for another one to see if it was just a bad bulb. But, judging by the sheer volume of negative comments it might be a firmware/app problem. Either that or they have such horrible quality control that one in every three or so bulbs is faulty... just a thought. Buy theses bulbs with extreme caution as they will probably not work as you are expecting them to...

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I was very excited to set this up in my room for dimming the lights, automatic shut off, controlling the bulb myself, etc. HOWEVER, from the very beginning I've had issues with pairing the bulb to my iPhone, and despite getting a different phone over the course of time (and keeping up with updates), this bulb still won't cooperate. Now it won't pair at all and is basically a super expensive regular light bulb. I'm very disappointed and won't be buying this type of smart bulb in the future; my money and time will be invested in other brands. The user interface of the app could have had more options and customization choices and I would have liked to have seen more updates released, but other than that, I do not have any major problems with the app. It's simple enough for most age groups to use (a pro or a con, depending on how you look at it), but that makes me wonder if the pairing issue is with the bulbs themselves or the app/pairing firmware. Regardless, I strongly advise future buyers to consider reviews from here and elsewhere before making any large investments in this brand of smart bulb.

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I needed a light that wasn’t too expensive and would get the job done. This light wasn’t too expensive but it definitely did NOT get the job done. I loved and needed a lightbulb that would turn on on a schedule as I get home late some nights and hate coming home to a dark home and I hate that my dog is sitting at home in the dark as well so thought that this light would be perfect because you can schedule it to turn on/off etc whenever you want. I was shocked and happy that I got it to work but it didn’t work for long (like a week). Sometimes it wouldn’t go on as scheduled or it would not turn on and not turn off with the app. So I just turned on the light myself. And figured I just wasted money. After that, there was an app update that I thought it might help. But it did not. The light still doesn’t connect to the app. I even tried trouble shooting like the website suggested. I still cannot get the light to connect with the app no matter how hard I tried! Save your money and buy a more reliable one that actually works!