LIFX - 1100-Lumen, 11W Dimmable BR30 LED Light Bulb, 75W Equivalent - Multicolor

Just bought a house and changed my living room light and i love them!!

I have around 15 LIFX lights in my home and love everyone of them. The LIFX customer support is also excellent. These lights are great for big floor lamps. I use them in my meditation room and it provides the perfect environment to exercise, meditate or just play video games.

The app is so much easier than HUE. Colors are better and brighter. However, not as soft as the HUE's colors. What I like about the LIFX is that on the app you can pick a pure color like Blue or Purple and tone it down on the app by adding a little white to the color. The bulbs from LIFX are much brighter than HUE's. And, I have a few light strips which are great and a couple of rooms of the BR30 bulbs in my existing Hi Hat fixtures. The only thing is that unless everyone in your house has the app, it's a pain to control the lights as they have no way to turn them on or off. There is a switch from Logictech that is a 3 way press switch which also works with IFTTT technology. You can easily wirelessly program this click switch (which is very small and thin) to turn the lights on and off. Or, to control a number of other wireless things in your house. For now, the other members in my family can use Echo (Alexa) and speak to turn the lights on or off. The BR30 sized bulbs also state on the package they can be used indoors or outdoor locations (with the HUE you can't do that). Also, as mentioned in many reviews, no hub needed to buy with LIFX system. Installation took all of 3 minutes to screw in the bulbs and download the app. Took longer for me to decide what names to give the bulbs. Grouping them is easy so in my room with four hi hats I can turn all on in a group or turn each one off or on individually. Color rendition is great. Even the shades of white are amazingly true. Soft white, daylight, Flourescent light....you name it, it covers the whole temperature spectrum. Whereas before with regular bulbs you had to choose a temperature and stick with it, you just dial up what you like with these bulbs. Love them so far. And, oh yes...one more thing. If you are going to buy a few, buy the multi packs on Best Buy's website as a pack of 4 is $196 rather than buying 4 bulbs individually at $60/each for a total of $240 (much cheaper). If you still feel you need to compare them after my review, buy one of each brand and a hub for Philips HUE and try them out for yourself. I think if LIFX had better marketing and more product on the shelves in Best Buy they would be the clear winner of which bulb sells more. However, Philips is killing LIFX on marketing and using the fancy packaging in stores. Go for the LIFX over Philips...you won't regret your decision.

Great lights, very bright easy to setup and manage. They do not require a hub with makes the price even more attractive. Highly recommend.

I did my research on several smart light bulbs before purchasing lights for my recessed cans in my livingroom. These are easy to program, work great and respond to on/off commands or color changes in sync with one another with no lag. Works flawlessly with Alexa which I use to turn them on and off, dim to certain brightness and change colors. You can use the color wheel to make any color. There are different color themes as well as warm and cool whites to choose from. Well worth the investment!

The Lifx bulbs are very bright. Which is why I would recommend these over the philips hue bulbs. The connectivity and light dimming issues is the reason for the 4 stars. It seems that I am constantly losing connection with one of the many Lifx bulbs that I have purchased. When the bulb stops working, it goes dim. This has become very frustrating, I do not have this problem with the philips hue bulbs that I have, which are dimmer. The difference is there is a hub that controls the philips hue bulbs and the Lifx bulbs are strictly wifi. I have had to return more than one Lifx bulb and had to contact Lifx customer service due to the reasons mentioned above. In my opinion, when all the Lifx bulbs are working, there the best smart bulbs for brightness and color control. Philips hue bulbs are more durable, but dimmer. I rarely have any issues with the hue bulbs. Modem and Wireless router: I am using the Orbi ax6000 Tri-band wireless router with the spectrum modem and receive over 300 Mbps. Example of Connectivity Issues: I have can light fixtures. And when one of the lifx bulbs stop working, I have to remove the light, find another light fixture to screw the bulb in, and start the process of adding the bulb. If I leave the bulb in with the other can light fixtures, I would have to reset all the bulbs in the can light fixtures. This repeatedly happens. In conclusion: Would I recommend this bulb to a friend, yes. I would tell them to buy a few at a time (1-5). As of right now, only one Lifx bulb is not responding. That is good due to the many Lifx bulbs that I have purchased. I will need to remove the light from the can light fixture and reprogram it. If the Lifx bulbs had a hub or stronger wifi connection, and kept the same brightness and color control, I would give the light bulb 5 stars.

Works great but the app isn’t as straight forward and intuitive as others. Happy with the product and would buy again.

Bright and responsive HomeKit light, no hub needed and perfect as a floodlight in the living room