Best/favorite Smart bulb

Hi!

I'm a newbie in the Hubitat world and I'm currently looking for smart bulb to ad in my smart home set up. But i can't make a head on wich one the buy!

I entend to use them in like bedside lamp or living room lamp etc, no ceiling light will be using smart switches for that.

So Wich one in your opinion is the best or your favorite and why

Thanks in advance!

Are you interested in color changing bulbs? Or simple white light?

There’s another thread discussing RGB bulbs that’s only a few days old:

:point_up: This is how I use Smart Bulbs as well. :sunglasses:

For my needs, I ended up choosing Philips Hue to handle these bulbs. I have a Philips Hue hub + about a dozen genuine Hue smart bulbs (some full color bulbs & some simply dimmable bulbs) that are paired directly to the Hue hub. I then use one of the integrations to connect the Hue hub to my Hubitat hub. The Hue bridge is also connected to Apple Home using HomeKit, to my Logitech Harmony hub, and to Home Assistant as well. It is nice having so many integration options available. Philips Hue even added Matter Bridge support to their Hue hub, which opens up even more options in the future.

As for smart switches, I use Lutron Caseta. Like Philips Hue, Lutron's lighting system uses its own Caseta SmartBridge hub. It also offer many standard integrations with other systems, in addition to Hubitat.

I really enjoy the flexibility of using my Hubitat + Lutron + Philips Hue solution. YMMV, of course!

Enjoy!

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I have had good luck with the Sengleds. I have several in the house.

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I've been using Sengled Element Classic in lamps since 2017 (first with Smartthings, then Hubitat). I don't have any other bulbs in lamps, so I don't have anything to compare to. My only very minor complaint is that they're pretty slow to react. Maybe newer ones are quicker.

These are the ones I use. Warm white.

LIFX...100% local control with superior color and brightness.

Thanks will take a look!

I do have some wifi and Bluetooth and i noticed the same thing. The other thing i don't like with the bulbs is when there's a power outage(Wich happens almost everytime there's heavy wind) when the power come back the lights turns ON wich is annoying as they're in my bedroom

Aren't LiFX wifi?

That is one of the nice features of using genuine Hue bulbs on a Hue hub. You can choose how each bulb behaves after a power outage. I have all of mine set to restore to their previous state.

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If the lamps are in your bedroom and you want to have some nice, even softer lighting, I chose rgbw bulbs (Philips Hue) so that I could get more into the Orange and Red part of the spectrum, compared to the softer yellows I could get with Philips' Ambience range.

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I believe you can achieve this even if they are connected directly to Hubitat. It's a standard Zigbee feature.

I do not believe it is a standard feature of Zigbee bulbs at all. Hubitat has a workaround in place to help with it, however I do not believe the bulbs themselves are doing the work. I believe the Hubitat hub has to try an figure it out and set the device to the correct state.

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I'm going to take a look a Hue bulbs thanks!

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I'll do some testing tomorrow and let you know. I only have 3 x Hue LWU001 bulbs though, nothing fancier.

Yep and 100% local.... Fantastic bulbs with native support.

Mmmh interesting! Will take a look at theses bulbs

I did the following tests with my Hue P45 LWU001 bulbs (bulb only supports dimming):

  1. I use the IKEA Dimmable Light driver with these bulbs, so this excludes any blackmagic that Hubitat drivers might do. I know what the driver does cause I wrote it.
  2. Turn off the bulb from Hubitat
  3. Set "Power On behaviour" to "Turn power Off"
  4. Unscrew the bulb from its socket and waited 30 seconds (to simulate a power outage)
  5. Screw the bulb back on -> Bulb stayed off, no flicker, no nothing
  6. Turn on the bulb from Hubitat to check that everything works, all went fine
  7. Turn off the bulb from Hubitat
  8. Set "Power On behaviour" to "Turn power On"
  9. Unscrew the bulb from its socket and waited 30 seconds (to simulate a power outage)
  10. Screw the bulb back on -> Bulb went on automatically, again no flicker
  11. Turn off the bulb from Hubitat

Don't know about other Hue bulbs, but mine are working as expected. Actually I ditched the Hue hub a while back and had no problems with the 3 Hue bulbs that I have, and they are used every day.

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Good info, thanks for sharing.

Could I just clarify that you are using IKEA Dimmable lights and these work directly with the Hubitat hub, without the need for any other hubs? I find using more than one hub defeats the purpose of having Hubitat (which works wonderfully with my smart switches).