Wyze Bulb review

Our Verdict

The Wi-Fi-operated Wyze Bulb is the best upkeep smart light bulb bachelor. At $8 for one and $thirty for four, they're perfect for illuminating your space.

For

Depression-toll, modest-infinite lighting selection
Works without a hub
Vacation style

Against

Limited dimming level
Not platonic for whole-home lighting

Tom'southward Guide Verdict

The Wi-Fi-operated Wyze Seedling is the best budget smart light bulb available. At $eight for one and $xxx for iv, they're perfect for illuminating your space.

Pros

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Low-price, pocket-sized-infinite lighting pick
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Works without a hub
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Vacation mode

Cons

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Limited dimming level
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Not ideal for whole-home lighting

In an impressive effort to democratize smart homes, Wyze Labs created an excellent, low-price smart light bulb you'll want to utilise to illuminate your infinite. The 8000 Lumen LED Wyze Seedling, which is a very affordable $viii, has adjustable timers, temperature and brightness features. It's one of the all-time smart lights bulbs and all-time inexpensive smart home devices nosotros've tested in the last year.

Y'all can control single or grouped bulbs via Wyze app, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Plus, all you need to set one up is a Wi-Fi connexion. For more of the best smart home devices from Wyze, check out our Wyze Smart Lock review and Wyze Calibration review.

Wyze Bulb: Design

From the outside, the Wyze Bulb looks similar nearly of the standard A19 light bulbs I swapped out for testing, except it has a tough, matte shell that covers the bottom one-half of the bulb. I plant its unproblematic exterior charming, especially when paired with my every bit elementary, $12 Target floor lamp.

The Wyze Bulb measures 4.8 10 2.36 inches in bore at its widest. It weighs 4.6 ounces and feels rather heavy for a light bulb, especially compared with similar Philips Hue lights. The Wyze Bulb screws into any lighting outlet using the standard screw mountain.

Wyze Bulb: Ready

Setting up a Wyze Bulb is almost effortless. Unlike the Philips Hue lighting setup, which requires you to connect the bulbs to a bridge that's continued to your Wi-Fi router, Wyze's bulbs link direct to your Wi-Fi. Proceed in mind that if you're looking for a whole-home lightning solution, a brand that offers a hub is a better selection. This fashion your lights volition nevertheless work if your internet goes down.

If you're not already a Wyze user, you'll need to download Wyze'south app on your iOS or Android device. It guides you through a quick setup procedure. Yes, it'due south really that easy.

Wyze Bulb: App

While we found Wyze's app (available for Android and iOS) a piffling complicated to navigate in our Wyze Cam review, the bulb'due south UI is straightforward. You can command the settings by bulb grouping or by individual bulbs. The brightness range seemed standard, although I wish I could brand the Wyze Bulb a little dimmer than allowed. As for color temperature, Wyze Bulbs range from 2700K to 6500K — a bluish white to a warmer, orangey tone.

In one case you're satisfied with your effulgence and temperature settings, yous tin save them as a scene. You tin can also share the bulb (and other Wyze smart home products) with members of your family, so they tin create their own scenes and lighting modes. My mom adored this feature, saving her warm, dimmed adjustments as "Mom'southward Dark Lightning" for unwinding after a long mean solar day of work. I added a brighter and cooler "Morning Light" scene for my wake-up routine.

To schedule your Wyze Bulbs, yous'll accept to connect them with Google Banana or Alexa, or create a shortcut within the Wyze App. You can set a timer for how long you'd like to leave the bulbs on or off. I don't actually run across a need for that feature, because you lot tin can turn your Wyze Bulbs on and off from wherever you're using the app.

Vacation Mode, on the other hand, is a neat addition. When you're away, holiday mode will turn your Wyze lights on and off at random, making it await like you're home.

Wyze Seedling: Smart home compatibility

The Wyze Seedling pairs with both Amazon's Alexa and Google Banana. If yous pair the Wyze Seedling to a speaker with voice-banana integration, yous tin command your light bulbs with verbal commands.

I opted for Google Banana, then adjusted my low-cal bulb names with the Google Banana app to differentiate the Wyze Bulbs installed in the floor lamp in my den from the Phillips Hue i located in a nearby table lamp. When I said, "OK Google, turn on floor lamp," both Wyze Bulbs in the two-headed lamp flicked on. Voilà. I further specified the bulb labels to command ane at a time, too.

Yous can ask your vox assistant to brand a Wyze Bulb brighter, dimmer, warmer or libation. Information technology will conform each setting merely a morsel at a time, though, and then if you're trying to make a major lighting modify, you're amend off doing and then with the app.

More than: Smart Home Guide

Wyze'due south bulbs can likewise exist used in conjunction with the visitor's other smart home products. For instance, you can take the lights turn on if the Wyze Cam detects motility, or if its move or door sensor is tripped.

Wyze Bulb: Value

At $7.99, the Wyze Bulb is cheaper than a lot of nonsmart calorie-free bulbs, as well as the Philips Hue $fifteen white lite bulbs (which crave a $sixty hub for employ). Better nonetheless, on the basis of 3 hours of use a day, the Wyze Bulb has a life expectancy of eighteen.3 years.

A long-lasting, cheap smart light seedling like this ane adds much-desired accessibility to smart abode engineering. It makes more sense to outfit your flat with $8 light bulbs ($30 for four) than with one or two of the pricer ones.

Wyze Bulb: Verdict

After using Wyze Bulbs, I nearly meet no need to test other hub-less smart light bulbs. The Wyze Bulb is not only inexpensive, it too just works. As much unique novelty as a fancy smart light seedling with a trillion colors and time options has, I'm keen on i that works like whatsoever former light bulb — with a couple practical perks.

If you lot're looking for a elementary means to brand your home smarter, swapping your light bulbs for Wyze ones is non only smooth but also affordable.

Kate Kozuch is a senior author at Tom's Guide covering wearables, TVs and everything smart-home related. When she's not in cyborg mode, you can find her on an exercise bike or channeling her inner celebrity chef. She and her robot army will dominion the globe one solar day, but until and then, reach her at kate.kozuch@futurenet.com.