LIFX+ BR30 Smart Infrared Night Vision Bulb

1) Brighter. A lot brighter. Did I mention it was brighter? Brighter is better because it dims. This light is MUCH BRIGHTER than Philips.2) Great colors.3) Easy App.4) No Hub.I wish they had more advertising dollars so I had found out about them earlier. Now I have a Philips Hub + a bunch of bulbs and I wish I didn't because these are brighter and easier to use. And no hub. And cheaper. Etc.

I now have 4 lights and I choose these because they don't need a hub, and they work with nest and IFTTT. Love the fade on and off options, schedules, and having a patio light that can change with the seasons. Also having the security of a bulb that lights up your room on your nest cam when the lights are off.

I was very impressed by how bright these are and the brilliance of the color, the only thing that was disappointing is that occasionally they'll get dropped off of the network and we lose control of them. The infrared is a cool feature, we have these outdoors and our cameras can see at night

This light installed very easily whereas other competitor lights had to be returned— I am most pleased with the app and the quality and selection of colors. I would buy again and recommend it to my friends!

Seemed great at first, but after a few months it started acting up. I have two lights in one fixture that stays on at all times. After any rain, (NOT a storm) just rain, no power outage, no surge, absolutely just rain, One light turns on and the other turns off. They both lose connection to the router and stay in that condition of One on and One off until I get irritated enough to go through the reset operation all over again. That worked for several rains and and I suspect No rains because I would just walk out to find them with one on and one off. After about a year of resetting at the switch, they refused to reset no matter how I tried. So the directions said to factory reset, SOOOO, I finally decided to go dig out a ladder and drag it from the shed through the yard down to my house and climb up to attempt to reset, only to find it has no factory reset button as stated on the directions for reset. They are both sitting on a table worthless. Assuming these aren't fakes, I would not recommend Lifx bulbs. My Kasa smart bulbs have worked fantastic for years but they don't make an outdoor bulb.

Great product! I was initially hesitant as I've never spent so much on a light bulb before, but after a day using them I can definitely see myself purchasing more in the future!The tunability of these bulbs allow me to use them as a growlight for my indoor plants (it has 6500k temp and also blues, reds, purples) when I'm at work, but as less-blinding and more esthetically pleasing warmer temperature lights for when I'm chilling at home!Install took longer than expected, but just keep in mind:- your smartphone has to be connected to 2.4 ghz wifi, not 5 ghz wifi! I had to give the bandwidths different Home SSID/wifi names for my router to separate the two- trying to install on a Dimmable lamp is a pain 😅, so just use a simple on/off lamp for install- once a bulb is configured, you can actually move it to different lamps! 😎Highly recommend - this ecosystem looks promising af cheers

REVIEW IS FOR BR30, OUTDOOR VERSION(Please see original reviews below "update" sections)UPDATE 07/22/17: While I had to pay for shipping back, I did get a full refund (including taxes) from Lifx. Lifx does stand by their product, but as a person that doesn't have disposable income anymore, I *require* items that work and don't have issues for at least a few years... I will definitely give them another try when this product has had time to be put through the paces and has matured a bit more for my liking. I have also noticed that Amazon has removed pictures from my review (they were pictures from the app), I assume it is due to changing this review from favorable to mediocre..... hmmmmmmmmmm. If you buy it, just don't have too high of an expectation like I did and make sure to check on the light with an IR camera every so often. Or if you're like me, literally just have a camera trained on it 24/7 to diagnose issues (if any).UPDATE 07/14/17: Bulb died after four months. After doing troubleshooting with the Lifx Team, they concluded that it is dead.My options at that point in time were to A) get a replacement and continue with the warranty or B) refund. I opted for a "full" refund. I still have to mail in the bulb. I expect them to reimburse me for only the MSRP of the bulb and not the taxes but we shall see. I am leaving review at 3 stars due to their refund policy. It gives me hope for their customer service and company backing long term. I may decide to try these bulbs again in the future once all the odd kinks have been worked out. Feels like I'm beta testing at times......First thing's first. Holy mackerel! I never would have imaged dropping a Jackson shy of a Benjamin on a bulb! For the price, I am NOT too impressed, although to be fair, you don't need to purchase anything else, unlike the other ones where you need a hub.... You know this is not a paid review because I'm giving it a middle score !!!!!!!!tl;dr In the end, I am okay with the purchase. I won't be recommending it to people at this current price, however. Setup was annoying with MAC Address Filters. Does everything as advertised. DO NOT BUY FOR IR LIGHTS IF YOU HAVE CAMERAS THAT CAN SEE 100 FT - it doesn't enhance anything.-LIST OF SETTINGS NOT FOUND IN INSTRUCTION MANUAL OR ONLINE MANUAL-Light Themes:Santa, Holly, Hanukkah, Mellow, Intense, Peaceful, Relaxing, Energizing, Soothing, Tranquil, Exciting, Cheerful, Focusing, Blissful, Powerful, Warming, Dream, Serene, HalloweenEffects:Spooky, Flicker, Random, Animate Theme, Music Visualizer, Pastels, Color Cycle, Strobe (Hold)Comments on a few of the effects (the settings when tested were default, you can set the times on these if you wish):-Spooky - Think halloween/horror movies during a thunderstorm. Lights go in and out depending on power and sometimes turn off for a second then turn back on again-Flicker - Continuously flickers on and off. Does what it says on the tin.-Music Visualizer - This thing..... was disappointing. As screencapped, it uses the phone's microphone to sync to music. Problem is, if you have slow internet, or if your internet goes through several points, delay is REALLY slow. Like close to 3 seconds.-Strobe (Hold) - You have to hold down this button for strobe to work. I assume it's to make sure that if anyone has a seizure, it'll stop when you drop the phone in panic. Good for health and safety, bad for actual long term strobe purposes.Other comments: When in the particular light bulb's settings, it pulsates until you have saved. If you are doing this for an outdoor light, it looks strange to neighbors or you're trying to start a rave.PROS:-INFRARED!!! Huge plus if you have a cheapo non surveillance type camera with night vision. Especially the crappy ones that do less than 50 feet at night.-No visible red light! ALL of my IR cameras have a red light. This one does not emit that. I am EXTREMELY happy about this. Prevents lots of yucky bugs from flying around. Not so much my surveillance cameras, which do emit that.-No hub. Technically saves money if you're only buying the one. If you buy multiple, it probably costs more.-Every color and pastel under the sun. Options to change the intensity and how bright it is.CONS (mostly):-These things are pretty heavy. 9.9 oz! A standard cheapo bulb that breaks in a few months is 1.1 oz. I used the same scale to mail stuff out, so it is plus or minus 0.1 oz....-INFRARED. =( I am saddened to say that although it is BRIGHT, if you have your own surveillance cameras that can see UP TO 100 feet... Purchasing this is pointless, since the IR on those cameras are literally EQUAL, if not better, to this bulb. I personally did a before and after with the light and without. There were little improvements. HOWEVER - Indoor crappy 15 feet night vision camera? This bulb was amazing-Did I mention this thing was 'YUGE'? 3.75 inches at the widest point.-Misleading marketing. Life slated at 22.8 years... at 3 hours a day. LOL. Assuming the IR uses the same life expectancy... the math works out to be 6.218 years @ 11 hours a day. Why is this a problem? Unless you actually manually TURN OFF the light bulb, the light bulb will turn on night vision automatically "when brightness is low." I noticed on my security camera that the light bulb turned itself on an hour or so before sunset. Life expectancy goes down a lot if you're not paying attention. I hope they under promised and over delivered on the estimates.........I would've returned this if I had purchased in the store and received a full refund. Returns on Amazon for this was 5.15, so I wasn't too happy about it, but it was enough where I said I'll keep it. It *IS* pretty cool, after all. Plus Amazon tracks returns and does PERMAbans if you return too many items, so..... I will wait another few years before updating more light bulbs. Hopefully the market will have matured a little more and the price has gone down a lot.

I am using this on my front porch and it works very well. When I am feeling whimsical, I set it to a color. I like that I can use this with the Echo voice control. I can also set a timer on this so that it turns off during the day. It also doesn't effect the picture through my security cameras.

I love these lights. I use them for outdoor lighting. The only thing I find annoying about them is that I have at least one light (of four) that is very 'reluctant' to check in to the phone app. The other three are rock solid and always engage if I'm of a mind to change the color scheme.With only my own experience, I'll say that the Hue Hub connectivity is far more reliable than the approach employed here - but the Hue lights just can't hold a candle (ha!) to the solidly engineered Lifx lamps.

They are better than anything out there and they do work. They just need a lot of love to figure out and I can’t give them a 5 for as much trouble I have gone thru to get them to function properly. Put in enough time and use a lot. It’s the best system I have tried to date and very good for the price.