![]() ![]() The bulbs test well, too - I even named them the best smart bulbs for cheapskates in my recent rundown of bargain-priced white-light smart bulbs. Recently, though, the brand has made a sharp pivot towards simple, budget-priced smart bulbs and compatibility with Amazon's AI assistant Alexa is touted as a core feature - enough so that you'll now often find on Amazon's website. Sengled used to specialize in novelty smart lights with built-in speakers, built-in cameras, built-in Wi-Fi extenders, you name it. My recommendation: Start with a single Lifx smart bulb like that Lifx Mini LED bulb pictured above, which you can currently get for $35, then play with the app and integrations a bit to see if you like the Lifx approach. That said, Lifx lights speak Wi-Fi and don't need any extra hub hardware to connect with your router, so buying in is a bit less expensive up front. On the whole, Lifx is only slightly less expensive than Hue - and some of its products, like the Lifx Z light strips and the upcoming multi-color Lifx candelabra bulbs are actually more expensive than their Hue counterparts. ![]() No other brand offers anything like that. You can even buy Lifx Plus bulbs that put out invisible, infrared light at night to help light things up for your night-vision security cameras. Beyond supporting voice commands via all of the major voice assistants, the Lifx lineup of color-changing light bulbs, light strips and wall tiles come with an excellent app and a smart lighting channel on the free online automation service IFTTT that's notably more advanced than Hue's. The Hue app and Hue's many integrations with third-party services and devices give you all sorts of ways to tinker around with your lights - but for the past several years, Australian start-up Lifx has been building a smart lighting ecosystem that's almost as good. ![]()
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