Philips HueWCA 15W A21 E26 US

I use these lightbulbs all over my house. I love the ease of setting them up through the Hue app and the connection to Alexa makes them even better. The lights are bright and I love that I can adjust the brightness and tone through the app as well. I have set them to whenever I say, "Alexa, I'm working" -- they come on in my office and when I say, "Alexa, I'm done" -- they turn off.

The recommended price for these bulbs is vicious. However, shop around and you can find them for around 45 bucks.Once you get over the sticker shock, you will find that these bulbs are very bright (I can believe the 1600 lumen claim), they don’t fail over time (like so many led bulbs do), they have a high 90+ color rendition index (that’s nice light to be in) at least in the white spectrum, they can reproduce almost any color of light, they connect quickly, behave reliably, and the hue bridge + app gives you tremendous control over how your lighting works.You can buy cheaper bulbs, but the Philips ecosystem works properly. My family are largely technophobes. They would not have anything to do with an app. However, these bulbs in combination with a Hue Tap and Dial switch, operate as easily as any ‘switch it on at the wall’ type lighting.The price will sting, but the results make it worthwhile.

I use this bulb in ZigBee mode to automate a porch light in Home Assistant. It's not rated for outdoor use but nobody has to know. Mine sits on 30% brightness for casual outdoor lighting and 50% for bad weather. I use 100% for doing stuff in the dark. It's astonishingly bright at max brightness, I don't even need a flashlight.Pros:-Everyone on the block turns porch lights on at night. I have mine on a schedule so my light will turn on even if nobody is home. I also have automations for adjusting the brightness when certain doors get manipulated.-Extremely bright at 100%-Cool gimmicks you can incorporate into your home security setup like making the bulb blink/flash. It also has a candle mode that makes the brightness waver.Neutral:-DIY needed to make the bulb do creative things. Bluetooth is limited, you'll probably want a ZigBee system.-High cost per bulb unless you you get the white one with no color temp adjustment.Cons:-The color is literally not white, it's much closer to yellow sunlight. You're supposed to use this bulb indoors??? With this color temperature and brightness range it makes more sense to put these bulbs outside contrary to what the instructions say.

Must have light bulbs!

** The most important fact is that these are a bit longer than standard bulbs and certain light fixtures/covering are not compatible and will not fit them.**These are certainly better than the older less bright versions of hue lights. They still can't hold a "candle" (Pun intended) to the non color or regular non hue lights as far as overall brightness. I can't blame them, fitting that many LEDs for each color into such a small space certainly must take some engineering.They are too expensive per bulb, but do last a darn long time. The hue system is pretty solid as far as control, accessories and third party apps (I mean come on, motion detectors AND a friggen camera system all linked into the lights and your phone? Pretty awesome).Unless you are very technical and plan on programing and building your own hub and remote control system from scratch these are pretty hard to beat.Would be five stars if these where a pinch cheaper for the bulbs themselves. All things considered they make the money back in the cost of the HUB and other accessories.The default Philips Hue app is a bit lackluster but not the worst and the third party support is strong with allot of good options.Recommended but only because of the third party support. Without that these would be a hard pass.

It’s Hue so, as always, a very high quality bulb that also happens to be smart. Other smart bulbs often lack the basic high quality of Hue bulbs. There’s no flicker, it dims well, it has excellent lighting characteristics and it is built to last. I don’t use a hue bridge. Instead I connected it to my zigbee network that’s controlled by Home Assistant using a Connect ZBT-1 zigbee usb stick. It paired instantly and now acts a repeater in the same network that all of my zigbee devices use. I believe this is also the way to get around the 50 bulb limit of Hue hubs, if you have a lot of Hue bulbs.

Have many of these in the house in several rooms along with light switches and other smart home products. This attached to the Hue hub quite easily as they always do and so far it is working fine where it is placed. It is very nice that Philips came out with a brighter bulb finally. Since it is an even 100 watt equivalent it's easy to figure out what wattage it is when you dim it by any percentage. Example would be if you make it 50% then it's pretty much equal to 50 watts, 75% is 75 watts and so on! Alexa can turn this one on and off as I wish with just a few words. Just as a side note if this is in a socket controlled by a light switch get yourself a switch cover to help you not turn it off. These need to be continuously powered to work.