Refoss Smart Bulbs Works with Apple HomeKit, Color Changing Smart Light Bulbs Compatible with Siri, Alexa and Google Home, A19 LED Bulb, E26 Fitting, 2700K-6500K Dimmable, 9W 810 Lumens, 4 Pack

Pros:+ Very easy to install/pair with my Apple HomeKit App+ Money for price is unmatched+ Great variety of colors to choose from+ Love being able to tell Siri to turn my lights off (way better than a clap off I dreamed of having as a kid)+ Works with all automation features in HomeKit and Siri (you can even make your own custom commands)I had a hard time finding decently priced smart bulbs that work with Apple HomeKit. This product was a great find.Con:+ 800 lumens is not bright. If you want something bright go with a smart light bulb that gives you 1100+ lumens or more.Note: These utilize your WiFi’s 2.4 network. Make sure you this kind of network setup on your router before you install these lightbulbs and try to add them to HomeKit

Great value for these lightbulbs. They were easy to set up once I got past some challenges with my wireless router and Apple home.Tips before starting:1 - you will need to turn off the 5 GHz band. If you attempt to setup without turning off, you'll get stuck and have to reset the bulbs.2 - you may need to start a new Apple Home. My home was corrupted and I kept getting stuck trying to add the lights. Once I started a new home, they were setup in minutes.To reset the bulb, you need to turn the light on/off 5 times in 5 seconds, then leave off for 5 seconds.If it any point in the set up, you get to the point where the lightbulbs start flashing different colors, but are not finalized, you will need to reset the lightbulb and start over. Make sure your wireless is on the correct band.

Overall it is a good product. It was easy to install and I am very happy with the range of colors it offers. Most of the time, it returns the exact color I am asking it to set.One and only complain is the wifi strength. Bulbs keeps getting disconnecting from the wifi. They also don't respond to command time to time, which I also assume is related to wifi issues. If they improve their wifi connectivity, it will be a great product!

Does everything it's supposed to do. I added it to my Meross Android app, where it gave me two apparently mutually-exclusive controls. The first allows me to selct one of 12 color temperatures, from 2700K to 6500K. The other allows selection of pretty much any color from a full palette. In both cases you can also control the brightness.I noticed that if you choose the color-change mode, the bulb puts out considerably less light than in the color-temperature mode. I'm guessing that's because it isn't using as many LED elements as when in white-light mode...but that's only a guess.I suspect I'll be using the menus to get the bulb to look just right in its location, and then in the future just turning it on and off (it remembers your menu settings when off for extended periods). And to turn it on and off, I'll use Alexa, which quickly recognized it as a new device after I installed it in the Meross app.

The Refoss Wi-Fi Smart Bulb RGB Color Changing bulb simply could not be connected with Apple Home. Not only that, but attempts to set it up using only the eHomlife app resulted in getting sent back to Apple Home for set up. After multiple attempts I’ve given up and returning it to Amazon.The pack comes with 2 bulbs. I started following the instructions. I had my iPhone 12 Pro with iOS 14.4 connected to the same 2.4 GHz WiFi as the bulb will connect to (normally I use 5 GHz for better performance). I put the bulb into a fixture in the same room as the router and close to my phone.When power was first applied the bulb lit warm white, then white. I attempted connecting to the iPhone. It showed up, I scanned the code for the bulb, so far so good. The bulb blinked to red, blue, and then went back to white. The iPhone kept trying to connect, and after several minutes it failed to connect.I reset the bulb (cycle power at least 3 times in 5 seconds) and got back to the set up. I repeated the above, I also tried manually finding the bulb, manually entering the code for the bulb, just about everything. I reset the bulb after each failed attempt. Same result, it wouldn’t connect. I then tried with an iPad Air 4th generation with iPad OS 14.4. Same result. I then tried with an older iPad Air first generation with iOS 12.5.1, same result.I did find that when the bulb cycled colors it actually did get connected to WiFi. Looking at my router I found a Meross smartbulb on my network. I was able to ping the bulb at the IP address it acquired through DHCP, so the bulb was connected. (Apparently GeFoss and Meross are the same bulbs.)I then tried the second bulb in the box and basically repeated the process, just using the appropriate code for the second bulb. As expected, the results were the same.I also tried the Home app on a new M1 based MacBook Air running Big Sur 11.2 to try and connect to the bulb, unsuccessfully.I installed the iHomelife app, and set up an account with the hope I could connect through this app, and hopefully do a software update to fix the other problems. Nope, didn’t work. The iHomelife app kicks you back to the Apple Home set up. I even tried connecting to the bulb after reset and was back in its WiFi AP mode manually on the iPhone, then went back to eHomelife app. The app would then tell me it wasn’t connected. I tried telling the eHomelife app it wasn’t an Apple Home device. That failed too. I scanned the code on the box if you have problems. The page that led to had some useless information written in poor English. Other than an email address there was no other support listed in the instruction sheets.I didn’t have an Android device to try, perhaps that would have been successful. I did try a browser on a Windows computer. With the bulb in the AP mode again I connected to its WiFi, found it at the gateway at 10.1010.1 and tried to see if it was hosting a web page in AP mode. It did request a username and password, but nothing else. Enough time spent.I then looked at reviews and Google to see if others had this problem and if there was a solution. I didn’t find any At, this point after wasting probably well over 4 hours I gave up. I rarely return stuff on Amazon, especially during a pandemic, but I requested a return for this.I consider myself highly proficient in electronics and if it was this hard for me, I would strongly suggest you look for another option. I would advise avoiding Meross as well since these appear to be the same product.The pairing to Apple Home needs to be improved, and they absolutely should provide a method other than through Apple Home to connect to the lamp. It would seem that even if there were a software update to fix this, it couldn’t be installed because you need to connect to it first.It seems worth the 1 star as the bulb does actually light up. Without control it does light up an extremely cool white that seems bluer than Daylight.