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<br>Ever because the Philips Hue LED($199.99 at Verizon) lighting package hit the digital residence market, there has been a steady uptick in competing good bulb products just like the LIFX [EcoLight LED bulbs](https://lings.id/kierahoss) Gentle Bulb( at Amazon) and the Linked by TCP Smart Lighting System as well as recent product bulletins from electronics giants LG and Samsung. Add the Lumen TL800 from Tabu to that list. Priced at $69.99 per bulb (but obtainable on-line for round $50), the TL800 makes use of Bluetooth wireless technology to communicate together with your smartphone through a neat little app that allows you to flip lights on and off, select colors, and [EcoLight LED bulbs](https://online-learning-initiative.org/wiki/index.php/Why_Select_Power_STAR_Certified_LEDs) have the lights behave a certain method when you have got an incoming telephone call. In contrast to the Philips and TCP bulbs the TL800 does not require a bridge, nevertheless it doesn't connect with the Web both, which implies you cannot control it when you're away from home or [EcoLight home lighting](http://www.painc.co.kr/index.php?document_srl=6296872&mid=freeboard&page=1) have it interact with other dwelling automation gadgets. With a vented metallic casing separating the spherical glass dome from the Edison screw base, the TL800 appears to be like prefer it could be proper at home in an Apollo spacecraft.<br> |
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<br>The bulb measures 4.Seventy five inches in size and puts out solely four hundred lumens, which is equal to a 40 watt incandescent bulb. That is not very shiny when in comparison with the LIFX (1,017 lumens), TCP (800 lumens), and Philips (600 lumens) bulbs. As with the Philips and LIFX bulbs, it will probably show 16 million colours, but since it doesn't hook up with the Web you cannot management it with home automation hubs from corporations reminiscent of Revolv( at Amazon) and SmartThings($149.Ninety nine at Amazon). Nor can you utilize the favored IFTTT (If This Then That) web service to have it turn on and off or change colours based mostly on things like Facebook requests, [EcoLight LED bulbs](https://wiki.ageofspace.net/doku.php?id=wifi_dimmable_led_lights) Foursquare notifications, and ESPN sports scores. You don't get much in the way in which of directions with the TL800, but there's not a lot to elucidate. I screwed it into a lamp in my office, downloaded the app onto my iOS smartphone, made sure Bluetooth was enabled on my system, and opened the app.<br> |
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<br>The Lumen app is uncomplicated and easy to use and allows you to control up to ten bulbs at a time. You possibly can control each bulb individually or control a group of bulbs. The home web page lists all installed bulbs and reveals you what coloration they are presently set to. Urgent a bulb icon takes you to a web page where you can choose coloration or heat white settings and turn the bulb on or off. Once you choose the warm white setting you are offered with a monochrome wheel that permits you to manually alter brightness, or you'll be able to choose one of 4 brightness presets (90, 70, 50, or 30 p.c). Under the wheel is a Call Alert icon that takes you to a page where you may configure the light to flash a specific color when your telephone has an incoming name. There's additionally a Wake-Up timer that will turn the sunshine on using a dim heat white setting that step by step will get brighter to create a sunrise effect, and a Proximity possibility that will have a light turn on to a preset colour and brightness when your telephone comes into range (about 30 feet).<br> |
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<br>In colour mode you get a wheel that lets you select a colour for each bulb and assign a coloration brightness setting. For deep, strong colours you set the brightness level to the darkest setting |
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