Tapo TP-Link Smart Light Bulbs, 16M Colors RGBW, Dimmable, Alexa Frustration-Free Setup, A19, 60W Equivalent, 800LM CRI>90, 2.4GHz WiFi only L531E

The light was super easy to set up in the tapo app with the reset of my device connecting to the Wi-Fi was straight forward. Colors are perfect. The only thing is I would increase the brightness for the light to be better.

It works

I bought this bulb for my husband, who works remotely. His office space is in the basement near the laundry area, so the rest of the family was having to creep down the stairs to make sure we wouldn't be interrupting a meeting or call by going down there to work on our laundry. I had been looking for a way for us to be able to tell immediately whether it is okay to go downstairs and stumbled upon this listing. It sounded like the perfect solution since the hall light is right outside the door that leads to the basement. Once my husband put the bulb in the light fixture, he downloaded the app and set up the connection. He was so excited when he could change the colors with just a tap on his screen. The available widget is perfect for this! The whole family knows that if the hallway is glowing red, we're going to have to wait to take care of things downstairs. It does exactly what we wanted and expected it to do. It did disconnect from our Wi-Fi once, but it was so easy to reconnect that it wasn't an issue. Sometimes connections just need to be reset and this might have been one of those instances. I would definitely buy this again for both this same situation or if another area of the house needs a visual alert.

This is an absolute piece of crap, the absolute WORST smart bulb I have ever tried! Colors are ghastly, flickers/annoyingly changes brightness and color all the time (so bad I removed the light). This hideously awful light requires you sign up for a TP (toilet paper?) account just to simply use the damned thing only to find all of my Internet bandwidth being used up to send MY PERSONAL, PRIVATE INFO TO SERVERS IN CHINA! Why is it all of the Chinese products require you download a poorly written piece of crap app and give them all of your personal info to sign up for an account while all the smart stuff made in countries other than China and Taiwan NEVER do this! I have a smart bulb made in Japan and I never had to sign up for any accounts or download an app just to use. I now see why these are being sold so darned cheap as part of Amazon bundles. Probably no one will touch them otherwise and it's the only way for them to get rid of stock. My God this is an awful light, I just mean really, really horrific. If you care about your privacy and protecting the info on your phone, DO NOT GET THIS PRODUCT OR DOWNLOAD THEIR CRASH-HAPPY JUNKY SPYWARE. I really, really hope I can return this. As it is, Amazon makes you pay about $9 UPS fee just to return something and this cost just a few bucks more than that so it isn't really worth it to return, but I swear to God, I will NEVER, EVER, EVER BUY ANOTHER TP-LINK PRODUCT AGAIN! I don't know what happened to this company, they used to be decent, but over the last few years, their products have fallen off a cliff in terms of design, quality, and now these privacy hijacking requirements. I HATE, HATE, HATE TP-LINK AND THIS PRODUCT! COME ON, IT'S A LIGHTBULB, ONE SHOULDN'T NEED TO JUMP THROUGH ALL OF THESE HOOPS SIGNING UP FOR ACCOUNTS YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT WANT AND DOWNLOADING ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUSLY DYSFUNCTIONAL, POORLY WRITTEN PIECES OF CRAP-WARE SPYWARE I HAVE EVER SEEN! DOES THIS COMPANY REALLY NEED ALL OF MY LOGINS AND PASSWORDS? NO I DON'T THINK SO! TO HECK WITH IT, IF I HAVE TO PAY MORE THAN THE PRODUCT IS WORTH JUST TO SEND IT BACK, THEN THAT'S WHAT I AM DOING. OH YEAH, DID I MENTION HOW MUCH I HATE THIS PRODUCT?

Love these. Tell Alexa to turn on and off. After an easy set up and pairing the only thing you have to remember is to keep the stitch on the wall in the on position. I've had them for over a year and still live them.