Comparison of mainstream smart lamps

As a smart hardware and smart home enthusiasts, I understand that the current smart lamp mainstream technology has Bluetooth, ZigBee, WiFi and so on, so bought a representative of each technology products, and made some trial summary. Summary of the technical, if there is no understanding of technical terms, interested readers can search on the web to understand.

First look at the value of Yan. is a group of light bulbs, from left to right, followed by the use of ZigBee technology Philips Hue, using WiFi technology of the yeelight, the use of Bluetooth technology Meizu X-light, the right light is very interesting, using a new technology called digital voice technology, hey lights intelligent technology Hey lights. From the point of view, Hue and yeelight to win, personal view.

Next, each lamp is described in turn. I am personally concerned about the functional richness and fun of smart lights, as well as the ease of operation. In addition, because it is led, so I also pay attention to some such as light beads, brightness, strobe lights and other technical properties, such as white light beads, such as the lighting efficiency is higher, such as the market now some eye protection is the main focus is no strobe, whether there is a strobe with a simple identification method, is to use the mobile phone camera pointing at the If there is no obvious black and white stripes, it means no strobe. I also focus on the expansion of light bulbs and compatibility with smart home systems, of course, the smart home is not really popular, this indicator is not too critical.

Hue

Basic parameters

• Connection: ZigBee
• Lamp bead: rgb Lamp bead
• Strobe: Available
• Brightness and Power: 800 lumens, 10 watts
• Lifespan: approx. 15,000 hours
• Maximum number of bulb connections: 50
• Smart Home System Compatibility: Apple HomeKit
• Device compatibility: Android, IOS
• Price (PER): 398 yuan (hub plus 3 hue set for 1498)

Connection

Follow the app's tips, the connection process is relatively simple. First, the Hub power up, download the app, open the app, you will be prompted to find the hub. Follow the prompts to click the button in the center of the hub. Connect to the hub, add rooms, set the number of lights, and then power on the lights, add lights on it. The whole process was just a few minutes.

Function

Hue can be easily adjusted for brightness, colour, color temperature, and the operating experience is quite smooth. Hue also designs several lighting effects, such as relaxing, reading carefully, concentrating and injecting energy. Hue also features scenes such as a prairie sunset, a tropical dawn, and the Northern Lights, where you can feel the ambience of the scene in the room by lighting the main colors of the scene. Users are also supported to customize the scene by adding their own photos. But the lighting effect and the entrance of the scene is darker, it is more troublesome to use.

Hue also has some cool features. For example, the home and home functions based on geo-fencing, so that you can set the lights off when you leave home, and automatically start when you return. Hue also supports IFTTT, which enables you to associate multiple apps, such as auto-start when it rains, and automatically blink when you receive a message from someone. You can also add your own programs, design at a certain point in time to let the lights do certain things, such as turning on the lights off, light dimming, so that the alarm can be used to wake the lights and so on.

Operational experience

Hue's operating experience is very good, such as the light fade and fade, the color changes are also gradual, on the palette on the palette when the experience is very comfortable.

Summarize

Hue is the ancestor of smart lights, the industry's benchmark, many of the market lights are the imitation of hue. And Hue opens up the API as an open platform that attracts more people to the development of lighting, such as various lighting changes, such as lighting and various software linkage. Now there are a lot of third-party apps, and more people will make hue more powerful.

Yeelight

Basic parameters

• Connection: WiFi
• Lamp bead: rgb Lamp bead
• Strobe: None
• Brightness and Power: 600 lumens, 9 watts
• Life: 11
• Maximum number of bulb connections: 10
• Smart Home System Compatibility: Xiaomi Smart Home
• Device compatibility: Android, IOS
• Price (PER): 99 RMB

Connection

Like a typical WiFi device, you need to set up WiFi. Believe that for people who have used similar WiFi devices, follow the app's tips, the connection is relatively simple.

Function

Yeelight's functions are adjustable color, brightness, color temperature, time-lapse switch lights, there are scenes such as Date night, movie night, Home and so on. Compared with hue, the collection function, can be the current light collection. There is also a unique function is streamer, light can cycle switch color, but also can change the speed of switching, visual effect is good.

Operational experience

Here can not help but spit out the operation experience of the app, brightness size and color adjustment operation is very not obvious, the author is also groping for a while to find in the finger on the screen to adjust the brightness, left and right sliding is to adjust the color. And the adjusted slider is hidden after the finger leaves the screen, very not intuitive. There are buttons at the bottom of the page that need to be dragged to reach another page, which is not obvious.

Summarize

From a functional point of view, Yeelight can only be said to be a very modest light bulb. From the official website you can see, Yeelight also open the API, it seems to learn the practice of hue.

X-light

Basic parameters

• Connection standard: BLE
• Lamp Bead: white light bead plus rgb lamp bead
• Strobe: Available
• Brightness and power consumption: 600 lumens, 6 watts
• Lifespan: 5 years
• Maximum number of bulb connections: 1
• Smart Home System Compatibility: Meizu Lifekit
• Device compatibility: Android, IOS
• Price (PER): 99 RMB

Connection

Thanks to the Bluetooth 4.0 ble scheme, no pairing is required and the connection is simple.

Function

The main function of X-light is also color grading and scene setting, but the more interesting place is its game design. For example, the main page is a variety of color balloons, click on which color of the balloon light will show what color. There are breathing lights in the scene settings that allow the light to show a variety of regular changes, such as a heartbeat. and a clock light.

X-light also has a comparative feature of the function is interactive, in fact, is also some game design, such as playing quick, with paintball hit the screen above the monkey can change the color of the lights. Child-speaking child color can help children to identify color. And a shake function to change the color.

Operational experience

The game experience is good, but the operation is not very smooth, such as the color from the home page to set the button is not very conspicuous, such as the connection and cancel the connection is not very easy to understand, and there is a WiFi settings, people are very confusing.

Summarize

Overall x-light through the casual game to guide users to interact with the lights, this way is more innovative, this is a positive, but do not know how the user's acceptance will be.

Heelight

Basic parameters

• Connection: Digital Voice control
• Lamp bead: rgb Lamp bead
• Strobe: Available (no strobe in reading mode)
• Brightness and power consumption: 400 lumens, 6 watts
• Lifespan: 50,000 hours
• Maximum number of lamp connections: Unlimited
• Smart Home System Compatibility: None
• Device compatibility: Android, IOS
• Price (PER): 99 RMB

Connection

This lamp uses a very special digital voice-activated technology, control instructions through the digital Code of Sound transmission, by the mobile phone app, because no need to connect, very convenient.

Function

As with other smart lamps, the basic functions include adjusting brightness, color temperature, color, timing switch lights, collecting lights and so on. A more special function is the design of a rich pattern of light, there are suitable for various scenes of life such as night Lights, meal lights, reading lights, as well as to create an atmosphere of the light effect such as cherry blossoms, oceans, lanterns, as well as the interaction with the environment such as cowards, music lights, and can be blown out of the candle light, suitable for All kinds of light effect, very fun, and practical.

Operational experience

The app is designed to be like a digital remote, very simple, very good operation experience, all the operations can be achieved in 1 or 2 steps. However, there is a problem in the use of the phone volume can not be too large, otherwise the recognition effect is not good. In addition, because it is sound control, when the environment is too noisy when the recognition effect is not very good, but is generally used at home, nor too noisy, this problem is not too big.

Summarize

This light bulb is basically a plug-and-play product, very simple, but also because of the strong interaction with the environment, it seems very smart. And because the life scene lamp effect design, very practical, the author often uses the pattern is the night light, the reading lamp and the candle lamp. Compared with several other intelligent lamps, it is a rare innovation product.

Comprehensive comparison down, I personally feel that Hue's comprehensive score is the highest, embodies the strength of the big brand, but the price is too expensive. The second is heelight, although a small brand, but innovative, and see the designers to the minimalist concept of the pursuit. These smart lights are introduced here, hoping to give some people interested in smart lights to help.

Comparison of mainstream smart lamps