Amazon Prime Day 2021: Best deals on smart lights and color-changing bulbs-CNET

2021-12-14 14:22:13 By : Mr. Laurence Liu

If you buy a new smart lamp in the market, here is the discounted price of the Prime Day Promotion.

Amazon Prime Day is still strong on Tuesday (they really should call it Prime Day), which means you can still expect to find plenty of offers in various categories from various manufacturers. This includes transactions for various smart lights, many of which are now on the market, and the prices are also very attractive.

This makes this a good time to try a color-changing bulb or build on any smart lighting setup you have already installed. I've dug through all the latest discounts — price cuts from Amazon and rival retailers to keep up — to point out offers that are worth considering right now. This is the complete outline, and I will update it as transactions come and go.

Let's start with Lifx, one of the more well-known brands in the field of smart lighting. The company’s Wi-Fi Lightstrips are suitable for all major smart home platforms and voice assistants—HomeKit, Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT, etc.—they can display multiple colors at the same time. Interesting functions can be used wherever they are placed.

Usually $90, the 80-inch version of Lifx Lightstrip was reduced to $75 before Amazon and Best Buy’s Prime membership day-now Prime membership day is here, Amazon shoppers can enjoy an additional $10 discount at checkout, which brings costs It's down to $65 (you will see these additional savings in your shopping cart at checkout). 

This is the lowest price I have ever seen for the latest version of Lightstrip, and when I first reviewed it in 2016, it was originally called Lifx Z. It is also $15 lower than Philips Hue Lightstrip, which can only emit one color time at a time, and is significantly less than the enhanced version of Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip, which can emit a variety of colors, but the price is as high as 230 US dollars.

Read our Lifx Lightstrip review.

It's not just light strips-almost all products in the Lifx catalog are currently on sale, including the company's smart light bulbs. Of all the deals I have seen, the best one is this two pack of Lifx Color LEDs, currently sold at Best Buy for $50. This is $15 less than usual, and each bulb is only $25, which is very good because this is one of the best looking color-changing bulbs you can buy. Remember, Lifx lights can use almost all the functions you want them to use, including voice control via Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant.

Don't need two bulbs, would rather start with one? For Prime Day, Amazon will price a single bulb for the same price of $25 per bulb (again, for most of these Amazon Lifx offers, you will see the final sale price in the shopping cart at checkout).

Other Lifx transactions worth considering include:

Read our Lifx Mini review.

You will also find various discounts offered by Philips Hue, but they are mainly focused on the brand's lamps and accessories, rather than the bulb itself. For example, you can buy this 2-meter-long Philips Hue strip and 1-meter-long extension strip for $85 or $20. 

If you have a lot of places to cover these strips, that’s not a bad thing. These are the latest versions and have both Zigbee and Bluetooth radio capabilities-the latter allows you to control them from your phone without the need for the Philips Hue Bridge. Remember: these can only emit one color at a time.

Also available from Philips Hue: Adore Smart Illuminated Mirror, which has a dimmer switch to help you adjust to the perfect white light setting to suit your morning makeup routine. It's usually $250, but Prime Day shoppers can buy one for nearly $70.

First read our Philip Hue Adore.

Like I said, I didn't see any discounts on Hue bulbs-for this, you need to check other brands, such as Sylvania. The company sells color-changing Wi-Fi smart bulbs that can be used with Alexa and Google Assistant-you will usually find a four-piece package for $35, but Prime Day shoppers can enjoy an additional 25% discount, bringing the total price Reduced to US$26. Each bulb costs only US$6.50.

Prefer the BR30 floodlight version? These four packs are also available today, and the final cost is $38, or $9.50 per bulb.

They are not equipped with Google smart speakers, but because GE Lighting is an early partner made by Google, the GE smart bulb series C works very well with Google Assistant. If you don’t care about the color, you can buy two packages of the company’s soft white "direct-connect" smart bulbs, which can be paired with Alexa or Google Assistant without a hub, for only $13.

Maybe you like the idea of ​​a light, but you are not keen on the idea of ​​adding a light bulb to a Wi-Fi network. If this is the case, then you should consider GE's LED Plus product line, which is a series of small tool bulbs with built-in functions, but without any cloud connection. 

For example, the image above uses the built-in ambient light sensor to turn on when the sun sets and turn off when the sun rises. Prime Day is a few dollars off, so if you have some outdoor equipment that can use new bulbs, then today may be the best time to stock up.

Other bulbs from the non-connected LED Plus series are also on sale, including bulbs with built-in motion detectors and built-in batteries for power outages, and bulbs that double as Bluetooth speakers.

When the holidays come, outdoor smart plugs are very suitable at hand, and you are eager to automate some decorative outdoor lights. In the past, weather-resistant smart plugs like those sold at high prices have fallen in recent years. Now, on Prime Day, GE Lighting will sell you a product with two outlets for $21. This is important, especially considering that the Bluetooth/Wi-Fi plug does not require a hub and supports voice commands via Alexa and Google Assistant.

If you would rather make improvements on the switch than upgrade the bulbs, then you will not find a more cost-effective product than Kasa, the smart home branch brand of TP-Link. Just a few years ago, the price of this bundle would exceed $100, but now, you can find it has been marked as $35 on Amazon, which is $10 lower than the normal cost, and the price is as low as we have seen before. 

The switch itself is nothing special—no dimming, no built-in voice assistant—but if you just want to automate some extra lights around the house, this is a great way to get the job done.

Read our smart switch buying guide.

Just want to get a quick Prime Day deal on some simple and feasible smart bulbs that can change color by voice? This two-piece Kasa smart bulb is already easily affordable for $25, but it has now fallen to $20. These are two very good color-changing smart light bulbs, do not require a hub, support voice control via Alexa or Google Assistant, and only cost $10 each.

I haven't tested these and can't say how good they are, but these multi-color light strips from Govee look like budget alternatives to those fancy Lifx light strips, with multiple colors at once, music sync mode and Voice is controlled by Alexa and Google Assistant. They started relatively cheap at $30 each, but for Prime Day, Govee reduced it to $24.

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