Recommendations for Zigbee Bulbs (lemmy.world)

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I realized I have some old hue bulbs laying around, and they're working well enough with my Zigbee controller (no bridge), but if I decide to scale up I definitely don't want to pay the Hue premium.

Anyone have a Zigbee bulb brand they recommend? I hear Third Reality is nice?

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[-] carzian@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

I'd recommend the sengled ZigBee bulbs. They're cheap, reliable, and have good colors. Ive been using many for years without issue.

The IKEA bulbs will also work. I've tried them in the past, but didn't like them. I found they were too dim at full brightness. Also, their colors are much much worse then the sengled bulbs, especially the "greens" (I say this in quotes because the best the IKEA bulbs can do is a pitiful color that's 85% yellow and 15% green).

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Same here. I put two in the lights on our porch, and they've worked great for at least 2 years now. And we get high and low temperatures here.

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