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The Best Smart Lights: Light Up Your Life With Smart Bulbs and Lamps

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The best smart lights can completely transform your home, whether you fancy a bit of digital redecorating, want to control your lights with your smart speaker, or just want to make your gaming rig look even more awesome. There are smart bulbs, smart ...

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The Best Smart Lights: Light Up Your Life With Smart Bulbs and Lamps

Philips Hue is the biggest name in smart lighting, and for good reason. The quality of its hardware and software is unmatched, and you won't find a wider range of bulbs, lamps and light strips anywhere. If your budget can handle it, it's worth the pr...

Hue Smart - Best smart Light System Overall

Looking for an affordable smart light that'll work with your Alexa smart home system? Govee's Wi-Fi LED bulbs are responsive, and will work seamlessly with your Amazon-powered setup, though they're not quite as bright as Philips Hue.

Smart Light Bulbs - Best Smart Light For Alexa

Nanoleaf has upgraded its excellent Essentials smart light bulbs with Matter compatibility, helping you build a future-proof smart home setup. Affordable and colorful, though again, not as bright as the equivalent from Philips Hue.

Nanoleaf Essentials Smart LED Color

Set the mood with a smart lighting system that uses a camera to extend what's on your screen by projecting light onto the walls. We found it a great affordable alternative to a Philips Ambilight TV. Great for movies and gaming.

Smart LED Lightstrip - Best Smart Light For Your TV

This portable smart lamp can be run from a rechargeable battery, and provides attractive lighting with a circadian option that adjusts its color and brightness to suit your selected sleep and wakeup times.

Connected Mobile Portable Light White

Govee's dangling strings of smart lights are a fun addition to your Christmas decor, capable of displaying patterns, solid lights, or animated images. We had fun with them all year round too, using more subtle looks outside the festive season.

Curtain Lights - Best smart Christmas lights

Wiz does make color-changing bulbs that are also quite good, but here we are focusing on the brand's high-quality tunable white bulbs. These are a typical-shaped bulb, A19, with an E26 base with an incandescent equivalent rating of 60 watts. In terms...

Smart LED Light Bulb - White-Light Smart Bulb

If you've got a hardwired light that you'd like to be able to automate, you can swap the bulb out for a smart bulb -- or you can just smarten things up at the switch. That's an especially cost-effective approach if it controls several bulbs at once.

Smart Lighting Original Dimmer Switch

If you want to go all out with smart lighting -- maybe for a game room or a kids' room -- then you might consider color-changing Wi-Fi LED smart light panels for your walls. A Toronto-based startup called Nanoleaf got there first with its triangular ...

Shapes WiFi and Thread Smart

Outdoor lighting is key to a safe and secure home, so upgrading to smart outdoor lights that double as motion detectors and sync with your security system makes a lot of sense. For my money, the best way to get there is with Ring, which offers a full...

Ring Solar Pathlight - Motion-Sensor Light

Weatherproof string light bulbs are the most vibrant we've tested yet. That's thanks to a high 600-lumen brightness paired with color blending from three different zones. This forms each color using different shades and hues. Each of the 12 bulbs cre...

Smart Outdoor String Lights for Holidays

With the Sengled Smart LED with Motion Sensor, you're not just limited to using your smart lights indoors. This smart outdoor floodlight can crank out over 1,000 lumens and it also has a motion sensor built in. However, you will need to purchase a Se...

Motion Sensor Flood Light Bulbs

While this bulb works with all of the major smart-home platforms, its solid Apple Home support will be particularly appealing to Apple users.

Smart WiFi LED Bulb - Works with Alexa

This dependable smart bulb has a great app and was the top performer at low light levels, but it doesn’t offer as many third-party integrations as WiZ or Meross.

Smart Light Bulbs | WiFi LED Light Bulb

It's hard to pick the absolute best smart bulb because they're all quite similar, but the Full Color Direct Connect from Cync was the easiest to set up—it took less than a minute in the Cync app from start to finish. Controlling the bulb is easy, as ...

Smart LED Light Bulbs - Color Changing Room Décor

Lifx’s bulbs have fantastic colors and a great range of effects, and they don’t need a hub. They’re designed with the Apple Home universe in mind—the bulbs work with the likes of Amazon and Apple but will default to HomeKit onboarding for the first 1...

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