GE Link LED bulbs: low cost experience "high performance" smart lighting

If you want the most intuitive to enjoy the convenience of smart home, smart LED bulb is undoubtedly an excellent choice for entry. Through the mobile phone and the Internet, you can operate the lamp switch, adjust the color, and even enjoy the effect of light bulbs and other equipment linkage, the experience is very new.

However, like the PHILPS Hue well-known products prices are not close to the people, a light bulb up to hundreds of yuan, may not be an ordinary family can afford, and GE (GE) launched the Link LED, for $15 / month (about 92 yuan) of the ultra low price for sale, can change the situation.

Lighting performance

GE Link LED has a mainstream configuration, such as 800 lumens brightness, a power of 12 watts, provides a variety of color effects, and has a life of 25000 hours, these parameters are more expensive than other brands and models. However, the brightness of the controllable range from 10% start, as 0.5% PHILPS Hue and other advanced models so widely, means that it will not be a very dim lighting effect, if you want to create a romantic light link, GE Link LED is not a good choice. As for color temperature, GE Link LED can achieve about 2830K effect, color display is still relatively accurate.

GE Link LED color temperature performance

In general, GE Link LED illumination performance although compared to some high-end smart bulbs slightly less, but for the average family can meet the demand, lower prices can replace the disposable whole range, not only can fully use things to control lighting, compared with the traditional 60 watt light bulbs more power.

Intelligent characteristics

Intelligent connection, GE still choose to cooperate with Wink, so in order to normal use, but also the need for some hardware and software configuration. There are three options to realize the interconnection of WIFI and a bulb, a $30 (about 184 yuan) of the Wink smart socket, followed by $50 (about 306 yuan) of the Wink center, and the upcoming Wink relay, using Android driven touch screen design, can be installed on the wall, priced at $300 (about 1838 yuan).

In addition, GE itself provides two bulbs with the center of the package, priced at $50, the cost is similar to PHILPS and other half of the product, or very affordable.

Once connected to the connection center, Wink applications will pop up to remind you that the connection is successful, then you can use the phone to control the normal GE Link LED bulbs. In addition to the basic remote control, also supports the time preset and other functions to develop a fully automated lighting plan. The Wink application also provides a "robot", is actually similar to the IFTTT standards, allows the user to make some related operations, such as placing a motion sensor in the utility room, open automatically after the user enters into the monitoring light.

However, in practical use, we found some instability, such as some control errors. We also tried to update the firmware, but the problem remains, this may be GE Link LED compared to Belkin, TCP and PHILPS place.

summary

In simple terms, the GE Link LED is one of the most expensive intelligent lighting, the lighting characteristics to meet the needs of general users, but the drawback is that the Wink system is not perfect, will cause the connection and control problem of intermittent, this will obviously affect the use of the product experience.

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