The breakdown of the Belkin WeMo intelligent LED lamp of "small household affairs"

According to previous reports, Belkin held at the beginning of this year, CES 2014 released WeMo intelligent LED lamp, then plans to launch in the second quarter of this year, after several months of bouncing, WeMo intelligent LED lamp finally officially listed. It is reported that WeMo double package is priced at $100 (about 614 yuan), on the basis of each additional purchase of a lamp need to spend $30 (about 184 yuan), than the early announced price a lot cheaper.

Currently, WeMo smart LED's main rival is from PHILPS's Hue Lux LED and only in the United States to sell the TCP smart LED lights, it seems that WeMo to stand out there is still a certain degree of difficulty. Nevertheless, WeMo intelligent LED there are still many commendable place, especially for purchased WeMo products users, the smart LED really appropriate, may wish to look together below detailed evaluation WeMo intelligent LED!

WeMo intelligent LED in the appearance of the general LED lights and not much difference, A19 ball bubble lamp modeling and White Opal looks very classic, no matter what kind of lamps installed will not appear different. The normal work of WeMo smart LED relies on a matching WeMo Link data converter. WeMo Link using in-line design, the size is slightly larger than the general mobile phone charger, which can receive the Wi-Fi data and control through ZigBee transmitted to the light bulb, and the standard is also used in PHILPS Hue and Hue Lux.

It is worth mentioning that, Hue and Hue Lux data transfer through Ethernet directly and home router connected to the already very messy data line is more difficult to take care of, compared with WeMo intelligent LED solution is more reasonable, the user can put the WeMo Link plug in any place you want.

WeMo is not difficult to use, after everything is ready, WeMo will be the first to use green and orange lights remind you that the connection is successful, then you have to do is to come up with intelligent mobile phone, connect the WeMo Link wireless network and open the WeMo application, then the system will automatically detect the network connected to the smart bulb, then you can switch back to the home network. Not only that, WeMo also supports intelligent LED with WeMo Light Switch and WeMo Switch+Motion, set a variety of custom rules can be applied by WeMo, such as WeMo, Motion to detect the action on the open lamp.

In terms of parameters, WeMo smart LED power of 9.5 watts, brightness of 800 lumens, compared with the same level of products more energy-efficient. Hue Lux LED and TCP smart LED color temperature is about 2700K, while the color temperature of WeMo is 3000K, relatively warmer. In addition, WeMo smart LED brightness can be adjusted through the WeMo application, a total of 100 levels, the brightness is very smooth, no flicker. However, we need to remind you that if you use the application to adjust the brightness, do not adjust the physical control of the wall on the brightness of the knob, otherwise it will cause brightness changes. When the WeMo intelligent LED adjustment to the lowest 1% brightness, the actual brightness is the highest brightness of about 4%. Although there is no problem in most cases, but Hue Lux LED and TCP smart LED minimum brightness is lower.

WeMo intelligent LED in the color rendering performance satisfactory color rendering, the average score is 88, be the most changeful color effect is enough to bring your living room, and the Hue Lux LED and TCP intelligent LED score of 80. However, for this level of LED, rendering red can not seem to have some difficulty.

A large part of the reason why the price of smart light bulb is from smart two words, and WeMo smart LED naturally will not let lazy people disappointed. In WeMo applications, you can not only manually set the time to open the function, but also to make it according to the sunrise time every day to wake you. At the same time, WeMo smart LED also has a minute and hour as the unit of the dark mode, to help you sleep, and this is the lack of TCP intelligent LED.

Not only that, WeMo smart LED and Hue Lux LED support IFTTT. In simple terms, the Internet based IFFTT provides users with a very simple set of rules framework, through which you can set a variety of smart appliances such as behavior mode, location, equipment iOS smart wearable device information, social network status is the premise of triggering WeMo intelligent open and close LED. However, it is regrettable that, WeMo smart LED IFTTT function is not yet open, users need to wait patiently for a while.

WeMo application is very easy to use, a series of boot screen will guide the user to complete the entire setup process, within a few minutes will be able to master. And after a year's time, Belkin WeMo ecosystem has been gradually formed, the characteristics are becoming increasingly apparent, the design logic and interaction interface is simple and practical, operational feedback is very sensitive and rapid. Like most smart bulbs, WeMo smart LED, Hue Lux LED and TCP smart LED can be remotely controlled by the application, but only the lack of smart LED WeMo web page settings, how much appears inconvenient. In contrast, PHILPS Hue, due to open API, you can even find a lot of third party web control interface.

In terms of compatibility, in addition to IFTTT, WeMo intelligent LED also supports SmartThings and Revolv, but does not support Wink and Staples Connect, and relatively mature Hue has supported the above four criteria. In view of this, WeMo smart LED has yet to be improved in this area, but on the whole,