Peace by Hampton A19 LED Wi-Fi dapper bulbs evaluation: Highly efficient automation tools, however some missing facets, too

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The most fresh from Hampton Products’ growing dapper dwelling line, the Peace by Hampton A19 LED Wi-Fi dapper bulb is gleaming, colourful, easy to set up, and provides multi-step automations that work in tandem with Hampton Products’s various dapper gadgets. But as highly efficient as the Peace by Hampton automation tools are, they lack some key facets, a lot like a mosey mode.

Make and specs

The Peace by Hampton dapper line at this time consists of two lighting fixtures products: a BR30 multi-coloration floodlight (which we’ve reviewed) and the A19 multi-coloration bulb that we’re reviewing here. A Peace by Hampton dapper jog (gape our evaluation) is also available in the market. On sale exclusively by map of Finest Purchase, the A19 bulbs were initially available in the market finest in a $60 four-pack, which comes out to about $15 per bulb. Peace by Hampton subsequently began selling the A19 bulbs personally for $17 each and each, which is composed a first price deal.

This evaluation is allotment of TechHive’s coverage of the actual dapper bulbs, where you’ll obtain reviews of competing products, plus a buyer’s files to the facets you ought to composed take into yarn when browsing.

Fancy various A19 bulbs, the Peace by Hampton Successfully-organized Wi-Fi Bulb has an E26 harmful, which implies this will seemingly presumably well well match in similar old gentle bulb sockets. Rated to final 13.7 years in response to a pair hours of utilization a day, the dimmable Peace by Hampton bulb emits up to 800 lumens of sunshine, which is roughly the same to a 60-watt shiny bulb. In my tests, I stumbled on the bulb had no worry lighting fixtures up my bedroom, and it ought to also with out complications illuminate a desk or one other form of workspace.

The Peace by Hampton A19 bulb’s white gentle might perhaps presumably well even additionally be tuned from a warm 2,700 Kelvin to a daylight-the same 5,000 Kelvin, and it ought to also additionally glow in up to 16 million colours.

Setup

As you contain got guessed from its identify, the Peace by Hampton A19 Successfully-organized Wi-Fi Bulb connects straight to Wi-Fi networks, which implies there’s no need for a hub. Whereas you gain the Peace by Hampton mobile app and register for an yarn (there’s no Google or Fb yarn integration, so you’ll nfeed to enter your email handle and produce a password), you might perhaps presumably well well delivery at the side of the bulb to the app.

You might perhaps presumably well be in a local to either scan for the bulb—or bulbs, given that we’re going by map of a four-pack here—or manually add bulbs one after the other. Fancy most various Wi-Fi-enabled dapper bulbs, the Peace by Hampton A19 bulb finest connects to 2.4GHz wi-fi networks, however after an initial hiccup, I modified into in a local to add the bulb to the Peace by Hampton app by job of the auto-scan procedure, and with out having to temporarily change my dual-band 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi router to 2.4GHz-finest mode. Whereas you’ve added your bulbs, you might perhaps presumably well well add them to rooms to your house (Mattress room, Kitchen, Survey Room, and so on) as effectively as produce gentle groups inside a room.

These weak to various dapper gentle ecosystems might perhaps presumably well even very effectively be stunned to be taught that the Peace by Hampton app obtained’t allow you to support a watch on the full lights in a given room, despite the incontrovertible fact that you can support a watch on the full bulbs in a lighting fixtures crew; in various words, “rooms” inside the app in point of fact finest exist for organizational capabilities. Which suggests you might perhaps crash up creating, vow, a “Grasp Mattress room” gentle crew to your “Grasp Mattress room” room, an annoying extra step.

Capabilities and performance

Whereas you’ve added your bulbs to a room and (optionally) grouped them collectively, you might perhaps presumably well well delivery controlling them with the Peace by Hampton app. Tapping a bulb or a crew takes you to a 3-tab interface. The “White” tab lets you judge a white gentle temperature by swiping a round palate, while the “Color” tab has a similar palate, along with a coloration intensity slider. Each the White and Color tabs boast brightness sliders as effectively. Finally, the “Scene” tab lets you judge from a series of white gentle and coloration presets, from “Night” and “Comfortable” to “Learn” and “Working,” while the “Colourful,” “Supreme,” and “Pretty” scenes cycle by map of colours at moderately a pair of speeds. You might perhaps presumably well be in a local to also tap the Edit button to provide your bask in scenes.

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The Peace by Hamptons app provides some highly efficient automation tools. Besides fundamental day-to-day and weekly schedules, automations might perhaps presumably well even additionally be brought about by whether you’re at dwelling or away, by the space of a diagram (a lot like whether a given bulb is on or put of residing to a definite coloration temperature), break of day or sunset, and even the native temperature, humidity, weather, or windspeed. These stipulations can trigger a quantity of actions, from turning your bulbs on and off and changing their coloration and brightness to sending mobile notifications and even triggering various automations that you’ve beforehand created. You might perhaps presumably well be in a local to also add delays between actions, in the occasion you want, or you might perhaps presumably well well produce “tap-to-bustle” automations that you might perhaps presumably well well export as Siri Shortcuts.

Highly efficient despite the incontrovertible fact that Peace by Hampton’s automation tools might perhaps presumably well even very effectively be, they might perhaps presumably well even very effectively be intimidating for novice dapper dwelling users, and there are some main missing facets. To illustrate, the app lacks a mosey mode (which turns your lights on and off at random intervals to idiot would-be burglars), nor does it provide a sleep/wake purpose that delicately dims or brightens your lights at night and in the morning. (One workaround is to provide an automation that uses pauses to step by step step the brightness of your bulbs up or down over a given duration of time, however creating the routine requires a honest quantity of persistence.)

Fortuitously, the Peace by Hampton A19 bulbs improve each and each Alexa and Google Assistant (however no longer HomeKit, no topic the Siri Shortcuts compatibility), which implies you might perhaps presumably well well support a watch on the bulbs with speak commands as effectively as (with out complications) produce routines for them. And while neither Alexa nor Google Assistant provide randomized mosey modes for lights, Alexa can ramp the brightness of bulbs in routines, while Google Assistant has its Gentle Sleep and Wake purpose.

Backside line

For hurry one of basically the most affordable coloration-enabled dapper bulbs on the market, the Peace by Hampton A19 Successfully-organized Wi-Fi bulb gets high marks for its easy setup and dauntless automation tools, plus its improve for Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri Shortcuts. The bulb has its drawbacks, at the side of missing mosey and safe up/sleep modes. That said, one in all our initial objections—that the bulbs were finest available in the market as four-packs—has been erased now that the lights are being supplied personally. 

Updated on October 30, 2020 to gift that the Peace by Hampton A19 multi-coloration dapper bulbs are in actuality being supplied personally as effectively as in four-packs.

• Peace by Hampton A19 LED Wi-Fi dapper bulbs (4-pack)

  The new A19 coloration dapper bulbs from Hampton Products are affordable, however some key facets, a lot like a mosey mode, are MIA.

  Specialists

  • Cheap on a per-bulb foundation
  • Shiny and colourful
  • Highly efficient automation tools
  • Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri Shortcuts improve

  Cons

  • No mosey or sleep/wake mode
  • No HomeKit improve

Ben has been writing about technology and user electronics for extra than 20 years. A PCWorld contributor since 2014, Ben joined TechHive in 2019, where he covers dapper dwelling and residential leisure products.