Features:

  • Works with Alexa (Alexa device sold separately), Apple HomeKit and the Google Assistant for voice control
  • Easy set up. LIFX screws in like any traditional light bulb. Simply download the app, connect to Wi-Fi and you're ready to go. No hub needed. LIFX lights are not compatible with your household dimmer switches. This is because we have built everything directly into the app, you can dim, change the colour and turn your lights on and off all from your smart device
  • Built in Wi-Fi & LIFX cloud. Offers full Lighting control via Wi-Fi with our LIFX iOS, Android and windows 10 apps. Ac cess your bulbs anywhere, anytime via the cloud. Voltage Range AC 100-240V 50/60 Hz. Wattage Use 9 Watts at full brightness
  • Adjustable and dimmable. Connected Lighting for your space, time of day, and mood. Choose from 16 million colors and a full range of warm to cool White with flexibility to dim
  • Intuitive control. Control lights individually or as Groups, set timers, pick from beautiful themes or create your own custom scenes
  • Bright & efficient. LIFX Mini Color has an output of 800 lumens, the equivalent of a 60W traditional incandescent bulb with the benefit of only 9W energy use. Designed for energy Star.
Great for Newborns!

I should start by disclosing I already owned 2 LIFX Color 1000 bulbs prior to purchasing this. I was a little concerned that 800 lumens wouldn't be very bright, especially in a "fogged" acrylic lamp, but the reality was it performs beautifully. This light connected faster than the LIFX Color 1000s I own and was on my network in less than 5 minutes (plus firmware updates). First time buyers may have a longer setup time since you need to install the app and create an account, etc. Since this is a full color, dimmable bulb, parents out there probably recognize that light hurts when you have to get up 4+ times in the night to comfort/feed your newborn. My wife and I have this set to a deep red at about 20-25% brightness and it makes it easy to see at night while moving around the room without destroying our eyes. This requires a smartphone to change the light on the fly, otherwise you could toggle it on a light switch after setting it and it will remember what it was set to last (so you don't have to burn your eyes looking at your smartphone!). If you want to toggle from your phone, I highly recommend snagging the Twilight (Android specific?) app. It's a blue light filter for your smartphone and it takes a lot of inspiration from f.lux (desktop blue light filter).

3+ years of experience with 40+ color LIFX bulbs

purchased two of these last night to fit them into sconces for my front door, and side door lights. this makes my 40th lifx bulb purchased. yep, 40. i did have a tiny bit of trouble setting these up as opposed to the BR30 and A19 variants, but i love these bulbs too much to dock a star. i was an early adopter and tried out the hue bulbs when they first came out, and though i read that the issue has now been resolved for the most part, the early generation philips hue bulbs were ATROCIOUS at color reproduction. because of their choice of going with unconventional color combinations to achieve a brighter white light, they abandoned the traditional RGB (red/green/blue) and went with a more CMY approach, (actually magenta/violet/lime in hue's case), they could not reproduce any sort of true green, blue or any of the spectrum in between (cyan/aqua/teal etc were all out of the question). so i remembered that i backed LIFX bulbs on kickstarter before, and they seemed really promising. full disclosure: i pulled out of my backing for that project because near the end the project creator started answering questions less and less, used computer renderings of bulbs as "prototypes" etc and basically to me, seemed to be kinda shady so i lost faith in it. thought LIFX was another overblown kickstarter vaporware. SO WRONG. i bought 4 LIFX bulbs as a test a few years ago and immediately fell in love, and having purchased my own home more than a year ago i instantly replaced all of my living room, kitchen and sitting room (common areas) lights with LIFX BR30 bulbs (replacing the dull recess cans, it's pretty easy to find trims here on amazon that fit them perfectly). i loved it so much i also ended up buying more of their A19 bulbs to outfit my bedroom light, and random floating/floor fixtures. the two minis that i bought last night were the last LIFX purchases i made but definitely not the final ones. they've worked consistently, respond to google assistant and android app control flawlessly. i see people reviewing that the bulbs aren't operating consistently, or syncing correctly etc. might want to check out your network. i had spotty performance too before i swapped my router out for google wifi. with 180mbps+ speed throughout my entire house, lifx has been smooth as silk. some samples of how i use them: - with IFTTT, i set my outdoor lights to automatically fade on at 6PM and off at 8AM to keep my exterior lit. - with IFTTT i fade my decor fixtures on as i get within 100yd of my home and off once i'm 100yd away. - with google home i just say "hey google, set living room lights to 80% brightness (or desired %) and i instantly create the right atmosphere. - with google home i just say "hey google, set bedroom lights to warm/incandescent/cool white or sky blue depending on my mood. - with abode (home security) i set the bulb directly over my bed to blink at max brightness if someone opens my front door when i'm sleeping. - there are a lot more things that i really don't have the time to list. but LIFX bulbs are now an integral part of my life. my boyfriend was at first hesitant and found smart devices annoying and complicated to learn. now neither of us ever touch a light switch, or even really use the app...voice control is that much better (and easier)

Great buy, with a great app.

Honestly a great buy. Love the app with the different colors it provides. The ability to sync it with alexa/google, with the fast response is sweet. I did have some trouble connecting it to alexa, as I initially had the light far from my router. If you are using alexa you must enable 2 smart skills so you don't have to use "alexa ask lifx to ..." but thats on Amazon and their software. Sync with google was fast and easy.

Make sure you got the right HomeKit code

Bulb is great. It works as advertised. However I bought this bulb through Amazon Warehouse deals, and had a really hard time to set it up to work with HomeKit. Included HomeKit code was invalid.I am guessing they got the manual out of some other packaging. Finally I got right code which is printed on the bulb under the serial number and everything works just fine.

More vibrant than Hue!

I have 3 LIFX mini and 3 LIFX A19, I’ve been very happy with them for the past year. I’ve been pleased to see the many updates and improvements that have continued over this time. The stability has greatly improved, its extremely rare now to have any sort of connectivity problems, they are very reliable. I love that they work with all the major voice assistants and most everything else out there. I use mine with Siri on the HomePod, my sister uses hers with Alexa, and my dad will be using the ones I’m buying him with google home. In my experience so far with smart lighting, LIFX wins on brightness and intensity of colors. I have 3 (3rd generation) Philips Hue A19 bulbs that don’t get as bright as the LIFX minis let alone the regular A19 LIFX bulbs. The blue on the LIFX bulbs are much more intense and saturated than the Philips Hue (it’s hard to tell from the picture, but in person it’s a very big difference). The deep blues and purples have almost a black light effect on whites (the silver lighting on a Thor poster looks really neat). The app is very easy to use and set up the bulbs, and it connects directly to your WiFi so you won’t need a hub. There’s some fun effects, scenes and a music visualizer. Setting schedules is simple and reliable. There’s also other third party apps you can use with these bulbs as well. I bought my sister one of these bulbs for her birthday, she’s already talking about getting a couple more. My dad kept asking me questions about my lights and how to set them up last time he was over, next month is his birthday and I already got him a google home mini and plan on getting him a couple of these bulbs to set up when he’s at work. Side note, you can use the lighting to get creative with photography.

Works Great

I purchased an Echo Dot a month ago and wanted to try out it's smart home capabilities by having some of our street view rooms light up when we are not home and our hallway lamp turn into a night light in the evening. I purchased the LIFX lights not having much of a clue as to what I was doing. The instructions were easy to follow, I downloaded the LIFX app and connected that to my Amazon Alexa app. Then I created a routine for each of the lights. I love the dimmer and the range of cool to warm white light options! I plan on purchasing more LIFX lights for the rest of the house because it's just too easy to say "Alexa, turn on hallway lamp 75%" and have it be daylight white or warm white or cool white.

Buy them all!!!

These are the cream of LIFX's crop, in my opinion. Although the strips are a total beast. Apple's and oranges though. So let's talk apples vs apples. I bought one of these, and an A19 to compare. The A19, while it is brighter... it's...not...like...a...normal...bulb...! It has a more pointed footprint, but some light does cast to the sides. The mini though, shoots a more traditional 360 like light. That's the best way I can describe it. In the dark, RGB mode... I actually felt like it wins that battle. They appear to be equal, but the A19 fans out and the vividness just sort of fades. Whereas the mini, casts it's light equally in all directions and sort of dies out, yet obviously lights the room in whatever color. Hopefully this isn't too vague or confusing. All in all, these are what you want where you have traditional bulbs. The A19 while brighter, actually isnt unless it's in a can or sconce, being pointed. LIFX IF YOU'RE LISTENING, $25 AND YOU WILL SELL THESE SO FAST YOUR HEADS WILL SPIN. YOU WILL EASILY MAKE IT BACK ON OTHER PRODUCTS WITH THE WAVE OF CUSTOMERS YOU WILL GET. I REPEAT $25 PLEEEAAASSSEEE!!!

The most reliable of my smart light bulbs

I had to buy this because the TP-Link bulb I bought was way too large to fit in one of my ceiling fans. I'm glad I bought it as it is easier to set up and MUCH more reliable than the TP-Link bulbs. The app is also a much better experience. I recently had a power outage and once the power came back on the LIFX bulb was back on line and ready to use within a couple of minutes, no issues at all. None of my TP-Link bulbs would respond to voice commands or the app. They all had to be set back up and of course the app had trouble finding them, it took over an hour to get 4 of the TP-Link bulbs set back up. If you're trying to decide which brand to go with I would recommend the LIFX.

Fruitcake(color) Lighting

Using in wire cages for a clash of industrial and modern. Great mood lighting at low light levels. No problems with WiFi. Grouped five together in a chandelier. When you group multiple lights you can use the app to have the bulbs work together in various light shows. I like the "Pastels" with the intensity turned into the 70's. I went with LIFX because of the reviews of the intensity of colors and the use of your router instead of a proprietary hub like some competitors. We have a total of ten smart LIFX bulbs in our home and a Netgear Nighthawk router and have not had many issues in the last six months. The lights have the ability to do firmware updates over WiFi. This adds a piece of mind to my decision to go with LIFX for our smart home as I feel while not future proof, its a step in the right direction. It is pretty cool getting into the tub and telling Alexa to dim the spa lighting to twenty percent and play Jimmy Buffet.

LIFX Bulbs are great for HomeKit

Felt like I would leave a review since my experience with these LIFX Mini bulbs has been so painless (rare for me in the home automation space). Setup for each bulb is a breeze on iOS: 1) Power on bulb 2) iOS->Settings->W-iFi (make sure you are on 2.4GHz) 3) Select bulb in "Add new device" 4) In LIFX app (Almost done section) and click on your bulb 5) Setting icon in top right and click on "Upgrade firmware" (sometimes the app may beat you to this) 6) Go back to settings an pair with HomeKit using the printed HomeKit code Can set up several bulbs in just a few minutes. This is markedly simpler than some of the other LIFX bulbs which have older firmware from the factory which doesn't place as nicely with automatic network configuration and/or HomeKit out of the box. Beware though (tiny complaint): I've now bought 6 of the 4x packs, and not once have the bulbs been placed in the box in the correct order specified on the HomeKit code card. Easy enough to check the MAC address of the bulb (it appears in the Wifi settings during setup and in the LIFX app) against the HomeKit code card (it's also on the base of the bulb). These bulbs do great with network connectivity (even over AiMesh) and are the most sensibly behaved of all my home automation devices in that area. Finally the LIFX app is great.

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