Nanoleaf Essentials B22 LED Bulbs, Pack of 3 RGBW Dimmable Smart Bulbs - Thread & Bluetooth Colour Changing Light Bulbs, Works with Google Assistant Apple Homekit, for Room Decor & Gaming

This nano leaf bulb was a great purchase. It was extremely easy to setup, I used apple homekit and it was a scan, switch on and it linked extremely fast. The home kit options are great but limited. So I later used the official nano leaf app and there are a range of options, strobe effects etc. The bulb itself is nice quality and can be easily dimmed or set to 100% for a very bright light. The nano leaf bulb offers a range of apps to use along side the official app and allows me to use my Alexa, nfc tags (through shortcuts and apple homekit). This was definitely worth the money, especially at the price I got it for (1/4 of the price)

Bought to use with apple HomePod and works a treat

IOS, no widgets. Must use Apple Home Kit widgets instead. Set up is fairly easy. Nice bright colours

I bought 8 of these initially for my downstairs. Setup with HomeKit was relatively easy, and once I had them all working I felt quite content. Occasionally I saw the connectivity would drop out, so updated all the bulbs to the latest software and ensured I did the same with my phone and HomePod minis.After a day or so, I noticed the bulbs would constantly go offline or take 20+ seconds to respond to a command. Using the Nanoleaf app, I could see that the bulbs were connecting to thread, disconnecting, switching to Bluetooth over and over. It wasn’t an issue with where the border router was placed as it was in the same room, and the bulbs were no greater than 1.5 meters apart (with most in one room and hallway being less than a meter away).I then added bulbs to my upstairs, and that’s where it all fell apart completely. My house is not large, and thread is designed to ensure that the network stays permanently connected even if one device goes offline. This did not happen. When one bulb went offline, all of them did - and it took either removing and completely factory resetting then to get everything working again. Once everything was working, after 20 minutes it would all happen again.I also use thread/matter devices from Eve and Aqara, placed at extreme ends of my house. These devices work perfectly and have never once lost connection. They respond instantly.This has demonstrated these these Nanoleaf bulbs are simply not fit for use. I’d understand it more if it was one faulty bulb, but I bought 14 of these and every single of them does it.If you are thinking of buying these, I beg you to reconsider. I’ve returned all of them, and will never buy from Nanoleaf again. Don’t let the more premium price tag fall you - these are simply awful products and you will have a nightmare using them.Instead I’ve begun using Wi-Fi bulbs from Meross, which respond instantly and have never once gone offline.Avoid these like the plague.

At last, matter!

Definitely would buy again

Good value bulb on deal that has lots of colours and is very bright.

Key points: Good light bulb, nice colours, useable maximum brightness, latency/performance is highly variable, 'works' with my Google home assistant.Extended review:I have a Google nest display 2, so I thought it would be a good idea to get a smart lightbulb for a cool sunrise effect and use the red light at night (for better sleep obviously).Connecting the bulb to nanoleaf's app was fine and work pretty well to be honest. The problem is that it used Bluetooth, and the whole point of buying a matter enabled device is to use matter.This is where my Google nest display comes in, it acts as a thread router, basically allowing my bulb to use matter (I believe it creates some sort of separate network on a different frequency so it doesn't interfere your WiFi or Bluetooth devices, that's one of the the main benefits).And like a lot of other people I had trouble with setting up and it took hours blah blah blah...I had to disconnect from the nanoleaf app, reset the lightbulb to default settings via some magic light switch code:power cycle the bulb 5 times(turn on the bulb, turn off the bulb immediately, wait 3 seconds, repeat for a total of 5 times) If done successfully the bulb will flash red like some intruder alarm.Connect to my Google home app as a matter enabled device by scanning the qr code on the bulb or the sticker on the included quick start guide (the better option if you don't want to be blinded while the bulb is on).I also installed the nanoleaf app afterwards and made sure to connect the bulb again and ensured it was using the thread network.Results? A smart bulb that works most of the time 👍, there are occasional hiccups where it takes sthe bulb about 5 seconds to turn on or switch colours, which doesn't seem to happen on Bluetooth...But usually it performs well, takes about 1-2 seconds to change in Google home app, and instantly on nanoleaf's app.As for what smart things I use it for:I give control of it to my alarm and morning schedule to turn on slowly before the alarm.I also made 2 single word routines 'daylight' and 'night light' (that's just how Google interpret speech, I would have preferred 'day light')It changes the colour and brightness of the bulb simply.Oh right, main downside of a smart bulb, you would want to control it with smart stuff only. You can still turn it on and off at the light switch, but it will disrupt the connection between the bulb and the smart device, so it will have some issues when you then try to change some settings.(There are some cool smart switches that allow you to operate smart bulbs without cutting power to them, but those are expensive and require installation)