Sengled
Reddit take
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Pros
- Wyze bulbs and sengled did ok.
- I had 5 Sengleds… We used them specifically for my cat. 😂 She cuddles up and we didn’t want to disrupt her so we liked that we could just turn the bulbs off with the Bluetooth app!
- I figured out the first outage, my bulbs are Zigbee and those also work with SmartThing. I found a little $20-30 SmartLife hub that reconnected my Sengled bulbs to Alexa!
Cons
- I know the alexa connection hasnt been working for a bit but going directly through the sengled app still did, but today is down for me too. The app acts like it's turning the lights on and off but they aren't actually doing it.
- I personally found Tuya and Sengled to be basically ewaste.
- The biggest fiasco this year, for example, was Sengled turning all of their wifi gear into paperweights.
- I had some lights and a plug from different brands and out of nowhere half of my lights start blinking one morning and I find out the brand went bankrupt?(sengled). So all of these lights i purchased are useless.
- Sengled as a company has gone out of business. I’m not sure what is happening on the US side but China has gone and everyone was laid off months ago.
Sentiment
7 positive (17%) · 4 mixed (10%) · 30 negative (73%)
Trust + time weighted score: -60% · raw score -56%
What redditors said (10 of 41)
I know the alexa connection hasnt been working for a bit but going directly through the sengled app still did, but today is down for me too. The app acts like it's turning the lights on and off but they aren't actually doing it.
I personally found Tuya and Sengled to be basically ewaste.
The biggest fiasco this year, for example, was Sengled turning all of their wifi gear into paperweights.
I had some lights and a plug from different brands and out of nowhere half of my lights start blinking one morning and I find out the brand went bankrupt?(sengled). So all of these lights i purchased are useless.
Wyze bulbs and sengled did ok.
Sengled as a company has gone out of business. I’m not sure what is happening on the US side but China has gone and everyone was laid off months ago.
Avoid Sengled, at least IMHO
I haven't been impressed with Sengled and their bulbs do not act as repeaters in your Zigbee mesh network like most others do.
i've had very mixed success with sengled. sometimes they work great, sometimes they just stop responding and you have to reset them and try to reconnect multiple times before they work again.
I just received my new bulbs today and changed the all! Sengled is crap now!