Sengled Smart Multicolor A19 Starter Kit (Open Box)

Edit: Not sure what is going on with this company but haven’t been able to access the lights for the past week. The app says they can’t connect. Alexa says it can’t connect. Updating the app didn’t help. And even hard resetting everything hasn’t resolved the issue. Asimple Google search revealed that there are many others like me, though some say they’re now back online. I’m still here (literally, and pun fully intended) in the dark. Which would have been nice to know before I spent the better part of an hour trying to reset everything, figuring it was a local connectivity issue. Tweeted the company asking for help and have received no response. Have heard that their servers are down which is affecting app function, and that the original CEO has stepped down and there may be some organizational turmoil within the company... though not sure why I would need their servers to be up or their CEO to be at their desk in order to access my hub which is connected to the internet in my apartment. Overall I have about $250 sunk into their products right now and none are working with no assistance in sight. The kicker is that, yes, you CAN use your light switches to manually turn the bulbs on or off but they are stuck at the setting they were at when the outage started. For me, that’s at my evening setting of 1% brightness. If I don’t hear from them in the next few days I’m going to scrap them completely and invest in a company that has its **** together and provides better customer service. The GE hue bulbs look better and better everyday. What a waste of my time and hard earned money. Original review: These bulbs were super easy to set up and have been so awesome to turn my entire apartment into a hands free smart home. Nothing beats laying in bed at night reading a book and not having to get up to turn the lamp off all the way across the room or saying "lights out" or my pretending to be home light setting on my way out the door and having my entire apartment quickly adjust. And, as an added safety feature, I can control them from anywhere! The bulbs are super easy to control through both the Sengled app and Alexa though on occasion they may go offline which is usually resolved quickly and without needing to do anything on my end. The colors are really cool too. Though they understandably do not light the room nearly as well as when the bulb is on a white setting. They're such a cool novelty to put on at night as mood lighting when relaxing, taking a disco shower or watching TV. Super glad I went with Sengled. 10/10, would recommend!!!