@mintytoo- Seriously, is that about what a 40 watt bulbs, or equivalent supplies in lighting. That too low, I’m too old & would stumble all over myself without enough light, or brightness. Let There Be More Light!! Maybe, lower lighting calms younger people, but no light is better than low light, but maybe that is why I’m so grouchy!!
Instead of commenting on these bulbs, I’d like to use this as an opportunity to request an all out posting-brawl between any two Meh forum posters who feel very, very strongly indeed about protein powder.
@AiraCobra That’s what I gathered. But it could be clearer. And perhaps I’m thinking wishfully; it does seem improbable that they mean two two-packs at that price, and the Amazon reference is for a single two-pack. I wouldn’t hesitate to pay this for four. So it’s a material question.
I thought the local tv weather girl was so hot. man oh man. Then my mom mentioned she has a squeaky voice, and I haven’t known the weather for the past two months.
@awk But for old people who remember when incandescent was the more popular alternative to halogen, watts have a direct correlation to lumens. So it’s helpful to correlate the two. My rant would be about the evils of allowing a range of lumens to all be called “x-watt equivalent”.
@jmbunkin- I say it’s about 40 watts, or equivalent, as I said in the prior comment to minitoo, whoever his/her username is. I am looking at a pkg of GE 60w bulbs that use only 43w & they provide 620 Lumens.
@gdibig if you are lucky it will only be like the Mirai or Persirai DDOS botnets that took over a hundred thousand noname generic IP cameras. Kind of like these noname generic light bulbs. If you are unlucky, they will carry ransomware or just griefer viruses.
@medz I have been using hue (ZigBee) bulbs for several years now. My cave is quite cozy.
@caffeineguy the zigbee bridge and HA controller are on their own subnet with firewall rules limiting their access to both internal and external networks. Of course, given the weakness of wifi encryption these days, nothing guarantees your bulbs will stay on that secure network if they go evil. the hue bridge doesn’t have wifi and the controller doesn’t support being a wifi client so that’s not a worry I have.
@Pufferfishy I am, but usually I am hosting. It’s nice to have a few dozen friends over.
@mastershopper By all means, enjoy your 24/7 surveillance and free-market distribution of whatever Amazon, Google, or Microsoft do with data they collect on you.
Also, factor in dependence on non-net-neutrality for-profit internet access to the surveillance cloud.
Don’t think Google Fiber wouldn’t block your access to Alexa in some “fast lane” contract dispute between them, any more than it did between the ISPs and Netflix or the cable companies and local broadcasts or their content providers. Remember those scrolling messages by your cable company or a channel telling you to call the other one to give up in their contract dispute?
@mike808 I have a zwave setup to turn on two lamps in the morning when feeding my son his bottle. Was very useful, especially those first few months. Also is nice to get a dimmer without having to mess with the floor switch thing.
@gnmerritt- Do they lite up if you just screw them in a lamp socket & flick the lamp on??¿ If they will do that I WILL BUY THEM!! So, what say ye’all?¿
@infornography they connect via the app (I assume some sort of UUID in each bulb) - so if your mobile device is attached to your network without issue these will be fine.
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2x Bulbs
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This whole wiki is bonkers. Please post anything interesting you find.
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$54.99 at Amazon
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Meh… Keeping it classy
Meh. I already bought into another smart bulb ecosystem thanks to past deals here.
450 lumens? Truly meh
@mintytoo Seriously. Edison bulbs will keep going while the LED folks keep bogarting the 1600 lumen gear.
@mintytoo- Seriously, is that about what a 40 watt bulbs, or equivalent supplies in lighting. That too low, I’m too old & would stumble all over myself without enough light, or brightness. Let There Be More Light!! Maybe, lower lighting calms younger people, but no light is better than low light, but maybe that is why I’m so grouchy!!
/buy -c VMPBRIBE
@medz It worked! Your order number is: cylindrical-impartial-cloth
/image cylindrical impartial cloth
Wifi with no hub? Haunted house stories are going to the next level!
These seem lumen-challenged.
Instead of commenting on these bulbs, I’d like to use this as an opportunity to request an all out posting-brawl between any two Meh forum posters who feel very, very strongly indeed about protein powder.
@shahnm I’m just meh about it. Does it come with a rolled up $20?
@shahnm this is completely unnecessary. JUST LIKE PROTEIN POWDER IF YOU HAVE A WELL-BALANCED DIET!!!
@shahnm I prefer consuming the flesh of animals.
@awk
@communist it’s made of people!
@a13z BRUH! No amount of balance in your diet is going to facilitate those SICK GAINZ LIKE PROTEIN POWDER!
@davebsd But soy or whey? Which is the clearly better option? It is critical that we definitively determine this, right here in a Meh forum.
@shahnm I prefer that it be made from crickets.
@davebsd That would bug me.
@shahnm someone will play the world’s smallest violin to alleviate your woes.
Eagles fans. Use these to replace the lights you break while celebrating. No one will ever know.
Behold! The Night Bug!
Night Bug!
@yakkoTDI Wheel Clamp Man!
@yakkoTDI
/image Francis X. Clampazzo
Is the price for two bulbs or two packs (hence, four bulbs)?
@joelmw that would be two bulbs
@AiraCobra That’s what I gathered. But it could be clearer. And perhaps I’m thinking wishfully; it does seem improbable that they mean two two-packs at that price, and the Amazon reference is for a single two-pack. I wouldn’t hesitate to pay this for four. So it’s a material question.
Amazon reviews show 3.2 out of 5. This is truly a Meh product.
I thought the local tv weather girl was so hot. man oh man. Then my mom mentioned she has a squeaky voice, and I haven’t known the weather for the past two months.
450 lumens = how many watt equivalent ?
@jmbunkin 40-ish
I should rant here that watts (power) and lumens (luminous flux) are not equivalent units.
@awk great information thanks
@jmbunkin 40W and only 2700K
@Woody1 not 2700k 2000-8000 more like.
@awk But for old people who remember when incandescent was the more popular alternative to halogen, watts have a direct correlation to lumens. So it’s helpful to correlate the two. My rant would be about the evils of allowing a range of lumens to all be called “x-watt equivalent”.
@hachover
I have an idea. Call them torch watts. Or just twats for short.
@Woody1 Thanks,thats what I was looking for.
@hachover You don’t have to be that old for that to be true.
@jmbunkin- I say it’s about 40 watts, or equivalent, as I said in the prior comment to minitoo, whoever his/her username is. I am looking at a pkg of GE 60w bulbs that use only 43w & they provide 620 Lumens.
@PhotoJim old just ain’t as old as it used to be, eh?
@jmbunkin fyi, first gen hue is ~600 lumens, latest gen is 800, the hue white bulbs ~840, 450 is going to be dim
Awesome, wifi devices that will never get security updates, possible IoT botnet victims and could even harbor malware.
Pass
@jamesmcp lol - you must be a blast at parties.
@jamesmcp and they’ll hi-jack your light bulbs and hackers in Bosnia will be able to turn your lights off and on - the horror…
@jamesmcp Hope you enjoy manually swapping your lightbulbs to get different colors like a friggin’ cave man!
@jamesmcp Or just learn how to setup a network without internet access–
@gdibig if you are lucky it will only be like the Mirai or Persirai DDOS botnets that took over a hundred thousand noname generic IP cameras. Kind of like these noname generic light bulbs. If you are unlucky, they will carry ransomware or just griefer viruses.
@medz I have been using hue (ZigBee) bulbs for several years now. My cave is quite cozy.
@caffeineguy the zigbee bridge and HA controller are on their own subnet with firewall rules limiting their access to both internal and external networks. Of course, given the weakness of wifi encryption these days, nothing guarantees your bulbs will stay on that secure network if they go evil. the hue bridge doesn’t have wifi and the controller doesn’t support being a wifi client so that’s not a worry I have.
@Pufferfishy I am, but usually I am hosting. It’s nice to have a few dozen friends over.
We prefer to be called “Lumenists”.
@awk Lumenairies
@awk illumenati
@awk illuminated
@awk-ILLUMINATEDATIZED!!
Now I can see my huge stockpile of batteries and Bluetooth devices.
@arrakisforce Doesn’t your fridge already have a light in it?
even popular brands sell for less (per bulb)
@kbaum17 What RBG wifi lights sell for less than $12 a bulb? Links?
I assume like their outlets, the only way to set it up is to give them your phone number.
i’m 58% sure this company’s second business is selling customer datas.
@username /eyeroll
@username That’s what Google Voice is for.
@steelopus @username That’s what made up phone numbers are for.
they needed real numbah for account name confirmation thingie, did not work with email for me
Work just fine. I wish they were brighter - but if all you need is ~40W they’re fine. Colors are decidedly dimmer than “white mode”.
App isn’t exactly “feature packed” - but then, they’re friggin’ lighbulbs, what do you need them to do?
“Then LED lights when mainstream about 10 years ago.”
WENT, not “when.” Hire me as a copy editor.
So, why do my lights need to be smart?
Did switches stop working?
What am I missing here?
@mike808 automation! lights for moods, lights when you walk in, lights that gently wake you up… So much to be done with these lights!
@mike808 lazyness for some
why get up to turn off the light when u can just use ur phone or voice
@communist Why turn off the light and walk across a dark room to bed when you can leave it on, get into bed, and then turn it off by voice?
Why walk up to the front door, open it, then turn on the porch light when you can turn it on before you get out of the car?
@mike808 you must be on a dimmer switch.
@mike808 Too hard to clap on/clap off these days
@jamesy8 Not a dimmer switch. Just a dumb switch.
No smart switch for me! #MAGA
/s
@mike808
Thanks to Alexa, I haven’t touched a light switch in two years.
I also have not had the flu in two years.
Coincidence? I think not…
@mastershopper By all means, enjoy your 24/7 surveillance and free-market distribution of whatever Amazon, Google, or Microsoft do with data they collect on you.
Also, factor in dependence on non-net-neutrality for-profit internet access to the surveillance cloud.
Don’t think Google Fiber wouldn’t block your access to Alexa in some “fast lane” contract dispute between them, any more than it did between the ISPs and Netflix or the cable companies and local broadcasts or their content providers. Remember those scrolling messages by your cable company or a channel telling you to call the other one to give up in their contract dispute?
@mike808 I have a zwave setup to turn on two lamps in the morning when feeding my son his bottle. Was very useful, especially those first few months. Also is nice to get a dimmer without having to mess with the floor switch thing.
musical-stormy-tin
Smart bulbs are the new bluetooth speakers!
Is it two bulbs or two packs of 2 bulbs
@astroglide Two bulbs
No hub? In for one!
@jmoor783 beneficent-putrid-wire
Purchased speaker light bulbs on Meh a year ago. They’re pretty good as speakers, but the app doesn’t work for changing colors.
Well, I got a free echo last month, so… Might as well.
Anybody know if they work with zigbee or z-wave controllers or do I have to use the specific app?
@gnmerritt- Do they lite up if you just screw them in a lamp socket & flick the lamp on??¿ If they will do that I WILL BUY THEM!! So, what say ye’all?¿
@decoratedwarvet for that price I can get 12 LED “dumb” bulbs at the dollar tree… meh, pass…
@gnmerritt No, these are wifi. They connect directly to your access point.
You have got to be kidding me…
Are these things able to use WPA2? I got a wifi lightbulb at one point that couldn’t so it was useless on my network.
@infornography they connect via the app (I assume some sort of UUID in each bulb) - so if your mobile device is attached to your network without issue these will be fine.
@Pufferfishy My network uses WPA2, and they work on mine, so yes. They only support 2.4 GHz WiFi, not 5 GHz.
Bought two items from meh in one month?
/giphy "somebody stop me"
@flooners too bad VIP is dead to you…
@chienfou
@flooners- Okay, STOP or I’ll Break Out A Can A WHIP ASS!!
@decoratedwarvet *Whoop
idear for meh: when selling these type of things, do a quick vidya on how easy or hard it is to set one of these up.
@username yeah! Like this:
MEH is losing imagination…at the very least they should have mentioned with millions of colors we could replicate a room in candy corn colors…
/giphy we want candy corn
Does it remember last color setting after we turn off, and turn back on?
Love these… sell some more @snapster !