Yeelight DESTROYS Philips Hue in 3 Scientific Tests
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มี.ค. 2021
- PROOF that Yeelight smart home bulbs have a higher CRI value, a higher lumen value and a faster flicker rate for less money than Philips Hue. The majority of Yeelight's range works with both Amazon Alexa and Google Nest, but today I am testing out their latest Google exclusive bulb; the upcoming Yeelight M2.
The Yeelight M2 works exclusively with Google Nest as it makes use of the Google's Seamless setup, and is a bluetooth bulb rather than a Wifi bulb, Bluetooth smart home bulbs are quicker to react, and don't need a hub. The Yeelight M2 also has the advantage that it isn't clogging up your Wifi network. Yeelight versus Philips Hue ? No contest.
This video is sponsored by Yeelight, all opinions are my own.
Until Yeelight release an equivalent smart bulb for Alexa the M2 will only suit Google Nest owners, the M2 will be released any day now BUT Yeelight also do bulbs that work with Alexa and Google Nest right now. The M2 will be released soon, all other products discussed in today's video are linked below:
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Such an amazing video - and thanks for talking about the quality of light! Most comparisons just look at the light fixture design, app features or smart home platform compatibility. While all these things matter, of course, what makes Yeelight so great is the light itself. Unfortunately, many people underestimate how important high quality lighting is for our health - especially considering that most of us are exposed to artificial light for most of the day. The right lighting can prevent us from having headaches, insomnia, poor concentration, etc.
"I'm perfectly fine"
Sorry Paul, I love you, but you're clearly not fine, seek help, seek help now!
Your first reaction with Google is so accurate, that's me every damn time.
Seems to go through phases for me. It weird as it is hearing me better today!
@@paulhibbert we actually have a game in our house now where we try and guess how many swear words before Google assistant does what was asked. 😁
Have you also tried asking it what it's doing when it does something odd? Has some odd replies.
When govee releases their air purifier I want to do this.
Hello: I have been following your videos for a while now, and I think your work is very good, not only the humor you have (which in this video made me laugh with Google) but also your product is quite professional, with quality and very entertaining. But you also talk things as they are without caring if someone likes or annoys someone. Congratulations from Switzerland.
Happy Saturday everybody! The Yeelight M2 isn't here yet and I got a sneaky peek! Waiting for Yeelight to give me a release date, will let you knew I get one. In the mean time the 800 lumen version that works with both Google and Amazon is linked below...
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Paul Hibbert: Next round is price
Philips Hue: I'll just leave now shall I?
I actually bought a hue 2 pack white ambient on amazon for £24. The YEELIGHT 1S is currently £26.99 for a single bulb. If he said they are comparable philips hue is more than 50% cheaper.
@@lukeshepherd9529 You're comparing apples and peaches. The Yeelights are colour bulbs, the Philips Hue colour ambients are currently £68 for two (or £40 for one).
@@InfectedByEli good point! 🤷♂️
How have you not hit a million subs yet??? You’re content is pure gold! Informative yet funny as hell! Keep it up good sir
I may be mistaken but I believe the flicker on the Hue bulb when recording is caused due to the speed relative to your cameras shutter speed.
Shutter speed changes as the auto exposure of your camera increases or decreases. That's why you see him getting the phone closer and further from the light source and yet there is no flickering on Yeelight.
Another great video, Paul, thanks for the laughs!
First things first: I love the range and design of Yeelight products. However, the WiFi connection of the Yeelight products I have tested is quite unstable. Every now and then they drop off the network and can only be reconnected by physically taking them off the power - they won't ever reconnect by themselves. This happens randomly, and - in addition - quite regularly when the router(s) reboot. My dimmable white bulb (which looks almost exactly like the one you review here) actually messed up my smart home setup. In irregular intervals, my other WiFi-connected devices became sluggish like hell. Most obvious was the effect on my Alexa Echo devices. It took me quite a while to find the culprit - but finally I found it: the Yeelight bulb! Now, since I unscrewed it and tossed it in my "smarthome graveyard" chest, everything is running just fine. While I loved the bulb for its brightness and general quality, I just cannot afford its negative effects on the rest of my network.
Brilliant fun, as always! Glad you discovered yeelight, have been using this for 5 years with Google assistant
I got my jab yesterday. After, I stood up and shouted "Ooh the PFIZER". The jab lady said, "sit down and shut up, Paul!".
Great video paul, was chuckling from start to finish. 👍
Paul, thanks for the amazing video and for making it fun. It made my day! I am also tired of asking Google to turn off things and she turn it ON. I thought it was my foreign accent LOL
Love the harmonies - we want more! 😂
Mr socky is hell to work with. I feel a hit like I'm Noel Gallagher in oasis having to work with a psychotic brother. 😂
Cannot recommend Yeelight, precisely for the mentioned dimming issue: if you rely on sunset or sunrise functions, forget it. The 0-100% brightness range is *realistically* 50-100% and there’s an admission by the company that _this is quite deliberate_ because the colour saturation of their LEDs don’t work to their satisfaction at lower brightnesses.
Take a trip to the Yeelight web forums, before buying, is what I’d strongly suggest. You’ll find thousands griping at this and at how the company is totally unresponsive to feedback.
Where the bulb beats all competition hands down, however, is temperature range. 1700-6500K in the case of my bulb. You simply will not find a colour LED smartbulb on the market, anywhere, also capable of being reduced to that low level of White warmth. Believe me, I’ve looked.
You may want to check out the Lifx Mini Color bulbs; the temp range is 1500k - 9000k. They are a little pricey, though, and I wouldn't recommend their A19 Color right now because they're having problems staying connected to the app. The minis are my favorite of their bulbs so far.
@@claudiaadams8650 What a thoughtful comment. Thank you for making it and letting me know. Will certainly be checking those out.
I really need to stop watching these videos before bed. I end up having nightmares of Paul's head yelling at me in my sleep over my use of hue.
I can't wait for the Homekit review! it's going to be hilarious!!!
Glad I have seen you review something I've been using for some time now. Great price bulbs, time Philips woke up, I have one of there bulbs which I got when I started out in smart stuff, learned my lesson quickly.
Would love to see a comparison of Shelly and Yeelight. I just got a bunch of Shelly bulbs, adn their app on iOS is clunky, but once setup aadding them to Home Assistant was a snap, and is Incredible! Thanks Paul for all the great reviews.
the best set of skits on TH-cam. Paul should have his own TV show
@Paul Hibbert ...the hibbert show ................
You’re so funny 😂 look forward to watching random videos and good tech reviews from you.
Bloody hell, he’s finally gonna have a play with HomeKit. Welcome Paul, Welcome! 🤣
Another great video. Loved the addition of you playing guitar.
I haven't even watched the entire episode yet, but I just had the thought that I need to get some of whatever he's on.
strangely enough, you have the same haircut as my old science teacher too :-P
Btw that lamp is more Logans run than Blade runner.
Best review ever!!!! Lots of laughs! I can only imagine doing Home Kit ! Thanks 👍🏻✌🏻🇨🇦
Hello darkness my old friend.....that has absolutely ended me!! Absolutely brilliant
Yeelight is surely a good product going by the feedbacks from our customers in Nigeria and its integrate seemless with alexa, Google home and other platforms. Good job Paul
I love the duet with Mr Socky!
Great video!
If you don’t want the nest hub, you can sent it this way 😉
OMG.. 🤣🤣 Best home automation channel.. informative and FUN.. watch every Saturday morning (Brazil), practically "Saturday morning cartoons" for nerds... and I'm usually more serious than a zigbee or Phillips hue fan.. 😂😂
BTW Did you check Tuya products?
This brightened my day! Tee hee. Seriously, you always make me smile with your videos.
The first 20 secs of this had me crying in laughter - so true!
Always good to see you compare something to Hue 😅.
Now that you have a Homepod mini I would love to see a video about Thread and Nanoleaf, Eve… and your thoughts about the future.
About half my house is Yeelight color 2 bulbs and the other half is Hue color bulbs. Had both over 18 months and the Yeelights are far superior in every way except one major issue, connection drops. I've tried every router from Nest, to Eero, Linksys and even Unifi and all had constant dropped connections with the Yeelights. And don't even get me started on the drops between Yeelight and SmartThings. Maybe the new bulbs are better. And yes, I have 9 Google homes and they are TRASH! How it keeps getting worse is mind blowing.
So it fails on the most important thing reliability
My last internet connection drop that stopped my Yeelights working cleaned itself up after being left for about 30 mins.
Not had this issue Asus AC68U router.
Had yeelights for nearly 2 years, and recently got ambilight effect working on movies and Kodi 'Yeemee'.
Fantastic value, albeit one started randomly restarting.
I have 5 in total.
It might be your wifi having to many devices, idk, but if you're using the old google home minis. Maybe try out the google nest mini 2nd gen much faster trust me. My mom still has the first gen it's so much slower, or maybe try the google Nest hub Max, or nest hub second gen like in this video might work better. Just suggestions 👍
I can't wait for Philips to sponsor one of your videos
OMG The Sock Puppet! I was immediately overcome with hysterical flashbacks of the Sifl and Olly show.
Love the videos Paul! Can you do a review of the range of Hey! products please? I'd be interested if they really could be a one-stop shop for smart appliances.
I'd love to see the comparison also for the gu10 lamp new released by yeelight this year
Harmony with the sockpuppet is what earned my sub.
Hi, I have the 1s bulbs, the colors are amazing especially the green, but the warm white is pretty dim. The colder warm is a bit brighter but still not enough for my needs. So basically I would only recommend them if you want your room to be a disco deck. But they are probably still better then philips hue.
You ALWAYS inform and entertain!
I tested the flicker on smart bulbs, you taught me everything I know about them Paul 😁, then on an old stupid LED bulb, the stupid bulb doesn't flicker. 🤷🏽♂️ It was also a little tough to see the smart bulbs flicker, I wonder if it's our inferior 110/120 voltage in the US? Of course if you live in Texas you may need candles. 😁🤣🤣
I have yeelight! My main complaint is I have issues with HomeKit, but it’s just a bug that should eventually get fixed.
I've had a couple of Yeelight RGB bulbs and both became weird after several months of use. One just got very hot, faded and turned off, never to turn on again. The second one refused to stay off. The problem initially made it turn back on after about 10 minutes but eventually it would turn back on almost instantly after turning it off. I tried resetting them multiple times with no resolution. Have not had these issues with any other bulbs in the same locations.
Putting your music skills to good use even at the very start XD
Super video! Does the standard one (not the google M2) work with Hubitat Hub? Maybe using Alexa integration?
You can change default behavior of bulb (Power on after black out) in Yeelight app. And if you want to control this bulb in Home asiistant you need to allow Lan Control in Yeelight app too...
Ciao, Thank you, very interesting video 😍😍But get no lamp so far...
DARKNESS, MY OL FRIEND!
I'm not splitting the royalties with you!
@@paulhibbert *man argues about money, with a sock*
@Mr Socky
Is that because you live in a sock draw?
Or
because you only use my light bulbs? 😉
I'm still laughing at this, 2 days later! 🤣🤣
Have a look at the Yeelight screen bar. Has a light that shines down on your keyboard and another on the back that shines at the wall which with their software can match what’s on the screen. Also comes with a battery operated button that can control both lights and brightness.
Firstly I am a home assistant fan, and never get fed up of the thrust😂
Secondly I love yeelight, I have had mine for a few years. They are bright enough, quick to respond and do, yes do have sunlight mode, and candle flicker and police mode.
Unfortunately not bluetooth, I do have some yeelight Bluetooth remotes and I will gladly send you one as it's useless to me.
Absolutely brilliant video 👏🏼👏🏼
Great video/content/etc . Congrats
You had me at the intro 🤣🤣🤣
I do find that the yeelight lights have trouble matching the colours sent to them if you change it with google assistant (yellow comes out as green). but colour on the apps is perfectly fine.
pay cheap get something cheap !!!
The airpurifier at the start is literally me to my google . She really knows how to tick me off
It's like they trained it for maximum frustration! It could be used in torture to get secrets out of prisoners of war 🤣
Paul, great review of two leading smart bulbs! Yeelight is coming on strong & blowing away (corporate greed) Philips. Love that it works with SmartThings & also doesn’t need a hub!
Paul Hibbert plays a Takamine! I knew we were friends! 🤣
Thank you for covering dimness on the video as previously requested :-) I need to get about 16x rgb+cool/warm white GU10s. ZigBee or WiFi....the procrastination and dithering goes on...
classic paul....
Came for the home automation news, stayed for the costumes
Thanks for the review I was about to buy the Philips hue at home depot. So I started looking at Yeelight and they have a new W3 model out now and I was about to buy it till I saw there BR30 smart light multicolor but there are 0 reviews for it out there. I am wanting to replace my bedroom lights with smart lights and they are the BR30 style what would you recommend ?
thank you again for your great videos
all our home is with yeelight products (around 20 lamps, ceiling lights and strip lights) for more then 4 years. great and reliable product with best value for money. thanks for another great video
But yeelight is a wifi bulb isnt it? Therefore doesnt mesh the bulbs together like hue, imagine having 60 of these on your network and also hoping they are close enough to router to stay connected 🤷♂️
Hey, thanks for your video! And for all your videos!
I use in my apartment google assistant and lots of yeelight / xiaomi products and 2 philips hue bulbs, for my needs i am satisfied with all the devices i have but xiaomi /yeelight products are mode user frendly then Phillips ones, plus the prices.
they seem to do everything apart from nanoleaf type panels, any recommendations? i have no idea what panels are best, there are so many to choose from and so many manufacturers that i have never heard of.
yeh most of my lights are Yeelight. And I love them also their desklamps. Also quite heavy in the xiaomi echosystem. I have both v1 and v2s. They have been chugging along 2-3 years and still going strong.
Yeelight seems to be the screw in type only, we do live in the U.K, so we use the Bayonet system. The one problem I do have with sticking everything onto Wi-fi is how long will it be before your router will not accept any more Wi-fi connections?
Only issue I've had with yeelight was that I have a lamp that had LAN control before, which I needed for Homey. After an update, they pulled that feature. I had to setup the light again, to do that, I had to downgrade the app. Through a workaround it's possible for Android, but good look with iOS.
i do have the yeelight but just like a lot of people having trouble connecting to it. on the philip hue it connects just fine.
I'm sure the flicker issue is more complicated than that. You'd see flicker when the rate matches a multiple of your camera's rate, but not when it doesn't. Suppose your camera is scanning at 60Hz - then refresh rate of 120 will have artifacts, but rate of 50 won't. But the rate itself is not the full story anyway, because the speed of cooldown makes a big difference. Incandescent bulbs take a much longer time to stop glowing than LEDs, so at 60Hz the amplitude change is not nearly as perceptible. With an LED, you may see it appear as multiple lights if your eye is moving (I always see this effect in car tail lights)
There's actually a deal on the Hue ambiance sets if you buy 4x E27 it's less than 12,- for one
Bit late to the party, but I got a yeelight rgb led bulb for around 20 quid, way cheaper than phill hue, and I could do what I was planing.... It connects also to razer synapse software on my pc, where I can select screen areas to act like ambilight. Whatever is the most proeminent color in that area, its the color the bulb will light. Boy, it makes the gaming experience so much more immersive......
What's the little robot screen thing you have on your desk Paul? Seen it in a few videos and wondering lol
that a nice fixture did you make it or buy it if can you put a link so I can buy one?
Wait, does the M2 work with Home Assistant through Google Home or can it not see it? I have recently seen the light of Home Assistant and I love how it magically detects most things I have
Thank you sir. 👍😁
Will these integrate into my existing hue ecosystem to be controlled through the hue app? I'm looking to add some more lights but would rather buy an alternative that are less expensive but can still be controlled by the hue bridge and app.
This is a pretty late reply and you have probably already bought whatever bulbs you needed. But both Yeelights and Philips hue bulbs are supported in the Smarthings app by Samsung. the app is available in both apple device and android devices even if they aren't Samsung phones. So you can control both through that at the same time and integrate them with one another if you wish. I don't think you can use the Philips app to control yeelights though, you probably know more about that than me at this point.
I tried to see the flickering with a hue bulb but it didn’t flicker¿
I don’t understand?
I tried it on three bulbs and no flickering under any colors?
I still need a good Hue alternative to the TV lights and box that doesn't have some dn camera on top of the tv...
Fantasy bollocks! Tis what the ladies call me.💯👍
Bought a couple of those Yeelight lamps yesterday, only come with a euro adapter, are there uk adapters available from yeelight?
How do you control the bulb with home assistant if it’s Bluetooth only? Wouldn’t you need a Bluetooth dongle?
Keep an eye out for the W1 (colour + white) and W2 (white) GU10 bulbs due any day now. All the Yeelight bulbs work with Xiaomi Mi Home as well 😎
Colour rendering index is to do with the spectrum of light they emit. This affects the colour reflected by the surfaces you are looking at. Early bulbs tended to only emit a narrow spectrum of light so while it was emitting a “white” light it was made up of red blue and green at specific wavelengths. Actual daylight has a more even output across the spectrum. So for example your room looks ok in daylight as the colour on the walls is reflecting a specific wave length that is strongly emitted in daylight, however your led bulb doesn’t admit that wavelength and the colour looks off.
Philips could well be worse or actually better on CRI but without a light spectrum analyser we can’t verify the claims from either manufacturer.
In any case Philips stuff is way overpriced and you don’t need any special kit to analyse that.
I wish they made these as zigbee bulbs :/ I need to extend my zigbee network with them for the other sensors. I'm using the lidl smart bulbs but the dimness of everything except white and that certain colours make it flicker drives me nuts. I bought a yeelight bulb ages ago but have yet to actually put it anywhere (shouldn't have bought the screw fit)
Hello Mr. Paul Shelly aka Hibbert, is there any difference between those bulbs (the Yeelight smart S1) and the Shelly ones? I think the Shelly ones are cheaper as far as I know. Nice video Paul ;-)
I like "she who must not be names" makes me think of Amazon as Tom Riddle
Alexemort?
What do you think of phillips hue rolling out wiz and bluetooth bulbs that are cheaper and don't require a hub?
Caught me on the toilet like clockwork
Others thumbing up bellow me should be careful where they put Thier hands
🤣🤣🤣 I am afraid to put my thumb up.
@@paulhibbert always wash your hands and it should be fine (what I learned as a father)
is there any light (other than the super-expensive Hue) that is able to go very very dim at 1% brightness?
How to solve on/off bug?
Set device in italian:
turn off X became "spegni X"
turn on X became "accendi X"
strongly different and withous ambyguity
Does yeelight even have physical switches yet? I tried to get into that ecosystem 2 years ago and it was trash. Way too complicated
@Paul Hibbert can you do a review on NiteBird Smart Light Bulbs. I have been using them for years and haven't seen any reviews for them.
I dig your channel, more HomeKit would be appreciated.
Another great video, Paul!
FYI, have you seen that Flic buttons can finally trigger Alexa routines? Hallelujah! And the final nail in the coffin for ifttt.
Oh, and I had the exact same conversation with my nest hub last week! The hub is way worse than all the other Google home devices for picking up what you're saying.
But is there a way to set up Yeelight to sync to your tv/pc's video/audio like Philips hue hdmi play sync?
wow, apple homekit review, waiting for that :)
Something that makes Yeelight even better is it's native local integration with Hubitat!