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What You Need to Know Before You Buy a Smart Light

From light bulbs and plugs to light switches and wall plates, smart lights are a popular entry point to the smart home. And with so many new options on the market - including inexpensive smart LEDs - you might want to fill your entire house with these.

Maybe you should! There are many benefits to a whole-house connected lighting setup, including benefits such as automatic holiday mode lighting that helps make it look like you're at home when you're not, the fun novelty of colour-changing bulbs, and the convenience of turning off all the lights your kids have turned on with a single voice command when you go to bed.

But before you buy a shopping cart, you need to know the ins and outs of smart lighting to ensure you get the best bulbs and switches for your smart home. To that end, here's a rundown of what you'll want to know before you buy.

You'll want to choose a platform
The first question worth thinking about before buying smart lights: which platform do you want to use to control them? Most options offer their own control apps that allow you to group lights together and schedule them to turn on and off at certain times - but it's likely that you'll want to make more of your lights smarter.
If this is the case, then you will need to consider a broader smart home platform that can handle all the different devices you might end up using.

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Pairing smart lights with voice assistants is one of the most popular ways to do this. Whether it's Google Assistant, Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa, each can be a powerful control point for a connected home, especially if you're willing to place a smart speaker or smart display somewhere in your home. If you have one of these, it's almost a breeze to add lights that your assistant of choice can control, and you'll be able to use them with devices such as cameras, thermostats and smart security systems.

Yes, some require hubs
Smart lights use wireless transmission to send and receive signals, and different bulbs use different methods to get the job done. Some use built-in Wi-Fi radios to connect directly to your router so you can control them remotely from anywhere you have an internet connection. Others use a Bluetooth radio to connect directly to your phone when you're around 50 feet away. To control such bulbs from further away, you need a Wi-Fi hub to relay their signal to your router and pass it through to you via the cloud.

Then there's Zigbee, which you can think of as a local wireless network for your smart home gadgets. Many smart lighting products use Zigbee to send signals - if so, then you'll need a Zigbee hub plugged into your router to translate these signals for your home network. Most Zigbee bulbs offer their own version of the hub and setting them up is usually not complicated at all, but it does add some extra cost.
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