This Matter-enabled smart ceiling light costs under $100

Smart airy fixtures are rapidly becoming a thing, making it a small easier to adhd colorful, fun, and utile lighting effects to much areas of your location than you traditionally tin with smart airy bulbs. While these types of fixtures person been rather pricey, astute lighting institution Lifx conscionable announced its new Super Color Ceiling Light starting astatine conscionable $89.97.

The full-color astute LED airy fixture offers 2,500 lumens of dimmable light. It works with dynamic lighting effects done Lifx’s app, including a daytime entity with clouds floating by, a nighttime entity with meteors, an invigorating sunrise, and a relaxing sunset.

It besides has tunable achromatic airy ranging from 1,500K to 9,000K, allowing it to enactment arsenic everything from a brushed nightlight to a superb task light. The Wi-Fi-enabled fixture fits flush to the ceiling and features some uplighting and downlighting, which tin beryllium controlled separately, and tin beryllium acceptable connected schedules and dimmed utilizing the Lifx app.

As a wired light, it needs to beryllium hardwired and person a changeless powerfulness proviso — meaning, if you ligament it to a modular switch, that power volition request to enactment on. Lifx says it volition connect to a modular junction container for casual installation. At 15 inches successful diameter, the ceiling airy is rather tiny — particularly compared to Aqara’s astute ceiling airy oregon Nanoleaf’s Skylight ceiling panels — truthful it’s astir apt champion suited to a chamber oregon hallway alternatively than a main surviving space.

The Aqara and Nanoleaf options, which commencement astatine $150 and $250 respectively, are importantly much costly than Lifx’s caller light. Lifx’s ceiling airy is besides a 3rd of the terms of the new Philips Hue Datura ceiling light, which costs $300 for 15 inches. While some Aqara and Hue usage a hub with their lighting products, the Lifx does not since it works implicit 2.4GHz Wi-Fi. However, successful my experience, lights that enactment implicit Wi-Fi tin beryllium little reliable than those that trust connected a hub.

Lifx has said it’s transitioning its full enactment to enactment the caller Matter astute location standard, and the caller ceiling airy is Matter-enabled, truthful it works with Apple Home, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung SmartThings (you’ll request a Matter controller from the level you privation to use). Smart location integration besides allows for dependable power of the light.

Lifx is 1 of the archetypal astute lighting companies. It was purchased by US-based Feit Electric successful 2022 and has since released a fig of caller products including an outdoor lighting line. The marque has agelong been known for its affluent colors and precocious brightness arsenic good arsenic its quality to enactment implicit Wi-Fi and not necessitate a dedicated hub. But traditionally, it has been 1 of the much costly brands. This displacement into much affordable offerings is simply a invited 1 and mightiness beryllium giving the folks astatine Philips Hue immoderate sleepless nights.

The institution has besides developed a polychrome exertion that merges colors much people to springiness disconnected an ombre look from a azygous light. I’ve tested this connected its string lights, and it works precise well. The caller ceiling airy has the aforesaid tech, and Mark Hollands, main exertion serviceman of Lifx, explains that “it uses a grid of lighting zones to propulsion the boundaries with creaseless portion blending, elemental gradients, and dynamic moving effects.”

The Lifx Super Color Ceiling airy is disposable present from The Home Depot starting astatine $89.97. It comes successful achromatic oregon achromatic trim, with the achromatic trim offering a somewhat higher 2,850 lumens, compared to the achromatic trim’s 2,500 lumens.