I really wanted to like this lamp because visually it’s fantastic and the lighting effects are genuinely impressive. The build quality feels decent and the animated scenes (like the rotating rainbow effects) look great.
However, the “smart” functionality is extremely disappointing, especially for the price.
The biggest issue is that you cannot schedule or automate any of the actual lighting effects. Within the app, you can create or select dynamic scenes and even save favourites, but when it comes to scheduling, you are limited to basic settings like on/off, brightness, and static colour only.
So for example, you can set a white light to turn on at 6am, but you cannot schedule one of the lamp’s main selling points — the animated scenes. This feels like a major oversight and makes the automation side of the product almost useless.
It’s also worth noting that Alexa and Google Assistant integration is very basic. You cannot trigger scenes or effects through voice commands, only simple controls.
What makes this more frustrating is that this level of limitation is something you would expect from a very cheap smart bulb — except even those typically allow full scene scheduling and automation, which this does not. In practice, this £70 lamp has worse automation than a £12 smart bulb.
For a lamp at this price point, I would expect:
- Full scheduling of saved scenes
- Better smart home integration
- More consistent app functionality
Right now it feels like two separate products:
A really nice decorative light, and a very basic smart bulb.
If you’re buying this purely for manual use and visual effects, it’s great. But if you’re expecting proper smart automation, it falls short.