Smart Light from Indian lighting company, Syska, is a smart RGB LED light bulb with support for up to 3 million unique color shades. The bulb has a wattage of 7W and an intensity of 480 Lumens. The LED bulb connects to your phone through an app which can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store and utilizes a Wi-Fi connection in order to control the bulb. Once linked to your Wi-Fi network, you can control the LED bulb from your smartphone, provided it is connected to the same Wi-Fi network as the bulb.
Controls include the ability to choose what color you want the LED bulb to glow, as well as the brightness of the bulb. The LED also has features like setting a timer or a schedule wherein the bulb will automatically turn on or off depending on what time you have set. For example, if you want the bulb to switch on after 6 PM and turn off by itself at 11 PM, you can program it to do so. Or, you can also set a duration for which you want the lightbulb to be on, say for one or two hours, after which the bulb will shut off by itself. Also, if you have multiple Syska Smart Light LED bulbs of the same kind, you can group them together and control all of them at once. For instance, if you have 2 bulbs in your living room, you can link them together and control them at the same time instead of doing so individually.
A few downsides though are that the app is least intuitive and is very buggy, due to which Syska themselves recommend using a third-party app called “iO.e” in their user manual, which by no means is polished, but is much better than Syska’s Smart Home app. We wonder if Syska is rebranding this Chinese smart LED bulbs for India. Also, the LED itself could have been slightly brighter, probably a 9W or 10W rating would have been better. So if you’re in the market for a smart lightbulb which can be controlled by your smartphone or a smart speaker, the Smart Light LED bulb from Syska seems to be a good option if you don’t mind the flawed app as well as slightly low brightness levels.
