Happy Saturday! Gosund's US Amazon pages are working fine, but Gosund's UK Amazon pages seem to be experiencing some technical difficulty! Great timing 😂 They're working on the UK site now but the Americans can shop immediately, either way the links for everyone are below. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. By buying through any of the links below I will earn commission at no extra cost to you :) Gosund Amazon US: Table lamp: amzn.to/3yH5vIx Socket: amzn.to/2T1mzKd Light bulb: amzn.to/36sI21K Gosund Amazon UK: amzn.to/3jzZ6Le Gosund Official Website: www.gosund.com
I have have some Hue stuff.. but not a complete idiot for the record (most of the time). I also run it all through Home Assistant..but yes I am a nerd.. anyhow..back on topic and to give you a laugh. I got Hue Lightstrips for my new kitchen as got them on a deal.. and my 5 year old daughter who loves Purple goes "Oh can I see them in Purple?" I proudly whip out my phone and select purple and it's blue.. straight away she goes "That's not Purple" and found myself internally cringing at you being right! Damn you Paul Hibbert 😂. Keep up the good work, does give me a laugh and also informative at the same time!
I have 6 of these (light) dotted around the house, the family control these with Alexa. I control these with Siri, the Gosund app automatically created an apple shortcut, no need for separate hub.
Honestly though, I and probably most other people don’t care about color bulbs. The only kind of bulb I want 99% of the time is a soft white bulb. I started by buying a budget brand tunable white bulb at $10 apiece (I am on homekit which limits my options somewhat). I have connection problems with them all the time and they turn on slowly. I can literally get soft white hue bulbs for $10 apiece from either eBay or Amazon warehouse deals, and I have literally never had connection issues. They’re the most solid part of my smart home. They turn on and off instantly, they’re the right white, and they literally cost me as much as the budget ones I bought. The only thing you have to do is not be a 12 year old and want every light in your house to be gamer levels of RGB.
Mr Hibbert..another marvellous clump of content....your Amazon link just takes me to pretty pictures of the beside lamp I want...please help or a shall be forced into buying the overpriced Hue kaka.
Yet here you are commenting and giving me engagement. Thanks man, your sourpuss sad twattery is literally putting money in my bank. 🤣 How's that for annoying?
Paul, I thoroughly enjoy your videos and so does my wife who puts up with geekness as long as the humor is there. I have to comment about the Gosund bulbs. In your videos you often give very high scores to lower cost and often more functional products and this is a good thing. However, I think that frequently promoting wifi controlled devices which have no common control standards might not be prudent. Although many of these wifi light bulbs, plug outlets, and even switches may be easily controllable through either she who should not be named or the Amazon Assistants, there is one strategic point you have left out. Smart Home devices, as opposed to the automated home are differentiated by remote control capability. For that matter, I suppose the "Clapper" in the 70's meets the automated category of devices without actually being an automated device. When you add several of these wifi devices like the gosund, each has an address on your wifi network and each would be controllable by some phone/tablet based smart app and lately by the embedded capabilities of Alexa devices. However, device drivers for these devices differ greatly. I have found that having over 200 smart controllable devices in my home that a best practice is to consider the voice assistants as being a peripheral to do voice control only. Although Alexa is controlling more devices each day, customized and localized control is still primarily a capability only found with a hub such as Samsung SmartThings, Hubitat, or Home Assistant and others. In fact, having all your home devices on a low powered mesh protocol like Zwave or Zigbee, often times the end user experience is better (user beware: mesh networks can be hard to build properly). Lately, I've had a few friends come to me with issues using their wifi controlled devices and they have wanted to add them into a hub controlled scenario as their automation needs have become more complex over time. The problem is that many of these wifi devices are a lot less expensive than the licensed Zwave radio chips or even Zigbee radio chips. So, wifi is becoming dominant. Consider this, most people have a private NAT Network configured behind their firewall router. This is a class C network and usually defaults to 192.168.1.n/24 meaning that they have at most 255 device addresses available to them. Given the lengths to which IoT device manufacturers have gone to make all their devices smart, a heavy investment in wifi light bulbs, plugs, switches and other devices could easily exceed the range of a typical subnet. I don't have any wifi smart devices and my network has about 80 client nodes including both wired and wifi devices. That would have left me 175 free IP addresses and I have already surpassed that. Home Automation is a hobby/addiction that does nothing but grow. Advanced planning and foresight regarding what and how you might want to control things in the future is a paramount issue. Consider whether the device that you are buying has the potential of hub control. You may not own or want a hub now, but replacing all your devices in the future, might be more expensive then doing some upfront systems architecture planning. Realize that many wifi devices are not necessarily hub controllable. Sorry, for the detail, but I have been doing home automation since the BSR X10 devices in the 70's and growth and future planning may go a long way to less pain. Jeff Bezos might need more yachts and spaceships, but the rest of us should be trying to buy devices with some longer term future in mind. Oh, and no I am not a fan of CHoIP. So maybe the solution is to make all home automation wifi after all. We can just make sure all private networks are configured with IPv6. Some of your followers might not know that your ISP grants each and every customer a total of 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 ipv6 addresses for their own personal use!!! The way IPv6 works is that every computer on your home network has its own IPv6 address on the Internet. So, with IPv6, no NAT is needed. Do you think that 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 wifi smart home devices might be a more reasonable limit? Darn, I guess wifi works after all.
After last week I wonder how you can wreck your home with smart lights... And we are a few minutes in and you're stroking a desk lamp. The misses will do the wrecking if you keep that up.
Paul, as always thank you for the information. I have all the gosund products and am happy with them. I have the night light and use it even though I am still looking forward to the special moments you mention. Being a Yank and lacking the hardware you demonstrate, I'll just use it in normalish moments and pine for things I lack. I do have to mention the more expensive but wonderful Govee smart table lamp and hope you have a look at it. I am not associated at all with any company but get some pretty special moments from you and the table lamp. Thank you for the reviews but please quit giving Phillips such an easy time. I miss the Zigbee.
I think the Philips hue go would have been a better comparison to the nightlight. (Cheaper than that other hue junk - has colour and is overall better features) I’m a HomeKit dummy so hue is a easy choice.
Fantastic video as allways. By the way; Do you still use your Hubitat or have you replaced it with something else? Is your verdict the same as in your video about Homey vs Hubitat you made a year ago?
LOL another fantastic video my Saturday morning chuckle. Hue bulbs are way over prices, have you seen the leaks from Hueblog that in September Hue will FINALLY upgrade most of their bulbs to 1,100 lumens YES FINALLY. Hopefully the price will not go up, nice if they went down a little?
I have several smart-lights in my house and none are phillips.They work perfect and the light is great also the price is very low. (Xiaomi and some other brands) I use them all with google home.
I bought my first hue bulbs in 2013, when they were very new. I was working at a store and got 50% off :O And they are still working right now, above my head. They are expensive, much cheaper now than back then though.
But how are the dimming capabilities compared to the Gosund? I only have one room where I use the Hue bulbs and that is in my home theatre room where it's connected to the HDMI hue bridge. In other rooms I have a mix of Shelly, Ikea and Xiaomi smart bulks, sockets and switches. I even have a 'smart kettle' and thanks to a self build BLE adapter (esphome) I was able to read the temperature of the water and change the color of a lamp in the livingroom to indicate it's progress and start pulsating in red when ready. I've used several tablets as remote controls for the house and they also show a notification when it's ready.. Best thing is that none of my devices need the internet to function. Yesterday we had some bad weather due to storm Elsa and the electricity went out for an hour or so. Thanks to my Powerwalls I still had power and everything in my home works, except the internet. The junctionbox that provides the internet (fiber) line to my home also needs electricity and of course it doesn't feature a small solar panel with battery to provide backup power. So before I knew it, the whole street came knocking and we had a wonderful evening. The most difficult part was finding topics to talk about that aren't politicalized yet..
The importance of a smart device's App UX/UI is far greater than the brightness levels (who ever goes to 100% brightness anyway). It's this reason I switched all my lights completely to Philips Hue. Best decision. If you know you know
With the single factor being price, I can understand any of these comparisons. HOWEVER. Philips Hue’s user capability, easy set up, and ACCURATE colors is far worth the price in my opinion. So, if you’re watching this video and you want to “just get by”, sure go with a cheaper product. But just remember that you get what you pay for. In my experience, I’ve learned that saving up and building smart home lighting with Philips Hue 1 or 2 bulbs at a time until I’m satisfied was FAR more worth it than settling for the cheaper products.
Just saw this today and thank you for all the hard work. Also, today Gosund is found under GHome Smart; pricing still seems similar to Paul's review. If I am wrong let me know and I will make the correction.
Great video, This Bed Lamp is also known to be sold under the brand NiteBird - Can be found all over AE if you want it :) - I have not ordered it and I might now after this video by Paul.
Thanks to you Paul I have bought my wife a very nice reading light, that I had been thinking to get one and could not decide which one? I ordered gosund lamp and it came within a week. Lamp is working great with SmartLife even though it has its own app. can do everything and already connected with Goofgle Home and Alexa Plus Home Assistant. Glad you have the review on that lamp and you did a great job on it - I don't have "PHue" devices in my smart home at all and that is also thanks to you! and I do think that is the right way to go. Thanks
Yet another grand video. Everytime I see one of your vids, I'm using my secondary monitor to browse through prices etc. for the (good) stuff you mention :D .. Is there any possibility that I could write you an email or such, to ask about some specific products? Doing a DIY project at home, and I'm really confused about which products work with what, WiFi or not, storage and all those things :D
Hey Paul, the Amazon links only point to the shop, doesn't appear to be a way to buy it, you got any other links we can follow for your affilliate scheme?
really wish I got to your videos sooner. I probably wouldn't have bought the 6 hue bulbs I currently own. I did get them all on deals but the prices were still more than any other smart Tuya device I have. I bought a bunch of Lidl stuff for a fraction of the price. I can Get smart bulbs in the bloody pound shop these days. Tuya is literally killing it!
I remember learning in high school that you can use a potato as a battery for a light bulb. So yeah….. maybe we should compare potato’s to Philips hue! Would that not be a fairer comparison?
Paul, I love your videos man. Not only the information that you are giving about smart home products but also your great jokes. I really laugh loud man.
Your Amazon UK link only appears to show their products page but doesn't have any items to buy, none of the images will take you to their actual items to buy. I was hoping to take a punt at the bedside lamp. The international (USA) website doesn't ship to the UK. The US Amazon will apparently ship to the UK with no import duties. Fun review though!
Paul, in fact Hue bulbs, plugs and lights with Bluetooth can pair directly with any Echo speaker (not just the ones that include a ZigBee hub) for Alexa voice control without needing a Hue Bridge or a phone to be connected.
Hey, Just got an idea that has absolutely nothing to do with smart bulbs :) Please do a review of a smart watergauge. Preferably one of those that can be connected between a washing machine or a dishwasher and the water outlet. The purpose is to measure and detect increased waterusage for that particular appliance.
How about the lowest brightness? This is especially important with bedside lamps. I use Philips hue on my night stand because it is the only one that doesn't burn out my eyes on the lowest brightness setting. I don't put my dimmable lightbulbs at the highest brightness, and I think many people don't do that either. So, dimming levels are more important on a dimmable light then the maximum brightness.
I agree for the most part, but I think Philips Hue Motion Sensor is an exception.. I was looking for (zigbee) motion, light/brightness and temperature sensor/s for my home office and couldn't find sensors for less than £30 combined. There are options starting from £30 combined, but 15s cooling off period of the Philips Hue presents good value for £30... I'd appreciate if you prove me wrong cause I intend to buy more of these..
Hi Paul, thank you for yet another awesome video! I've a question: could you tell something about the comparison of the minimum brightness levels of Hue vs Gosund?
The night light that you featured in your video look similar to the Yeelight Bedside Lamp D2. They both have USB-C, tap to turn on or off, touch sliders and a touch button. I think that the only difference is that the yeelight one have a nightlight mode that uses a special low bright mode (the effect is beautiful) and the yeelight one is smaller. The price of the Gosund one is half of the yeelight
Don't know what's going on with Amazon. Followed your UK link to go to gosund shop in Amazon and can't see prices for anything. Did a search for gosund on Amazon and nothing comes up ?
Can you start to test also the lowest brightness? To me that is more important that the maximum brightness Love your work and humor. Keep up the good work /long time a subscriber
Serious question Paul, I have invested heavily in Philips Hue products and I am up for trying cheaper alternatives. But short of selling all my stuff, is it possible to add to my HUE setup with compatible cheaper lighting and accessories?
I'm obviously not Paul, but I tried using Innr bulbs within my Hue ecosystem, as they're Hue bridge/app compatible and significantly cheaper. I came to regret it over time, as the bulbs intermittently refused to turn off, or on, and while I could reset them using the regular light switch, this was a pain as I'd covered it up with a Hue switch. Non-Hue system bulbs like these Gosung might be better, but personally I just don't want any device like this on my home wifi, because the more devices you have, a) the bigger the security risk and b) the poorer your wifi performance will be for devices and apps that really need it (especially video conferencing).
@@starbuk138 Thanks for that, it's very helpful. I do wish I had done more research before I started buying HUE products, but I assumed as they were the market leader they were the best. I have never had any issues with them to be fair, they are very reliable and have a lot of third party app support. But they have cost me a small fortune over the past couple of years!
@@Gadgetonomy I have about 39 bulbs now, and 12 accessories, so I'm at the limit for the hub and considering a second (yes I know this brings its own issues). I don't care if they're expensive, it just works. I don't have to spend hours tinkering in HomeAssistant or HomeBridge or with multiple apps or anything. The color rendition is consistent across the range, and the brightness is what I need it to be. If I had more spare time, maybe I'd be bothered to look at other options...
@@starbuk138 Yeah I guess I am pretty much of the same opinion. I like the fact everything just works reliably. I do agree with Paul Hibbert that Philips are ripping people off somewhat. Reminds me of Apple, once you've invested in the products you are kind of stuck with that brand and they can charge what they want. Funny thing is I have always avoided Apple for that very reason!!
Hi ! Love your vids, but I bough Hue anyway :p In your comparatives of bulbs and everytime you're talking about Hues, you d'ont talk about the Hue Entertainement functionnality. Wich is, for me, a reason for the price. Making your living room a real nightclub etc...
Lol, I’m a Philips Hue fanboy and was seriously considering getting the “blob”, but fuck me, I didn’t even think that it could actually, for real, just be a bulb in a blob. I just assumed that for 100 euro, it did at least _something_ more. I’m really happy with Hue tho (cause my wallet is obviously bigger than my brain), mostly because you can buy the products anywhere, and I don’t have to read more manuals and install more apps, but it’s definitely time to look into alternatives!
Thanks for uploading Paul I look forward to watching on a Saturday morning. Your videos have helped me with a lot of my smart home, Actually I just had a house full of Broadlink TC-3 light switches delivered this morning. Keep it up mate. Also do you have a link to the steampunk pipe lamp you have in your vids? I can find some like it but they are all smaller
on fb i saw an advertisement for an dup and down outside light, philips hus one was £130, another one very identical and did the same thing was £30. as paul keeps saying, CORPORATE GREED, you find anything philips hue make but cheaper and usually better quality
I literally have 104 gosund lights and plugs throughout my home and garage and I've been using them for over 3 years now. I have only had one bulb total malfunction and stop working after one year of use. If you calculate how many I have vs how many of them didn't make it is above 99% still working after 3 wonderful years of use
@@ibyopappy Do you control them with automation or sync any of them with a TV screen? Just curious if that's possible / how well it works. I'm also wondering how quickly they can change colors with automation.
I have gosund strip led on the tvs they do not automatically change colored with the tv screen but u can set via smart life or using alexa to tell her to change to what ever color u want. To adjust with picture you would need some lights made by Govee I believe. With those they have a sensor that will be able to change the tv lights with the screen picture. I opted away from those personally because I usually jus set the lights when watching a movie to a nice color blue or when playing xbox I go green
Got some gosund stuff (smart bed lamp and smart plug) and both act up weirdly. The smart plug keep turning on and off randomly and the lamp seems to have a lose contact on the power port. Kinda cheaply made..
Personally I've found precisely one real-world use for a red light, which is in the bathroom at 4am so when I'm going to the loo in the middle of the night because of an incautious pre-bedtime drink I don't destroy my night vision. Sadly for Philips, in that case I don't want it to be very bright anyway - just enough light that I don't have to choose between sitting down or relying on echolocation like an over-hydrated bat.
Unfortunately gosund doesn't seem to exist on amazon I order 2 products couple weeks love them I got bed side lamp and led strip wanted to order again nothing showing ? 😪
I'm using a couple of Meross lamps not dissimilar to those and about the same price. Work really well to light up the corner of an office or a bedroom etc.
Aren't Signify working on brighter (and larger) Philips Hue bulbs? I seem to recall reading about it somewhere. They're supposed to be 1100 lumens or something. Coming in late autumn iirc.
Sometimes there are really good offer prices on starter kits that include the phillips bridge, that's how I got into Hue. I agree that its an expensive system and some of the "feature" lamps are clearly a rip off. In time perhaps competition will force them to reduce prices, we can hope so. But Hue as a system works really well, is very easy to set up, very reliable and for people who are not bothered about price, it can be good solution with features some other cheaper systems dont have, its been great for me.
I have philips hue and lifx, and currently they are both the same price or close for similar products. Philips Hue work a lot better than Lifx as they never disconnect from wifi and are always ready to control, the lifx on the other hand, constantly disconnecting and never working. I still like lifx because they are very bright, brighter than Philips hue at least. Philips hue for me!
There is nothing wrong with cheaper alternatives but you can’t compare them with high end tech, it’s just simple as that. You can still do it ofc but that doesn’t make the comparison logic. It just doesn’t make any sense. It’s like comparing a audi RS6 with a honda civic. You CAN do it but it’s completely nonsense. Apart from that, as i said, nothing wrong with the Honda Civic. Keep it up.
hey, new to your videos and see you have some strong view on hue ;) I use tuya for everything but I want smart bulbs that have an easy solution (no wiring) for a smart switch. The hue switch with some nice switch covers looks like a good idea. plus they do motion sensors etc. Is there a tuya equivalent I don't know about? I could even use non hue Zigbee bulbs.... can you share your thoughts on this or direct me to a video where you may already have covers this? Cheers.
For what it is worth, you can use google nest and alexa devices to still have voice control with the bluetooth lamps... Fairly limited control, but control nonetheless.
I love your videos so much I even watch ads! You rock Paul. You are my favorite RU-vidr! 💛 Thank you for not only great information but a crap ton of humor and fun in a dismal world!
Such a funny video and I want those Gosund's on Amazon UK... all the video needed was some Neesha and some Ooh the Zigbee and it would have been perfection :-)
I have about 55 items that are "wifi" based that only work on a 2.4ghz Wifi.... (this does not include the 30 or so devices I have on 5ghz) I am NOT using my ISP router I am using a $600 Netgear Orbi Pro Triband with satellite... I am CONSTANTLY have issues with some bulbs NOT responding.... @Paul Hibbert... You leave out that when you have maxed out your router's capabilities, people will HAVE to look into alternatives like Zigbee because it does NOT clog the wifi network. That being said, I have started using many "Innr" bulbs because they are also Zigbee and are NOT as expensive as Philips.
You put 55 items on a Hue bridge and it will fail the same way. I have more devices than that on my amplifi HD router anyway, so your router isn't as good as you think it is 😉
@@paulhibbert The point still remains... you'll hit a limit too. With Hue you can have multiple bridges. Not me personally but I know someone who runs a hotel with 4 bridges and has 60 devices on each (even though he says it actually will run 65). Each bridge is limited to 60. I fully agree that Philips Hue is a rip off. Not disagreement... but there are cases where not clogging the wifi is the only solution once you get to a certain point
@@paulhibbert Probably though I've yet to get there. I went the zigbee route after running into the capacity issue with my router. I first had a ISP router, but after even upgrading that to a better router (though it did help) I still ran into the limit. I now have close to 90 devices with the help of the offload to zigbee (about 30 zigbee). Love your videos btw.
Paul I’m confused - I didn’t see a carrot or cucumber hooked up to a power lead vrs Phillips hue ??? I feel until there’s electrified veg most viewers won’t believe you lol . Me on the other hand - spent more and went balls deep in with LIFX throughout the house .
I find if you're not 12 and don't feel the need to have colour bulbs and only use the whites there's not too much difference in price between hue any anything else. I have about 50 hue bulbs connected to HA via mqtt (no hue hub) with about 12 of the 4 button switches and they work flawlessly
Who hates PH??? 😂😂😂 Only took years to realise Paul Hibbert and Philips Hue share the same initials…. “Oh my God. I can’t believe you just noticed this” 😂😂 This is clearly Philips Hue using reverse psychology….🧐
I wouldn't trade my Hue system for anything else. It’s FAR more reliable than any other decent brand, such as LIFX, which loses connectivity frequently. I actually threw my LIFX bulb in the garbage it was so frustrating. In my opinion, the quality of the Philips product is just hands down better than the competition. The product selection from Philips is incredible. You can purchase an entire selection of lights for your home, garage, your front porch, or anywhere else, that all work under one app or ecosystem. And if you want a full outdoor setup, Philips is really the way to go. Plus Hue products have a LOT of accessories. More than any other system. I mean, to each their own, but for me it's definitely not a ripoff. Can you find brighter bulbs at a cheaper price? Sure. And for some reason, that's what's really up Paul's ass. He just can't get past that. Paul looks at the bulbs brightness compared to the price, and he makes his entire argument based on that, without even considering all the other reasons why some people might choose the Hue over cheaper alternatives. I've owned different bulbs, but finally settled on the Hue system. I don't regret it one bit.
Tuya Smartlife has Waaaaaaaaaay more variety of products than Philips Hue, everything from lights to robovacs, to temperature and humidity sensors. I've had zero reliability issues with them, or in fact with anyone other than Lifx, who are utterly terrible these days. In fact as reliability goes, my Hue stuff has failed badly any time I've added a friends of Hue recipe and I've ended up having to wipe my system out and start again. I have 3rd party Zigbee lights that Hue works with one day and not the next. Hue is not the most reliable system at all. Hue is actually worse at almost everything, and for a much higher price tag. I don't say these things for no reason, I have A LOT of experience.
Philips Hue offers Hue Sync for Windows. My HUE bulbs on my gaming computer change to match what's onscreen (ambient effect). It is AWESOME. Does anybody know if there exists software to achieve this with the cheaper bulbs? Also, with a Hue bridge V2 you can control/program the Philips bulbs with Corsair iCUE software and match them with your iCue lighting profiles - that is awesome if you are plugged into the iCUE ecosystem.
