Smalux Smart Light Bulb

SMAlux Smart Light Bulb can be used voice control after successfully connected Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant. It is not required hub when connected by WiFi control, but you need a hub when you connected by Bluetooth control.

It is not only can avoid the trouble of manually switch the lights, but also avoid the waste of electricity by forgot to switch off the lights.

Voice control is not only available to do simple switch on/off. But also can change color, brightness and set timer etc.

Thus, you can save time to switch on/off, change color and enjoy happy of smart light.

SMAlux Smart Light Bulb can make a timer to switch smart bulbs on or off at a specific time.

Like when you go outside, you forgot to switch off the smart light bulb, you do not need to go back home to switch off, it can switch off by your mobile APP.

SMAlux Smart Lightbulb can change brightness, change color temperature, it can change color with WiFi bulb or Bluetooth Bulb.

The color temperature is 2700-6500. Smart Light Bulb can be controlled by group or individually.

SMAlux Smart Light Bulb App can be used by Apple or Andriod devices, which can download from the App store that you can control smart light bulb on smart devices.

SMAlux Smart Light Bulb can connect Wi-Fi network or Bluetooth.

The difference between WiFi bulb and Bluetooth Bulb is the connection.

Wifi bulb need internet, but Bluetooth bulb do not.

SMAlux Smart Light Bulb can be customized to meet different country and different project requirements.

Our wifi bulb is 110-130V or 220-240V to meet different country needs. With CE and UL certification.

SMAlux Smart Light Bulb are compliant with global certification standards.

As a professional LED lighting manufacturer, CE Lighting has streamlined its production process to ensure the lighting solutions can meet the quality of the highest standards.

CE Lighting’s dedicated team works aim to provide complete satisfaction to every consumers, contractors, and distributor in every way.

Smart Light Bulb: The Ultimate Guide

Worry about leaving home without lights on?

Money wasting with many multi-colored bulbs for festival decoration?

Boring with monotonous lighting performance and troublesome with searching for wall switches in the dark?

Here with smart light bulb, all these problems can be eliminated.

In the view of the smart light bulbs create a relaxing, comfortable and convenient smart life, they come in to the trend.

In this guide, I will explain everything you need to know about smart light bulb so you can better choose the one on your own.

So keep reading:

Chapter 1: What is smart light bulb?

First, what we mean by smart light bulb is necessary for you to have a knowledge so that you can better choose the most suitable one.

A smart light bulb is an internet-capable LED light bulb, equipped with remote control, time schedule and customize function.

SMAlux Smart Light Bulb

A smart light bulb fully reflects the development trend of energy-saving, healthy, artistic and humanized lighting and plays a leading role in the smart home lighting.

Chapter 2: How does a smart light bulb works?

Knowing its working principle is better for you to manage them easier.

A smart light LED bulb works with internet at 2.4G frequency band.

In the meantime, it can be customized, scheduled and wireless remote controlled to realize various lighting performances.

With a build-in module, a smart light bulb can receive and execute command smoothly.

And there are three main smart light bulbs based on the difference of connection means: ZigBee, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth.

Then which one is better for you to choose and what are their advantages and disadvantages? Here is a comparison tablet for your better understanding:

Chapter 3: Why you need to upgrade your lighting to smart light bulb?

You may wonder why your next bulb will be smart light bulb, here are the main reasons to arrest your interests.

1. Extend your lighting lifespan to 20,000 hours.

Smart light bulb using durable plastic for body and cover, aluminum for base.

On the one hand, this material design is beautiful and easy to clean.

On the other hand, with a better performance in the heat dissipation, effectively extend the life of smart light bulb.

SMAlux Smart Light Bulb Material

Due to this fact, the smart light bulbcan be used for 20,000 hours, equivalent to 11 years with 5 hours per day usage.

2. Saving energy up to 80%.

Smart light bulb in general plays excellent in energy saving, not to mention with smart function of time schedule now.

Due to the fact as a big saver, smart light bulb requires less electricity and lower power consumption.

In particular, schedule time in advance to automatically turn on and turn off, they can save up to 80% electricity when compare to a general incandescent bulb.

SMAlux Smart Light Bulb- Set Schedule

Forgetting to turn lights off when leaving home?

No need to worry, they can turn off automatically with preset time.

Worry about back home in the dark?

Calm down, they can turn on before your arriving automatically as well or you can remote control on the way home.

3. Adds beauty to your room.

Smart light bulb has such an attractive and decorative feature of color changing, enable your room to be more aesthetic and artistic.

Over 16 million colors available with a color palette on App in a single bulb, click anywhere in the color wheel to get your favorite colors.

Smart Light Bulb-RGB Color Changing Control on App

4. Benefits your health.

Feel insomnia, depressed or unable to concentrate at your work?

Here is the A19 smart bulb to help you solve all these and help you develop a good habit.

Below are the detailed benefits and how they affect you.

# Regulate you with a balancing life.

Less than 8 hours sleep every day may let you look exhausted.

Set a time schedule to remind you to sleep and wake you up with your favorite colors, regulate you to cultivate a regular and healthy lifestyle.

Some smart light bulbs even have music function instead of an alarm clock.

Just have an imaging, listening to your favorite music, brighten with your preferred light color and wake up from a qualified sleep.

What a cozy and comfortable life it is!

# Promote you with a better quality sleep.

Smart light bulb can change color temperature to meet different ambient from 2700K to 6500K.

SMAlux Smart Light Bulb-Different Color Temperature Effect

Set the color temperature to 2700K with yellowish light, create a cozy ambient and stimulate the secretion of sleep-inducing melatonin in our body, therefore, help you sleep faster.

Isn’t it a lucky and happy thing for you with the A19 smart bulb to sleep better after a whole day tiring work?

# Improve your mood and well-beings

Except for all the above benefits, it can also be beneficial in improving your mood.

Smart light bulb can imitate the sun’s light, and then exert positive effects on mood and help us with season affective disorder (SAD).

For example, rainy day always give us a feeling of dreary, trigger us to be lost in depression and deep thought, especially in winter time.

Dim the light and change the color temperature to a suitable one to increase your mood.

5. Adds fun with customize lighting performance

Smart light bulb is no longer of simple lighting feature, but with more functions for fun.

Most of smart light bulbs right now have extra functions, such as color changing, brightness changing, color temperature changing, time schedule, group control, etc.

Some even equipped with a speaker and camera, so that it acts more than a bulb but also a video monitor and music player.

With the multiple functions, you can customize your unique lighting effects.

There are 8 pre-set scenes available, you can quick shift to the any lighting performance you like.

Sleep Scene: emits orange lights to enhance you a quality sleep.

Reading Scene: light pinky light to help you concentrate on your magazines or papers.

Party scene: red light activate atmosphere.

Leisure scene: warm blue lights create a cozy, pleasant and relaxed ambient.

Soft scene: green light dim automatically.

Rainbow scene: 3 colors (Red, blue and green) rotating slowly.

Shine scene: red color blinks every second, acts like a disco bulb.

Gorgeous scene: 6 colors shining and switching freely and rapidly.

6. Enjoy a totally hands-free smart life

Besides, voice control via Google Home or Amazon Alexa.

Voice control to change smart light colors also available and it is far beyond the simple colors of red, green, yellow, etc.

There are more than 120 colors can be controlled with voice using the right language description commands.

Here is a list of 123 colors you need to know for voice control:

SMAlux Smart Light Bulb-All Colors Commands for Voice Control

Chapter 4: How to install smart light bulb (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth)?

1. How to connect SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb to phone?

# Correctly screw the bulb to the socket and turn on the lights.

# Turn on Wi-Fi on your IOS/Android phone. (IOS 8.0 and up, Android 4.1 and up).

# Download the SMAlux app.

You can scan the code above or search “SMAlux” in the Google Play or App Store to download.

# Register a SMAlux account

Choose the country where the SMAlux light bulb locate and input your email or phone number to register. You will receive a verification code if you registered with your phone number.

# Connecting SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb to Wi-Fi

Login in your SMAlux account, press “+” on the upper right corner to add devices and choose “Lighting Devices” in the device type menu. Power on the SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb, and confirm the light blinks rapidly.

Type in your Wi-Fi password and “Confirm” to “Successfully Added 1 Device” screen.

# Modify the SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb name

You can directly change the name in the “Successfully Added” screen by clicking the “Blue Pen” icon or enter into the control screen and tape the “…” to change the name, like Bedroom Light.

# Now you can control the SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb on your IOS/Android smart devices without distance restrictions only if the bulb is Wi-Fi accessible and your IOS/Android smart device is internet available, even with 3G/4G internet.

2. How to connect SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb to phone?

# Prepare an IOS/Android smart device and SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb, screw the SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb to the light fixture you want and turn on the lights.

# Install the Mesh Lamp app

You can scan the QR code to download the free Mesh Lamp app.

App Store                 Google Play

You can also search “Mesh Lamp” in the Google Play or App Store to download the operation app.

IOS smart devices: App Store (IOS 9.0 or above).

Android smart devices: Google Play (Android 4.4 or above).

# Open the app, “Allow” Mesh Lamp to use data and tap “OK” to make data available to nearby Bluetooth devices even when you’re not using the app.

# Connecting the SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb to your phone

Tap the icon on the upper left corner to “Settings” screen, click “Current Home” and add new room in the “Home List” with “+” on the upper right corner.

When adding a new room successfully, go to the “Add Device” screen. Click the yellow button, then the app will automatically search for the SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb nearby. After searching, all the available devices will show in the list so that you can choose the one you want to connect.

3. How to connect SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb to Google Assistant?

3.1 Prepare an IOS/Android smart device and a Google assistant. Install the SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb to the socket and power on.

3.2 Set up Smart Life app

# Download Smart Life app

You can scan the following QR code to download the app.

In addition, you can search “Smart Life” in the App Store/Google Play to download the free app.

Note: Smart Life app requires Android 5.0+ phone or IOS 10.0+ devices.

# Register and login in Smart Life app

Tap the Smart Life icon to open the app, “Allow” Smart Life to access to your location and data. Then click “Register” and “Agree” the privacy policy to the register page.

Filling the country and register with your mobile phone number or email address, then you will receive a verification code.

Type the code in the screen and set password to finish the registration.

# Add home

Login in your Smart Life account, tap the “Add Home” button, type your home name and allow the app to get your location.

Then select a room you want to install the SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb.

Of course, you can create a room and name it as well.

Tap the “Done” button and will appear a pop-up written as “Home added successfully”.

# Add device

Tap the central button to add device, click “All” on the upper right corner and press “Lighting Devices” in the “All” menu.

Turn on the SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb and make sure the bulb is blinking quickly. Type in your Wi-Fi password and confirm.

When the bulb stops flashing indicates the connection is processing.

When the App screen shows 100% connection, then it means the SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb have been connected to the Wi-Fi successfully.

3.3 Set up Google Assistant

# Install Google Home

Search “Google Home” in your App Store or Google Play, download and install the free app.

# Register and sign in Google Home

Open the Google Home app and tap the bottom button to “GET STARTED”.

Register a Google account, and filling with your personal information (gender and birthday) and set a user name as email.

Set a password and go “Next”, you can add your phone number for future password resetting or just skip it.

Agree with the “Privacy and Terms” to complete the Google Home registration.

# Add SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb in Google Home

In the home page, tap “+” to add new devices, click “Set up device” in the “Add” page and choose the button “Have something already set up”.

Find “Smart Life” om the “Add devoces” page or directly search for it, and then sign in with your Smart Life account to enable Google Home to get the devices already added in the Smart Life app.

# Add Google Assistant in Google Home app

Open the Google Home app and power on your Google Assistant, also click “+” to add new devices. Tap “Set up new devices” button to continue.

Choose a room, turn on Wi-Fi, turn on Bluetooth, and finally the Google Home will looking for the available smart devices nearby.

Now your Google assistant will be found, click “YES “to complete the connection.

There will be a sound test after the connection, and set a unique name for your Google Assistant, go “Next” to choose a Wi-Fi and input password to finish the connection.

3.4 Voice control via Google Assistant

Now you can control your SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb via Google Assistant. Take bedroom light as an example:

# Ok Google, turn on/off bedroom light.

# Ok Google, set bedroom light to 80 percent.

# Ok Google, brighten bedroom light.

# Ok Google, set bedroom light to green.

4. How to connect SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb to Amazon Alexa

4.1 Set up SMAlux app (refer to above instruction of point 1).

4.2 Set up Amazon Echo

# Download Amazon Alexa app

Search “Alexa App” in the App Store or Google Home to download the free app.

Web set is available as well, as for Amazon Alexa app is only accessible in USA and Canada:

https://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html

# Register and sign in Alexa app

Open the Amazon Alexa app on phone, sign in with a valid Amazon account.

Or register a new account by filling all the basic information on your app screen.

# Add devices in Alexa app

Press “…” on the upper left corner, tap “Settings”, and then choose “ Set up a new device”.

Choose your Echo model, set language, and “Connect to Wi-Fi”.

Long press the dot button on the top of your Echo device until the orange light shows up, then tap “Continue”.

“Allow” the IOS/Android smart phone connect to Echo’s hotspot automatically.

When your phone is connected to Echo, tap “Continue”.

When Echo is successfully connected to Wi-Fi, it will show in your Echo setup page.

Choose an available Wi-Fi for connection.

Then there will be a page shows your Echo successfully connected to Wi-Fi, and will play a short introduction video of Echo.

# Connect SMAlux account to Echo

Tap “…” icon, select “Skills” and then search “SMAlux”. Click “SMAlux” and press “Enable” to enable the Smart Life Skill.

Sign in with your SMAlux account to complete the connection.

4.3 Control SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb by voice commands

Now you can voice control the SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb with voice. Here are the some examples of commands. (E.g. bedroom light).

# Alexa, turn on/off bedroom light.

# Alexa, set bedroom light to 80 percent.

# Alexa, brighten/increase bedroom light.

# Alexa, dim/decrease bedroom light.

5. How to connect SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb to Amazon Echo?

5.1 Set up Amazon Alexa app. (Refer to 4.2).

5.2 Plug a hub to your router.

5.3 Add SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb in Echo devices.

5.4 Tap the hamburger menu on the top left corner, select “Settings”, then tap device you want to voice control the bulb.

5.5 Tap “Bluetooth” and choose “Pair a New Device” to searching available devices automatically.

5.6 Tap the searched one to pair and change the name to an easy recognized one, like “Bedroom Light” and finish the connection.

5.7 Voice control via Amazon Echo

You can use voice to control the SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb now, here are some commands for example:

# Alexa, turn on/off bedroom light.

# Alexa, set bedroom light to 50 percent.

# Alexa, brighten/increase bedroom light.

# Alexa, dim/decrease bedroom light.

6. How to connect SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb to Google Assistant

6.1 Install Google Home (Refer to 3.3).

6.2 Plug a hub to your router.

6.3 Add SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb in Google Home.

Well screw the SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb and plug in the hub, then power on.

In the “Setting” page, click the smart device Google Assistant you have added in the Google Home.

Tap “Adding” to add devices in the menu and it will search for the available bulbs nearby.

Tap the found bulbs and complete the setup.

Change the bulb name to an easy recognized one, like “Bedroom Light”.

# Voice control via Google Assistant

Now you can control the SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb with your voice, below are some examples of voice command:

# Ok Google, turn on/off bedroom light.

# Ok Google, set bedroom light to 80 percent.

# Ok Google, brighten bedroom light.

# Ok Google, dim bedroom light.

Ok Google, set bedroom light to green.

Chapter 5: Frequently asked questions and answers

Question 1: How to reset Tuya A19 smart bulb?

Answer: Well, when you change a Wi-Fi environment and need to reconnect, then just delete the bulb from your SMAlux app and reconnect it as what you did before, make sure the bulb is in the initial state of flashing.

Question 2: How to connect A19 smart bub to Wi-Fi?

Answer: First, scan the code or download the operating app. Secondly, screw the bulb in the socket. Third, make sure the bulb is flashing and ensure your Wi-Fi is accessible. Fourth, input your Wi-Fi password and when connect successfully, it will stop flashing. Now you can control the bulb with Wi-Fi on you smart phone directly. (For more details of connection, you can refer to the above instruction manual).

Question 3: How to know whether your Android/IOS devices are compatible with SMAlux A19 smart bulb?

Answer: Make sure your device is of Bluetooth 4.0 version

Ensure your IOS device is updated to 8.0 version or above.

Ensure your Android device is 4.1 version above.

Question 4: Can I use a smart bulb without a hub?

Answer: It depends on the SMAlux smart light bulb you choose, if the SMAlux Wi-Fi smart light bulb, then do not need an extra hub. But with the SMAlux Bluetooth smart light bulb, you need to pay extra for a hub.

Question 5: How many bulbs can be controlled with one command?

Answer: You can add as many bulbs as you can in a group, right now the test did not find the upper limit.

Question 6: How do these SMAlux smart light bulbs work when used with an electronic dimmer switch?

Answer: Just turn on your dimmer switch and set it to 100%. Now you can enjoy the fun of smart light bulbs as well.

Question 7: Can you schedule the SMAlux smart light bulb to dim gradually?

Answer: Sorry, no. The SMAlux smart light bulb can only be set to a specific percent of brightness, it cannot change brightness gradually.

Question 8: Can you use these SMAlux smart bulb as an alarm clock?

Answer: Yes, with time schedule function, you can preset a time so that the SMAlux smart light bulb can turn on and turn off automatically as an alarm clock.

Question 9: Can I control several SMAlux smart bulbs together using Google Home?

Answer: YES, of course. Just set a group in the Google Home app and set an easy recognized name. Now you can control many SMAlux smart light bulbs in one command.