Feit Electric

With the Feit Electric app for Android, your smartphone becomes a command center for every smart bulb in your home. Flip switches, adjust brightness or set lighting moods without leaving the couch.

This app works as a companion for your Feit Electric smart LED bulbs. You don’t need to invest in a hub, as it works directly through your 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network. Being able to remotely turn your lights on and off allows you to turn the lights on before arriving home or switch them off from bed. Adjusting dim and bright lights works through the interface and grouping the lights by room can keep the kitchen, bedroom and living room organized. With the color temperature customization, you can switch between warm amber hues for relaxing and cool white for more focused tasks. Color picker gives you the ability to take full control of RGB on compatible bulbs.

You can operate Alexa compatible bulbs and Google Assistant smart home with your voice without much hassle. You can change the ambience within an instant using the pre-configured scenes, while new motion detection in supported security devices offers extra smarts.

Automation you didn’t notice.

Things like timers and lighting schedules take care of the boring stuff automatically. Set times to switch on and off on weekday mornings. Set warm light to turn on when the sun sets, or set up holiday mode so your home looks like you’re in. These no hub smart bulbs will remember the schedules you set for them even after a power cut.

The automation silently modifies brightness and colours based on the time of day or activity patterns you define once and forget about.

Bluetooth offline control.

Unlike other brands, some Feit bulbs use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for local control when the internet drops. In the event your Wi-Fi router fails or internet service goes down, it will still be possible to send dimming and on/off commands directly through Bluetooth to smart lighting.

Thanks to local control, your lights will still work if there’s a hiccup on the network. This is something you don’t see often in budget-friendly smart lighting. Most of them work only through the cloud.

Energy stats and bulb alerts.

The app tracks power used by your energy efficient lighting and shows usage patterns over time, as well as the rooms that use the most. You’ll get notifications when insulation is about to end, so you won’t suffer unexpected failures. You can order more beforehand.

You can easily manage and monitor lighting using a feature. Instead of set and forget, it becomes a utility that prevents waste. It reduces wasted energy, and it extends the life of hardware as well.

5 Hidden Tricks:

• Add multiple schedules to a single bulb for complex everyday use.
• Color shifts help support natural circadian rhythms.
• Make a guest-friendly scene for fast all-home-shutdowns.
• Make motion alerts work with lighting automation for security monitoring
• Use lights that brighten gradually to wake you up slowly.

The app has drawbacks, though. Users with dual band routers might have difficulty with the strict 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi requirement. Then there are the reviews complaining of connectivity issues. Plus, the overlapping controls look awkward compared to higher end products.

Simply download Feit Electric and take full control of your lighting with smart scheduling, voice controlled light commands, energy usage monitoring and bulb outage alerts.