Cree Lighting 4+

My friend gave me this light bulb. I had one before but it lagged a lot so I never bought one again. When I got home I connected it. It was very simple to connect it, ever since I haven’t had no issue with it. It’s never lagged it works no matter how far you are from it, and it never heats up no matter how long you leave it on for . I use the light bulb for my turtles tank meaning It stays on most of the time. It’s a pretty good light bulb. I would recommend this light bulb to any one who would like to have a smart light.

From: carlos 😁

The Cree Max bulbs are great. Good color, inexpensive. The app is clearly an afterthought. I don’t think the developers have ever actually used it. 1) Can’t edit routines (e.g. sun track) without the bulbs responding. This means the lights are going crazy if you’re editing at night. 2) The lights change if you go through different menus (e.g. dimmer -> routines -> scenes). Annoying. Somewhat related to #1. 3) Each time you click on dimmer menu, it switches over to color mode. Even if your bulbs are in white mode. If the mode must change when clicking through the menu, the new menu should assume the bulb’s current state. 4) Grouped bulbs should have an option to stagger the color changes. For example, fireplace mode would be more effective if bulbs rotated through the colors independently. This doesn’t apply to all scenes, but having the option would be nice. 5) The ‘sun track’ mode should run even in the background even if the bulbs are off. If I turn off bright white at noon, they should start at warm light when I turn them on at 5pm. 6) Add an option for power-on behavior. Cree doesn’t have a good solution for integrating with a physical smart switch, so these get turned off occasionally. I would like to select what happens when power returns.

My biggest gripe is for a specific situation. I have several light fixtures that have multiple bulbs. You can group the bulbs together so that you can control the entire fixture at one time. That’s great and works well. There are 2 issues. First, there is no way to have the groups be the default on the app. You have to open the app, then click on the group icon at the bottom of the screen. Then pick the group you want to control. Sounds like a a small thing but it’s a pain if that’s how you control your lights. You should be able to set group as the default for every time you open the app. Second, when you hit the group icon and then select the group you want to control it always takes several tries before the group you want to control opens. It always opens another group you didn’t select first, and if you aren’t paying attention you will be controlling the wrong light. So fix those two issue and I will be very happy.